I am enjoying my last month as daytime Mommy - I accepted a position with my company at one of our sister recreation centres as supervisor of the staff starting March 1st. Liam will be going to Emily full-time for March and then starts at his new daycare April 1st. Lots of transitioning for him (and for me) so hopefully it will go ok! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't just a tad anxious about the whole thing but I know often times it's harder on the parent than the child, especially when I've been with Liam every day for almost two years. I won't miss the late nights and exhaustion though and Ian is super excited about having me home in the evening and on weekends. All in all it will be a very positive change for our family.
Liam is taking off again in the vocabulary department and is really starting to put together his sentences, mostly 3-4 words at a time. Some things he may say is "no like that", " where's my sucky"or "Daddy is funny". We have been reading longer books at bedtime including Noddy which is his favourite (same as Mommy). The drone of my voice seems to put both Ian and Liam to sleep, usually after about 10 mins Ian will start snoring. Liam has almost mastered the alphabet, missing only a few letters here and there and recognizes all the letters thanks to the help of the alphabet book I've been reading him and his new wooden puzzle. He is also almost at 20 in the number department, impressive for a not quite 2 year old. Shapes have progressed from squares and ovals to crescents and octagons and colours now include black, white and purple.
We have noticed more interest in the potty world but Liam seems to think of his expensive singing potty as more of a toy than a place to deposit so I gave in and got him an inexpensive "fit on the toilet seat" potty seat that he has far more interest in. Go figure. One afternoon after I sat him on it he said "bye-bye Mommy" and made me walk out of the bathroom so he could have some privacy. So I sat behind the wall and listened to him singing songs for about 10 minutes before I came back in and was promptly told to leave again. Gotta love the independent streak.
Liam's love of wheels has expanded to include garbage & recycling trucks and there is the beginnings of interest in trains. We went to the beach one day to play at the park and see the ocean, another interest. Thinking I was clever, I dressed Liam up in his waterproof Elmo suit, thick socks and boots and let him splash at the edge of the ocean. Sure enough after about a minute of splashing, he decided to wade further out to see how deep he coud go and lost his balance, falling right into the water on his bum. Ice cold ocean water seeped into his pants and down inside his boots, absolutely soaking him. This prompted screaming and a quick as a flash change into warm dry clothes. Mental note to self, buy a wet suit or wrap him up in plastic before attempting ocean exploration again. It's just not the same as the Caribbean. Luckily Mr. Miserable was instantly distracted when a giant recycling truck showed up the parking lot. Forget the playground or the ocean, hello big truck! The truck driver was super nice and let Liam sit in the driver's seat, the look on his face was priceless! The grin was like the Cheshire Cat, ear to ear. We spent about 45 minutes hanging out before a second truck arrived. It was recycling truck heaven. Liam was most upset when we had to leave and screamed harder than the ocean incident. Such is life!
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