Sawyer is Three Years Old!

Three years, gosh, it feels like three minutes! Our little man celebrated his birthday a little differently this year. His actual birthday was pretty anticlimactic since Lorne was out of town and Chloe started WaterBabies that evening. The good thing is that he's only three so he really has no idea of his actual birthday.

I'm used to summarizing Chloe on a monthly basis which is difficult enough, but I will try to wrap up this last year for Sawyer:

I am amazed on a daily basis at how well he is speaking and conversing. He seems to just pick up on most of it. It's not a matter of us working on it directly. I will say we have to really work on "Yes, Ma'am and No, ma'am." That is taking FOREVER to sink in for some reason, but he's pretty good about please, thank you, and asking, "May I?"

He doesn't meet a stranger. (I wonder who he gets that from?) The boy doesn't forget a thing either. He is great at telling me that we're near Weight Watchers even though we're not going there that day and I haven't mentioned anything about that particular place, for example. He's like my own little TomTom.

We continue to work on colors, numbers, and the alphabet. He seemed to catch on to learning his colors when Lorne started equating them to Sesame Street characters. "Elmo is red" seems to work better than, "What color is a fire engine?" He'll have days when he wants to count everything and that's cool too.

We've started playing a few games. He got Candy Land, Go Fish, Uno, and Chutes and Ladders for his birthday. I haven't been around enough young children to be able to gauge his attention span, but we do all right I think.

We don't have the potty training down yet and I'm starting to get a little anxious. I'm looking around at friends' kids who are in training pants and/or completely trained and are making much more progress. I just feel like I have had way too many psychology classes to try and pressure him into potty training. Ol' Freud coined the phrase anal retentive for a reason! :) I'm really wanting to make some progress this summer since the weather is warm and he will be wearing fewer clothes.

He loves to be outside and go to the park and feed the ducks. He loves his trains and very rarely will he play with a toy in the manner in which it was intended. I just tell myself that is a sign of a great imagination and creativity and let him run with whatever he is wanting to do.

We're still dealing with him pushing Chloe and trying to get that negative attention. We just try and give him as much attention as we possibly can and add those red X's to his Reward Board when that doesn't work. He seems to be mean to her on a daily basis, but the other day he introduced her as "my Cully" and all of that was forgotten, at least for a moment.

He has definite opinions these days. He wants to choose his snacks, clothes, jammies, plate and cup color, which books to read; I could go on and on. I know that all of these are signs of independence, but boy, they can try a momma's patience!

Sawyer loves Thomas the Tank Engine!

They grow so quickly you'd think we could see it happening.

Please note the Band-Aid. We go through lots of Band-Aids around here. Anyone needing ideas for Christmas...