- Reid is starting to learn about sharing. According to nursery leaders, he's pretty good most days at sharing. Other than the Lightning McQueen car, black train and his ride truck, Reid is good at sharing his own toys here at home.- Reid has mostly adjusted to having a brother, but I think one thing that helped was that her learned how to ask to have mom to himself. "I need a mommy hug.... No, Weston down... need a mommy hug". I try to support his need for some mommy attention, but trying not to baby him... it's a tricky balance.
- Reid is starting to learn cause/effect. So we are trying to teach him consequences. Reid spilled his drink the other day, so I went through the motions of helping him get a rag and clean it up, and what to do with the rag afterward. I was pleasantly surprised when the next time he spilled and I told him to go get a rag... he did!
- Reid is starting to like his brother. When Weston sees him, he always smiles and Reid gets excited that he can make him "happy" or "smiiiiwwing" (smiling). He will often share a car with Weston, and we've started teaching him about asking for a toy and then trading for another toy.
- Reid has really starting understanding and responding to our requests. He understands that we want something, or when we explain why he can't have what he wants. His comprehension has expounded.
- We have constantly worked on colors, but had no luck, until he started asking for me to draw Thomas (with a blue crayon), or James (with a red crayon), or Percy (with a green crayon). Success! Our child is not colorblind! So, we worked on it for just a bit, and then BAM! he knew all of his colors all of the sudden. Pink and purple still need a little help (but well, we don't use them much, they are girl colors), and orange and yellow are a little confusing, but he's getting better.
- One of my favorites is that like every 2 year old, Reid whines. But we have talked about being happy and saying things in a happy and nice voice. He gets this cheesy closed mouth smile and tries to show mommy that he can be happy, so he can get what he wants. I love the face... I can't help by smile myself.
- Ever since about a week after Christmas (when Reid got really sick), he takes Lightning McQueen to bed with him. This was such a surprise, cuz Reid does not like stuffed animals, so I thought he would never want a toy in bed with him. Well, Lightning McQueen has won the cherished place of bedtime with Reid.
- Reid goes through phases of bringing his blankets out of bed. We started with him leaving his bed blankets on mommy's bed, and slowly moved it to his bed. But occasionally he still likes to bring them to mommy's bed. But it is comical now, because with the colder weather we have added a full twin size blanket on his bed and watching him drag it to our room makes me smile. But then I ask him to put them back on his bed and he does it right away.
Reid shows his love unconditionally for mommy and daddy. He is my friend and buddy right now. He is behaving so well and rarely gets in trouble. If he does, its to the corner and before his 2 minutes are up, he's in the corner apologizing or saying what he should have done differently. I know this won't last forever, so I am enjoying every moment I can. We made it through the months of adjusting to moving and then adjusting to a baby brother, and now we are just enjoying being us... at home.... and he's the sweetest boy. I want to never forget these precious moments.
(Reid helping Daddy play "robots"
a.k.a. Daddy doing his robotics hobby by tearing
apart our broken DVD player for parts)
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