Roman can be summed up in a couple of phrases. "Watch this!" and "Look at me!" We keep forgetting that everything is still new to him. He finds delicious pleasure in being surprised by things - something that squirts, or flicks, or makes a funny noise when you least expect it. Roman is going to be the jokester and we have had to work hard to keep our senses of humor when he's screwing around, remembering that he's performing for us to get us to laugh. He will do all kinds of things for a laugh and I think we squish that sometimes by getting annoyed.
A prime example - food. He will play and experiment and mix and squelch and pile and pinch everything on his plate if we let him. Tonight he had thick & creamy yogurt (don't dare get the generalized smooth kind) and would put some on the edge of his tongue, form an "O" with his mouth, and push his tongue (with yogurt) in and out of his mouth... just cuz he could and it felt funny. The other night he was messing around making some weird noises and I told him to stop. He looked at me and said in a sad little voice, "Oh... I thought I was being funny." What 3-year-old knows how to comprehend that?!
Tonight Roman told me he was bored, as I was putting him to bed. I said, "you're supposed to, you're going to sleep." He said, "Mama, what's that mean?" Classic Roman. Words too big for his mind but he knows how to use them properly. He has new-found BOY energy that we really enjoy, but we hope to keep him sweet. He was introduced to "pows" at his cousins' (water guns) and so we bought a couple today for $1 each. Roman was thrilled, running around the backyard with me and shooting his pool, the trees, the bugs, the trash, the house, myself, and his own chest. So BOY. Then we went inside and he wanted to ride on the back of my bike, which we did to Farmer Jack - and he looked so cute in his little helmet and pastel-blue shirt.
Roman is at the struggle between being little and big, wanting independence but scared to be too far away from his Mama and Daddy. And we are feeling that too - we want him to be on his own and learning all these great new things, but at the same time we miss his toddler-ness.
A prime example - food. He will play and experiment and mix and squelch and pile and pinch everything on his plate if we let him. Tonight he had thick & creamy yogurt (don't dare get the generalized smooth kind) and would put some on the edge of his tongue, form an "O" with his mouth, and push his tongue (with yogurt) in and out of his mouth... just cuz he could and it felt funny. The other night he was messing around making some weird noises and I told him to stop. He looked at me and said in a sad little voice, "Oh... I thought I was being funny." What 3-year-old knows how to comprehend that?!
Tonight Roman told me he was bored, as I was putting him to bed. I said, "you're supposed to, you're going to sleep." He said, "Mama, what's that mean?" Classic Roman. Words too big for his mind but he knows how to use them properly. He has new-found BOY energy that we really enjoy, but we hope to keep him sweet. He was introduced to "pows" at his cousins' (water guns) and so we bought a couple today for $1 each. Roman was thrilled, running around the backyard with me and shooting his pool, the trees, the bugs, the trash, the house, myself, and his own chest. So BOY. Then we went inside and he wanted to ride on the back of my bike, which we did to Farmer Jack - and he looked so cute in his little helmet and pastel-blue shirt.
Roman is at the struggle between being little and big, wanting independence but scared to be too far away from his Mama and Daddy. And we are feeling that too - we want him to be on his own and learning all these great new things, but at the same time we miss his toddler-ness.
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