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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Cash @ 3 1/2 years
At 3 1/2 Cash is fabulously rambunctious, smart, cunning, sneaky and a bit of a tall taler. He repeats bad words and knows he is doing a bad thing because he informs us "Mom, Shit is a bad word." out of the blue. It's really hard not to laugh especially when he tells his Dad to "Stop dicking around and eat." I wonder where he learns these things from? Hmmmm. ;)
He loves to tell Stories and will make up elaborate stories with his imaginary friends which include "Toothfera", which is a purple dragon who lives behind his ear. He is very consistent with the descriptions of his imaginary friends too. He believes dragons live outside of our house and that our Doberman Pincher, Layla fights them off while he is asleep. He is obsessed with mountain Lions and points to the Saddleback mountains and informs us they live over there. His favorite conversation started is, "When I was a baby" or "When I was a big kid" He loves to dress up in costumes and takes on the roll of what he is wearing. IE if he's a Dr. he has to give you his "Diagnosis" etc.
He loves his new sandbox at Nana and Papas house, playing kitchen and taking your orders. He loves taking baths. If he hears me start a bath for myself he will run upstairs and strip off all his clothes and ask to get in. I never say no, even though it make me frustrated to have him in there with me. He loves being naked, he gets home takes his clothes off and sings, "pants off, dance off!". He is a typical boy and any chance he gets pee's outside. He loves water of all sorts and will find any way to emerge him self in it. We cannot go to Grampa's with out Cash getting so wet we just allow him into the pool, and Cash knows it works. He loves to try to control situation. If we tell him he needs to come in in 5 Min's. he says "No Mom, 7 more Min's." Or he will want more candy and say "Just one more, okay Mom, one more!"
He hates bedtime, and will find every excuse to get up. It's a battle most nights to keep him in his room. He doesn't get the concept that when he runs back and forth between his playroom and bedroom, we can hear the pitter patter of his little feet. We woke up one night around 2:00 am with our TV on in our room and Cash at the foot of our bed wide awake watching his shows. Geoff was not pleased with him. This kid will take a few swats and still test us, he has endurance. He still hates to eat and is so picky. He will eat chicken nuggets, apples, bananas, grilled cheese and spinach, cottage cheese, hot dogs, popcorn, pancakes, waffles, grapes, ham, turkey and just now he will eat hamburger. Everything else he snubs and will literally go to bed with out eating. It's so annoying but I am not sure what to do.
He is very into understanding family dynamics. Who belong to who within our family. He tells me I am his Mother, and Nana is my Mother. He understands that Nana and Papa are married and have Uncle Nik, Uncle Chris and me. He also gets that Uncle Chris is married to Auntie Bo and Presley is theirs. It's really amazing how he can link everyone at such a young age. He loves tell Nana that she is his Grandma.
He is social almost to the point where kids look at him like why are you talking to me? If someone asks him his name, he responds with, "Cash Stephen Paul Sargent" people look at me and say what's his name?! He loves going to the park and is willing to share his toys. He doesn't get his feelings hurt very easily when kids are being mean, he moves right along to the next person.
His newest love is his baby brother. He loves to help with Jameson and has yet to show any signs of jealousy or resentment. He talks to Jameson constantly and thinks he is taking care of him. I cannot wait to see their bond grow over the years.
If you ask him how old he is he replies, "I'm FREE AND A HALF"
He loves to tell Stories and will make up elaborate stories with his imaginary friends which include "Toothfera", which is a purple dragon who lives behind his ear. He is very consistent with the descriptions of his imaginary friends too. He believes dragons live outside of our house and that our Doberman Pincher, Layla fights them off while he is asleep. He is obsessed with mountain Lions and points to the Saddleback mountains and informs us they live over there. His favorite conversation started is, "When I was a baby" or "When I was a big kid" He loves to dress up in costumes and takes on the roll of what he is wearing. IE if he's a Dr. he has to give you his "Diagnosis" etc.
He loves his new sandbox at Nana and Papas house, playing kitchen and taking your orders. He loves taking baths. If he hears me start a bath for myself he will run upstairs and strip off all his clothes and ask to get in. I never say no, even though it make me frustrated to have him in there with me. He loves being naked, he gets home takes his clothes off and sings, "pants off, dance off!". He is a typical boy and any chance he gets pee's outside. He loves water of all sorts and will find any way to emerge him self in it. We cannot go to Grampa's with out Cash getting so wet we just allow him into the pool, and Cash knows it works. He loves to try to control situation. If we tell him he needs to come in in 5 Min's. he says "No Mom, 7 more Min's." Or he will want more candy and say "Just one more, okay Mom, one more!"
He hates bedtime, and will find every excuse to get up. It's a battle most nights to keep him in his room. He doesn't get the concept that when he runs back and forth between his playroom and bedroom, we can hear the pitter patter of his little feet. We woke up one night around 2:00 am with our TV on in our room and Cash at the foot of our bed wide awake watching his shows. Geoff was not pleased with him. This kid will take a few swats and still test us, he has endurance. He still hates to eat and is so picky. He will eat chicken nuggets, apples, bananas, grilled cheese and spinach, cottage cheese, hot dogs, popcorn, pancakes, waffles, grapes, ham, turkey and just now he will eat hamburger. Everything else he snubs and will literally go to bed with out eating. It's so annoying but I am not sure what to do.
He is very into understanding family dynamics. Who belong to who within our family. He tells me I am his Mother, and Nana is my Mother. He understands that Nana and Papa are married and have Uncle Nik, Uncle Chris and me. He also gets that Uncle Chris is married to Auntie Bo and Presley is theirs. It's really amazing how he can link everyone at such a young age. He loves tell Nana that she is his Grandma.
He is social almost to the point where kids look at him like why are you talking to me? If someone asks him his name, he responds with, "Cash Stephen Paul Sargent" people look at me and say what's his name?! He loves going to the park and is willing to share his toys. He doesn't get his feelings hurt very easily when kids are being mean, he moves right along to the next person.
His newest love is his baby brother. He loves to help with Jameson and has yet to show any signs of jealousy or resentment. He talks to Jameson constantly and thinks he is taking care of him. I cannot wait to see their bond grow over the years.
If you ask him how old he is he replies, "I'm FREE AND A HALF"
Jameson @ 4 Months
Jameson had his 4 month Dr. Appt. on Friday. He is doing great, we need to work with him on the ground more so he starts to roll around. Things we never thought of because with Layla being so big and clumsy we don't put Jameson on the ground to play. He is almost old enough to try rice cereal but we will wait closer to 5 months and around 6 months he can start eating veggies.
So here are the details of our Little Scooby Do:
He seems huge to us considering Cash was always in the 5th percentile. Jameson being 14 lbs 1 oz and in the 20th. percentile for weight and 25 in and the 41st. for height he seems like a beast to us. He loves breast milk and will simply refuse to eat formula and scream until he gets it, we are working on that one. We have to trick him twice daily to take his baby Zantac by adding yummy juice in it. His acid reflux is still a huge issue and he still has days where he spits up constantly. However, we seem to have gotten the pain from it under control. He is much happier and screams less.
He wakes up around 5:00am, like clock work. It's not my ideal time to be up that early but it's so hard to be annoyed when he coos at you and smiles. He usually falls asleep on the ride over to Nana's around 8:00 am and goes down for a real nap at 10:00 am. Depending on the noise level or what is going on he will sleep anywhere from 5 Min's. to 2 hours. He goes down for another nap around 2:00 pm. Nighttime we have our ritual, bath, snuggle and nurse till he's asleep. Let me be clear that if he's not nursing to go to sleep with his blanket he will be screaming. He WANTS to be asleep by 7:30 pm and will let you know it is time. He still wakes up a FEW times at night. I have spoken to his Dr. about this and because his acid reflux, he wont drink as much milk to sustain sleep for longer periods of time. I am hoping rice cereal in his bottle before bed will help out.
Jameson enjoys "talking", smiling and "cooing." He has discovered his hands and can now hold various items. He tries to suck him thumb or two fingers. He doesn't really have a preference just so long as there is some sort of extremity in his mouth. He is trying to put his own pacifier in his mouth, but usually he gets his ear. It's a constant battle because he hasn't mastered his fingers/thumb and we want him to have a pacifier and he tries to have both at the same time.
Jameson hates tummy time, he will scream if he is put on his stomach. We have to work on this because even though he knows how to roll over, he chooses not to and just cries. He loves to be held, and that is the understatement of the year. Jameson is happiest in someones arms. He is starting to tolerate playing in his play seat surrounded by toys, but that seems to only last 10 Min's. MAX.
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| His Stats. Not sure why it says 2 Mo. |
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| Happy 4 months Jameson |
Monday, June 3, 2013
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