He finally said “no”

I mean, he says “no” all the time. It’s one of his favorite words, along with “why”, “kitty”, and “stabilized”. Until now, every time we asked him if he knows what XYZ are/mean, he’d say “yes”. If we probed more he’d say “I don’t know”. Now, I love that he feels comfortable saying “I don’t know”, but this month instead of "yes", he answered “no”. It felt like a huge shift.

We’ve conquered mornings and are working on nights. He has been respecting the OK-to-wake clock and almost every morning he waits until the clock turns green. Holy Crap! After the light is green, he often comes into my closet to hang out while I get dressed. My dresser is cheap and old and the drawers don’t slide well so I leave them a little open. He is in a closing things all the way phase. So he proceeded to close my drawers and inform me, “I'm showing you how to close them all the way. They are open a little bit.”

Bedtime we’re still working on. Since I have had laryngitis all year, Pip has been doing bedtime songs since January. Moriarty likes to get in bed then get out of bed. Cut Pip off. Or say he needs water. Or has to pee. Blah Blah and Pip is setting firmer boundaries. It’s a process and 3 year olds are hard. He's been traveling a lot this month. First he went to the shore to see the Johnsons/Roberts, then flew to Boise for a Johnson reunion. I stayed home. I was ALONE. It took 2 days for me to miss Moriarty, but I do now. T-5 hours.

He definitely marches to his own beat. He still wears his pink dresses to school some days. It was picture day at school and I told him he could wear his favorite outfit. He picked his pumpkin costume from Halloween. :-) The other kids make comments but he doesn't seem to care. He's confident in his self-presentation. We were talking about jobs, and that I go to my job while he’s at school. And I asked him what job he would like to do. He responded, “I want to operate the concrete boom pump on the construction site when I'm big.” I couldn’t make this up. He doesn’t want to be a fiterfighter [sic], he wants to run the concrete boom pump.

Today’s is Mother’s Day. There was a mini-celebration at school and the kids made picture frames for us. Moriarty and I were discussing it and he asked if Pip would come when it was Husband’s Day. A new holiday is born. You’re welcome, Hallmark.