Dayton is a sweet, fun, crazy, excited, curious...etc, almost 3 year old (in a few weeks :( ). Crazy how time flies. He tells me the funniest things and I laugh daily at the things he thinks of and says.
In October we were at Wal-Mart and the Christmas trees were set up, he spotted them and started screaming, "I see Christmas". We were amazed that he even remembered what Christmas was. When I put on my make-up he turns to me and says, "Mommy messy". His imagination has just exploded. He walks by the stairs and says, "sh..be quiet, dragon down stairs". He pretends to read stories with his hands and says," Upon a time". He plays hotel elevator in the doorway of our laundry room. Sings and dances to every song and movie he watches. He loves Mary Poppins, Polar Express, Little Einstein’s, Curious George, And most recently Rudolph. He sings, "Do down the medicine, go down the medicine" and "Step in time". From Rudolph he sings, "do do do a misfit". He calls Salt and Pepper, "sepper". He has 'me', 'you', and 'my' confused and it is so cute I hate to correct him. He says, "Mommy hold you me". When I interrupt to help him, he says, "No, my do it". Two weeks ago he had a hard time going to nursery because there was a substitute in the class and a visitor. He didn't recognize them and he screamed for about 5 minutes (I had to teach a lesson or I would have stayed to help him). After church I asked him why he had a hard time and he said, "Mommy weave you, me". My heart melted. I have gotten brave and taken away his binki. He hasn't had since Friday November 30th! Yay! I just was getting tired of his crying for it all the time and his behavior was crummy. I knew it was getting bad when he walked in our room one morning and said in a crying voice, "mom, I can't find my binki." If he could say that whole sentence then I knew it was time! I now read and read to him before bed and nap time, then I tuck him in and he usually says something cute and out of the blue like, “I like Christmas” or “Jesus loves me” it is new each time but these two I remembered. He has all the excuses to get out of bed too like, "My hungry; I need a drink; I have to go potty; Mom, I have a bloody nose". Don't ask me where he got that one! Every morning I ask him what he wants for breakfast and he replies pancakes. I get tired of the same old pancakes so I asked him if we could have blueberry pancakes and he said, “No, green”. He calls Grandma and Grandpa "Gwamma" and "Cappa". I ask him questions and he has just started to answer with ,”sure”. The other day I went to cut his nails and he threw a big fit I asked him if he wanted to go to time out and he said yes. He must think time out is better then getting nails cut. When I was rinsing out his hair in the tub I got finished and he said, “not so bad”! Just now when I was ignoring him to write this post he was playing with his trains and got upset and started to scream I yelled to him what is the matter and he said, “My frustrated”. It seriously is an adventure with little ones who are exploring the world! We love our little darlings!
