Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The kids love spinning in this chair. Sometimes Isaac begs to be spun all day long. But notice Isaac's "red shirt". He has worn this shirt everyday for the past 3 months, with us washing it every night. Tim and I talked to his teacher at the Barber National Institute and she suggested that we get rid of it because 1) it's going to be 80 degrees out soon and it's long sleeved and 2) it's a behavior that we need to not let him control us with - give him an inch he takes a mile. Well the next day we got rid of it. He had a very long tantrum the first day, the next day it wasn't so bad and so on. It's been almost two weeks and he still asks for it everyday when we dress him in the morning.
The teacher also suggested that we get him evaluated for Autism because we have never gotten him officially diagnosed and she mentioned observing behaviors that are consistent with ASD.
It's never a dull moment with him though. I taught Isaac to pee outside, he thought I was asking him to do the funniest thing at first. The weather has been so nice that when we were playing outside Isaac would pee himself because he doesn't want to go inside. Two weekends ago we had a BBQ at our friend house. I think Isaac peed outside no more than 5 times. We laughed a little about it. A little bit later I saw Tim run towards Isaac saying no, no, don't do that Isaac. He scooped him up and took him inside. Someone pointed a brown log where Isaac had been squatting. I couldn't believe he just pulled down his pants and pooped outside right by the back door.

Here's my beautiful girl. She loves me a lot and I love her. I was upstairs yesterday putting away laundry. Downstairs I started to hear "maw.....maw.....maw....." She sounded just like a little lost duckling looking for her mommy.
I can't stand the humidity here, but it does bring out Anna's curls.



4 comments:

Staci said...

that was so funny with isaac they are all super cute kids

Lisa Brown said...

Still laughing about the potty incident :). Kids sure are great entertainment.

Rainbow said...

Well, I am sure when Dexter and Isaac meet they will have a grand time seeing who can pee farther or something because Dexter thinks it is a funny thing to do too!

I love Anna's curls! So precious!

Cody, Ashley, Rilyn, Casen, Brigg, and Brooks said...

You're kids are all so cute and so sweet. We're really going to miss you guys when we move.