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He’s FOUR Now

CootieBoy desperately wants to be five years old. Everytime we told him his birthday was coming up he’d cry, “I’m gonna be FIVE!” Uh. No. Four.
“But I wanna be FIVE!” he’d cry again.
But it’s not 1-2-3-5, I’d explain.
He’d start crying. “But CootieGirl is five – I wanna be five!”
*sigh*
And then there was this exchange this [...]

The Kid Has a Sense of Humor

CootieBoy is a born actor. Yesterday he was entertaining me in the office. He was sitting on my lap, and we were just talking, having a good time. He happened to have some princess advertisement in his hand, as well as a Shrek toy nearby.
CootieGirl walked in, saw the Princess ad in his hand, and [...]

He’s Not My Baby Anymore…

Today is CootieBoy’s third birthday. I cannot BELIEVE he is already three years old.
All the things about CootieBoy:

He hates boredom – he would much rather be running, jumping, playing than almost anything in the world.
He loves to make people laugh – he definitely has a sense of humor and always makes faces that he [...]

X-Posted: CootieBoy’s Sleeping Habits

I hope I’m not jinxing it, but the past two nights? CootieBoy has slept all night and not crawled into bed with us until 7 a.m. (which is what time we get up during the week anyway).
He’s done this without the benefit of those Calms Forte pills because a couple days after we started [...]

Off With His Hair!

CootieBoy’s hair was just too much, so today I shaved most of it off. He wasn’t into it at first, until he realized he could watch himself in the mirror. And there’s nothing the boy loves more than looking at himself in the mirror. I’m going to see if I can make [...]

A Step in the Right Direction

This past weekend CootieBoy had some atrocious tantrums. Saturday was an especially rough day and I have the bruises to show for his ire. So naturally I was a bit afeared to put him to bed last night. But it wasn’t so bad in the end.
I let him pick out a book [...]

It Only Came Three Months Late

CootieBoy had his latest doctor appointment today. His 2nd birthday was back in August, but due to our move we just weren’t able to get him an appointment until today.
He had an abundance of shots today since he hasn’t had an appointment in almost a year, including the flu shot.
As for his measurements, he [...]

Real Men Can Wear Princess Dresses

My son loves dressing up in the princess costumes owned by his sister. He just came to me and presented me with the pinkest most princessy one and demanded to wear it. So I helped him into the dress. At which point CootieGirl started planning a party with her new “friend”. [...]

Vast Improvement!

Well, CootieBoy has been doing much better the past few nights. He has gone to bed with no fighting and has slept the entire night through since we moved his toddler bed into our room. I’ll give it another week and if he continues to sleep the entire night then I’ll move his [...]

It Was Better Last Night

Last night at 8:30 p.m. I showed CootieBoy that his bed was in our room, which we decided to do in case he is having nightmares and just wants the comfort of being in the same room as his Mommy and Daddy. He was very excited to see that his bed was in our [...]