Teeth Are Not For Biting

Last week was one difficult week!  Poor Collin seemed to have a really hard time transitioning from such a crazy birthday weekend back to our normal schedule.  He did not want me to leave him at daycare, which never happens!  He's usually ready to play and telling me "Bye" as soon as we arrive, but last week he clung to me and had a few tantrums when it was time for me to leave.  Which of course, always breaks my heart.  And on top of all of that, he was not very nice to his friends at daycare.  In fact, there were several days when I was in tears driving home because Collin did not receive a very good report.

So this morning, on our way to school, we said a prayer and talked about how to be a good friend.  Collin has been praying at daycare for a while now so he knows the etiquette of praying, and it's super cute!  He bows his head and closes his eyes (while peeking every 5 seconds), and he says "ehhMEN!" whenever he hears you say, "In Jesus' name".  This morning, when I finished my prayer in the car, he said, "Again!....Pay, again!"  I asked what we should pray for, and he told me "Addie" and then "Apple".  Um, yeah...

I'm hoping for a better week, even though he got upset again when it was time for me to leave today.

Since we have been dealing with some separation anxiety, Friday night we had a family date!  Jarrod had gotten around to turning Collin's seat that day so it's now forward facing (ahhh!  changes!!), and when we picked him up he did not know what to think!  He loved that he could see us and vice versa, and he felt like he had to converse with us constantly.  It was really cute, but he was so full of questions.  He kept pointing to things he's never been able to see before and saying, "Whass that?!"  I would have to say, "Daddy's chair"..."Mommy's chair"..."the air conditioning control"... etc.  I finally had to laugh at him, and tell him no more questions!



We saw this on our way out of town Friday afternoon.  Collin was saying, "Goat...maaahh!" 
And on that note, Collin knows pretty much every animal sound there is to know.  He's an animal sound and gesture genius.

 

Our big boy riding forward-facing!!

Saturday was mostly spent preparing for an event our Community Group sponsored at our church that night.  We are raising money for our church's building fund, so our group sponsored a video game tournament.  We had several TVs set up around the sanctuary and the big screens/projecters were in use as well.  We had Mario Kart going on N64 and Call of Duty on X-Box.  It was a lot of fun and rather than pay a babysitter, we kept Collin with us.  He's been struggling with some allergy stuff for the past week, so he was pretty mellow.  He would just follow us around the room and sit in our laps.  Jarrod couldn't resist the urge to enter the tournament and spank some 12 year olds at Call of Duty.  I believe one of our friends said to him at some point, "You just whipped those kids with a baby on your lap."

There is nothing more attractive than seeing your husband from across the room flash you a hand signal to indicate he is 4 and 0 in the video game tournament playing against boys 15 years younger than his self.  I believe there may have also been some fist pumps involved.  A technical difficulty and his endeavor to do the right thing ultimately caused him to lose, but for a while his confidence was through-the-roof!

Poor boy just couldn't last the entire night and ended up sleeping on the floor near one of the tables.  He woke up briefly when my camera flashed at him!

Our group leader, Jon, came up with this brilliant concept when it was time to take the tables down and set the sanctuary back up for church on Sunday morning.

Sunday, I got up and got ready for church and then woke Collin up.  His eyes were all goopy and his nose was running like crazy.  He didn't really have a temperature, but he felt warm so we stayed home.  We cuddled until Jarrod got home from fishing that morning, and then Collin decided he felt great and became a playing-machine.  We still had chicken noodle soup for dinner (although, I can never get it as good as my dad's!).

This week, I am hoping for a less eventful time at daycare and for this allergy stuff to go away for both Collin and myself.  Also, I'm hoping Jarrod's confidence boost doesn't cause him to come home and declare that he wants to be a professional video game player, or something.