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February 2, 2000

Back to your regularly scheduled toddler diary! Jason has been moving out of his grumpy phase, and has been a joy to be around for the past couple of weeks. He's been so affectionate, and loving, and at the same time, he's developing more "boy" traits. At his daycare, there are several other older boys, and they've been teaching him to play with cars. He gets the idea of moving a car along the floor and making the "vroom, vroom" noise, but he hasn't made the connection that it's a vehicle sound. In his play, the stuffed kitty, toy block and anything else gets run along the floor and goes "vroom, vroom" too. It cracks me up, seeing stuffed animals making those sounds.

Jason's vocabulary is increasing, and he's starting to try to imitate new sounds. Before, he'd imitate us, but only with words he was familiar with like mama or daddy. Last night we were getting him to say "Me!"

I'm really starting to see his thought processes, and it's stunning to me how much he observes, watches for reactions and has his own sense of humor. Much personality already, and that's a jump from when he was 1 year old -- I wonder what the next couple of years will bring?

Something that helped me out when Jason was pretty grumpy was trying to see patterns there were. I noticed that the times I would get most frustrated with him would be when I was trying to get something done and he would be very clingy and whiney. What I've done (and I'm not perfect at it by any means) is to try and not worry about finishing a task if it's not an absolute priority. It's hard to put things on the back burner, but in the end, it really doesn't matter if the dishes get loaded into the dishwasher at 7:00 or 8:00.

LOL, kind of a chaotic entry, but then that's how things are right now!

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