Adrian is 33 lbs, is 38.5 inches tall. He is talking, singing about everything and is joking and teasing now. He is testing his limits and has attitude sometimes. He teases by licking, by kiss licking where he goes to kiss you then licks you, he takes awhile to listen, he comes up with excuses to avoid doing what you ask like 'I'm cold' and 'I'm tired'. He loves to do his preschool practice (fine motor letter tracing), sing his ABC's although he skips a lot, LOVES to read: favorite right now is "Wild About Books" and he likes the Eric Carle Caterpillar and other Caterpillar to butterfly books. He knows all of his letters and can tell you the initial letter for words when asked. He is very interested in numbers and counting and likes to count his bites of food on his fingers. He loves to play with his food---where his food talks to him about being eaten and begs not to be eaten.
Adrian is pretty well behaved. He listens with reminders that it's not an option to listen, that he's a kid and has to listen to adults. He fights about having to brush his teeth, having to let mom take a turn brushing his teeth (get used to it kid that will happen till 7 years old at least). Otherwise, he's just a slow poke getting dressed and listening sometimes so those are things he gets in trouble for. He's a kind sharing friendly boy and gives lots of hugs and kisses. He wishes mom didn't have to work and lets me know, he asks if I can pick him up sometimes and just breaks my heart that I have to leave him every day to work.
I notice a definite change in his attitude around Grandpa Tim, where he gets whiney and likes to be carried "uppy". Grandpa Tim spoils him and carries him so he knows who to get to do what he wants....hahaha. When I do pick him up, he is surprised and asked me 'mommy can uppy me?' Yes sometimes but I'm not supposed to.
Adrian starts Preschool on Friday Sept 9th. He will attend FUMC Co-op and our orientation is tomorrow evening and Adrian's is Wed Sept 7. Adrian will attend Mon and Wed mornings. I hope working out transportation, covering our co-op days (10 per semester) and working will go smoothly.
Adrian is getting so big! He has a big boy bed we bought on Sunday now!
We found a real wood frame on Craigslist for $75, a new memory foam mattress at American Furniture Warehouse on sale (hopefully will last till he's 18 at least), and some new sheets and a 'Cars' (he picked it) comforter at Walmart.
Would have totally picked something cute and boy-ish like pirates or dinosaurs but of course he's 3 and wants a say...it's more fun that way.
I hate 'brand name' items, clothing, and toys for the most part but....we live in a very materialistic society that I know it will affect him. I try to veer from any toys that are logo driven...we do have one little Bob the Builder, a Woody and Rex from Toy Story, Thomas Train sets, and some cars from 'Cars' otherwise his toys are general multi use, non comercialized things.
Barry reorganized his room after putting his bed together. I can't decide if I want to get him a new dresser to match his oak bed frame. (I do). I mean if it is economically effective to do this...and hten move the baby dresser, changing table, and crib to the office or just move the changing table and the crib and use the dresser in there for baby stuff.
Barry says he plans to move the office this weekend. The crib is in their. So is a ton of other stuff. We'll move our desk downstairs to the den, get a tv arm for the wall above the fireplace and then actually set up a baby room before hte baby comes instead of at 1+ year old, as we did wih Adrian. Will this encourage me to use it more, to have him used to sleeping in his room? Maybe not, we'll still have a playpen set up in our room so I don't have to get up 4 times a night, assuming this is a normal baby that wakes up at night. It would still be nice to have an organized space that's the baby's though.
Anyways...Adrian is excited about his baby brother! We got a gift-left onour doorstep from our ex-babysitter Amber and her family of a baby blankie wubby that matches Adrian's little wubby, and Adrian's been excited about that. He wants to get hte baby a 'brown' blankie like his dot satin soft blankie so we'll have to go to do that soon so he has a gift for the baby when he meets him :)
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