Excuses? It isn’t that I don’t have the absolute best intentions.
It’s that I don’t have the time. I have jotted down a gazillion things that I
want to record regarding Silas. I want to blog about my work life – because
that is crazy. But I just can’t seem to stay on top of things. There’s no time
like the present, I guess. My goal over the Thanksgiving holiday is to blog everyday. Maybe this will push me back into the habit? I always take the week of Thanksgiving off - but this year I saw that the Friday before Thanksgiving had no meetings scheduled - and Silas was in need of some mama time - so I extended. Now we are kicking off 10 days straight of "hanging out" (Silas' words). So in theory that would be 10 days of blogs. I have a few days in there we won't be around or connected, so I hope for a few days of double blogs.
So Silas. He is a ball of love, but a superior pain in the
rear at the exact same time. Knock on wood – we haven’t had a bad report on him
from daycare in a week and a half. Seriously, I would knock on wood.
He is at that phase where everything he says is hilarious.
Or completely scary and I worry about my safety at night. But mostly just
loveable. He is struggling at daycare. The child does not really like other
children. At all. He thinks they are evil or something. I don’t really know. He
doesn’t want to be near them, he doesn’t want them to make noise. He doesn’t
really want them to exist. If they make noise, say things he doesn’t like,
exist in his space, basically – he freaks out. And sometimes (but not always)
that freak out entails a more vampire like attitude.
Yesterday Silas was pushed down and bonked his head pretty hard. They decided to keep him up for nap as a concussion precaution. For some reason they sent him off to kindergarten with the 5 year olds. When I picked him up I got rave reviews. He loved sitting there in kindergarten, was not distracting, loved participating. I felt a bit vindicated because we keep telling them to push him intellectually.
Silas is my book kid. I FINALLY GOT ONE!!! After having two
reluctant readers, I finally got my kid who enjoys passing his time with a book
laying on his bed.
He is freaky smart. He counts above 20, counts objects by
rote, he memorizes songs and books completely. He will sing entire songs –
“Sound of Silence”, “Lampshades on Fire”… not easy songs. He also memorizes
books. AB and I have taken to trying to trip him up. But he catches the
slightest word and corrects us. If I say “beast” instead of “bear” in his
favorite (and freakishly long) Merida book, he will correct me. It is a LONG book and he can recite
it from front to back and doesn’t miss an adjective.
We have thought about taking him in and having him “tested”.
Though I am not sure for what. Can they tell if a preschooler is a genius? Or
are we just the same as every other parent and shocked at the things that we,
as adults, don’t seem to be able to do anymore because we have our brain power
devoted to other things?
It’s probably the later.
------Silas' favorites:
Spiderman
Curious George
Captain America
Finding Dory (refuses to watch Finding Nemo)
The Grinch book
Merida book
Too Many Toys book
Buzz Lightyear
Monsters Inc,
Beethoven (our dog)
Lucky (our cat)
Calling people "buttheads" (hanging head in shame - my fault, I call Odin this. Correction, I used to call Odin this.)
Singing
Jingle Bells by the Barenaked Ladies
Cooking - cracking the eggs specifically. Silas calls it "making". When I am cooking dinner he yells, "I want to make with you". He is a hard worker in the kitchen.
He is also my good eater. He eats lettuce! An unknown in my house with the kids. I actually get to send salad in for his lunch.
One other thing that Silas nailed that the other kids still lack is knowing where things are. He remembers. And when he loses something (or Dad loses something that was bought at the Chinese Lantern Festival) he remembers the item months and still holds grudges.
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Me: "You're out of time out. Now what are we going to do?" (I was thinking something along the lines of apologizing to Skadi.)
Silas: "You are going to return me back to the Brother Store where they will put me back in my cage and I will have to wait for another mommy and daddy to decide they want me."
And so now I AM the one who feels like crap.
Me: "We can probably find a feather, what do you want it for?"
Silas: "To call it macaroni."
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Silas asked the other rainy day why we didn't have more gorillas as he wanted to take one to school and certainly Skadi would want to take one too. Tonight while reading to him, I found out that gorilla is umbrella. And his world makes a little more sense.
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Silas channeling my mom: "If you want to make pie, you make pie!"
This is actually a common Silas refrain. "If you want to have a hang out day, we have a hang out day."
Or, "if you want to go to school, you go to school".
He is a very matter of fact kid.
