You are a smart little bugger. Here are some things that I've been meaning to blog lately about you that I haven't. And I obviously must.
This morning you pooped in your pants. The potty training has been coming along very well but you just don't want to poop on the potty. Under. Any. Circumstances.
This morning, when you pooped in your pants, I must have had a look on my face that I wasn't aware of because you looked at me and said "Mommy? You fwustwated?" (Frustrated...)"
I was amazed that you:
- Knew the word "frustrated"
- Used the word "frustrated" in the completely right context
- Were so adept at reading my emotions that you could tell exactly what I was feeling at that moment.
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There was a storm this morning and you and Hercy were nervous. Lately you and that little dog are happy as clams together when playing.
You love to throw balls, he likes to retrieve them. It's a love affair, I'm telling you right now.
Until you don't want him to do something and you will holler in a small but very firm voice."GETDOWNHERRKEEE!GET DOOOOWN PWEEEEEESE!!!"
"GO DOWNSTAIRS HERKY!! GO!! GO DOWNSTAIRS!!! GOOOOOOOO!!!"
You love to command him and Herky loves to sit right in front of you as you command him and watch you like he's watching his favorite program on TV. You two are really quite the pair.
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Daddy is travelling and you just know he is going to bring you something back from his trip. You talk about what it would be and so far we have these wonderful options:
- pink jellybeans
- chocolate chip cookie with chocolate chips
- ABCD Chocolate (which is what you call Hershey's bars because they have writing on them)
- cupcakes
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You know:- Daddy works in Texas
- You can find Texas on a map
- You think you work in Illinois and I work in Missouri
- You can put together puzzles on your own
- You can pick out a number of items at a glance. For example: I can say "Jack pick out the row with five cherries" and you'll glance at the options and pick out the right one.
- I have introduced a schedule system to our day and you will go over to it and say "let's check the calendar!" and then you will point to the writing and say "cupcakes!" as though I would fall for that. More than once that is. :)
- You love to talk on the phone with Daddy especially and I usually end up in tears listening to you because it's so sweet.
You are a pleasure!
And on that note, here are your latest school pictures!
In this one, you are showing that you have mastered the art of the fake smile at 3 years old. I'm so proud! :)
In this one, you seem bored to death with the process of more pictures....
This one I love even though the smile is a little fake, but you seem to genuinely enjoy being around those big crayons!
Here is the one of you and your class.
Who's the cutest one there? That's right!!! How'd you guess?!? :)
Love,
Mommy
I had these fantastic ideas about using the bed area and putting up bookshelves as the railing around the edges of the upper bed so that you could have your bedtime stories and snuggly animal toys all around you in your sleeping area. Then, I had these plans of making the underside into a tent area with a bean bag chairs and pillows all over the floor and games and toys and all sorts of fantastic fun stuff underneath.
From there, my reality evolved to perhaps bunk beds because our house isn't enormous and it would allow us to fit more in your room. I guess I still had thoughts of using the unused bed for snuggly toys and big pillows to decorate your room and make it look fun. Plus, I thought we could have some fun with you climbing on the top while I was supervising you.
Truth be told, I think we landed on the best arrangement. The other two ideas were lots of fun in my head, but there are all sorts of warnings about lofts and bunk beds with younger children. 
I really owe your Daddy for grounding me in reality because I tend to get an idea that I fall in love with and then all I can see is the cotton candy and sugary ideal of my fantastic daydream and not the dangerous realities of it.
Bunk beds and lofts aren't really recommended for any kids under 6 because there is a high incident of accidents that occur with them in the lower age groups. You know.... like head injuries and really bad stuff like that. Things you don't recover from.
And you went and proved that these worries ARE sound when you climbed into your bed for the first time and then promptly fell getting out and bit your tongue and there was much blood and crying and I thought thank god that wasn't from a bunk or loft....
Because we went with a single twin bed, we decided to spring for the Cadillac of box springs and mattresses, so they weren't cheap, but your bed is decidely softer than even our bed.
Since we bought it, you sleep longer which I truly hadn't expected and you go down easier. Sometimes I'll be reading to you and leaning on your bed and it feels so soft that before I know it, I'm lying in the bed with you reading to you.
Which is okay as long as I don't make the horrible mistake of falling asleep sometime when I'm doing this. Because that is a habit I don't want to have to address down the road.