Jack now answers "Yeshhh" when you ask him if he wants a baby sister. Also, if you ask him where his sister is, he either pokes me in the belly or, more embarassingly when in public, starts trying to lift my shirt up. Apparently he is not aware that only Mommys have babies because yesterday, when we asked him, he went over to Paul and lifted his shirt up. He does seem to be very interested in little babies, which is encouraging. Today we were at a barbecue with quite a few babies and he cautiously watched the babies from afar. I hope he adjusts well to his new sister. I think he will be a fabulous big brother once he gets over the fact that he will have to share the role of being the center of our universe!
In other news, he has also decided that he wants to sleep with a different book each night. We read three books each night and then he picks one that he wants to take into his crib. I guess he likes to read a little before he falls asleep. I then have to wait until he is sound asleep to extract it from wherever it is. Sometimes it's pretty easy and other times he is sleeping right on it, leading me to fine tune my old skills at the Operation game!
He has also proven to be such a big sweetheart. Very often, when we are around other small children, they take whatever he is playing with. He has never been aggressive and gone back after his toy. He simply moves on to a different toy. He also never takes toys from other kids. Recently, it was almost as if a kid was watching him so he could pounce on whatever Jack chose. After he ripped a car out of Jack's hand, Jack reached over and grabbed a different toy and held it out to the kid, saying, "Dank u". He never objected, just happily chose something else. Part of me would like him to stand up to these assertive kids and the other part of me loves that he both does not get aggressive and that he finds joy in enough things that he can happily move on to something else with little drama.
Skills update:
Since 18 months, Jack can identify every letter in random order. He has also recently improved on his numbers, saying 1-10 now without problems in English and mostly in Spanish (he still doesn't like "nueve".
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The part about standing up to other kids has seriously annoyed/plagued me for the past year, too. Evie is now 3 years and 3 months.... only recently did I see her display less "backing down" when kids shoved to get in a line. She's not an aggressor... just doesn't let herself shirk in the corner as much as just a few months ago. Ah, proud mommy.
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