25 months 10.12.12

Tillman loves the "mow mow"...
even tells it night night!

Tillman moved up to the official potty training class this month.  We hear he "fights" with one of the girls in the class to use the pink potty.  Tillman doesn't know his colors yet, but she must. I checked this potty out, and I can see why it is popular.  It has a lid, fold up seat, and the works.  All it needs is plumbing.  We have to bring "Pull Ups" to school now, so time is of the essences for Tillman to be full potty trained (those diapers are expensive). He does really well with potty training at school, but at home, not so great!  It also doesn't help that he is on an antibiotic right now, and you know what those do to the tummy....

 

Tillman eating with his class-pancakes in a bowl...
breakfast of champs!

Tillman is working on his colors too.  He thinks everything is YELLOW ("L Low"). I think it is more that he like to say yellow than he really thinks everything is yellow.  We are working hard on colors right now.  I think he knows how to say red, green, and blue...oh and yellow, but those colors he is just not interested in learning right now.  We are working hard. I feel like we name the color of everything before saying the object, but he only repeat the object name (We'll say "blue truck" and he'll reply "truck...ugh!)

T loves to vacuum too! Wonder how long that will last.
 I let him play with this for an hour...he did a good job!
Any time we can combin cleaning and play, it's a plus!

He has started saying "I love  you," good morning ("mornin'"), Amen, trailer (because the mow mow rides on it), cartoons ("Ka-toons") and he has learn pumpkin ("pu kin")!  He is learning all kinds of words now...it is hard to keep up.

At the farm looking at all the animals!

At school he is also eating in the cafeteria.  This is a big step since he is sitting at the big kid table. I was amazed to see him sit down and not run around like a crazy kid.  He is very calm mannered at school, but at home, he is all over the place.  His classroom has learning centers and they have a set schedule for the day.  There is still lots of play, but now they have structured learn time.

At the park...already too cool to smile for mom!

Tillman continues to struggle with his sinus/allergies.  He has been to the doctor twice since Caroline was born.  We've scheduled an ENT appointment to get him checked out by a specialist.  His ears are clear, so the ear tubes are working well.  He continues to have a "snotty nose" that doesn't really go away...ever!  When we took him to the doctor this past time, Tillman weighed 26.5 lbs!

 

 

Tillman is also starting to love certain toys and characters.  We are just now noticing this with him.  He is going to start writing a Christmas and birthday list soon.  Tillman LOVES Elmo and Ernie, and Choo Choos (Thomas the Train). He also loves to play with trains and trucks.  He is also starting to like picking out his clothes too.  Today he is wearing Elmo, and he went into school showing everyone his Elmo on his pants.  He'll wear trains tomorrow!

We thought the sleep sack would never go away, but I think it is being phased out.  He has been wiggling out of the neck of them.  He has busted the zipper on one.  Tillman sometimes request to be put in it, and other times he goes to bed in just his clothes.  Crazy how he is breaking himself of his own habit.  We tried to put him to bed in the past without it on, but he would wake up crying.  I guess he was teaching us he would do it on his own time!

Tillman and his buddy, Cole

Another BIG thing for us is we are starting to go out to eat more with him.  It doesn't always turn out to be blissful, but we are getting out more.  It does make it easier to go with others who have children.  When we go just the four of us, we have time to see other staring at us and wondering if we are going to control our kids (mostly those people who don't have children). When we go with other, we have so much chaos going on at our own table, we don't have time to look around!  We've gone out with another family from the daycare twice, and I'm glad we did as it makes me more confident to take the kids to places....we can't sit at home until they are teenagers before we take them out...my cooking isn't that good!

T with the pumpkin trailer!