Grumpis

The Littlest has a fever and this weird on/off barky cough. Not enough to make me race him to the Ped but enough that he can't go in to school and he's not right. In his "sickness" he's grumpy then happy, up and down, and although he slept in this morning, he's been awake long enough that I'm noticing a trend already.

He's mad at me. Instead of normal two year old behavior, he simply tells me, "I'm mad at you Mom and I'm not gonna be nice to you." So I tell him 'thank you for telling me how you feel' and walk away. He doesn't like it. He wants a reaction but see that's the beauty of me having taught him how to say how he feels; it's all calm and there's no need for a reaction. He doesn't like it at all. When he's grumpy he's ready for something-and he isn't going to get it from me. ;) He walks into the room and says, "I don't want you to be in this room, go away Mom." Hurt. But smiles. Why smiles? Cause look at how he's communicating! It'll pass in a couple minutes and he'll want to read a book with me. Count on it. He's as fickle as he can be and I love that too (for now since it's so cute).

While he's belting out, "I've been working on the railroad" and hammering on an upside down VA Tech hardly ever used metal trash can he seems happy again. Here, let me ask him.. see....done. I asked him if he's still mad at me. "No!" with a huge smile. Success! That didn't take long.

I've been working with him to teach him how to describe himself. So I'll say, "Littlest, tell me about yourself, can you describe yourself?" and he now understands the question and the concept so he'll give me different answers depending on his mood...like....."I'm funny, I'm a bike rider, I'm adorable, I'm smart, and I'm a bike rider." Kay, his fav thing in all the world is riding his 'bikes and trikes' as he calls it. So it shines through in his answers. I think I'll get it on video, capture these moments because they'll be gone in a flash. Quicker than a flash.