Recently Carmen has had the opportunity to spend more time alone with Jayden: I had to work early on Friday (big court victory - yay!) and I had to work a community fair yesterday for 6 hours. Carmen also was home a little earlier a couple days last week which means Jayden got to see him more. In any case, it means a little bit more of a break for me. For instance, this morning I got to sit on the bed and watch this take place:
Carmen and Jayden were playing cars, going "shhhhhhoooooo, shhhooooooooo," as the cars flew through the air. And then it became running, as it usually does. So I sat on the bed and watched. It was awesome.
The time change has been not so much fun. Jayden has actually been sleeping in, probably primarily because it stays dark later in the morning. But I haven't been able to sleep at all. It's been terrible; I've been staying up way too late and just being generally tired. I can't believe I'm the one affected by the time change and nobody else.
The good thing is that when we get home it's still light outside and sometimes we have a little time to play.
His shoe came off so he ran around like a crazy person with one shoe and one sock, waving his shoe in the air. It was random and hilarious.
BUT, then he put his shoe back on all by himself. Kind of amazing - first time he's done that!
I read a weekly update about Jayden's age and they mentioned that kids should be able to put on and take off clothes at this point. Jayden can sometimes work his shirt and kind of knows his pants but never offers to do it himself. I told Carmen I'd try to let Jayden do it himself once in a while but Jayden has absolutely no interest. Oh well.
On Thursday we were driving home from Juju's and I asked him what he did that day, what he played with Lucas ("wu-cas"), what he learned in class, etc. I try to not just ask him "how was your day," but ask him what he and Lucas did that was really fun, or what Kennedy did that made him happy or something like that. I read once that you can get stuck in a rut by asking "how was your day," and answering "fine" and moving on, without actually having a conversation. So I'm practicing with my two year old. :) In any case, on Thursday when I asked him what he learned, he said "I wearned the number K!!!!" He was so proud of himself. I didn't dare correct him. Instead I asked him what words started with K, what K sounded like, etc. He got all of it wrong, but he does recognize the letter. Today he was looking at a book and saw a "K" and pointed it out and exclaimed "K!" He usually knows "W" too, for "Waw-wace"
Since Jasmine always gets left out, I figured I'd give her a shout-out. She's incredibly patient with Jayden and may be starting to see the benefits of having a little brother. Definitely the running is good. But so is being outside. And Jayden is getting better at throwing her toys for her. Although Carmen and I still duck anytime he throws one of her toys, no matter whether we're behind, next to or in front of him. His release point is not consistent and those toys fly every which way when he lets them go.
OH! And Jayden finally got a haircut on Friday. He was looking all kinds of handsome. And suspicious of the photographer (daddy). ;)
And wearing his Cameron Crazies shirt - GO DUKE!
Jayden does regularly yell "GO DUKE," but not always during the game. It was a tough game this morning, but we all recovered. And we're now just looking forward to next weekend - love tourney time!
I wish I could record more of our conversations. Jayden can have conversations and sometimes ask questions. He very often has his own train of thought going on so that whatever I'm asking goes in one ear and out the other, or maybe straight past his head. But sometimes he and I are able to have relatively long conversations about funny things. We were driving home the other day and drove past a store. Jayden said "Mom, Mom, see that over there? see that store?" I said, "yes, what kind of store is it?" He said: "it's our store!" I said, "oh really, what do we get there?" He exclaimed "shoes! and gwasses!" I said "wow, oh really?" (in my head I'm thinking goodness, he really is Carmen's and my kid if he wants to go shopping for shoes and glasses). I asked him "what color of shoes are we going to get?" He said "gween shoes! and gween gwasses too!" I said "okay, that sounds exciting. when should we go to the store to get the shoes and glasses? should we go tomorrow?" He said "no, not now. When I biggewwr." I said "oh, okay, what about in a week? should we go to the store in a week? will you be bigger in a week?" He said "yeah, a week. I biggewwr in a week."
So apparently next weekend, while Carmen is partying it up in Vegas, Jayden and I will be buying green shoes and glasses at Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse. I'll let you know how it goes.
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