The bell has rung and the holiday season is over. We celebrated a belated Christmas at my parents house last weekend, with Becca and Mike coming up from VA, and Jeremy and Ayanna coming down from Souderton. Mom made a great meal, and we stayed overnight to spend more time with the family. Silas now has a well stocked pantry for his play kitchen, some sweet frying pans, a really cool battery-free microphone, and some more threads for his ever-growing back. He was well pleased, and of course soaked up all the attention he could get.
We finally received Lenny’s hamster ball, and I think it’s a big hit. Lenny rolls all over the house, Ella follows close behind, sniffing, and Silas occasionally kicks it. That was the reason for Silas’ second time-out this morning. When his time-out expired he followed Lenny through the living room repeating “I sorry, Lenny!” The first time-out resulted from Silas clambering up on the dinning room table, grabbing the water pitcher and calmly pouring it onto the floor. He seemed really fascinated by the process. Time-out! So far the time-out doesn’t upset him at all, which is good I suppose, we’re not trying to upset him, but some kind of reaction would help us out. But no, he’s Cool Hand Luke. “I could eat five eggs….” “Why’d you have to say five?” That’s as high as I can count.”
Most days he doesn’t want to go to bed, and he’s expanding his stalling tactics. Last night he sat down on the ground and complained “Ow ow ow! Ow something hurts me!”
“What hurts?”
“Um, um, um… my forehead.” He should have picked a more plausible body part. I didn’t even bother to kiss it.
Monday he heads off to nursery school (daycare.) It’s likely to be a non-event, as I’ve never seen him have separation anxiety for more than a split-second, but I’m still a bit nervous. It’s probably like how some parents fear spending their first night alone without their kid, although I never had that fear myself. He’s 99% potty trained, but I’m worried about that too because he might just play so hard he’ll forget to visit the bathroom. We’ll have to set an alarm for somebody to take him half-way through the morning. I’m getting ahead of myself.
Mimi is here today to visit and to help out a bit. We have a progressive appetizer event here in the house this evening and we’ve got a little cooking to do. Then we’re seeing Red Tails later this evening with some students and staff. Silas just went down for his nap, so I’m off to the kitchen to whip up some really unhealthy stuff. Cheeses creams and dough. Yum.
Don't tell him there's no film in the camera
He loves his new microphone
I'm sorry I kicked you Lenny
"Lenny is cute!" he said
I want to see Lenny in his ball !!! How fun is that
Lucky little boy with two very lucky parents. The pics are great as usual, as is the discourse. Silas’ descriptive language is growing as fast as he is… My love to you all, Babbee
He just keeps getting cuter.