{"id":248,"date":"2009-02-01T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:06:00","slug":"three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Upon rereading this post I see that it’s mostly
\n just a crazy jumble of thoughts. I’m going to leave it as is,
\n but read at your own risk :) )<\/span><\/p>\n

Have I posted about three before? If so, it’s a long year
\n so I’m going to go ahead and post again. I guess we could call
\n this “three and three quarters” to be a little more precise. Or
\n not. Whatever. Anyway, three is a funny age. He’s so smart and
\n so capable that it’s easy to forget he’s just a little kid.
\n Sometimes he seems so big and grown-up, then I seem him with a
\n bunch of other kids and he still looks like a baby. I think
\n sometimes my expectations of him are very high. He can fully
\n dress himself, including outdoor clothes (needs help with the
\n mittens, but that’s understandable!). He’s fully potty-trained
\n and can do the whole thing on his own with little to no help
\n from us. He can read and he’s starting to make recognizable
\n pictures (he drew an awesome fish the other day!). He can write
\n some letters too, but seems very resistant to the whole concept
\n of writing. He must get that from daddy, ’cause I can write all
\n day! :) He also has an amazing memory and can recite books and
\n his new Thomas the Train DVD for hours. HOURS, I tell ya!! Book
\n recitals are calm and mellow, but Thomas recitals involve
\n complicated walking around patterns, usually involving climbing
\n over things and circling around me. They also involve lots and
\n LOTS of repetition, in both motion and words. He does a great
\n job of getting the inflection and storytelling emphasis right.
\n I sometimes find myself yelling at him to sit still and stop
\n talking because he isn’t really saying anything, just “telling
\n me” the Thomas story. It usually starts with “Mom! In my new
\n Thomas the Train DVD…” and goes from there. Whew! I get
\n exhausted just thinking about it. Despite (or because of? who
\n knows) his ability to remember everything under the sun, his
\n imagination is really coming through lately too. The other day
\n he made a “really terrible accident” in the living room that
\n involved all of his cars and trucks, lots of toys, doggies,
\n blankets, etc. Then he built the firetruck floor puzzle and
\n “drove” the firetruck over to help at the accident. Slowly the
\n cars and other items untangled and came over to admire the
\n firetruck. It was a long involved game that kept him busy and
\n relatively quiet for awhile, with the occaisional requests for
\n “mom! come see this really terrible accident!” I like the
\n mostly quiet kind of games :) For some reason he seems to be
\n regressing slightly in some areas. Not sure why. He claims he
\n can no longer put on his own winter jacket, he consistently
\n puts his boots on the wrong feet (after knowing right from left
\n for a long time now!) and he started using the little potty
\n again and not emptying it, after using the toilet for quite
\n awhile. I think the potty thing might be because Eve is using
\n the potty a lot (although she always wants to use the toilet
\n like Lex), but I can’t figure out the dressing thing. He also
\n gets super frustrated by things like inside-out sleeves on his
\n PJs. It occurred to me the other day that he (and probably most
\n 3yr olds) could accomplish so much more if they were able to
\n focus. When I get Lex to sit still for a split second and look
\n at his PJs he is able to straighten them out easily, but he
\n just gets flustered and moves so quickly that he can’t handle
\n it. Must be an odd feeling being three. It seems like he has so
\n much energy he can barely slow himself down, but then,
\n suddenly, it’s gone and he drops. Crazy. Lucky for me he has
\n been super, super sweet at bedtime and quiet time. I am sooooo
\n happy that we don’t have to fight the bedtime battle anymore
\n (well, with Lex anyway. Eve is becoming more difficult in that
\n area :\/ ) It’s like he’s finally starting to appreciate that
\n his body needs rest. Ahh… ok, I’m done now. In summary: Lex
\n is an amazing kid. I couldn’t ask for a more perfect son!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The
\n accident<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The wild
\n man who caused the accident<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The
\n rescue scene<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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