Silly bands

Mac has discovered silly bands much to our chagrin. Some of his teachers have them so he had seen them. Then last night he found the silly bands attached to his cookie favor from Taylor's party.  (Doug was trying to open the bag with the cookie and Mac asked if he needed scissors) 

I usually don't let him take toys into school, but he wanted to show them to his teachers. I had bad luck with a Barbie skirt that went to school with me and never came back.(don't ask) 

I should have taken the hint though when we pulled up to school and he said "I not put silly bands in my cubby"  hopefully he listened to the teachers when they told him too.

ABC's

Mac was singing his ABC's this morning. I tried to get some video but he was wandering around too much. Maybe later. He was also helping me take out the cereal boxes for recycling. Its adorable how he says "recycling" though it is a little hard to understand.

He is just talking up a storm lately. We never know what is gonna pop out of his mouth.

We also found out that he does know his colors perfectly. For a while now when you ask him what color something is he will just guess randomly (usually purple). It turns out that at school he will volunteer the correct color without being asked. For example, he has told his teacher, "Thats a yellow circle and thats a yellow circle. Thats the big one and thats the little one." He only pretends not to know things when he is being quizzed. We thought that was the case because of the little grin he gets when he answers, but its nice to know for sure that he is just messing with us.

Growing up

Last night Mac went number 1 in his potty right before bedtime.  We recognized the "concentration" face and quickly stopped trying to get him in the bed and put him on the potty.

Tonight was even better.  This time he asked to go potty before bed.  After waiting a while (guess we should get used to that) he stood up, moved the "seat" away and went standing up.  I know we have a long way to go, but it is exciting to see progress.

Big Boy Bed

We had a productive afternoon converting Mac's crib to a toddler daybed. He is really excited about it. He would hardly even let us put the mattress back on before he was trying to climb up. As you can see he was immediately ready to go "night-night" or at least pretend. We shall see if it actually lasts and he wants to sleep in there by tonight.

We are expecting a rough night, but it won't be any different than the past week. He is having nightmares or something that wakes him up every night screaming. He doesn't want to go back to bed unless someone stays with him, that has made for many nights on the floor or the chair in his room. I have a hope (but not expectation) that this might help snap him out of whatever is going on. At least this might be a good time for change since things haven't been going well anyway or maybe a terrible time (we shall see tonight).

One of our biggest concerns is that he won't stay in bed, but he isn't staying there anyway lately so that is nothing new. For a while now he has been jumping out of his bed and no punishment or reward seems to be enough to keep him there.