\nWhen we first told Tanner we were moving he thought it was a grand idea. Now he isn’t so sure. In the last week he starts to get upset if we talk to him about it. He has decided he likes living here and moving is apparently – too much of a change. I think he’ll change his mind once we do it but he doesn’t appreciate this disruption to his “norm”. So like my Tanner:).<\/p>\n
Grandparents<\/strong> This morning Tanner woke up and told me he was going to go camping with Papa and Sweetie and I couldn’t come. I had to stay home. I told him that camping sounded like fun and I’d like to go to. He said I’d have to camp somewhere else. Sheeeeeshhh! Was he serious? Oh yes I believe he was. He realizes that Sweetie will give him undivided attention if mommy isn’t there and he would rather be the center of her world and would prefer to not have to compete with me. Makes sense really so I can’t fault him:). <\/p>\n Last week Tanner wanted to stay the night at Sweetie’s. When I was pulling out of their driveway, Ty realized that Tanner was staying and he wasn’t. He pitched a royal screaming fit. He yelling, crying and spitting for a mile. All of a sudden my car speeds up on me and won’t stop. I was scared to death and ultimately had to throw the car into park. (It turned out to be the throttle cable was hung open and Jim actually asked me why I didn’t step on the gas to release it!!!! Duh!!! When my car is SPEEDING UP why in the world would it occur to me to press the gas pedal?????) Anyhow, Ty got his way and we had to walk all the way back to Papa’s. He sang and smiled all the way back.<\/p>\n Why Oh Why<\/strong> Food<\/strong> X Box<\/strong> Balance<\/strong> Valentine’s….<\/strong> Wishing you a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are now counting down! One week from tomorrow we close on our house! Yippeee! I am in a quandary right now because it FEELS like I should be doing something but most things that need to be done don’t make sense to do today so I feel like I am caught in the “hurry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBoth my kids are well educated in the role of grandparents. Ty especially is quickly to call for a grandparent rescue if he is in trouble with mommy. He is very practiced at charming people. He squints his eyes with those long lashes (and when I say long I mean I have never in my life seen llllooooonnngggeeerr) and worms his way right into your heart. <\/p>\n
\nTanner is going through the lovely why stage. My friend Laura shared a thought one day that I believed was wonderful. When her kids ask her “why” after she has told them to do something, she will only answer the question AFTER they obeyed. I do not like “why” questions either – especially the whiny ones. I have been trying to break Tanner of this. Recently Tanner spouted out a really long whiny “wwwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyy” and before I could even respond Ty copied Tanner with perfect tone. Aaaaggghhhh!!!! I then set about trying to teach both boys to simply say “Yes Ma’m” when I asked them to do something. Surprisingly, Ty caught on right away and is doing very well with this. He say’s “Es Em”. So cute.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Tanner was two, he loved to look at picture books and he knew the names and sounds of all the animals. Ty could care less about the animals. He wants to look at the food pages. He knows “Cake, chocolate, strawberry, banana, broccoli, cupcake, chips….” and a whole host more. Ty loves to eat. This week about 45 minutes after lunch he told Jim “I hungweee”. He kept repeating it over and over. Finally Jim said “Ty you don’t even know what hungry means.” Ty looked Jim in the eye and said “Lunch!”. Apparently he knows exactly what hungry means:). Mommy was not a bit surprised. This afternoon he got hungry for lunch so he picked up the phone and tried to dial an order in. I heard him saying “Boo-goo….Fwies”. <\/p>\n
\nI am going to take our stinkin X box and throw it through the window. Ty begs for “Gemes” or “X box” 24×7 and it is driving me crazy!!!! He is totally OCD about it so the last two days I haven’t let either of the boys go anywhere near it. He even starts singing the star wars song and marching in front of the television to let me know that he wants the Star Wars game on. THAT is funny:)<\/p>\n
\nTy’s PT this week told me that she would release Ty from PT if it weren’t for the balance issues. He still is so clumsy and he has such a hard time with any elevation change or step\/curb. I don’t know if it is depth perception or not. Usually, he doesn’t even look down at his feet at all. Like he has no awareness that he needs to observe where he is going. Still watching this one…<\/p>\n
\nGot this Happy Valentine’s from Aimee and wanted to post for you. My niece Zandi and nephew Zane. Simply irresistible aren’t they?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/Feb\/DSC02483.JPG\")
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