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.

Warrior dash

Today we went to the warrior dash.  Its a race/obstacle course (think jumping fire and crawling through mud)  mac made alot of friends as always especially when wearing Doug's warrior helmet (as pictured). 

Doug took several pounds of dirt away from Mountain City but most of it has gone down the drain.  One of our favorite parts was checking out all the crazy costumes.  We look forward to seeing the pictures taken by everyone else becuase this is about all we got.  Luckily we met friends there with better camera skills than ours.

The only downside is that Mac was too cranky and Doug was too dirty for stopping at the Dillard house, but we are making up for it with Mirko pasta.

I ride racecar!

Last night we enjoyed a chance for  family outing to the softball fields for a game. Mac loves softball night especially when he gets to ride in the mustang. He calls it the racecar and all he talks about is how he's riding in the racecar. And last night was made even morefun since we won. Mac and I actually watched more of the game than I've seen since before he was born. So it was a win on several points.

New Bedtime Routine

No matter how well a bedtime routine works, it never seems to stick.
We always adapt and go with what works. Sometimes its sweet, sometimes its a battle, and sometimes it is just cute.

The new one definitely falls under the cute category. Samantha received a Little Mermaid birthday card and Mac has decided that it is his. And that he has to look at it every night.
He did this a few nights before we remembered to get a video camera out. In the past he would always get shy whenever we tried to record him doing something cute or funny. Not this time. This time he decided to ham it up and put on an even better show.

It might take a while to load, but we think it is worth your time.



The best part is that when the camera was turned off, he tried to instruct Doug to get the camera back out for his last performance.
Not too many dull moments around here.