February 2013

2/24/2013
Christopher-
I know you're only 4 and a half, but I'm already tired of this phase you're going through...we are starting to play board games with you but you throw a fit if you don't get to go first.  If you don't get to go first then you have a fit and you don't even want to play.  On the rare occasion that you do actually get to go first and we make it through the game, you throw a fit if you don't win.  I'm guessing that it's a phase that all kids go through...now that I think about it I might even know some adults that act this way.  How do we teach you that you don't always get to go first and how do we teach you that you won't always win and that it's ok to now always win.  And it's now even like you can get better at games like chutes and ladders the more you play.  There is no skill involved, it's all luck.  Maybe the more we play you'll start to see that sometimes you win and sometimes you don't.  I probably just need to have more patience with you while you figure out this life lesson.  I think it's one of those things that we take for granted as adults and we forget that it's a life skill that we had to learn and develop.  I'll cut you some slack, but I really hope you learn soon.

January 2013

1/16/2013
For your 4th birthday, dad and I got you a mosaic puzzle that has different patterns that you can follow or you can just build your own mosaic.  You really haven't played with it much...until this past week.  You've been building your own puzzle after puzzle and giving them to me and dad like they were gifts.  The really interesting thing about it is that almost every puzzle that you put together on your own is perfectly symmetrical.  So I decided to watch you put one together and I noticed that every time you put a piece down on one side, you put a matching piece on the other side.  It's very methodical.  I'm not sure if this is unusual or if it means anything, but I thought it was worth noting.  Maybe it's a significant characteristic of your personality.