Well, almost for a week now. I have trouble getting motivated to do much more nowadays than sit on the couch and watch Gilmore Girls, but the post has to come up some time.
So, Seth things …
- It’s all about the “no”. The default response to everything. And then, after at least a 30 second pause, he might change his answer to yes. Maybe.
- Wardrobe is important. Very important. Getting him dressed takes FOREVER. We go through every shirt he owns. He says “no” to every one. I give him a few choices. He might acquiesce to one of them. After much chasing and insisting that we won’t use butt paste, he might get a diaper change. Pants … well, maybe. And heaven forbid he wears any socks besides football socks. Unless, I let him wear his Crocs, that is.
- His favorite (and usually only adjective) is green. Anything that is “green” is what he wants. Even if it is red.
- He is tough. He will hurt himself pretty badly (even be bleeding) and he might acknowledge that he got a bump and then that is that.
- Seth has one speed. Run. Makes for fun hiking.
- Anytime is the right time to play soccer, but especially right before bed.
- Seth is a pretty patient guy, waits to take turns, and likes to clean up. He is finally loving nursery and is the best behaved little guy there.
- Seth always has to say a prayer, too. They are usually like this “Thank you for trucks. Thank you for dump trucks. Thank you for fire trucks. Thank you for police cars. Thank you for ambulances, …” It could go on for awhile.
- Seth wants to be read to constantly (like 2 hours a day at least!) but also loves to “read” to himself. We also realized he has practically memorized our entire library of books, which has to be 100s. He even know the titles. Of course, every child should know that you if you eat too many lemons in the Sillabobble Sea you will be “all puckered up inside”.
- Seth has a large vocabulary. He knows so many animals I can’t believe it. When we went to the bird preserve today he wanted to see a peacock!
Fun things this month:
- Trip to Ann Arbor, playing with friends, and even going to a First Steps class!
- Chicago!!! Riding the train. Seeing the big buildings. Riding the bus. Visiting the aquarium! Eating a hot dog!
- Indiana – seeing the dunes.
- Springfield – visiting Abraham Lincoln’s presidential museum.
- Transportation day at the neighboring town park. Surprisingly, Seth was scared of the sirens (they really were loud), but he loved every truck. And of course, can name them all.
- Celebrating Andrew’s birthday party. He wanted all the presents!
- Botanical garden!
- Hiking at Queeny park followed by a Chinese buffet that was really really good (Seth still says chocolate whenever we eat strawberries because he dipped them in a chocolate fountain at the buffet) followed by a trip to the bookstore where a children’s circus was performing (Seth still wants us to juggle all the time).
- Being sick and throwing up. He doesn’t go to the bathroom but at least he tells us afterwards so we can clean up the damage.
- Having a tornado right above our house, thankfully it did not touch down. Seth hated having to stay in our neighbor’s basement for a couple hours.
- Clifford day at the Library plus many other story times.
- Climbing through a forest at our friend’s house to go to their little river and throwing rocks there and watching the fish and setting bamboo on fire in their grill!
- Hiking at Lone Elk Park (we saw deer, bison, a raccoon, a woodpecker and 5 elk which were directly on the path and we were like 5-10 feet away from – Seth got SO excited about it all) and then seeing the World Bird Sanctuary (with nary a peacock, but parrots that talked, owls, eagles, hawks, pelicans, turkeys, snakes, rabbits, lizards, bugs, and an armadillo), and a picnic at the church for Memorial Day!
What a fun month!!!
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