Wright and I both had our first day of school on Wednesday. He seemed to like it as best as I could tell although I did not get much info from his teachers. I am sure he will learn to love it though. My class was great and I think its going to be a great year overall. Here are some pics...
I am 17 weeks pregnant this week. The baby is about 5 inches from crown to rump, about the size of an open hand and weighs app. 5 oz. We cannot wait to find out the sex of this little peanut next Tuesday morning!
Wow, we have had a rough couple of days with little Wright man. He is cutting some sort of tooth (maybe a 2 year molar?) and he is obviously in pain and therefore very very irritable. Today he had his first major temper tantrum, and I was completely at a loss as to how to handle it. It started with me giving him mac and cheese for lunch which was hot and I am guessing he did not like it that hot and it made him really mad. Then he did not want to eat at all and no matter what I tried or what I offered him, he would not stop screaming and crying. So I put him in time out to get him to calm down so he could come out and eat his lunch. After about three minutes of screaming in his crib, I went in and picked him up. At this point, I felt sorry for him. He was so hysterical he did not know what he wanted. I held him and he kicked me and wanted down, I put him down and he screamed and wanted back up. Then he begged to go in his booster seat, so I tried to strap him in and he screamed "out, out". Then I ditched the original lunch and offered him other things, all his favorites. He did not want ANY of it. Finally after about 20 minutes of this, I decided that there was no logic, rhyme or reason, this was a true full fledged temper tantrum and there was nothing I was going to be able to do to soothe him. He had had peanut butter crackers for a snack and it was almost nap time, so I decided he just needed to go to bed. I put him in his crib, still shrieking and out of control and just walked out of the room. By this point, I was pretty shaken too. I had to listen to him scream for about 10 minutes more until like a switch of a light, he was out. Wow, I hope this was exaggerated because of the teething and not just a glimpse into my future. I can't even imagine what I would have done had we not been at home. Poor little guy...
Wright is able to communicate so much better these days which is really nice with cutting back on the whining.
Here are some things he is saying a lot of:
- counts to 13 on his own
- sings entire twinkle twinkle and itsy bitsy spider along with many words to at least 20 other songs. He loves his Wee Sing Animals cd and requests "Name-o, Eeeeiiiiooo, Spyder and Mawtch" aka "BINGO, Old Macdonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Ants Go Marching".
- hears a phone ring and says "phone, hello"
- when I ask what he wants for dinner, he will say "mac cheese" and for lunch he will say "samich"
- when I am trying to get his attention and tell him "say yes mommy", he almost always says "yes daddy"
- he tells us when he has poo poo and pee pee (sometimes)
Wright cracks us up these days. He just laughs at himself all the time and makes us laugh all the time. He is adorable when he sings. His favorites are "Twinkle, Twinkle", "How do you talk to a little baby goat?", "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Bingo". But he sings to probably 15 more songs than that - he just loves music! He has also started saying so much more and he is stringing a lot of words together in phrases.
Here are some funny pics from the past week.
After he was eerily quiet for about 5 minutes, we went to check on him and found him on the couch "typing" on my computer. Although this is a BIG no touch, we had to capture it on camera cause it was so funny!
When he doesn't want to get out of the bath, he will just play in the leftover bubbles and lay on his stomach to make it harder for us to pick him up. Look at that cute white butt! This will be an embarassing photo in the years to come...
