Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Jonathan Day 25

We have learned to sleep as late as possible.  We have a baby monitor in Jonathan's room and usually around 7:15 AM we here him chattering.  He will not get out of bed until we go in and then he usually says "goodnight" or "morning" several times when we open his door in the morning.  We learned that letting him decide when to get out of bed and sit on the potty is best.  I was going in and picking him up and putting him on the potty and he would cry and get mad.  Now I give it 5 to 10 minutes and ask him if he's ready to sit on Elmo and he says "ELMO".

Jonathan and I walked in to town this morning to get the mail.  He is so funny on walks.  Points out everything,"garbage can" "car" "hi truck".  When we got home we fed the chickens and started getting ready for our trip in to Chicago today.  We're staying in the city tonight because I needed to attend our condo board meeting and drop-off some final documents to the adoption attorney.  The motion for adoption should be filed very soon!!  I think this might take as long as a year to be finalized.

I hated having to leave before he went to bed (to attend the meeting).  The highlight of my day is to get that goodnight face grab.  He is such a sweet little boy!  EXCEPT when he isn't :-)  Dinner was a challenge, he just didn't want to eat tonight.  Da Da had bought him a few new toys to keep in the condo right before dinner and that was the focus.  We stopped fighting him at meals, if he doesn't want to eat we just let him get caught-up at the next meal.  I think he has gained more than 2 pounds in the last three weeks so he isn't starving.

Enough for tonight!  Getting up early to head back to MI.

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