Kellan

loves to kiss these days with a great, big smacking noise. So cute. His teachers wrote yesterday that he is very interested in other kids who are crying; enjoys going over and rubbing their heads, whether they like it or not.

Ji Ji is still one of his favorite expressions. Anytime he sees a crayon or even just a picture of a crayon, he'll start saying "ji ji" over and over again. all animals are still "wan wan," but if he sees pictures of a sheep or horse, he'll start making odd, coughing-like noises, trying to copy my "baas" and "neighs." He puts his hands in the air and starts spinning when he hears music. Had a few rough nights last week when he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, but this week has been better. I talked to his teachers about it, thinking it might be something going on at school...maybe he was really anxious about something. They said it's possible he was replaying something that happened at school in his dreams and that was upsetting him. Children this age are very easily frustrated since there is so much they are physically unable to do and can't communicate very well either. They also blamed it on the weather as it's just become much more humid. The new issue is how to get him to sleep at 8:00. If he's super tired he'll go right to sleep after I nurse him, but if not, he wants to crawl around the bed and get out of the room. We put the cot away last week because he was protesting so much about it. Really hates it. Now we're considering getting it back out and training him to start off in there like we did with Jolon. Not an attractive option. Actually last night wasn't too bad....took about 20 minutes (and lots of crying) once I stopped nursing him to calm him down enough to get him to lie down on the bed and let me rub his back until he fell asleep. I can live with that. We'll see what happens tonight.