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orichalcum at 07:20pm on 03/09/2008
orichalcum at 07:20pm on 03/09/2008On a lighter note...
Goods: Mac has been starting to use words to describe the past or present, rather than just demand future goods (still 90% of his words). Sometimes, this is slightly embarassing. The other day, he demanded the phone when I was chatting with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stone_and_star: "Give me phone! Give me hi!" Eventually, I gave him the phone.
"Hi,stone_and_star! I poop in my diaper!"
Sometimes, his speech is more illuminating. Yesterday, I asked him, "What did you do at school today? Did you play with J.?"
"I kiss a girl!" he answered.
I have not been able to get any more of the story from him, and forgot to ask his teacher, sadly.
Bads:
So that's the fun part. On the down side, Mac gave me a few more white hairs yesterday and a lot of terror. The first was retroactive paranoia; I went to put him in his car seat, and discovered that it wasn't attached to anything...he can't unbuckle himself from the seat, but he has successfully unbuckled the seat from the car seatbelt.
So I moved him to a side seat, rebuckled it in carefully, and set back from school. We got stuck in horrible rush hour traffic, and about halfway, Mac started wailing and crying "I want Daddy." Of course, I needed to focus on driving, so couldn't do anything. He decided to take matters into his own hands, and unlocked and opened the right rear door of the car slightly. In extremely slow traffic, when I was in the left lane. Yes, I thought I had the child locks on; this is a new car and either I didn't do it correctly or it can be manually bypassed.
After way too long of not being able to move, I was able to make a very slow, gentle left turn and pull over to the side of the road. Mac, of course, started screaming and wailing as soon as I closed the door on him.
I may still be recovering from the adrenalin crash afterwards. This is the first time where Mac's ingenuity has not just been slightly worrisome, but actively dangerous. It was pretty scary.
Eowyn, meanwhile, continues to be her eager hyper-excited self; she was very happy about getting much petting fromamethyst73 and her husband over the weekend.
Goods: Mac has been starting to use words to describe the past or present, rather than just demand future goods (still 90% of his words). Sometimes, this is slightly embarassing. The other day, he demanded the phone when I was chatting with
stone_and_star: "Give me phone! Give me hi!" Eventually, I gave him the phone."Hi,
stone_and_star! I poop in my diaper!"Sometimes, his speech is more illuminating. Yesterday, I asked him, "What did you do at school today? Did you play with J.?"
"I kiss a girl!" he answered.
I have not been able to get any more of the story from him, and forgot to ask his teacher, sadly.
Bads:
So that's the fun part. On the down side, Mac gave me a few more white hairs yesterday and a lot of terror. The first was retroactive paranoia; I went to put him in his car seat, and discovered that it wasn't attached to anything...he can't unbuckle himself from the seat, but he has successfully unbuckled the seat from the car seatbelt.
So I moved him to a side seat, rebuckled it in carefully, and set back from school. We got stuck in horrible rush hour traffic, and about halfway, Mac started wailing and crying "I want Daddy." Of course, I needed to focus on driving, so couldn't do anything. He decided to take matters into his own hands, and unlocked and opened the right rear door of the car slightly. In extremely slow traffic, when I was in the left lane. Yes, I thought I had the child locks on; this is a new car and either I didn't do it correctly or it can be manually bypassed.
After way too long of not being able to move, I was able to make a very slow, gentle left turn and pull over to the side of the road. Mac, of course, started screaming and wailing as soon as I closed the door on him.
I may still be recovering from the adrenalin crash afterwards. This is the first time where Mac's ingenuity has not just been slightly worrisome, but actively dangerous. It was pretty scary.
Eowyn, meanwhile, continues to be her eager hyper-excited self; she was very happy about getting much petting from
amethyst73 and her husband over the weekend.
scared
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