Friday morning Nathaniel had his 2 year check-up. It was quite the adventure. We arrived and as we were checking in, he managed to write all over my shirt. Then he had a good, old-fashioned diaper blow out! After a quick change, he decided to pick his nose (which is his latest obsession) to the point where it was bleeding. So here I am holding a dirty (very dirty) diaper begging him to stop moving, as I am on my hands and knees wiping up the blood trail he is leaving behind. Doing all this at 7 months pregnant is fun, let me tell ya..... Anyway, I finally get him settled down, nose stops bleeding, but I now look like I have committed a crime. I have blood all over my shirt, and dirt on my knees. Very attractive.
BUT....other than that...he was a champ. We have not been to the doctor since his tube check up. It is amazing how he actually let a student doc and his regular doctor look in his ears now without a fight! He was very obedient and did all the things they asked him to do (open your mouth, stick out your tongue, etc.). They probably wondered how he was so "together" when his mom clearly was not!
So his latest stats are as follows: He is weighing in at 28.6 pounds and is 33 and 3/4 inches tall. I have heard if you double a child's height at age 2, it should be an approximation of their adult height. If this is true he will be about 5 ft. 7 inches. Neither parent is tall, so this should be about right.
There are a thousand milestones I have not written about lately due to all the other madness going on in our lives. He did graduate to a "big boy bed" when we moved. We actually had the mattress on the floor of his old room for about 2 weeks before we moved. He has done well. Night time is a breeze, we have our routine of reading a few books, singing, saying our prayers, and going "night, night". He will occasionally cry in protest for a few seconds but has never gotten out of bed. Nap time on the other hand....well, it has been as long as a 2 hour struggle. I don't get it!
This is how I found him after his first night in his big boy bed (and still do most days)
He graduated to the 2 year old room at daycare, and transitioned well. However, his very favorite teacher, Miss Brittani, runs that room....he is spoiled rotten by her daily now. Apparently he does better than the other kids with using his utensils, they were very impressed. No surprise, that my kid will excel when it comes to eating!
Nate is very into singing these days. We sing Jesus Loves Me every night and now he wants to add "whole world", "itsy spider", "head, shoulders", "shine, shine (this little light of mine)", and "bumble bee" to the nightly routine. We have to cut it off after 2 or 3 songs. I think he gets the majority of these from day care. I am pretty sure I had not sung He's got the whole world in his hands to Nate, until he requested it. And any time we are upstairs in his room, he wants "moosic on".
He knows a lot of his shapes (heart, star, square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval, octagon) pretty well and will yell "circle" at any do not enter sign along the road and "oc-gone" (octagon) at all stop signs. He loves to point out circles in general (stop lights, donut shop signs, air vents on the dash board, etc.). He also loves to point out flags and "airplane in the sky" whenever he sees them; and he has better eye sight than Ted or I do. We search for the speck of an airplane as Nate points it out.
He is getting much braver motorically now. He will climb playground rockwalls and do slides by himself. He loves to "jump, jump" and finally clears a little space when he does it, instead of just getting up on his tipie-toes! Unfortunately the time he wants to do it the most is in the bathtub where Mom strongly discourages it.
His language is developing rapidly. He is my little parrot and will repeat just about anything I tell him to....I love it!
This is a fun, fun, fun stage. Don't get me wrong, he does throw fits like a two year old should. However, he is pretty easily distracted and can turn it on and off like a switch. Mom just has to be creative in what she asks to get him to stop. It is exhausting some days, but so much fun. I love my 2 year old!
