We've been going through a bit of a tough time with Adam again. He has started objecting to every little thing Nathan says and does. Not even exaggerating. He imitates him word for word, or shriek for shriek, whatever the case might be, and gets extremely agitated. Some days are really bad, like this past weekend. The tension in this house has been through the roof! Nathan picks up on this and being the little two year old that he is, he tests his limits with Adam a bit. Adam has become much more aggressive with Nathan and often pushes him or pulls his hair. It's been a very trying experience to say the least. Today we had a bit of a reprieve which is giving me some hope, maybe it was just a short phase. I am choosing to look at this as positively as I can and say that it might be a good sign, that he is starting to pay more attention to other kids. Unfortunately, he doesn't like what he is taking in at this point in time, but we can always hope that his experiences with other kids (his little brother in particular!) will only get better from here! We do know that they are seeing positive results from him at preschool, and have just recently upped his "workload". He also just started staying Tuesday afternoons as well, meaning he is there for 4 full days and only 1 half day per week. This may well be the reason for him acting out a bit at home, but hopefully it's just a transition until he gets used to the new demands they are placing on him. We want him to be challenged and continue to meet his goals, so I guess we will live with a little backlash at home!
Lynsey just had her performance in her after school drama class last week! It was cute (the bit that I was able to see, Brian and I had to trade off taking the boys out). Just yesterday, she did a trial class in a gymnastics/dance facility and she really liked it! It was a half hour of gymnastics, half hour of ballet and 15 minutes of tap dancing. It's a really relaxed atmosphere and she liked it so we're going to enroll her in the weekly class! I'm happy to be back at a point where we feel like we can manage this sort of after school activity - the drama class was easy, because it was just her staying after school and we had to pick her up at 4:45, but this one I have to actually bring her to the facility at 4:30 and pick her up at 5:45 (or stay if I can manage it! It sort of worked yesterday, but I don't know if I would want to do that every week!).
Nathan - what can I say about this little boy! He is just so interesting! Today we were watching "Frozen" and he was actually involved in the movie! He was talking about the big snowman and was getting scared when he would chase after people, and after the movie, he kept talking about some of the characters! So cool to see him becoming this little person! He still loves playing with trains and cars, sometimes with Woody and Buzz, and is so good at letters, shapes and colors. He just today decided he wanted to sit in a big chair at the table and had lunch and supper there! Not sure if it will last, I think I will keep trying to put him in his chair because it is a bit easier, but I won't fight it too much:). If he wants to assert his independence and say he wants a big chair, I think I'm ready for that, messes and all! It's not actually that much messier anyway, he's a disaster no matter where he sits;).
Lynsey and I went to a ballet on Saturday! It was a very kid friendly one about a girl that gets invited for tea at the royal palace, pretty cute:). Lynsey enjoyed it, that's the main thing! Tomorrow, Adam's preschool is taking a bus to a kids museum and Nathan and I are going to tag along. We'll see how it goes! Field trips are not terribly exciting for Adam, he would just as soon not go on them, but we want to continue to push him to have new experiences. I just hope it's manageable with Nathan!
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