The Best Things about Soren (just under 3 years)

1. I love that he says "thank you" for very specific and random things. (ex: "Thank you for going downstairs.")
2. I love that he can read lots of words.
3. I love how good he is at governing his emotions.
4. I love it when he says, "Mommy, dance with me!"
5. I love his neologisms. (ex: chapstick is "truck-a-day")
6. I love that he knows what Christmas is really about.
7. I love it when he wants to help me with my chores.
8. I love how handsome he is in his big boy clothes.
9. I love it when he fights dragons
10. and when he uses common household items to make his armaments. (ex: a kitchen knife and a frisbee)
11. I love to hold his hand when he walk together.
12. I love it that he runs to give Scott a hug when he comes home from work.
13. I love to see him share with Carl.
14. I love (love love love love) that he is willing and eager to fetch things for me.
15. I love it when he asks me to tell him I love him.
16. I love that he can listen to long books with very few pictures
17. and that he talks about the characters when he plays.
18. I love and laugh when he begs me to turn back off the light in the morning. I'm not a morning person, either.
19. I love that he gives hugs on demand and with gusto.
20. I love the way he snuggles next to me when we watch The Muppet Show.

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Our Potty Training Journey

February 2010 GOAL: My initial goal was to introduce Soren to the toilet and make it a fun place to sit. I have to admit that I also hoped that we would have some fortunate "accidents" that would lead to potty training success. STRATEGY: My plan was to sit Soren on the toilet once a day and read him a couple of stories. If he peed, I was planning to give him a candy. THE BAD NEWS: The candy totally backfired. The one time that he peed on the toilet, I gave him a candy and he had a full-on tantrum begging for more. If I ever told him "When you pee on the potty, you can have a candy", he would begin screaming for the treat and be unable to focus on the toilet training. THE GOOD NEWS: Soren was not afraid of sitting on the big toilet. He actually really enjoyed it (when I was reading stories and not pimping rewards) and started asking to sit there any time his butt was bare. J June 2010 GOAL: My goal was to potty train Soren within the month of June

Cake for Breakfast!

I was getting dressed when it suddenly got very quiet out in the living room. Soren had been contentedly babbling a moment ago and now it was silent. I'm sure you can imagine me, rushing half-panted down the hall, hoping nothing horrible had happened. At our last visit, my pediatrician filled my mind with horror stories of infant death; now gruesome scenes were flipping through my mind like a slide show on speed. Or like the scary tunnel in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Expecting a disaster, I was relieved when this was what I saw in the living room: The night before, I'd left a slice of left-over cake on the arm chair. We'd had company and Soren had been in bed. When I'd forgotten it at the end of the evening, it had been far from my son's greedy grasp. But this morning, when it was still left behind, it was within easy baby reach and too unusual for him not to explore. No wonder he was so quiet! He'd been experimenting with an unk

Milestone: New Syllable

This feels like such a silly thing to report about but it's got me tickled pink. Today Soren learned, what I feel, is the most important of all the English syllables: "ma". And it's about time. After months and months of hearing nothing but "da da da da" all day long, it's a refreshing change. I'm pretty sure that "da da" and "ma ma" don't correlate to anything in his mind yet. Still, he's that much closer to calling me his "mama" and I can't say the approximations don't warm my heart.

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