Yeah.
Nothing serious, but Reni is now sporting a sling for the next week or so to let the contusion heal on his elbow after he and his friend Brayden decided they would try to push each other off of some really high points on the playground structure. I didn't take him in right away, but it hurts him so much to write (of course it's his left elbow and he's left-handed) that they sent him home from school yesterday and off to urgent care we went.
In happier news, we have a semi potty-trained boy in the house! Roman now wears pull-ups full time (they have Thomas on them, so he won't wear anything else, even his Paw Patrol underwear, because, you know, it's not Thomas) and stays dry most of the day. This morning he hopped off the potty after a successful number one and yelled, "Hooray for Roman!!" Still working on getting #2 into the toilet - he farts a lot into the bowl but the actual kids don't end up at the actual pool yet - but I'm impressed with how far he's come in the last week. I may not have to lie and check the potty-trained box on the preschool applications like I was prepared to do! Yay for honesty!
Last night, he was fighting bedtime more than usual. I had to explain to him that when he sleeps, his body grows and that he would soon be taller than mommy. He calmed down quickly with that news, and his eyes got really big. Then he said, "mama, I have a question. When you grow up when do you leave parent's house?" I told him at 18. He held up the toy car he'd been grasping and pointed to it. "When I grow and I'm bigger, this will be my car, mama! And I will sit here! (points to one of the seats). And I will park it here, next to Anika's car! (sets up two cars next to each other)."
Things with Reni's counselor are going well also. He seems much calmer and happier these days. And Miss Stephanie keeps shaking her head at how smart he is. One session she drew an alien and asked him to draw her something. He drew an alien and the entire solar system and all the circuits and pipes and buttons in the space ship. He LOVES to draw and I often find him hunched over, balanced on one knee, constructing some elaborate road system/city out of pieces of paper that he tapes together.
In Anika news, she reported the other day that her teacher had to assign her a seat even though the rest of the class doesn't have assigned seating anymore. I asked her why, and she said that people were fighting to sit next to her "so the teacher had to make it fair." She was also very proud to be on the morning announcements this morning as the second student in her school to read all of the books on some list they were supposed to read. She was pretty thrilled to, in her words, "be on TV." She's also really into jump roping, and reports each day what new skill they learned in P.E. class. I'm embarrassed to say we don't have any jump ropes (they got thrown out a few years ago after they ended up around the kids' necks) but she uses anything she can find - shirts, towels, scarves - to jump around the house.
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