song bird

In the past several weeks, Zane has started singing songs on his own. One of his usuals is “Twinkle Little Star,” only he usually starts with “like a diamond in the sky, twinkle twinkle…”It’s really cute! He also sings “rock baby!” (aka, “Rockabye Baby”), usually when he has a stuffed animal covered with a blanket. The other day, Zane’s toddler room teacher, Miss Danielle, got to witness his not-so-tender caregiver methods when he stacked 3 little pillows on top of a baby doll, patted/pounded on them and sang “rock baby” very loudly :)  We’ll have to practice being gentle more often before summer rolls around!

One of his other new songs is “Happy Birthday,” which is quite convenient since his birthday is just around the corner (is he really turning 2???) and a bunch of his friends have birthdays around now too. 

He's also really working on buckles... like his booster seat and car seat.  Now he has to help, when he gets in, so it takes a little longer.  Then when he's all done, he likes to open and close the buckle as many times as you let him.

Zane’s also trying really hard to get his colors down. Everything has been blue for the past couple of months, but I think it clicked for him that those color words apply to colors now (I’m not really sure what he thought we were talking about, but words are funny things!). Which will be helpful when we do things like offer him a choice of crayons… hopefully soon he’ll actually mean blue when he says “blue” and won’t get so mad when we hand him the blue one when he asks for it! You can see the wheels churning in his head when we start talking about the colors of his cup, bowls, plates and utensils at the table. 

Last week, Zane’s theme for the week was “Where daddy go?” because he was out of town all week for work. It was a long week, but we made it! He would even ask Miss Danielle about daddy every now and again throughout the day. Poor Zane! At least Zane got to have a video call with him most nights before bed… yay for facetime!

On Sunday afternoon, Zane helped host the Super Bowl festivities at our house. He was pretty excited to have everyone over, and he likes to shout out “football!” when there’s a game on tv.

Then this week, I actually had to travel for work, but it was only a 24 hour trip. The boys survived just fine despite a few complaints before I left :)  And Molly too! 

I did have to take Zane to the pediatrician on Tuesday afternoon before I left because he was acting like he had an ear infection (which he’s never done before, even when he’s had one), and he was telling the truth! The ear he was digging around in was even the infected one. His doctor wrote a prescription for antibiotics and gave us the option of starting them right away or waiting a day or two before starting them… but we went ahead and started them since he’d had a few rough nights already and was having a hard time napping for much longer than an hour (his normal is 2-3 hours).

So after not getting much sleep between Zane not feeling well and lots of work, I’m looking forward to a couple more normal days at work and then relaxing and planning Zane’s birthday festivities this weekend!