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| Our Lighthouse. Winchester Bay, OR |
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| Umpqua River Lighthouse. |
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| Sad, depressing swings at the play area next door. |
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| Cutie. |
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| 126 photos later... ONE good one. :) |
Just a couple of photos to add to this. The lighthouse where we live and Spencer being all cutsey-tootsey. :) My phone is broken. Its seriously amazing how many times I can drop a phone in a given day/week/month. The difference between Garrett's and mine is drastic, ha! Mine's cracked on the outside, has no prongs to hold the back plate on and its newest addition -- a non-working screen. Yaayy. I don't get why its so hard for me to hold onto. It falls of the couch, off the chair, off the bed, out of the car, out of my purse, out of my HANDS onto the concrete, wood floor and grass. It never fails the back flies off as does the battery. Today, though, I had many things in my hands, so I had an excuse to drop it, right? Sweater, holding a kid's hand, coffee mug, camera.. phone. I'd rather drop the phone than the Nikon, that's for sure. But, anyway, the back didn't fly off, it just decided to never work again instead. I'm not eligible for an upgrade with Sprint til July 2013. Yikes, so this should cost us a pretty penny. So glad I dropped the insurance two months ago...... :)
Our neighbor and her little girls have been coming over and hanging out with us some. Its been nice to get some adult interaction. Makes you feel like a crazy nutso only having a two year old with speech delays to talk to. He doesn't like when Mama has Mia or Layla in his lap. (The girls, they just turned 3 and 4 a few weeks ago). He has a hard time having other kiddos touching his toys or going in his room. He's, of course, in that "side-by-side" play, and doesn't understand sharing yet, so its tough on him. He enjoys watching them though and he pretty much keeps to himself.
I forgot to mention in another entry something else Spencer's speech evaluation lady, Jenny, said. She mentioned that I seemed to have "high expectations" for Spencer to have independence. That I EXPECT a certain behaviour and complying to what I say. Well, yeah, can't have him being a hooligan annoyance running all over the place. She asked how well he did by himself and such. I told her, if I tell him to play in his room or pick up this toy, stop touching that, don't do this, well, I expect him to listen to me. For the most part, he does really well. He will play in his room for hours by himself. He will sit in his bean bag in his room and read book after book and only come downstairs when he wants something to drink, haha. That's just how he has always been, likes to do things on his own and in his own time and that's fine with me. That's how we have become accustomed to acting toward him. Maybe with a more needy kid, it would be different. I know you have to discipline each in their own way. She was asking how we had our house set up. Does he mess with outlets or dangerous things, etc. I said no, not ever. Ever. Because he knows not to! Not that I don't take into account that there are always exceptions to the norm, I cover up the outlets anyway. He never messes with the air fresheners, or anything like that. As for how my house is set up, I haven't moved anything up on shelves out of his reach because I have taught him, and he KNOWS, not to touch them. He will still occasionally, but a quick "Spencer, no." and hes over it and onto the next thing, lol. Hopefully I don't sound too strict on a 2 year old, but it works for us. Now if only I could get him to sit in high chairs at restaurants without screaming.....
Mine never had an interest in outlets or cabinets or anything either. They just knew what was mama's and what was theirs and that was that. I would show them things though, like my snow globes or something. I'd let them touch and turn but tell them it's decoration and breakable. I mean, it's not strict at all, really. It's just common sense. If you child-proof everything like my SIL does, they never learn their boundaries. It might be wrong, but I think a lot of child proofing is a form of laziness, lol. We had a baby gate to block off the kitchen when I was cooking. That was it! But even then I'd put them at the table with a coloring book or something and wouldn't use the gate. I'd say you're lucky to have Spencer the way he is. He's smart and understands his boundaries. And I like that I've got a parent that shares the same views on things like me, lol. It's hard to come by in this generation.
ReplyDeleteI think Spencer is definetly just fine, age wise, and maybe even more advanced if he can play that long by himself! Most 2 years don't do that. Alina still won't play by herself that long. But I've always played with her a lot and feel weird if she's playing alone for awhile, we've just always interacted with each other a lot. But she does play by herself a lot more than she used to and is independent doing SO much otherwise. And since he is so independent play-wise, that may be part of why he doesn't speak a whole lot. Like I always talked to Alina and played with her for a large part of the day, no TV in the background for a lot of the day which can delay speech, etc. so she picked up talking quickly..once she wanted to! Even when she was like 1, I'd always talk to her about all kinds of things haha. But Spencer has a very different personality and does fine playing on his own so he doesn't need to always be up on your butt! haha But Alina does her own thing a lot nowadays, now I have Lexi up my butt :)
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