Kids are jerks!

The other day after my workout, Adam was playing in the indoor playground at the Community Center.  He was following around a group of boys who were ages 4-6 years old.  They were playing Indiana Jones at the time.  Anytime Adam would catch up to them they would run away and say he was a alligator or a bad guy.  A couple times when they were just kind of standing around trying to figure out what they wanted to play, Adam would try to join in and I saw at least one of them give him a little push away.  Adam thought they were just playing.  He followed them up to the top of the play-thing and one of the kids was just standing there.  It was hard to see but I think he may have been blocking the way to the top and Adam may have pushed him.  Next thing I hear is the kid whining, saying Adam is a bully and he's going to go tell his mom.  Kid slides down the slide crying to his mommy that Adam is a bully.  Adam is close behind, stands there smiling, and says HI!! as the mom quietly talks to her kid.  I walk over saying Adam just wants to play with the big kids.  One of the other mom's was like "absolutely!" (But I think her kid got all mad when Adam looked over his shoulder at a book). Kid is fine and walks back over to his gang and we leave...

Same day....we go over to the "new" park later in the afternoon.  Adam finds a couple of little kids to play with for a while but eventually they had to leave.  He finds another group of a boys and starts following them.  One blocks him from the kid he was following and tells him to stop following them and gives him a little shove away.  Thankfully that mom was right there and explained that Adam just wanted to play and to be nice.  We needed to leave anyway so I tried to have a talk with Adam in the car saying that if he gets shoved again to say "Please don't push me!  I just want to play with you!" and to try to ask kids if they want to play before just following them around.

Too much reading??

For a good part of the day today, Adam would say something and end with "Adam says" or "Mommy says".  It was like a giant story in real time - I guess that would make it a play, huh?

I'm not touching you!

Adam arrived in our bedroom just after 2 am last night.  I figured I'd do what I did the other night and let him fall asleep and in an hour or so, carry him back to his room.  I picked him up and he said drowsily "Are we going to my room?".  Yep!  I lay him down in his bed and he pops up so I laid next to him hoping he would get cozy and go back to sleep.  He puts his face on my face and is half laying on me and I can't breath!  I move down to the end of the bed and tell him to stop touching me.  He wraps his blanket around his feet and starts nudging me. I tell him again to stop touching me and he says "I'm not touching you, see?" -  because his feet were wrapped in the blanket!!!

He continued to bug me in some way so I gave up and went back to my room with Adam right behind me.....

3 = fear?

Adam has been having a hard time staying in his room at night because he has developed a fear of shadows.  He usually comes in around 4 am and says there's a shadow on the ceiling then climbs into bed.  Umm, no! Last night I let him sleep for about an hour than was able to carry him back to his room without any complaints.  I had to cover up the little "on" light on the baby monitor (yes, I still use the baby monitor just in case he gets up without coming in our room first), turn off the night light in the hallway, and make sure the curtain is completely closed so that his room is pitch black.  Tonight he wanted his door completely shut so that no light from the play room could filter in.

Even during the day when he sees a shadow on the wall, he freaks out a little.  Sometimes he says it's a ghost and sometimes he just says there's a scary shadow on the wall so I try to show him what is making it.

I already wrote about his new doctor fear.  He's already saying that he doesn't want belly pictures Thursday and he's usually great for those. ( If he cries, there will be too much air in his intestines and the images won't be clear).  I reminded him he gets a lollipop for breakfast and was like "oh, yeah" so lets hope that will do it!

On a happy note, we got Adam to eat some "real" food finally!  His doctor had asked us last week if we cook separately for him and I quietly said yes - if he wants a PBJ (or mac n cheese, hot dogs, pizza, etc for dinner, he gets it because it is just easier.  She said "STOP THAT!  He should eat what you eat!"  So yesterday I cooked up some chicken, zucchini, and yellow squash in some garlic and olive oil, added a little chicken broth and served it over spaghetti.  We told him he had to try it (and he would get a cookie).  He refused the chicken and said "blah" to the squash but he really liked the noodles and asked for more (and a turkey dog)!  Tonight I made a chicken pot pie.  Once again, we said he had to try.  He ate a little piece of chicken and said "Mmmm"!  We tried the veggies but he spit them out on his plate and said he wanted more chicken!  YAY!!  Not sure what to do tomorrow when I make chili, 'cause we like it hot and only have chili hot beans and tomatoes with jalepenos already in them....

This week recap

Adam had an orthopedist appt on Wednesday due to me freaking out that "all the other parents" of kids with hemi take their kids to the ortho yearly and we skipped last year.  I figured he should probably just get a quick look at and monitor his lower limb discrepancy so that in 10 years if/when they do surgery, they know his growth rate or whatever.  I really don't have any concerns...just thought it was another one of those things I should be doing, ya know?  Anyway...we get there and Adam is fine. He asks me a couple of times if it was my foot doctor and I said no - they want to take a peek at your legs and he said no, but he was not freaking out..just - no.  We get into the exam room and the nurse asks a couple of questions and said a doctor would be in shortly and to take Adam's shoes, socks, and pants off.  As soon as she left the room and I go to grab a shoe, he started screaming and crying that he didn't want to take his clothes off.  I said, "They just want to look at your cute, little, legs." wherein he responded, "NO, I don't want them to see my cute, little, legs!"  I had his pants half-way off when the resident guy came in but Adam was still screaming and crying.  He asked a couple more questions (yelling over Adam) then Dr. VonStein came in.  Adam was now screaming, crying, AND kicking!  I told them that if someone could just grab his pants while I held him up...and Dr.V. responded "I don't want to get kicked!  It's not worth it.  We'll just watch him walk back out to the lobby."  Well...Adam kind of walked really slowly and then ran through the reception area still (you guessed it) crying and screaming.  I asked the Dr. if I should reschedule this or come back yearly and she said to only call if we have any concerns.  OK!

Next day - Adam had his 3 year regular doctor check-up.  I was getting really worried that we would have a repeat of the day before so Dave came with us.  I think we may have bribed Adam with a milkshake after if he was good.  The nurse was fantastic and Adam let her weigh and measure him.  (36 lbs, 39 inches - about 88th percentile for both)  She had him do a couple of things in the room like draw a circle and a cross on the bench paper, stand on one foot, hop and he thought that was fun.  Then Dr. Niland came in and he was fine! She's so laid back anyway that I think it just helps the kids too.  I don't know why there was such a big difference in the 2 days but he's done with her for a year. Next week is ultrasound and blood work time so hopefully that will go well, too.

Last night was Trick-or-Treat night and we stayed in our neighborhood.  It was FREEZING so we put a couple of layers on under Adam's Buzz Lightyear costume and took a jacket just in case.  I had my winter coat on and I was still cold but Adam refused to put his jacket on for the little over an hour we were out.  Our part of the neighborhood is relatively quiet but we went to the couple of neighbors we knew.  Then we turned the corner to the "other" part of the neighborhood and, like last year, was just hopping with kids and families.  Adam would go up to doors without us if he got in a big group of kids but then he's be upset when those kids were faster than him.  "Wait for me Spiderman!!" A couple of times while he was in the group, he would be paying so much attention to the other kids that he didn't see the treat dropped into his bag so he would continue to stand there.  It was hilarious!  AND people would feel bad and give him some more!  My kid is smart!  There was a boy, maybe 8 years old, who stopped and told Adam he like his costume.  We asked what he was and he said he didn't know (he was dressed all in black with a kind of creepy mask and a Wolverine claw hand).  Then he reached into his bag of treats and gave Adam one and said to have a nice Halloween!  It was soo sweet!  It was a really fun night since this is the first year Adam was really into it! We may be going over to Dave's friend's house Sunday for Trick or Treat there since it will be a little warmer.

Today, Adam's class had a little Halloween party (which we were not there for) and a costume parade at the end of the day.  Lots of princesses, a fireman, a crying robot, and Buzz.  I asked him if he knew all the names of the kids in his class and he said yes.  Then I pointed to the picture and he only knew the girl standing next to him (Alyssa who he sees at the Community Center all the time) and the boy on the end, Ethan (he has 2 Ethan's in his class).

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Adam's 3rd Birthday!!

We had been celebrating Adam's birthday all week at Disney but we finally got to sing "Happy Birthday" to him yesterday!  He wouldn't let us sing before because 1),  it wasn't his birthday all week and 2), when it finally was his birthday we couldn't sing until cake time.  He didn't want a party so we just had the grandparents over for dinner and ice cream cake.  Dave and his mom had taken Adam over to Toys R Us earlier in the day and he didn't want them to tell anyone it was his birthday and he didn't want a balloon.  He's so funny!  He also didn't want his birthday banner up until cake time.  BUT, he was more than happy to open his huge stack of presents in the morning!  It was a very "Imaginex" birthday of superhero stuff and stuff we found on clearance throughout the year.

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Adam's 3rd Birthday!