Derick and I seem to have an ongoing battle. He is battling to NOT nap and of course I am battling FOR the nap. He seems to be at one extreme or another. If he does sleep it is for nearly 3 hours, yet that seems to be a rare occasion these last couple weeks. I know he is nearing 3 and many seem to drop their nap around this time, yet he really could use the sleep. We have been struggling with the night terrors usually about 4-5 nights a week. He wakes up just screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs and nothing will calm him down. Eventually he passes out again and will sleep the rest of the night just fine. On the days he does not nap, he seems to fall apart about 5pm and it is rough night for all of us. I am hoping that as we start swim lessons tomorrow maybe that will be something to help wear him out to improve the sleep. We'll see.
Derick has been so funny lately with all he has to say. On Easter, when he found cracked eggs he would say "Look Mama--it's hatching". Not sure where that one came from, but glad he is learning. It tugs at the heartstrings when everyday at our attempted nap, then again at bedtime he tells me, "Mama, you sleep by me?" I saw that I have to go in my own bed, then he comes back with... "Mama, you snuggle with me?" Who could say no to such a sweet request. I then lay down by him for a few minutes when he starts with, "Mama, I love you all the heart." How precious these moments are. I try and treasure them as we already are getting to some of the..."Go away, don't look at me". Thankfully there are more sweet moments than rough ones of this magnitude...what do you do when they are teenagers and such sweet moments may not even exist? Yikes...
Our first trip to the dentist last week went well. Teeth looked good and everyone was in awe at how well he could sit still. They said next time to bring him for a cleaning as he has the ability to sit through it.
Potty training has been decent considering we have done it for only a week. He tells me about 80% of the time by saying..."Mama, the peepee is coming" and we rush off to the bathroom. He even has done it at the mall, at the zoo, and even by himself a couple times at church with no assistance whatsoever. Going #2 has yet to be accomplished in any form so we have invested in quite a large box of Pullups. I am not about to deal with poopy pants in public just yet ;) . I was informing Ricky awhile ago about teaching him to stand up and go as some of the public bathrooms are kind of gross. Well yesterday Derick walked into the bathroom while Ricky was in there so just casually Ricky said to him, "Pretty soon you will learn to go like Daddy". That was that...no big deal or elaborate conversation. Well this morning I walk into my bathroom to see that Derick had dragged his little stool over to the toilet and was standing up over it trying to 'pee like daddy'. It was so funny, as he was there arching his back thinking it might help it come out. When it didn't, he climbed down and walked over to his potty and sat down as usual.
He and I celebrated the potty training with a birthday cupcake. I tried to sing a big boy potty song, yet he proceeded to sing himself Happy Birthday :DThe house has a for sale sign posted in front, yet is still not officially listed...hopefully in the next couple days. Yet I have been trying to appreciate not having the pressure of keeping it spotless--just yet :)
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