stuff i need to post about

Okay, here is the miscellaneous stuff I have been meaning to post :)

These were the 3 notes I had pending as a draft post: daycare, changing laugh, tool box. Guess I had better expand on them :)

I noticed one day that Josh's laugh was changing, he is getting that big boy laugh as I call it. He laughs a lot harder these days and is working on doing funny things to prompt a laugh from other people, so that in turn he will laugh.

He loves his little wooden toolbox, he knows the names of everything inside. Give him a hammer and he'll pound those little pegs for an hour. We had to work for a couple of weeks reminding him that not everything could be hammered. His favorite targets were the windows and the coffee table. He loves having tools like Daddy.

Well, we tried a bit of daycare for him. Just an hour so I could go workout with a friend, she dropped her little girl off too. Neither one of them did well. The first 3 times we went, they came to get one of us half way through class because one of them was crying (usually both :( ), so whichever of us went in, we were able to take care of both of them. Then we tried having one of us stay the entire hour with them while the other went to the class. Still no such luck. I know, some people would say, they'll get used to it, it's only an hour. Unfortunately, it really affected Josh, he became super clingy at home and his nighttime sleeping went from great to absolutely horrible. He was afraid to be by himself in his bed (very unlike him) and he went from sleeping through the night to waking up several times, once staying up for hours. Ugh, I decided it wasn't worth the nighttime battles to keep putting him in the 1 hour daycare. So my friend and I decided (her girl wasn't doing well either) to each go twice a week, drop the kid off at the other's house to watch for 2 hours and the go together on Saturday. Yay, all is well in kidland again. Josh is back to sleeping solidly through the night, still wakes up before dawn though, ugh, and he isn't freaking out when I go into another room (at home!) afraid that I am going to leave him.

We have a plan though! We are going to get the two of them used to the daycare by volunteering 1 day a week to assist with the daycare (yay, it means all my exercise classes are FREE!). I'll be able to bring Josh on the days I assist, watch his little friend too and keep her happy while mommy exercises, and then assist with the rest of the kids. I'm hoping that Josh gets used to it after the first month, that means I can take more classes!

Anything and everything can become a microphone! Once in awhile, Michael hooks up the microphone in the garage and let's Josh go at it. Michael has a very large amp, so I can hear Josh "singing" all the way in the house. Since having a taste of that, anything slightly resembling a microphone is instantly turned into one and Josh lalalalala's his way into a song :)

Well, he said his first 4 word sentence! He was standing at the top of the stairs getting ready to huck something down them LOL, and I said "hey, don't do that" and he looked at me, nodding his head in the affirmative and said "throw it down stairs". I had to laugh a bit because he was so clear about what he was planning on doing and the words came out crystal clear. I managed to talk him out of his plan though. Since then he is stringing together 3 words consistently and 4 words, once in awhile.

Knife, Knife, Knife, Knife!!!!
Oh my, he LOVES to cut stuff. He is always yelling for a knife! Anytime he wanted something opened (boxes, bags, etc.) he'd yell for a knife or scissors. Cracked me up every time, he knew he needed something to get into the box/bag. I have some plastic knives for him now and no meal is safe from his ravaging. I usually try convince him he doesn't need a knife to eat EVERY meal. The problem is, he spends more time cutting things up than eating them. He destroyed his green beans the other day, they never had a chance! I have turned his attention to the joys of cutting up Play Doh. We do that almost every day now. I have to hide the Play Doh cans otherwise a glimpse of them will start of a Play Doh chant that can last oh so long! You ought to have seen his eyes when he had a chance to see knives and swords and the Medevial Faire we went too. (more about that in a later posting!). He was just itching to get his hands on them, they were so shiny.

Okay, can't think of much more tonight, oh besides that fact that I have YET to get a red tomato because Josh keeps picking my tomatoes when they are green. He managed to show his stubborn streak by refusing to say sorry to me for picking the last batch (we have been through this multiple times!), I won't even tell you how long I worked with him trying to coax that sorry out of him. Apparently he really wasn't so he wasn't going to say it! LOL!