Monday, January 11, 2010

3 1/2 Years

Derick had been telling me on the way home from school that 3 1/2 year olds don't cry about silly things. I agreed and re-emphasized it is ok to cry if hurt or really, really sad, but there is no need to cry over silly things like toys or not always getting our way. He was telling me how he is so much bigger now...so we thought we would celebrate it and baked a cake with sprinkles. It will be interesting to see how a cake tastes with half a bottle of sprinkles in it...but that was his favorite part of helping...and one should never estimate how quick a preschooler can shake if you turn your back for a split second! :)

He started preschool again today after having a month off for Christmas vacation. I was concerned all our sleeping in until 8am would be tough to get back on schedule, but he must have been excited because he was up at 6:20am...the earliest in a couple months! He will be going 3 days a week now...Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. I think it will be good for both of us as we anticipate the arrival of baby sister and will be even better for after she is here!

Derick is also learning to ride his bike without training wheels. Since he has only had his bike (with training wheels) for about 5 months...I was thinking it was a little soon. What prompted it cracks me up. On the rare occasion we find ourselves at Walmart, Derick would plead to ride this motorcycle video game...one where you sit on and use the gas/break and looks like a crotchrocket. After coming in 2nd or 3rd place on this game...he started saying he wanted to ask Santa for one of these next year. Ricky insisted that he must learn to ride his bike without training wheels before they could think about getting a real motorcycle. Within the next couple days the training wheels on his bike came off and they have been practicing several times a week. As the mom I am going to have to think about how this is all going to work...as I didn't want my baby on a motorcycle bike (especially not this early!)

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