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May 1, 2003
April 26th, 2003
Collin is 21 months old
I’m 5 weeks, 1 day pg
My-O-my do we have a talker on our hands! Collin has been talking sentences for a few weeks now and as I said in my last entry, unless he’s asleep, he’s jabbering about everything and anything. The only way to describe his talking is just plain adorable. He will say two or three half sentences before he finally works up to the full sentence. For example if he’s trying to say, “no airplanes out today because there are too many clouds” he’ll say this (all together, with hardly any breath between), “no airplanes clouds, no airplanes cause too clouds, no airplanes out too many clouds.” It’s just so cute and it amazes me to be able to see how he’s forming words into real sentences. Mark and I have actual two/three way conversations with him now. Collin loves being able to talk about all the things he sees, wants, likes, hears, tastes, feels, what he wants to eat and what he doesn’t want to eat and things he has questions on. He’s also really big into repeating things he hears from anyone walking by or anything he hears on the television. If he hears the weatherman say, “Cloudy tomorrow with a chance a rain” he’ll do his best to repeat the entire sentence. Besides leaving out a few articles (a, an & the), he does an amazing job.
Collin also likes to walk into a room and announce himself or say hi. He’ll run into the office and say, “Well hello there” or “hello” or just a plain, “hi” in the cutest voice almost like he’s an English gentleman. He’ll do this throughout the day whenever he feels like it or whenever he walks up to one of us. He also loves saying his own name and will call himself. He’ll cup his hands to his mouth and yell, “Collliiiiiiiin.” He’s good at yelling at the cats when he hears one of them scratching up the carpet and is very good at bossing them around too. If he hears me tell the cat to move “now” he’ll run to where I am and scream, “NOWWWW!” I guess it’s good practice for his big brother badge!
A few things that Collin has learned recently are:
·The concept of 1 and 2, sometimes 3. When he’s walking up or down the stairs he’ll say, “onnnne, twooooooo” (and like I said sometimes threeeeee). When he’s looking at a pair of something he’ll tell me it’s two. When he’s holding two things, he’ll tell me it’s two things.
·Jumping – Ever since he saw a skit on Sesame Street on jumping, he leaps around the living room like a frog on a lily pad. Sometimes he’s graceful sometimes he bites the dust. He always gets right back up and jumps around some more.
·The potty – He’s asked many many times, all on his own, to sit on the potty. He doesn’t like the potty chair; he prefers the cushy insert we got for the regular toilet. He wants to take his clothes and diaper off and sit on the big potty. He actually gets very frustrated and mad when he can’t go so I always reassure him. One day he sat down, couldn’t go and said, “I tried!” He loves it when he gets a square of t.p. He likes to act like he’s using it then loves to flush it and say bye-bye. He hasn’t gone yet, but I’m betting he will soon. I’m not rushing this at all and I think that’s why he likes asking on his own. I’m so proud of him!
The true loves in Collin’s life right now:
·Money! I knew the day would come but I didn’t know how soon. Collin loves money and if he spies apiece anywhere he yells, “MONEY” and will swoop up to grab it. Then he joyfully announces several times in a row, “I got money!” “I got money!” He knows the difference between a quarter, a dime and a penny and we are working on nickel. He loves money so much that he even threw a temper tantrum one night when we wouldn’t let him sleep with a handful of change. We hit middle ground when we agreed to let him sleep with ONE penny tucked safely inside a plastic Easter egg. Oh the things we let our children do!
·Speaking of plastic eggs – He adores these things! He doesn’t care if they contain anything he just loves them. He’ll carry several around and likes to take them into the bathtub with him. One night he slept with one, dropped it out of his crib and tried to reach over the railing to get it. I heard a humongous THUMP and then bloodcurdling cries come out of his room. I went rushing to open his door only to find him already at the door crying his eyes out. He had fallen out of his crib trying to reach the egg. God did I feel horrible. Thankfully he didn’t fall onto anything but the floor, but at least it wasn’t a sharp corner on the dresser. I gave him some children’s Advil, we made popcorn and we snuggled on the couch and watched his favorite – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
·Harry Potter – Mark and I both love the H.P. books and movies. Collin has seen us reading the books and we like to pop in the movies on occasion. It’s what we call one of our “feel good movies.” When there is nothing on or it’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, we pop in a H.P. movie. I guess that must have been were Collin got his love of Harry because when the second movie came out and we got it, he requested it daily! Now he requests it several times a day. He loves the flying cake, Dobbie the house elf, the flying car, the Mandrakes, the Howler from Ron’s mom, the Cornish pixies, when Ron starts throwing up slugs, the pumpkin juice, when Harry writes in the journal and several other parts. The only thing he gets a little scared over is the way that Mr. Dursley yells and the hand that snatches up Harry’s hand in Knockturn Ally. When those scenes come up, he’ll come over to me, cuddle close and say, “Just movie” meaning “it’s just a movie, right?!” He says this because we tell him it’s okay to be scared but he doesn’t have to worry because it’s pretend, it’s just a movie. When Collin is ready to wind down, when he’s upset about something, happy about something, veggin out, hyped out, you name it, he’ll request in his sweet voice, “Harry Potter?” We’ve now watched that movie so many times we are reciting verses. He likes the second movie way more than the first. Probably more fun things in the second one plus he's terrified of the ending in the first one.
·Play-Doh – One of the things the Easter Bunny brought Collin was a big bucket of Play-doh. It had several cans of the stuff, lots of cutters, play-doh cutting scissors, rollers, etc. He immediately took a love to it and likes to smash it between his fingers. He’ll bring me over a wad and ask me to roll balls for him. One thing I DO NOT like about it is he enjoys taking a huge glob and picking teeny tiny little pieces of it and throwing it around the room. I’ve thrown away many dried out clumps of the stuff so far.
·Sidewalk Chalk – Also a little item the Easter Bunny gave Collin. He likes to draw with it and break each stick in half. Daddy ran over a stick with the lawnmower the other day. Ooops!
·The lawnmower – Collin LOVES to watch Mark mow the lawn. He will sit and watch him do the entire lawn and say over and over again, “Daddy mow lawn.” When we are sitting around the house during the day and the windows are open, if he hears someone mowing the lawn he’ll want to know who and if he can see. He’ll walk around saying, “neighbor mow lawn” or else, “I don’t know who’s mowing the lawn. We’re looking to get him one of those bubble mowers so he can follow daddy around and “mow” the grass. Right now he likes to take his popper or else his vacuum around the yard and act like it’s a mower.
·Dora the Explorer – Loves Boots the monkey, Tico the purple squirrel and Benny the blue cow.
·Sesame Street – His favorites are Cookie monster, Ernie, Elmo and Big Bird.
·Blue’s Clues – We can’t get enough of Joe and Blue in our house. Collin prefers Joe over Steve but he’ll take when he can get if Joe isn’t on. In fact, Collin is so into Blue right now that we nixed the idea of the construction party and are now giving him a full blown Blue’s Clues party for his second birthday. More on this later.
·Playing with children – It takes him a bit to warm up (just like it does for us grown adults) but once he feels safe and comfortable in the company of other children he loves to play with them. It’s so sweet seeing him play with other kids. He’s so caring and sweet and concerned. After they are gone or we’ve left he’ll ask for them over and over again. This is just another reason why I’m so excited to give him a sibling. I know he’s going to love it.
Favorite things to say on a daily basis:
·“Oh poor baby” “alright now” - This is what he says if he trips, falls down or bumps something. He also loves band-aids.
·“Helping Mommy” - He’ll say this whenever he’s trying to “help” me unload the dishwasher, sort or fold laundry. He even says it when he does something he’s not supposed to be doing. He thinks that if he says, “helping mommy” that it’s okay. Wrong.
·“Daddy’s home!” – Screams this when he sees Mark pull into the driveway.
·“1/2 cup!” “1/2 cup!” – He’ll chant this over and over again when he’s pretending he’s mixing up something or pretend baking. If I ask him what he’s making he’ll tell me either eggs or Ovaltine. (We are chocolate Ovaltine drinkers in this house and it’s what Collin considers “chocolate milk.”)
·“Moo-Moo hair cut. Moo-Moo pretty!” – Our dog Mollie (he calls her Moo-Moo) recently got groomed and he likes to pet her and tell her and us how pretty she is. So cute!
·“Ahhhhh-Haaaa!” When he finds something exciting or something he’s been looking for for awhile.
·“Oh Gosh” or “Oh Jeeze”
·“Oh no problem!” He’ll do this when pretending to talk on the phone or anytime he just feels like it.
·“Dang it!” (For awhile there it was Damn it! – yikes!)
·“No airplane, no moon, too many clouds out.”
·Mommy and Daddy food all gone.” He’ll say this each night at the dinner table (or lunch or breakfast) when we’re done eating.
·“Oh come one now!” This is a funny one! When he’s trying to persuade us into doing something or trying to get one of the cats to come to him or even when he “talks” to his toys or blankie, he likes to say this.
·“I got money!”
·“Happy now?”
·“Jeeze Punkin”
·“Daddy Schandwich” – He’ll point to the bread and say this because he knows that Daddy makes a sandwich as part of his lunch every day. The way he says sandwich is so adorable.
Okay so this is our update on our cute little soon-to-be two year old. I can’t believe that in two months (Eek!) he’s going to be two already. He’s such a sweet child. So innocent and so full of wonder that it almost makes me cry. He’s the light of my life and no matter if he’s two, twenty or eighty, he will always be my darling little baby.
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May 1, 2003
Collin is 22 months old
I'm 5 weeks, 6 days pg
Yay! Two days ago, Tuesday, April 29th, Collin used the potty! He had come up to me and wanted to get on. I took off his diaper and put him on. He sat there for a few minutes and started to pee! He was so shocked and not sure what to do or say. I started clapping and telling him what a good boy he was for going pee pee in the potty. He started to laugh and clap. I’m hopeful we can be potty trained by the time the baby arrives in December, but as I always say, I’m not going to push him.
This morning I started getting a very uncomfortable painful pinch in my lower left abdominal area. It’s not like any pregnancy growing pain or stretch I’ve felt before. It didn’t alarm me too much until it went on for several more hours and I noticed some very light pink color on the tp when I used the bathroom. I called my OB and they sent me to the hospital for an emergency blood test and ultrasound. According to the radiologist, the pregnancy looks fine and the baby is correctly placed in the uterus. My OB wanted to rule out an ectopic. Since I left the hospital after my OB’s office was closed, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow (Friday) to hear back for the final results. I’m sure I’ll have to go back and get my second HCG drawn too. My OB thinks I might have been experiencing some gas pain. I took some Mylanta but I’m still feeling that pain so I’m just not sure. As long as the ultrasound results show that everything is fine and healthy, then I’ll feel more relieved. Hopefully the pain will go away!
I’m going to get this posted finally!
Have a great weekend.
Until next time,
Jennifer, Collin & baby #2
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