This week has gone by so fast! I guess in part to the fact that I got to spend Tuesday playing hooky with the little guy. Without going into gory details (and believe me...I could) he had a little stomach virus and bad diaper rash. So they nicely suggested at daycare that I try to keep him home and get it cleared up. I will try not to point fingers at the fact that they fed him baked beans and spaghetti & meatballs on Monday when I asked them not to let him eat anything but crackers and rice cereal until he felt better. So, needless to say, even though he was feeling better Monday morning, he got worse again in the afternoon. Oh well. I could think of worse things than taking off a day of work to spend with him.
So now he is feeling much better, I think. He's getting very good at standing on his own now without holding on to anything. I can see steps in the near future. And I have to admit - I'm a little scared. This guy is tremendously sneaky and mischevious! I love that about him, but it will call for some creative parenting, I believe.
Already, I'm learning to let him think things are his idea. The last bottle of the day has always been a challenge. For a long time, he refused to take it unless he was in his crib with his blanket. Then I got him weaned off that, and he would sit in his little car seat in front of the tv (whether it was on or not) to take it. Sometimes he would even assist in holding it, but not often. NOW, I am not allowed to hold it at all. I have to hold it in front of him as un-suggestively as possible, and he will push it away about 20 times screaming and kicking until he decides that I have given up. Then he will grab it himself, plop it into his mouth and drink the whole thing. Really...I just don't know what he's thinking. At first, I would just offer, and when he pushed it away, I put him to bed and let him cry it out. Then I would wait 15 or 20 minutes and try again and repeat. After 3 hours of this, I finally had to try some different things. Why, oh why...won't he take the bottle if he's thirsty?? He will cry his hungry cry and I just feel terrible listening to it.
Now I know many people will think - well, if he won't take it, then he just doesn't want it. But that really isn't the case! He wants it so bad that he gets so angry and it's like he can't remember what he wanted in the first place.
What I REALLY think is that he just likes messing with my head. He's smart that way. And I think it's working - I can tell by my writings here lately that I'm probably losing my mind a little bit each day.
I think that's just called Parenting.
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