Rece News

The little monkey is going to be two before we know it, here are some updates:

- He is so much steadier on his feet than even a couple of months ago and wants to run everywhere.

-His hair has lightened over the summer and has a tint of red to it

-We struggle with his pinching and hitting when he gets frustrated. We have taught him that it is not nice and to say "Sorry" and give a hug if he is not nice. But that seems to have backfired since he is so good at the "Sorry" and hug part, he seems to think he can just check that box and move on...

-He is remembering things, everything. And then he talks about it over and over and over again when he recalls something. The things he remembers are amazing to me.

-He is repeating phrases a lot more now - every day we tell each other "Bye-Bye & See you later" and we also will get the "Had a dood day!!" (ie. Have a good day)

-He will tell you who he played with at day care and what they did. It is most often, Piper, or Liam or Eli and their favorite pastime is "running"

-He went through a few week phase where he was a BEAR at bedtime, luckily that has passed and he is back to his normal bed loving self. We did add two stuffed animals to the routine during that time, and now he has to have both "Bunny and Bear" when he goes to sleep.

-He is perfecting the tantrum. I think his strategy is "practice makes perfect" - not cool.

-He has discovered his fingers fit in his nose, and there are "burgers" up there. Since Jeremy and I did not dedicate teaching time to this skill, I would like to think his booger picking buddy from day-care, whomever that might be. Again - not cool.

-He is on a Flovent Inhaler for the fall and winter to protect his airways from inflammation and hopefully keep every cold from needing a chest x-ray to determine bronchitis or pneumonia He had a cold earlier this month and it was a normal kid cold. I couldn't believe that is what it could be like!! No trips to the ER- WHAT!?! ;-)

-We are also in the process of weaning him from prevacid. We went to a 1/2 pill each day for a few weeks and now we just took him off completely. His reflux has been good, we are crossing our fingers it will stay that way.

-He has started to say "I love you" - I.heart.him.