29 Months

Yesterday Timmy turned 29 Months old. It was also the last day of his second round of music class, so I decided to take part of the morning off to go with him and Mom to see what they do in class. It was so cute! It was neat to see him participating with the other kids and following the word clues in the songs to hop, sleep, eat, shake, etc. Towards the end of class the teacher gets out tons of instruments that they can check out on their own. We had a lot of fun!

I am happy to say that during the last month Timmy has made huge strides in speaking and sleeping again! At this point I notice at least one new word each day, and he uses sentences a lot (which is helpful in determining what the heck he's talking about sometimes!) We are also going on 11 nights in a row of Timmy letting me tuck him in and leave before he's asleep, and then him sleeping through the night! Unfortunately I am not sleeping through the night... as baby #2 is already making me wake up to pee a few times a night! I'm not really even showing yet (depending on my shirt) I'm scared for what will happen when baby gets bigger! We have gotten Timmy to believe that there is a baby in Mommy's belly, and he will even kiss the baby from time to time, but I think that he thinks we're crazy and he's just playing along to not hurt our feelings! ;)

Preschool!

Timmy started preschool last Thursday and is attending his second day as I'm typing! He did really great on his first day! Usually when we get to Mom's in the morning, they cuddle and read and watch tv and are generally pretty lazy until lunch time, or at least until playgroup! ;) (I'm just jealous...) But to be on time for school, Timmy needs to get dressed almost right away, so he could tell that something different was happening and he got pretty excited.

Once he got to school he had a slight "deer in headlights" thing going on, but he was just waiting to see what was going to happen next. He was not upset at all when Baba said goodbye and the teacher said that he did great. (They have them sit in their cubbies when they come back to the room from different activities to get them all organized, before washing their hands for snack time. I think he looks SO small when he sits there, I'm used to thinking how big he is!)

At the end of class the principal took Mom's camera in and got pictures that show how well he was listening and participating. It really looks like he just jumped right in there!

This is his teacher, Mrs. Porter.

Mom has already given me the update on drop off today. Apparently he was excited to leave for school and couldn't wait to get into the building. He sat in his cubby to put all his stuff away and then ran around the corner into his classroom before Mom could wash his hands. I'm so glad that he likes it and I'm hoping that we see some major improvements in his vocabulary and that he maybe even starts to show an interest in potty training, being around other kids more.

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween this year Tim and I had no problem deciding on Timmy's costume. He LOVES the Toy Story movies and he asks for them by saying "Buzz" and when asked what Buzz says, he'll tell you "Infinity and Beyond!" so it was an easy choice. Last year Timmy hated his costume (it was a giant monkey suit after all...) and we wanted to make sure that wouldn't be a problem so I told him we got him buzz pajamas, figuring this would be a complete non-issue this year. I was wrong. As soon as he even saw the custom he would say "No costume, no buzz, no buzz costume" and whimper and refuse to put it on. I tried every bribe I could think of, he turned down whatever I offered in order to not wear it.

Luckily, yesterday he was off schedule and did not take a nap, so in the late afternoon he was in a bit of a daze, and while changing his pants, he was hugging me and watching a movie over my shoulder, and didn't seem to notice that I was done putting his pants on... so, I grabbed his costume too! He did not even know I was putting it on him until I put the helmet part over his head! He started to protest but I grabbed him and "flew" him into the other room to everyone's applause and some fruit snacks, and we were all good! He wore his costume around to all of his grandparent's houses and went trick-or-treating for the first time, wearing it for probably 6 hours straight!

I think his favorite part of trick-or-treating was carrying the flash light and ringing the door bells. That no nap thing I mentioned did end up cutting our t-o-t time a little short, we went to a neighborhood that didn't have door bells, and that led to a mini-meltdown, but he certainly collected enough candy to last him a long time!