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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Kinetic Kids Gym
The class starts with a little bit of free play and then a bell rings and they all are supposed to go sit on the mat for an instructional minute or two...then they do an obstacle course....then instruction...free time...instruction....course and so on. So about half way through the class Noah started to do the obstacle course and I went from completely frustrated to such a proud Mommy! He had so much fun once he got the grasp of the course...now hopefully throughout the next few sessions we will get down the instructional time too. We will just have to see!
Friday, January 28, 2011
The Squealing, Screaming, Terrible Twos
Well, as you all know...we have a toddler on our hands now. One minute he is behaving as if you are blessed with the most well-behaved child.............then one second later it is like your life is a nightmare! If you are also a parent, you are probably laughing at me because each parent has their turn, but you know exactly what we are going through here.
Noah has always been very shy, which has not been the best attribute in his personality. He doesn't like anything to throw him off balance! The other day we were at the grocery store check-out and Steven was putting the items on the conveyor belt; while I was handing him a thing or two from the top of the basket and watching Noah. Well, Noah sees that there are a whole bunch of those 5 hour energy drinks right in front of him and he wanted to start playing with them....I didn't see anything wrong with a simple distraction to keep him quiet while we were in the check-out. He wasn't drinking them or anything, just rearranging them on the little shelf. So then I hear this woman next to me in the next isle start to correct Noah. "NO, no, don't touch that, BAD!" And she smacked his hand away! I wanted to punch her in the face! Noah came and crawled between my legs to hide from her and started to cry. I looked at her and glared and then bent down to Noah and told him that everything was okay. This upset me so much! The woman looked at me as if I was incapable of being a parent, but I bet she probably doesn't even have a child!
Anyway...We are trying to add more activities into Noah's day to make him burn more energy and have a little more education. Oh, and of course, we are attempting to begin potty training...so far it is going very slow. I personally believe he may have to have a little bit more advanced speech before we can fully begin the journey, but he is saying basically a new word a day.
He seems to be quite spoiled rotten right now in which he screams whenever he doesn't get exactly what he wants...so we are trying to curtail that as quickly as possible! We are going on a tour this afternoon at Kinetic Kids Gym to see the atmosphere and decide if the Kinetic Discovery Class is what we want to do for Noah to help him build social, developmental, and physical skills. I will keep you posted on that!
Noah has always been very shy, which has not been the best attribute in his personality. He doesn't like anything to throw him off balance! The other day we were at the grocery store check-out and Steven was putting the items on the conveyor belt; while I was handing him a thing or two from the top of the basket and watching Noah. Well, Noah sees that there are a whole bunch of those 5 hour energy drinks right in front of him and he wanted to start playing with them....I didn't see anything wrong with a simple distraction to keep him quiet while we were in the check-out. He wasn't drinking them or anything, just rearranging them on the little shelf. So then I hear this woman next to me in the next isle start to correct Noah. "NO, no, don't touch that, BAD!" And she smacked his hand away! I wanted to punch her in the face! Noah came and crawled between my legs to hide from her and started to cry. I looked at her and glared and then bent down to Noah and told him that everything was okay. This upset me so much! The woman looked at me as if I was incapable of being a parent, but I bet she probably doesn't even have a child!
Anyway...We are trying to add more activities into Noah's day to make him burn more energy and have a little more education. Oh, and of course, we are attempting to begin potty training...so far it is going very slow. I personally believe he may have to have a little bit more advanced speech before we can fully begin the journey, but he is saying basically a new word a day.
He seems to be quite spoiled rotten right now in which he screams whenever he doesn't get exactly what he wants...so we are trying to curtail that as quickly as possible! We are going on a tour this afternoon at Kinetic Kids Gym to see the atmosphere and decide if the Kinetic Discovery Class is what we want to do for Noah to help him build social, developmental, and physical skills. I will keep you posted on that!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A Day Full of Big Boy Fun
Well, our little boy, who was never little, is definitely not little anymore :) He is growing up so quickly and I am so glad that he was never in daycare because I am sure it would have been even faster. I am so lucky to have a job where I can spend as much time with my son as I would if I didn't have a job.
Things have been taking a turn the past few weeks and we've been starting to see a change in each of us. We have actually gotten our house almost 100 % clean which is amazing! We have never had it this clean before! I LOVE IT and it WILL stay this way!
Anyway, now back to the point of this post: Noah is ready for potty training and we have no more diapers in our house! We decided they are now illegal in our home HA-HA! We now have Pull-ups which are pretty much like diapers, but a transition to underwear. Daddy and Noah are going out tonight while I am attending my gym classes to go and buy some BIG BOY UNDERWEAR! This will be exciting and a lot of laundry to do for me :) Ha-ha! I figure he can wear regular underwear at home and during the day and when we go places he can wear the Pull-ups. So far we have been doing the Pull-ups for a day and just trying to get Noah used to the idea of the potty...then we will move into more serious training after that :) He successfully sat on the potty quite a few times today without screaming and pretended to wipe himself, put it in the potty, flush and CLOSED THE LID! He is such a good boy!!!! I am so proud of him!
Then after he went potty he wanted to brush his teeth, so he grabbed his stool and brushed them...then grabbed the toothpaste and decided he was going to wash his hands with it...then wiped his mouth...and licked the organic strawberry toothpaste! AHAHAHA! He is too silly! Here are some pictures!!! ENJOY!
Things have been taking a turn the past few weeks and we've been starting to see a change in each of us. We have actually gotten our house almost 100 % clean which is amazing! We have never had it this clean before! I LOVE IT and it WILL stay this way!
Anyway, now back to the point of this post: Noah is ready for potty training and we have no more diapers in our house! We decided they are now illegal in our home HA-HA! We now have Pull-ups which are pretty much like diapers, but a transition to underwear. Daddy and Noah are going out tonight while I am attending my gym classes to go and buy some BIG BOY UNDERWEAR! This will be exciting and a lot of laundry to do for me :) Ha-ha! I figure he can wear regular underwear at home and during the day and when we go places he can wear the Pull-ups. So far we have been doing the Pull-ups for a day and just trying to get Noah used to the idea of the potty...then we will move into more serious training after that :) He successfully sat on the potty quite a few times today without screaming and pretended to wipe himself, put it in the potty, flush and CLOSED THE LID! He is such a good boy!!!! I am so proud of him!
Then after he went potty he wanted to brush his teeth, so he grabbed his stool and brushed them...then grabbed the toothpaste and decided he was going to wash his hands with it...then wiped his mouth...and licked the organic strawberry toothpaste! AHAHAHA! He is too silly! Here are some pictures!!! ENJOY!
Monday, January 24, 2011
A Gremlin; A Sweetheart
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| A Gremlin |
As the day is coming near an end and Noah's living-room toy box was empty and he decided to hop in. Well, it was cute and all...until we couldn't figure out what was wrong. As you can see in the picture above....he did not want his picture taken, but shortly we realized that all he wanted was a toy because he couldn't really reach any of them without knocking himself over.
So then we grabbed him a ball and he happily went about watching Despicable Me while sitting in his toy bin! Absolutely adorable :)
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| A Sweetheart |
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