Julian's fingers are doing well. We are down to a band-aid type dressing on the two fingers. The nails are still there protecting the injury. On August 1st they'll check to see if the nail is starting to grow back.
Julian is so amazing these days. He is so protective of Miles. During the scan or if anyone wants to see Miles he says, "Can I have my baby back?" and tells people to be gentle and careful with him. I have seen him cover his legs with a blanket if Miles kicks it off. He also gets his pacifier and is starting to try to make Miles smile. Miles is obsessed at staring at his big brother.
J is starting to say S's now, but not at the first letter. He asked for "talt" (salt) yesterday and we took forever at trying to figure out what he wanted. He kept his cool and pointed and described what he wanted. We praised him for staying calm and explaining himself. Dinosaur is "dinofour".
Our challenge lately is having playdates in our home. J went crazy with people touching his things last week. We had two playdates and he lost it. He screamed, cried, and shook because his stuff was being touched. I heard this is normal, but he's never done this. We're starting a playcentre tomorrow where there is a professional child developmentalist there to help with socialization. It's a cool environment that encourages the child to play further and further away from the parent and then eventually you leave them there for 1-4 hours with a care provider. We're getting him ready to start kindy (preschool) in October or when we get back from the states in January. I said it's time to cut the cord, but all I want is for him to not be so attached to me. I think I'll regret this when he doesn't want me anymore. He's already wanting Dan more than me and I'm feeling the ache.
The other thing that we're doing is putting J to bed at 8pm for him to sleep past 3 or 4 am. He is waking too early and crying until we come to him, but doesn't sleep for another hour with one of us cuddling him. The late bedtime is helping. I think he feels left out since Miles is sleeping in the port-a-cot in our room. I feel for Julian, but the later bedtime is working, though I feel like I don't get any me time since I'm usually going to bed by 9:30ish.
Julian sings at the top of his lungs with me now. It's so funny. He loves to have dance parties. I know this is because we've been couped up for months now due to the cold weather. He loves to pretend now. Playdough, food, and paper pieces all are animals. He likes to draw with a pen over coloring and always draws animals. It's so cute.
His prayers are expanding to praying for things instead of just thanking God for everyone and everything in his life. We have lots of sick friends and it's so precious to hear him pray for them without me prompting him. He's been coming to big church with Dan and me and raising his hands during worship. It's cute.
He says cute phrases that catch me off guard like, "That sounds like a great idea." They are all from books that he remembers and I don't until we read it and then I laugh that he has applied a book phrase to real life. J is very good at conceptualizing ideas from books to other books or things in our life. Friends have told me that they can't until 3 or so, but he's doing it already. He is struggling with feelings, but we talk about it a lot. It's hard to describe feelings so we use facial expressions and the moment after he cools down to talk about frustration and anger. He definitely knows happy.
I wish I could remember all the cute things he's doing when I write this blog. We're just so enthralled with him and love him more everyday.
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