November 20, 2009

Today has started out pretty normally- so far. Timmy wouldn't go in the potty, but then again, he didn't go in his pull-ups at all. I suspect he went in his diaper right before waking up, and thus didn't have to go. Daddy managed to *NOT* have a 2-year-old crawl into his bed in the wee hours of the morning last night- a step in the right direction! What's more, Timmy woke up around 5:45- practically sleeping in!
We went for a walk last night- We've been getting into the routine recently of coming home around 5:00, making dinner and eating it, fussing for the 2 hours between that and bedtime, then fighting Timmy to bed. Last night, though, Daddy broke from the routine, and its effects were very good. Around quarter-after-five, we went out in the stroller, walking through the neighborbood. Fortunately, it's a very safe neighborhood. Unfortunately, even at 5:15, it was very dark and nobody was out (it was a bit chilly, too). We only stayed out for a half-hour, but it was long enough to make Timmy happy until bedtime.
This morning, instead of turning on the PBS cartoons that Timmy likes to watch (it's all we get, now that Comcast requires a digital tuner box for the exteneded channels- to include Nickelodeon), Daddy kept the TV off and Timmy, to his credit, opted to read a couple books instead of throw a fit. This might just be the new paradigm from now on. Timmy associates watching TV with sitting and eating goldfish (another habit I'm trying to cut down on- we've gone through too many boxes of them in too short a time), whereas he associates reading a book with sitting on Daddy's lap and being calm.
Apparently at daycare, at least in the first hour or so before too many other kids get there, Timmy likes to run over to the play kitchen, grab the plastic banana, and carry it around all morning. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, since he does the same thing at home with a real banana- but I think the daycare ladies get a kick out of it.