I really should write these on the closest Sunday or something because I keep getting further and further behind.
I feel like Seth has progressed a lot this month on separating from me a little bit more. Since we moved, he basically doesn't want to leave the house. After reading a book, I decided to try lots and lots of praise as well as a point system. Basically, every time he went somewhere willingly and happy and came home happy he got 2 pts - more if it was something really hard for him. At first, I wasn't really sure if it would work, but one day on the way to Play Date, I told him how exciting it was to get points, how he could use them for video game time - in fact, if he was in the big kid room he could play video games while he was earning points to get to play video games. Somehow, this was like a turning point for Seth and now he has worked so hard to earn points. He loves to tell how many he has - like "I have seven seven" - that means 14. He doesn't actually want to use them for anything; he just likes knowing that he has them. Now, he goes willingly to Sunbeams, PlayDate, soccer, etc. We haven't tried preschool yet because due to illness and other things, he hasn't been in like a month. Yay!
New things this month - soccer. This has been an adventure. We have been anticipating signing him up for soccer probably as soon as we knew we were moving to Greenville. And he's been excited. Until it was actually time to go. He has a game or practice every Saturday - the first two Saturdays were practices and now he has had two games. His coach, Luigi, is a little flightly. We got a text and then when Katsu went to practice with the boys, he went to the field that the coach said. After two weeks, it finally dawned on us that Seth has been practicing with the wrong team because that coach was a woman (and one of Katsu's colleagues, to boot) and probably not Luigi. So, we text Luigi apologizing and trying to get info for the game. We go to the field, and it is the wrong team again! We finally find the right team, but so far Seth still has no shirt and the coach has been late every time. I feel like we don't have a clue what is going on. The second practice, Seth refused to play and Katsu brought the boys home with everyone grumpy. But points to the rescue, and Seth has played both his first two games (even with a new team!) and done well and enjoyed himself. And the first game was in the rain! He plays well, works well with his teammates, and has even scored a couple goals, which he found very excited. He is probably one of the better players on his team. The league is really non-competitive (they don't even keep score and they randomly assign teams, though they do keep track of who makes goals to even things out) and I think it is a lot of fun.
Otherwise, we have just been busy still trying to get settled into the new neighborhood. We put a big climbing dome in the back and between that and the sand box and scooters and new bikes (slowly teaching the boys 2 wheelers without training wheels), they spend quite a bit of time outdoors, especially afternoons/evenings/weekends when other kids are out. Seth loves his scooter. He also LOVES gardening and has enjoyed digging holes for us to plant plants and trees. He likes picking "sunflowers" on our walks and pointing out all the ECU flags and pirate things. He desperately wants a playset in our backyard. He also really wants an ECU flag for our house.
Otherwise, things are mostly normal with Seth. He wants to spend LOTS of time with me and no matter how much he gets it is never enough. He does not want to attend any sort of preschool and is always telling me why he doesn't need to go "I can already count to infinity, so I don't need to go", "I can watch the Meet the Sight Words DVD and I'll be ready for kindergarten and don't need to go to preschool", etc. It's really funny. Hopefully, he'll want to go to kindergarten next year. We're mostly dealing with the 4 year old blues (whining, fits). It always cracks me up because he is always like, "If you don't do this, I will melt down", or "throw a fit" or "explode". Very calmly. So funny. And the middle child blues. Poor kid.
Fun Things This Month
- Preschool, sort of. Seth has gone twice, but with me both times and refused to leave or take off his shoes. He was finally getting settled into the idea of it and said he would let me drop him off, and we have been sick every week since then. It's a cute coop with other people from church.
- Several days at Play Date. Seth is finally starting to enjoy it ... mostly. He has always refused to let me bring a lunch for him, having several meltdowns over it, but he usually "shares" Seth's. This week, he asked Lexi, the girl who is usually working there, "Hey, will there be any of that sandwich left for me to eat?"
- Trying out a new babysitter. The boys really liked here, so hopefully we can have her watch them occasional afternoons for me and also for date night.
- Having friends over for dinner and going other places for dinner.
- Beach! Another trip to Atlantic Beach for Labor Day. This time we went to Fort Macon State Park and saw the fort first. The boys loved it and the beach afterwards was very nice as well.
- Soccer.
- Next door neighbor's water birthday party. Boys loved it.
- Ward party. Seth had lots of fun and made new friends.
- Two sicknesses. A cold and a stomach bug.
- Talk like a Pirate Day at Krispy Kreme. Seth talked about it for weeks - Krispy Kreme is right across from my school, so we saw it there when we went after getting a parking pass one day. Seth wore his pirate apparel (hat, eye patch, and hook) and got a free dozen donuts. What a great day!
- Dinner with the missionaries
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