Bot Bots

Today I tried to take Brennan to Sara's Piano Pals music class and it was a huge nightmare.  He screamed his head off and I basically waited out in the parking lot for him to quit screaming for at least half the class while Sara took the class by herself.  It's causing me anxiety to think about finding a sitter for him for the next year so that Sara can take piano.  It's just not going to be an option this time to bring him to class with her.   Her piano palls class is a lot more crowded and so is the music academy in the afternoon so screaming and bad behavior isn't as tolerated.

We had some 14 year old girls move in next door and they have already said they would love to babysit.  I'm hoping that we can really take advantage of this and that maybe I can even get them to come sit with him while he is sleeping and Sara is taking her piano class. 

He does a lot of really annoying things like getting into places around the house he shouldn't and screaming for things he wants or doesn't want.  Luckily he balances it out with cute stuff too.  We hung up a robot picture in his room and when he sees it he calls them "bot bots".  It's really cute and I finally got a video of it after trying for more than a week.   He is already starting to be able to say robot now so I wanted to get it on vid before he stopped saying it. 

Also, he is a free range sleeper now.  We put him in his bed every night but he wanders around.  Sometimes he is sleeping in Sara's room on her floor or bed, sometimes we find him on our floor asleep and sometimes he is just in his closet or on his own bedroom floor asleep.  So one morning he came walking out of his room with his plastic swim diaper on over his PJ's and one of his feet in an empty wipes wrapper that had been in his trash can.  He must have had a really good time digging through his room before he fell asleep that night.

He also has been feeling really tempted by his sister's new sparkly shoes and has been wearing them around the house.  We ended up having to put them up in her closet because we were trying to keep them clean for her to start school and he wanted to wear them outside.

Brennan really likes to color and paint too but it never ends well for me.  He will either eat the crayons or paint and or rub them all in his hair.   Here is a recent example of a fine mess that he made eating crayons.

Here he is looking cute in his space ship PJ's

Here are the kids on a recent hike.  Sara was trying to make Brennan smile.  We saw a huge rat snake on this hike, it was about 4 feet long and about 3 inches in diameter.  It came right up to the kids feet and crawled in front of them.   Brennan held perfectly still.  For one brief instant I calculated the risks in my head of the snake being able to eat Brennan but I determined it was safe.  I was really proud of him that he didn't try to run away and he even wanted to stay and watch it longer, we had to pull him away.

Brennan recently had his 2 year check up and got mostly good news.  He has been growing well.  His weight was 26 pounds which surprised me a little because I thought he was more like 30 pounds.  However his weight was in the 32nd percentile and his height, 34 inches was in the 42nd percentile. 

The doctor did say that he still has a loud heart murmur and we will just wait and see as he approaches 5 years of age is he needs any surgical correction.  Also he has a belly hernia and that might need surgery as well in the future.   Brennan had his iron checked, he is so good at the doctor's office.  He laughed when the little pin went "click" and poked his finger.  Sara would have been climbing on top of my head and freaking out.  Also he took his last immunization shot without crying no problem, all he said was "owie".   Also we all got our flu shots, so let's hope that works for us this year and that we are done with doctor visit for a WHOLE YEAR!!  Lastly, his ear tubes were still in perfect position.