Time Out

Hunter set his own timer for time out. Not sure if it was an accident or if he feels like that's an appropriate time to serve for his naughty behavior on Christmas Eve. Haha

Binky Withdrawls

Adam has done a great job at avoiding the terrible twos. He is such a happy kid and so sweet and loving. When he turned 3 last week, we reached the end of his binky. He happily gave it to me in exchange for being a "big boy". He has only asked about it a few times and seems to be handling the separation maturely. The problem we are now having is, no binky means no naps. And no naps means multiple meltdowns daily. My happy little boy has turned into an emotional nightmare. I have asked myself more than once during his screaming hysterics, "is this really a better alternative to him having a binky?" With a binky, he will take a nap. With a binky, he will go to bed and stay in bed at night, instead of getting out of his bed multiple times for various reasons before he finally stays and falls asleep. With a binky, he will go back to sleep when he wakes up at 6:30 am after no nap for days and going to bed late because he won't stay in his bed. Sometimes growing up is not that great. Tonight, after he calmed himself down from his latest screaming fit, he told me, "I'm glad you took my binky away."  That made me so sad because I know it's been rough on him to learn how to sleep without it. Hopefully he will adjust soon because his demon screaming is kind of scaring me! I might miss his binky more than he does!!

Still Cute

I'm not quite sure when kids stop being as cute, but thankfully, Adam is still holding strong on that cute title, despite what he does (not that my older kids aren't cute anymore).  Today he called to me, "Mommy, come here!" I reluctantly stopped what I was working on and came to find him.  He pointed to the Christmas tree and said, "Look!" I found the tree falling over, thankfully being stopped from falling to the ground by our recliner.

"I didn't do it," he offered. 

Maybe I am just getting more relaxed with each child I have, but I didn't freak out, it just made me smile.  Or maybe it's just because I'm getting older & more tired.  If Jacob had done that when he was 3, I probably (definitely) would have overreacted a bit more.

Earlier today, he was playing with his super heroes and I snuck off to get some laundry started. He tracked me down in my closet and asked, "Mommy, why aren't you watching me play??" Oh, if that were all I had to do during the day..watch him play with his toys! He makes me laugh!

 

The older boys are still cute, just in a different way. Yesterday, I overheard Hunter and Jacob talking about girls at school.  I didn't hear the first part of the conversation, but apparently Jacob was saying something about how Hunter liked a certain girl.

"No," he told him, "I found a new girl.  She's hot."

I had no idea my 6 year old knew to call a girl "hot." We are still waiting for Jacob to come home and think a girl is "hot." So far, they are still gross and freaky to him.