Okay, so I am a little late on the update. I was too busy / worked up to post before we went on our trip and now we are back and it’s time to get back to business.
Seth is still doing great on potty-training. Even on our trip. He was good at holding it and except for one tense moment (going through the toll roads/highway interchanges in Chicagoland hell where we quickly had to throw a pull-up on him when there were no stops to be seen), he did great! He has figured out the whole peeing standing up thing and also wipes his own bum sometimes! It’s like Andrew potty-training over years compressed into a couple months! Seth always wants to be completely independent, so it just fits in with that.
Seth whines and whines and whines. Sometimes I wonder if he knows how to talk without whining, but every now and then some real language will emerge. I am hoping this is just a stage and not an omen of things to come forevermore. He talks a lot. He has a lot to say about everything. I love this age when he just loves to pronounce things, all matter-of-factly. You can just almost see the wheels turning and him figuring everything out.
Seth is obsessed with good versus evil and fighting and guns and army things. Andrew and he are blowing things up all day long. It is a little quieter when Andrew is in preschool and we get some book reading in (and now, he likes to play on the computer a little bit on starfall – so young, but he has figured out the laptop non-mouse).
Seth has started to take a real shine to Logan. He likes to spend time with him just by himself and gets mad when Andrew tries to butt in. He says “Logan loves me (not Andrew!).” He gets very excited when Logan smiles at him or touches him. It is cute to see the two of them being brothers.
Seth had a fun time on our trip. I think he has a kind of hard time making transitions, so on the way home he was crying that he wanted to “stay in Missouri”. I tried to explain to him that he lived in Missouri, but that kind of went on deaf ears. He mostly wanted to keep staying in the “hotel with all the pillows”. Nevermind that we have plenty of pillows and that he doesn’t particularly like to sleep on them – that hotel had awesome pillow fights, of course. He really enjoyed playing with his friend Charlie. Seth doesn’t get too many play dates here, so it was so fun to have someone just his age.
Fun things this month:
- Mo Willems Author Event – our first and the boys really enjoyed it. Seth enjoyed watching the movies especially and was transfixed when Mo read his newest book.
- Easter
- Seth was a master egg finder – at one of the egg hunts, he got so many eggs, I was embarrassed. He had substantially more than any of the other kids. But I didn’t help him at all – he just went out there and was at it. I could barely find him half the time.
- Palm Sunday – Palm branches, dying eggs, and a nature walk
- Tuesday – talking about parables, eggs from Grandma
- Thursday – a little Passover – well, matzo, bitter herbs, grape juice and lentil soup to eat. Lamb was just too expensive. The boys LOVED it.
- Friday – making Resurrection cookies and talking about the crucifixion.
- Saturday – making Resurrection rolls. Easter Egg hunt. Jerusalem dinner – food that Jesus ate – olives, goat cheese, cheddar cheese, pitas, hummus, figs, apricots, grapes – boys also loved it … while we watched Tin-Tin (okay, not so Eastery)
- Sunday – talking about resurrection, eating rolls and egg casserole and of course, the Easter Bunny and an easter basket from Martha, plus ham and brocolli and devilled eggs for Easter dinner.
- Monday – fish and honeycomb for dinner and talked about resurrection some more.
- Stories in the Park – the new nature playground opened in Richmond Heights and the boys have loved playing there, especially in the sand area. Seth was signed up for the Stories in the Park class, so each week in April, we went to the park for stories, a craft, and a snack. Seth LOVED it. The second week we decorated plastic cups and then planted grass and Seth was so excited to watch his grass grow.
- Opening Day for the Cardinals. We didn’t think Seth would be able to go (we only had 2 tickets), but it turns out he was young enough to go without a ticket. It was pouring rain and the game was delayed for 90 minutes plus they had gotten there quite early … so it was a long time, but Seth had so much fun. He really loves sports … although maybe not watching baseball so much. He was mostly excited about eating fruit snacks and cracker jacks.
- Trip to Michigan
- Playing with friends in Ann Arbor (basically killing each other all day long for three days and learning to do a scooter), seeing Grandma and Grandpa. Seth was so excited to see his grandparents (we were still in our neighborhood and he was already asking if we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house), especially when he was beating up on Grandpa (poor Grandpa).
- Seeing Mom graduate … not sure he was actually excited about it, but it was the reason for the visit.
- Staying in a fun hotel in Traverse City with two floors. He feel down the stairs almost as soon as we got there – it looked like he feel on his neck, but he was thankfully okay, but we were all scared half to death. Learned the wonders of Sponge Bob (yikes!).
- Hiked the dune at Sleeping Bear with Dad and collected rocks along the seashore.
- Playing at the park in Traverse City.
- Running around like crazy at the Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park – loved the caterpillars and butterflies inside and got himself soaking weight in the water exhibit in the Children’s Garden running the boats along the Great Lakes. Loved the mazes and tolerated our seeing the sculptures in the rest of the Garden.
- Slept through most of the Ford Presidential Museum and threw fits when he couldn’t push Logan in the stroller the rest of the time.
- Liked looking at the flowers in Holland.
- Never wanted to leave …
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