Tanner Kai

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Nana and Grampy Celebrate the Big 2

More pics to come celebrating Tanner's big day. Stay tuned. Here are a few highlights from Nana & Grampy's visit. Here's a link to Kris's pics.

Weekend Festivities

Beach with Olive

Train Town with Jack

Showing off his moves with his birthday present

watching the big kids at the skatepark

Thomas the Train Tent (birthday present #2, which has overtaken our living room)

Getting up close and personal with a bear at the SF Zoo

Sleepover with Wyatt (make your own pizza and cupcakes, followed with Saturday morning cartoons in bed) so Mommy & Daddy could celebrate our 6th Anniversary at Gary Danko

Friday, September 3, 2010

Tanner's been spending the past 2 weeks at Bright Horizons, our back up daycare since his usual one is closed till after the Labor Day holiday. Half way through his time there, they moved him up to the preschool room to hang with the big kids. When Jason picked him up yesterday, they told him "Tanner was the youngest in the class, but made up for it with his big personality." I was proud. As a mom of one, you really don't have a basis for comparison on how your kid stacks up against the rest. Every parent thinks their kid is the smartest. The cutest. And the best behaved (well maybe not). But when someone who actually spends 24/7 with children for the past 10 years says your kid has a "big personality," it's pretty rewarding. We know he's silly and outgoing and cute. Now it's just validated.

or....

Fast forward one day. Tanner and I went to the doctor for his two year check up today. (All is great and check out the new stats to the left). What I thought were silly, cute antics on Tanner's part during the check up, left me thinking twice about how people define "big personality." Without any sort of question or prompting on my part, the doctor (not my usual favorite one) suggested that we read 1-2-3 Magic, Effective Discipline for Children Ages 2-12. Maybe Tanner's silliness is actually misbehaving? Or maybe it was the fact that I let him play with 4 quarters right in front of the doctor and it was only when he put them all in his mouth that I realized it wasn't a good idea. (For the record, he said, "Money. Piggy Bank" when I gave it to him. He's smart. I'm the stupid one.)

Monday, August 16, 2010

Funny Things

Every week, my mom asks me what's new that Tanner did. Sometimes I give her a quick story, but more often, I give her, "oh.... there was this funny thing Tanner said the other day. It was....Oh darn. Forgot it. He'll do it again." Usually he doesn't. But he does something funnier, and I forget it. Again. So, I'm going to try to record all the funny stories, quotes, as well as the not so funny moments until he tells me I'm no longer cool and to stop embarrassing him.

Tanner was sitting on the trunk of the car while Jason was getting sand out of his shoes by hitting them on the bumper, to which Tanner replied, "Daddy, no banging."
He's a little OCD for cleanliness, even for my OCDness. He points out trash on the back outside steps (more like dust balls), demands to wash his hands if there's even the slightest bit of dirt on them, and also proceed to tell me that my feet are "yucky" and "wash."
Most of you aren't aware of our little scare a few weeks back that landed us in the hospital. He caught a virus which turned into respiratory distress, ER visit and lots of oxygen masks and steroids to control the wheezing. They think it might be early onset asthma, but can't make a formal diagnosis until they see how things play out, which could be in a week or a year or a decade. In the meantime, he gets inhaler does 2x/day for the next month or two. He's now giving his stuffed animals his inhaler medicine (this is the funny part), which is a nice change to initially having to pin down his arms and legs while he writhed in agony for only a few puffs of medicine.
When he doesn't like something, he says, "Yucky" and scrunches his nose in disgust.
When he gets really excited, he says "All right" and skips
He calls you out when you fart, "Dadda poop poop."
He's very particular about when you sit next to him and where, often pointing out "here," and if you're even the slightest bit off, he doesn't let it go
He actually cried while watching Benji when Benji was lost. But he was ecstatic when Benji returned home.
He's starting to sing songs - Wheels on the Bus and Old Mac Donald. He even sometimes sings them on his own in his crib in the morning.
A few moms and kids were sitting on the couch. My friend Lisa (Wyatt's mom) says, "Someone went poop" after smelling a foul odor. Tanner looked at Wyatt and said, "Wyatt went poop poop."
Loves to say, "_______ likes you." (usually a stuffed animal or person.) Elmo likes mommy. The bunny in the hat likes John the Music Teacher. Tonight, Tanner's boo boo liked me.
After tonight's dinner, Tanner was practicing jumping off the stairs while we were waiting outside and Jason was paying the bill. Three girls walked by (Mom plus a two sisters, probably ages 7 and 10.) Tanner says, "Girls. Watch me." Tanner jumped. They applauded. Tanner sits on the stairs and says, "Girls sit here." Girls apologize and go into the restaurant. Tanner follows them into the restaurant while shouting "Girls where are you?"
Also earlier at the restaurant, Jason went to the bathroom and Tanner asked "Where Daddy go?" I told him that he went to the bathroom to wash his hands before eating, to which Tanner replied LOUDLY, "Daddy go potty poo poo."
Recent conversation with Tanner while in his room: Tanner: Where's Daddy? Mommy: In the living room. Tanner: On couch? Mommy: Yup. Tanner: Daddy sleeping.
Tanner has an unbelivable memory of people. The other day, we pulled up at daycare, Tanner saw a woman getting into a car (without a child). He said, "Ariana's Mommy." I had no idea who this woman was, but he knew. He also knows people's cars (without the people in them.) "Jesse's Mommy's car."