"Brixton, why are you throwing sand out of the sandbox?" "Because though."
"Brixton, why are you not listening?" "Because though."
He also does this...
He has also started asking "why?" to everything. I am trying really hard to actually respond to the "why" question with a real answer. I'm sure that's going to get old fast, but I want to try to use it as a teaching opportunity.
Sunday I picked him up from Bible class and his teacher told me he said the prayer for the class. I love it! He often says our prayers at dinner. He's really in to that right now. Not so much at bedtime, but I know God will listen any time this kiddo wants to talk to him. He usually says something along the lines of, "Dear God, tank you my fOOOOd, mommy make it. uhh (looks at me then Nate) Amen." Sometimes he says thanks for others things. One morning at breakfast he said, "Momma, I pray for breakfast. Dear God, tank you my breakfast, my eeegggs and bread, toast. Momma, say Amen."
He has also started developing quite the imagination. He really likes to give presents (Christmas really impacted his little brain this year). He opens it and it's always a ka-chow (Lightning McQueen) something. Last week at daycare he gave his teacher a chocolate cake with sprinkles (imaginary) and then sang Happy Birthday to her -- no, it was not her birthday.
He is also becoming quite possessive of me and Nate. He tells everyone we are his momma and dada. The other day at Sam's the lady said, "Is it Chellie?" (looking at my license) Brixton quite firmly said, "His name is Momma." We're working on the difference in his and her.
In not so cute news, he has totally regressed on his potty training. Seriously, the kid was potty trained for FOUR months and now refuses to use the potty. I was advised to just not even try for a couple of months and then to retrain him. So, back in diapers he went. So frustrating! I got a lot of flack from people about potty training him "so early." I only did it because he was VERY interested and my pediatrician said if he was interested now to go for it. She said if I waited he might not be interested later and it would be a more frustrating process. After Christmas, when life got back to "normal" is when this all happened. I'm told a big change can trigger this. The only change was that I was home for several days around the holidays and then went back to work. So, he got used to being home and since then has been super clingy (still even a few weeks later), and he started peeing his pants all the time. I was frustrated to the point of tears when a lady I know who works with kids his age told me to just let it go and put him back in diapers and reverse the potty training with some other psychological things I won't go into. So here we are, back in diapers. Uhg! I think I am going to wait until my schedule changes and we get in a groove with that to go through training him again. Afterall, I don't want to "retrain" him only to have that change trigger this all over again. I really haven't talked about this (especially not on Facebook) because I have been trying to avoid all of those "I told you he was too young," comments from others. I still don't think he was too young, and don't regret training him that young. If anything this just gives me more "mom guilt" about not being home with him all the time.
Speaking of "mom guilt" I read this article that was posted by a few people on Facebook the other day -- I thought it was VERY interesting. I definitely can relate in lots of ways.
1 comment:
You are doing a great job! Don't listen to others, you know your child and it is your effort that is going into potty training, not theirs. Hang in there. We, too, have had some digression in those areas and each kid has eventually potty trained on their own time...all different ages! Hope you have a great day!
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