Brode has been working on his language a great deal lately! He has been trying very hard to listen to anything people say and copy their sounds. It is so funny to listen. Words like "Hot" and "Yes" are very dragged out so there is a lot of emphasized "T's" and snake like "SSSSSS's" going on. Any words with these same sounds he masters pretty quickly. Brode knows typical words like Dog, Ball, Car, Block, Apple, Hot, Yes, and No, but he also learned some I didn't expect. The first color he learned: Yellow, he says it all the time! Not Red or Blue, that long Yellow (probably because he is obsessed with bananas). The first animal sounds: an elephant and a lion. Those are definitely going to need videos. He has also been learning everyone's name in day care. If you know us well you know that he does not have typical kids names in his room. Brode spends all day every day with Hudson and Dante. He can pronounce these very well, but he has yet to even come close to his own name. Lastly he has been catching on to songs. He came home from day care singing the "row row row" part from row row row your boat so he just repeats that part when it comes up. He also knows the "E I E I O" in old McDonald. He is quite the entertaining little kid.
Brode's New Years resolution was NO MORE BOTTLES. He was 15 months old the day after Christmas and it needed to be done. I told myself we would start at 12 months and be completely done at 14. That did not come close to happening, so we took them all away except the bed time one. Occasionally he had an afternoon one but at day care but I cut it off and we started cutting back milk amounts. Finally the last 2 nights we simply gave him the cup, read our books, sang ours songs, and there was not one peep out of him! He seems to be doing well, hopefully he'll forget about them and we can move on!!
Finally, Incident Reports. I think Brode has one of the thickest files at day care. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just unfortunate. An incident report is a sheet the parent receives with a description of an injury, they sign it and it is saved for future reference and office use. Brode has had these in the past... he bit his lip, another child scratched him, he tripped over his own feet, etc. Every 2 or 3 weeks we'll come in to a small bump, sign the paper and leave. The past week I tell ya, rough on the little guy. He has been a victim. Friday Brode came home with 3 very large scratches down his cheek that scraped skin so they were open that bled and needed to be cleaned, apparently the children weren't getting along that day. Monday I walked in to a line of reports. #1 Brode tripped over his own feet and got rug burn about his right eyebrow, great. #2 Another child bit Brode while waiting in line for lunch. The teachers all stated he did not do anything to deserve it, he did not cry, and he did not do anything back... but when the teacher lifted up his sleeve, it was no minor bite:
I signed the papers and we headed home. Yes you guessed it, I walked into day care today and there sat Brode in the corner with an ice pack. He was chewing on the ice pack and all I could think was his lip, not again, luckily it was not this time. The teacher turned around and Brode put the pack directly to his ear (the little stinker knew he didn't have it in the right place) and she states "Brode has a small incident report today." Surprise Surprise. While playing Brode was bitten in the ear, it became very red and swollen but once again he didn't make a fuss:
Why do I have pictures? I think I may need to start an album with all of his random injuries and have a 50 pound book by the time he graduates. Talk about a laugh to look back on when he is a grown man.
Now don't get me wrong, we love day care, and these reports and incidents are not because of the teachers or center. Who really can control 8 little boys every second? This is completely random and bound to happen, and all of the girls handle every incident wonderfully, washing and comforting the child!
Back to reading. This interim is really challenging me in trying to get everything done!
Brode's New Years resolution was NO MORE BOTTLES. He was 15 months old the day after Christmas and it needed to be done. I told myself we would start at 12 months and be completely done at 14. That did not come close to happening, so we took them all away except the bed time one. Occasionally he had an afternoon one but at day care but I cut it off and we started cutting back milk amounts. Finally the last 2 nights we simply gave him the cup, read our books, sang ours songs, and there was not one peep out of him! He seems to be doing well, hopefully he'll forget about them and we can move on!!
Finally, Incident Reports. I think Brode has one of the thickest files at day care. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just unfortunate. An incident report is a sheet the parent receives with a description of an injury, they sign it and it is saved for future reference and office use. Brode has had these in the past... he bit his lip, another child scratched him, he tripped over his own feet, etc. Every 2 or 3 weeks we'll come in to a small bump, sign the paper and leave. The past week I tell ya, rough on the little guy. He has been a victim. Friday Brode came home with 3 very large scratches down his cheek that scraped skin so they were open that bled and needed to be cleaned, apparently the children weren't getting along that day. Monday I walked in to a line of reports. #1 Brode tripped over his own feet and got rug burn about his right eyebrow, great. #2 Another child bit Brode while waiting in line for lunch. The teachers all stated he did not do anything to deserve it, he did not cry, and he did not do anything back... but when the teacher lifted up his sleeve, it was no minor bite:
I signed the papers and we headed home. Yes you guessed it, I walked into day care today and there sat Brode in the corner with an ice pack. He was chewing on the ice pack and all I could think was his lip, not again, luckily it was not this time. The teacher turned around and Brode put the pack directly to his ear (the little stinker knew he didn't have it in the right place) and she states "Brode has a small incident report today." Surprise Surprise. While playing Brode was bitten in the ear, it became very red and swollen but once again he didn't make a fuss:
Why do I have pictures? I think I may need to start an album with all of his random injuries and have a 50 pound book by the time he graduates. Talk about a laugh to look back on when he is a grown man.
Now don't get me wrong, we love day care, and these reports and incidents are not because of the teachers or center. Who really can control 8 little boys every second? This is completely random and bound to happen, and all of the girls handle every incident wonderfully, washing and comforting the child!
Back to reading. This interim is really challenging me in trying to get everything done!
2 comments:
Oh my goodness! These little boy are going all 'Mike Tyson' on your little guy! Haha.
Poor Brode! He's so sweet.. never deserving all the abuse. Killian used to get abused too.. now he's pushing back :( I'm glad getting rid of the bottle went so well! Killian was very sad (and sometimes STILL gets one (shh!)) when I got rid of his. :(
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