I promised myself I wouldn’t try to make every Atty post a polished opus (or, more often, nothing). Thus, my first attempt.
These days, the 22nd day of the month comes and it’s a tossup whether or not we’ll remember if it’s birthday day – though we’ll know next month, since we relish the chance to use the easier and more elegant “he’s a year and a half”.
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Milestones this week:
-first timeout, after @ would NOT leave the rolling dog food container alone, even after several admonishments; I picked him up and carried him from the kitchen into the living room, placed him on the couch, and left to help clean up the kibble. Only after he and his sad face wandered back in for a hug did we realize he’d sat there for about a minute. So, we’ll use the couch as penalty box again next time and see how it goes (e.g., 1 minute for unnecessary roughness or high sticking on kitty)
-first cleaning of crayon marks from wall. Dad so foolishly thought, for about 5 seconds, that it might be okay to color on the side of our 1 white, easy-to-clean bookcase, but the situation quickly escalated out of control. Now we’re back to Only Paper. Still, seeing the stray coloring pop up around the house really adds to the toddler house feel.
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Things Atty loves now:
-Seeing a picture or video image of something and then scurrying to get a real life example, like when we watch our Bear Country USA video clip of the grizzly bear and he runs to drag over and hug Big Bear. Or, in the sadder example, when he sees a picture of Beckie in the middle of the school day, pooks out his lower lip, and goes to get some representative of Momma, such as the red raincoat of hers he brought into the den and placed near the picture.
(I secretly suspect that reports of such behavior do not make B entirely sad)
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