{"id":329,"date":"2008-10-02T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=329"},"modified":"2008-10-02T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:24:00","slug":"dont-forget-the-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Don’t forget the boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lex is an amazing person these days. Three
\n really seems to suit him. He is still barrels of energy, but he
\n can settle himself down, usually, when necessary. My family was
\n in town last weekend and we went out to brunch. I brought along
\n a coloring book and a few crayons (turns out the restaurant had
\n 64 crayons though!!) Lex sat quietly through the whole meal! He
\n ate his food, colored with the crayons, did the activities, and
\n was very well behaved. I think Uncle B sitting next to him
\n helped a lot! Grandpa entertained Eve on the other end of the
\n table and I think it was the first restaurant meal in 3 years
\n that didn’t end with Alan or I chasing kids around. Lex also
\n has a renewed interest in drawing and has started to make
\n recognizable shapes. Nothing like our friends Lauren and Sarah
\n (they are amazing!) but he draws lines and squiggles and then
\n tells me, “Mom, I made a balloon!” Or a box, or an animal, or a
\n rainbow. He’s branched out from just drawing rivers, which is
\n refreshing :) He also seems to like activity books, which is a
\n new thing for him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>His other big development is on the food front.
\n He’s gone from eating barely anything, to eating some things!!
\n :) I read a book called Food
\n Fights<\/a>, written by Dr. Shu, our old pedi, and she had
\n a great part about the “no thank you bite.” Have I written
\n about this before? Anyway, the idea is that instead of
\n pressuring your kid to eat everything on their plate, just give
\n them a little of the real dinner and something else they will
\n like. Then have the kid take one bite of everything and if they
\n don’t like it they can say “no thank you” and they don’t have
\n to eat any more. I always thought this was a good idea, but Lex
\n would flat out refuse. The idea is that once they have tasted
\n everything they can then have more of what the like or dessert
\n or whatever. Lex would just leave the table without eating
\n anything. Frustrating! Then a few weeks ago something in his
\n brain clicked (I think it was triggered by the carrot harvest!)
\n and he has become quite a reasonable eater. He still whines
\n sometimes, but for many days now he has tasted everything on
\n his plate, often announcing that he DOES like the food. Today
\n he ate an apple with sunflower seed butter and raisins for
\n snack. That’s a huge and healthy deviation from goldfish and
\n bunnies. At dinner he ate all of his green beans, more apple,
\n and his bagel. We’ve been keeping the fruit bowl full and on
\n the table, which is good for my WW purposes and apparently good
\n for him too. On a regular basis he will help himself to a piece
\n of fruit with his meal. So cool!! I’m loving this new phases
\n and feeling like a much more competent mommy. (In the picture they are eating
\n SFSB&H; sandwiches, but Lex decided after the fact that
\n he wanted cream cheese as well. At his insistence I put cream
\n cheese right on top of his sandwich, and, of course, she wanted
\n some too. I thought it sounded pretty yucky, but they both ate
\n it up.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He is almost completely done with naps now. This
\n is good and bad. He tends to be very tired by the end of the
\n day (and so am I!) but he also goes to bed much earlier. The
\n past few days he’s been in bed by 7pm (6:30 tonight!) and more
\n and more he goes to bed easily. Last night we finished stories,
\n he put them back on the shelf and went right up stairs. It was
\n great!
(Here
\n he is playing with the recorder from our hand-me-down music
\n kit. He’s started being interested in music and we listen to
\n lots of CDs and sing and dance along.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I’m done for now :) Its just amazing
\n to watch him become a little person. Smart, funny, and often
\n even rational. We’re pretty lucky to have him around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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