Sunday, June 25, 2006
Noah is very much like a roller coaster these days. Up one minute, down the next. His temper is red-hot. But he has a sweet side that can melt you like butter. A few days ago I made this really great Pear Lime Jello. It's more like dessert than a side dish but we eat it as a side dish because that's just the kind of people we are. Anyway, after I had it all mixed up I gave Noah and Denver the bowl to scrape out. Denver was fine until Noah took over the scraping, leaving very little left for Denver to enjoy. So I intervened and told Noah he needed to take turns scraping. To which Noah responded with, "BACK OFF!" Now, all of our boys have gotten a bit mouthy lately and we're trying to correct that so, I immediately went to confiscate the spoon and tell Noah he was done scraping the bowl. Well, when he saw me coming at him he scraped up as much green jello gook as he could on that little spoon of his and. . . he threw it at me. Whoa! Talk about scary. I ended up dragging the boy, kicking and screaming up to his room. Mr. Hyde. . .is that you?
A few hours later, I sat down to feed Caleb a bottle. Noah and Denver were watching television and as I went to sit on the couch I asked if either of them had seen Caleb's silkie. Then I remembered it was upstairs in my bed and said, "Nevermind." Noah immediately jumped up off the couch and said, "I'll get it!" Keep in mind, I didn't even ask him to do it. He just automatically volunteered. So he ran upstairs and not only got Caleb's silkie but Denver's special ble-ble too, just because. Dr. Jekyll returns.
I'm not sure what's happened to or changed in Noah. But it's amazing to me how quickly he can go from anger to pure bliss to anger all over again. Guess it's all just a part of growing up and still being so little all at the same time. Either that or I need to spend a little more time with him--that always seems to do the trick for Noah. A little bit of extra TLC.
posted by Shana # 10:24 PM 
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