School!!

I know I haven't written in a while but now seemed like the perfect time for an update. Jaimisen started preschool last Wednesday, August 11th! He is going to the Walnut Creek Christian Academy, First Baptist Preschool, Monday through Friday from 8:30-2:45. I needed him to go full time because starting in November, I will be teaching full time. So Jaimisen dove right into preschool. I thought for sure he was going to have a hard time adjusting and we would be struggling day after day getting him to stay at preschool without crying, being upset, or sad. I have been prepping him for preschool all summer. I told him exactly what was going to happen - "Mommy is going to drop you off with your teacher and other kids and you are going to get to play and learn new things! Mommies aren't allowed to stay at preschool so I will leave then come pick you up after naptime" - I told him how nice is teacher is once I met her at info night, he got to shop for his school supplies, and we started our "preschool routine" two weeks before he started school. I woke him up at the time he would need to wake up for preschool, we got dressed, ate breakfast then drove to his preschool so he could see it. Then he took a bath and went to sleep at an earlier time. I had done everything I could to prepare him for such a huge step.

The first day: He kept saying "I don't want to go to preschool today" all morning but wasn't upset or crying so I kept reassuring him he was going to have a great time and I would stay with him for a little while when we got there. When we got there, I signed him in and directed him toward his classroom door. As I was behind him, guiding him through the doorway, Jaimisen FROZE, dropped his lunchbox and turned around CLINGING to my legs. I thought this was it, it was beginning. We finally got through the doorway and Jaimisen seemed impressed when his teacher came up to him and said "Hi Jaimisen!" without him having to tell her his name. His teacher talked to him for a minute and Jaimisen just listened and looked around. We walked around the room - he found his cubby and his seat at the table - and we looked at all the toys and books to play with. He slowly unglued himself from my side and started to venture into the room for a few minutes on his own and then would come back to me. All of a sudden I saw something click in his face, he was happy and comfortable and felt safe. In an instant he was skipping around the room then came back and said "I need to show Miss Cassi my lunchbox!" He grabbed it from his cubby and showed his teacher his name on the front and spelled it out for her. She was impressed and he was happy. I told him I was going at that point and would be back later and he said okay, gave me a hug and a kiss and smiled up at Miss Cassi, holding her hand as I walked away. I knew he was going to be okay after that. However, my mom called twice during the day to see if the school had called yet saying Jaimisen was freaking out. She has no faith in him. The second day was just as good. He only had good things to say about preschool and his teacher said he was doing "Great!"

The third day: This is when naptime presented a problem. I think Jaimisen finally realized, "We have to have naptime EVERY day??" He started crying, Miss Cassi tried to console him to no avail and eventually he made another kid start crying. The preschool director Ms. Schnabel came to take Jaimisen to try to help him calm down. She let him work with her in her office, giving him little tasks to do and he even got to help her make copies! Of course he was completely happy with this, so Miss Cassi tried to get him to come back to the classroom to lay down with the rest of the kids to finish naptime. He refused and had to change his green card (meaning he's being a good boy) to a yellow card (meaning he got a warning). He listened after that and the rest of the day went fine. Ms. Schnabel said he was a great helper and even a different preschool teacher said he was "an absolute doll!" Oh Jaimisen. Haha.

The fourth day: Miss Cassi said when she started getting the nap mats out during lunch to prepare for naptime, Jaimisen started getting upset again but she assured him it was still lunch time and it would be okay. She said he cried a little bit but was able to calm himself down and then fell asleep :) She said he did much better than the third day.

Obviously he's not very keen on naptime every single day, but he seems to be getting through it. And the fact that he's getting through it without me is a huge accomplishment for him. Usually when he gets himself so worked up, he won't calm down for anyone but me. I am so proud of him for not only being able to stay at preschool for such long days without me, but also for trusting his teachers and the environment that he's in to the point where he can calm himself down and know that everything will be okay :)

Today is his fifth day. Evan is picking him up from school because I have class from 2-4 (how inconvenient) so we will see how that goes! I think Evan is a little nervous. Haha. Hopefully Jaimisen doesn't cry at all today! He did so perfect the first two days, I think it finally all caught up with him. Hopefully he is able to turn things back around today and have a happy day :)

Videos

Here are some videos. Yes, I know, the first one is sideways but I can't flip it. The first one is Jaimisen on his scooter. He has recently gotten REALLY good at it! The second is Evan and Jaimisen messing around. Evan taught Jaimisen how to "fall like a tree" Haha. Jaimisen has no fear and is full of trust :) The third one is Jaimisen on his new big boy bike!

Birthday

So I know I'm WAY behind on updating this thing and seeing as tomorrow, YES TOMORROW, is Jaimisen's third birthday, I thought now would be a good time. I don't even know where to begin. Jaimisen is growing like a weed; he is 38 inches tall and 35 pounds. I think his biggest accomplishment recently is going potty COMPLETELY by himself. He just gets up, goes into the bathroom, closes and locks the door, and does his thing. The first time he did this, I followed him and told him he needed to unlock the door and his response was "You have to wait one minute. I'm going pee!" Haha! :) He is also playing computer games now. I just go onto the Playhouse Disney website and he navigates by himself. He goes to the TV Show he wants to play on, and he knows which buttons have games. He has also taught himself how to play most of the games. I only showed him how to play one game and when he started navigating the site by himself, I figured he could figure out which games he can and can't play. I have watched him go from not being able to play a game at all to listening to the instructions and watching what happens to learning how to play all on his own. He also likes playing Wii Sports on occassion. He gets frustrated with that easier because he doesn't have the timing down as well. As I sit here writing, Jaimisen is playing on the computer..
Yesterday, for his birthday, I bought him a "big boy bike." It's a 14 inch, neon green, Tony Hawk Climber. My parents bought him a Harley Davidson Helmet and Horn to go with his new bike. He LOVES it. He's had a smaller bike but he hasn't liked to ride it around for very long and I think it's probably because it was too small making it more difficult to ride. He will literally ride his Tony Hawk bike around the court for an hour! It's awesome because I just get to watch and he gets tired out! And he LOVES it! I'll be posting a video soon don't worry.
Jaimisen was supposed to be starting swim lessons tomorrow but they decided he was "too young," which I think is ridiculous, so they won't be letting him do it. Everyone keeps telling me that I should just do it for him. The reason I won't is because I know him, and I know he won't get as much out of it if it's me teaching him. So one of my friends offered to give him private lessons at our house for a really great price, so that's what we will be doing starting in June! I will also be signing Jaimisen up for MyGym Summer Camp. He will go for 3 hours a day, one day a week, for six weeks. He is really looking forward to all that MyGym time.
Finally, Jaimisen starts preschool in August! I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.
I hope that catches everyone up for the most part. Again, I will try to keep it updated better. Jaimisen's birthday party is next weekend so I will update again after that!

A Few Updates

Story #1: As usual, we were at Northgate this week. We practice in the forum and the forum is enclosed by slightly tinted ceiling to floor windows; we can see out, but people can't see in as well. Jen and I noticed a few people walking around the outside of the forum carrying BAGS of candy, like halloween-sized, costco-sized bags of individually wrapped candy. We were watching them, of course talking about the candy when one of the guys dropped a bag on the ground. I told Jen she should go get it when she came up with this brilliant idea: "Where is Jaimisen?? JAIMISEN GO GET THE CANDY!!" Of course Jaimisen perked right up and started walking toward the vending machine. In the meantime, the guy who dropped one of his bags had tried to pick it up and dropped the rest of his candy. He happened to be standing right outside a door. As Jaimisen passed, his head whipped to the side and stared right at the fallen-candy guy. He looked back at us while Jen said "Jaimisen go get that candy!" I told Jen he woulnd't do it because that guy was standing right there and Jaimisen was too shy. By the time I finished my sentence, Jaimisen was proving me wrong. He walked out to the candy, picked it up, and came back in the forum with a huge smile on his face! Juse like that! No hesitation, didn't talk to the guy or ask for the candy. Just walked out, took it, and walked away. I was in total shock!!! It was SOOO hilarious. It was at that time Jen decided we needed to install cameras in the forum to capture all the funny things Jaimisen does there. Of course I ran up to Jaimisen and told him I needed to give the candy back. I handed it back to the guy as he continued to stand in shock that a tiny person just jacked his candy and said to me "I thought the little guy was going to help me! Then he just took off!" At the same time a girl had come to help the guy and was laughing hysterically, "That was the cutest thing ever!" Oh Jaimisen. Haha.

Update #2: We are going to Nebraska this Wednesday to see Tiffany and Shane, Jaimisen's godparents :) We are VERY excited. We come back Sunday so there will definitely be another blog update after then about our trip. Jaimisen's first time on an airplane!

Update #3: My dad's BBQ is coming along quite nicely. Of course, Jaimisen has been helping quite a bit:

Just Call Him Linus

So I'm folding laundry tonight and hear this strange noise behind me. I turn around to see what Jaimisen is getting into and this is what I find. That little black box on top of my dresser is filled with candy. No surprise. Lol. I'm in deep trouble with how smart this kid is.

Playing the Wii

So for Christmas, Jaimisen got a Wii game designed for "Early Childhood." We had tried playing it once before and Jaimisen quickly lost interest because he couldn't control the Wii remote. A couple days ago, he found his game again and said he wanted to play so we tried it out. He did AMAZING! Some of it is still too hard for him to understand what to do, but I got him to the mini games section and he LOVED it. There were matching games; matching shapes, numbers, letters, colors. There are memory games; find the matching letters or numbers under the rubber duckies. He controled the Wii remote REALLY well and was able to play completely by himself. Sometimes he has trouble keeping the Wii remote steady enough to click on what he's going for, but he keeps trying until he gets it. It's so cute seeing him play the Wii. He looks so big! Here are a couple videos of him playing his game :)

Tahoe

Jaimisen and I went to Tahoe this past weekend with my parents. Except when I say "the weekend," I actually only mean Saturday to Sunday. My parents are so afraid of getting stuck in holiday traffic they avoid it at all costs. *Rolls eyes* But Jaimisen did get some good snow play time which is the exact reason we went. He absolutely loved it. I think saying he loved it is almost an understatement. I'm pretty sure he was smiling the entire time he was outside. I think his favorite part was playing snowball fight. I think he loved the idea of being able to throw snow at people and not getting in trouble.

The first time we went out, his pants didn't stay tucked into his boots and his sock got soaked and he didn't care. The second time we went out, my dad [who did have two children of his own at one point] put Jaimisen's boots on the wrong feet! He also couldn't put Jaimisen's gloves on correctly. The poor kid, but he still didn't care! We didn't realize his boots were on the wrong feet until he was already playing! He played with his boots on the wrong feet the entire time. Haha. Oh, Dad. He made it up to Jaimisen, though, by making him a pretty cool fort perfect for a little boy.

My dad found this little "hill" and got one of our sleds out, put Jaimisen on it and pushed him down. Jaimisen had a HUGE smile on his face! It added to the humor that we didn't think to put anyone at the bottom of the small run so I had to chase and dive after him when he didn't stop like we thought he would. He thought that was just hilarious. He very quickly graduated to a bigger hill that me, my brother and cousins sled down. I, again, ended up literally diving after him when his sled took a sharp right and headed straight toward a tree [video is at the bottom]. Another time he ran straight into my mom. Haha. All in all, we had a fabulous time. He actually got really upset when I said we were going back to our house at home. He said he wanted to stay at Tahoe. He loves Tahoe just like his mommy :) Don't forget to watch the video at the bottom!

Chasing Wrestlers

So Jaimisen did the most hilarious thing today. I don't think he has ever done anything more funny in his entire life. We were at Northgate for my lessons. My cousin, Caitlynn, does dance through Northgate and her group was practicing in the foyer where we were. The wrestlers practice in the area just up and across the stairs from where we are. They always start and finish their running when we are there. They run straight across the foyer where we practice. Today, I think one of the girls dancing with Caitlynn waved at one of the wrestlers running by and that's when Jaimisen got his bright idea. Jenn and I were talking and a few wrestlers were running in, finishing their 3 mile run, and Jaimisen waved like a maniac and started chasing them! Needless to say, Jenn and I started cracking up. I was soon in tears. We yelled at Caitlynn and told her to watch what Jaimisen was doing and Caitlynn told all her dancer friends. Jaimisen did his crazy wave and chase to about ten wrestlers running through. There were about fifteen girls cracking up at Jaimisen. Here is the video I barely got of the last couple guys running through.

Workaholic

These pictures are actually from a few weeks ago. I meant to post them then. But oh well, I'm doing it now! My dad wanted Jaimisen and I to come visit him at work one day [he likes to show off Jaimisen because everyone just thinks he's sooooo cute] so these are pictures from our visit. Jaimisen had a BLAST pretending to work in my dad's office in his big chair on his big desk. It was adorable.

He really did call my mom [with my dad's help of course] and told her he was at Bompa's work helping. Haha. He thought it was so special to be talking on my dad's phone in the office.

Homemade Playdoh

Here is the picture documentation of Jaimisen making his own playdoh today :)

The Musical Styling of Jaimisen Michael

Jaimisen has quite the variety of songs that he likes to sing;

This one he learned from his Sunday School class, "Jesus Loves Me." He even ASTONISHED me knowing the sign language that goes with it too!


This one he learned from American Idol. Lol.
"Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground"

Red Robyn

Tonight, JD, Jaimisen and I went to Red Robin for dinner. I had told Jaimisen before we left the house that we were going to meet JD for dinner at Red Robin. When we sat down at Red Robin, Jaimisen kept asking "Where is red robin???" I kept telling him the name of the place we were eating was Red Robin or the name of the little bird on his coloring page was named red robin. He was never satisfied and I didn't understand what answer he was looking for. When we were in the car heading home, Jaimisen started to get upset with me and said, "No Mom! Wait! Red robin is waiting for us!" and "We have to meet red robin!" All of a sudden it hit me. He was talking about Robyn, one of the girls I coach. I asked, "Are you talking about Robyn the girl from Northgate?" and he replied with "YAAAAHHH!!!" like I was a complete idiot. I felt so bad and explained to him that we weren't going to meet Robyn, we just went to a place to eat called Red Robin. He seemed a little confused still so I told him we would go see Robyn next week at Northgate and then he was happy. Poor kid. So confused. He thought he was going to see his girlfriend. Yes, he is in love with Robyn. Haha.

Ribbon Stick

During MyGym on Thursday, one of their gymnastic skills was balancing on the balance beam holding a ribbon stick and waving it up and down. They have used this ribbon stick before and Jaimisen is absolutely fascinated with it. When it was his turn on the balance beam, he was more interested in waving and watching the ribbon stick go up and down than he was at making sure his feet were still on the balance beam. He kept asking Aimee if he could "hold it just for a little bit" and she kept telling him he had to let the other kids use it. He waited patiently until all the kids were done and she let him play with it for a little longer before putting it away. She asked me if he had something like it at home and when I told her he didn't, she said she was going to give him one from MyGym because they have a few. After class, she called me over to the side away from everyone else and gave me a wrapped up ribbon stick. I gave it to Jaimisen in the car out of sight from the other kids and he absolutely loves it. His eyes got all wide as he gasped and said "RIBBON STICK!!!" I told him Aimee was letting him have it since he was such a good listener. He brings it everywhere now.

Preschool

Last night my mom, Caitlynn, Jaimisen and I went to the Open House at Walnut Creek Christian Academy. This is the preschool that, ideally, I would like Jaimisen to go to. Carissa and Caitlynn, my cousins, both went there and had a good experience so I know I can trust the school. That's my main issue I guess. While Jaimisen is still little, I need to know I can trust where he is going to be all day. As he gets older, he will be able to tell me if bad things happen or what's going on at his school but while he's little, he won't necessarily do that.
Anyway, I loved it there. They had the gym filled with tables separated by grade. We went over to the preschool area and met one of the pre-k teachers. She showed us around all the preschool and pre-k rooms. She was VERY nice and Jaimisen LOVED every room he saw. He was in absolute heaven; tons of toys he has never seen before. The teacher just kept laughing at him because he had the biggest smile on his face and kept racing from one toy to the next. I swear he was just trying to make sure he touched everything at least once. Haha. I asked him if he liked it at the school and he said "YAAAHHH!!! I liiiiiiike it!" The teacher responded with "Good! I did my job!" Haha. Every time I asked him if he wanted to go to school there he responded with a big, Yes! I even asked him again this morning if he remembered the school we went to and if he wanted to go there and he said, "Yah. I go all by myself next time!" I explained to him that he was right! It would be just like his Church Class; I would drop him off and give him a hug and say bye, then he would play, then I would come back and get him later. He seemed excited about that. Haha.
They have two preschool classes; one for older and one for younger kids. The youngest they can be to start is 2 years, 9 months. Jaimisen will be 3 years, 3 months when he starts. The teacher that showed us around said he may start in the older preschool class. She said she wasn't sure of the exact cutoff months but the preschool director would be able to tell me. Then they go into pre-k when they are 4-5 years old. They have a daily schedule that's posted on the wall. They have the same schedule every single day which is good. There is even a nap included! They seem to have a really good schedule of the entire school year which, of course, I like :)
All in all, it went really well. Jaimisen has a beyond great memory of the school and I know he's really going to like it there.

Strange Sleeper

So over the past weekish, Jaimisen has decided to fall asleep in the strangest places! Check these out:

Asleep on my arm.

Asleep in the middle of the day at the end of my bed.

Asleep in the middle of the day on the floor.

Asleep with my baby bear, Bobo.

Sleepy

Today Evan had one of his friends from the Police Academy over for the afternoon. They played some guitar hero and it wasn't long before Jaimisen decided he wanted to be one of the guys and join in.

And this is how Jaimisen fell asleep tonight...

...on the floor.

A True Man

Jaimisen knows how to use the remote now; a true man. When he's watching shows I have recorded on the TV, he knows how to fast forward through the commercials and then push play when his show comes back on. It's pretty hilarious.

Tonight I was tucking Jaimisen in and I said "I love you Jaimisen Michael" and he replied "I love you too Mommy Michael" Hahaha. Silly kid.

Sicky Update

Jaimisen is fever-free! He went all day yesterday with no fever, thank goodness. He still has a pretty nasty cough but that's all that remains of the demon cold. He is back to his normal stinker self. I think we took about five steps back in the "good listening" department though. Since he was pretty inactive for about six days, he has a lot of catching up to do I guess. He will get back on track though. He is currently sitting in timeout in his room in his bed. Haha. He is also grunting and moaning and groaning about it.

Funny story:
Jaimisen's little underwear have been getting to small for him lately so the other day I went out to get him 4t underwear. Can you believe it??? He needs 4t!! Anyway, my dad keeps telling me to get him "cool boxer briefs" so in addition to the 7-pack of Disney Pixar underwear I got him, I also got a 3-pack of boxer briefs for Jaimisen to try. When I got home of course Jaimisen asked "What you got for me?" I showed him and proceeded to try them on. I put on the boxer briefs first and Jaimisen says, "Wait Mom! I need underwear on first!" Hahaha! He doesn't quite understand the concept of boxer briefs. Oh well. He has room to grow in them anyway!

2 going on 20

A couple stories for you:

[These are direct quotations, not translated into big people english]
Jaimisen: I have to go potty!
Me: Go ahead, go by yourself [I watched from my room]
[After getting up onto the potty by himself]
Jaimisen: Ummm...I'm peeing on myself
Me: [Laughs] You're not supposed to do that! [Gets up to help]
Jaimisen: I'm not doing very well
Me: [Laughs a lot]

When did my two year old get this vocabulary?? I didn't know he knew the word "myself" and don't most two year olds say "I'm not doing good," not "I'm not doing very WELL." Haha.

Here's another:
[After running a couple laps back and forth from his room to my room]
Me: Jaimisen, what are you doing?
Jaimisen: Just getting my energy out

Hahahahaha! Seriously??? Where does he learn this stuff!

Sicky Baby

I decided last night after he told me his chest hurt that I was taking Jaimisen to the doctor today. He woke up at 6am this morning gagging, coughing and crying. He is also losing his voice so when he opens his mouth to cry sometimes no sound actually comes out. It's so sad. I took him in and the doctor said he only has a cold "for now." Chest, ears and throat were all clear. But the way the doctor said it made it seem like he was expecting his "cold" to turn into something in the next couple of days. He told me if Jaimisen still has a fever by Tuesday night, then call back and bring him in first thing Wednesday morning. Jaimisen hasn't improved at all today. He wants to get up and play so bad but I am trying to force him to sit. He will get so upset with me and say "No mommy! I have to play with Zoey!" So this is really hard for him. And when I say he wants to get up and play, it's not the normal play he usually does. He basically just doesn't want to keep sitting. The past three nights he has fallen asleep between 6 and 630pm; his usual bedtime is 9pm and even then I have to put him in his bed and tell him it's bedtime. He never just falls asleep by himself. He's so tired but can't sleep because of his nasty cough. At this point I'm almost hoping he has something diagnosable so the doctor can prescribe him a medicine so he can get better. I hate seeing him like this and knowing there is nothing I can do and just have to wait it out :(

For the Godmommies

So Jaimisen's godmommies have been HARASSING me about updating Jaimisen's blog more. Haha. I explained to them that nothing has happened that I can write about! That didn't stop their persistence. However, it did get me thinking. I realized that there are a lot of things that I don't consider "worth" writing about because they are normal, everyday things to me. But to his godmommies, who live in Nebraska and New Orleans, everything is new and exciting! So I am promising them that I will do my absolute best to update the blog at least every other day, no matter how short it may be; tell a funny story about something Jaimisen did, something new he learned, anything.
For the past few days Jaimisen has been spiking 101+ fevers :( It's strange because he usually has a fever right in the morning, then it goes away and he acts completely fine the rest of the day and then it spikes back up at night again. Last night he fell asleep at 7pm sitting in my mom's lap which is COMPLETELY unlike him. Tonight he fell asleep at Evan's Police Academy dinner at 6:30 and only woke up because I needed to put a pullup on him if he was going to sleep. He was awake for about an hour and went back to sleep. It was short lived because after about 30 minutes, he woke up acting like he needed to throw up. But since he hasn't eaten all day, there was nothing for him to throw up :( Poor baby.
We have been doing flash cards lately working on his numbers. He can correctly identify numbers 0-10 with only slight confusion on 8 and 9. He can almost count to twenty on his own. His only problem is skipping from 14 to 18. Haha. He can identify his entire alphabet with basically no problem.
We were supposed to go to Tahoe for this week but the threat of being snowed in has kept us home. I needed to be home by Thursday and it's supposed to snow all week until next Sunday. Not just snow, snowstorm, full with power outage and falling trees. So we opted to stay home. Jaimisen has never seen snow so we were really looking forward to it but we have another weekend planned in February so hopefully that works out.
I'll keep everyone posted on how Jaimisen is doing with his sickbug.

Add to the Days

Jaimisen successfully completed another day of Sunday school! Let me break this down for you so you can really appreciate his accomplishments:

Sunday school days 1-3: I sat in the class in the corner. Jaimisen didn't need me to be right next to him, just a visual when he looked up to be comforted.
Sunday school day 4: I walked into the play area and handed him to the Sunday school teacher crying and not wanting to stay. When I left he was still crying. The teacher said she held him and he cried for about 7 minutes then was perfectly happy and wanted to play.
Sunday school day 5: He was excited to go, then cried the second we stepped in the door. I walked into the play area and handed him to his teacher crying. I showed him one of those books that has buttons and makes noises to go along with the story [just like the one he got for Christmas] and he was immediately excited to tell his teacher all about Christmas. He wasn't crying when I left and didn't cry for the remainder of class.
Sunday school day 6: He was unsure if he wanted to go. I reminded him about the books with buttons he could play with with his teacher and all the fun things they do in class. When we walked in the door, I took his jacket, put on his name tag and he ran in the play area without me. No crying AT ALL! I waited to see if he would look back for me, but he went right up to his teacher, asked for a book with buttons and off he ran out of sight.

How proud I am of him overshadows any sadness I have of him growing up. I know I've said this before, but he continues to amaze me.

The Holidays

The holidays have come and gone. It's been a rough holiday season for me but wonderful for Jaimisen. Christmas Eve and Christmas day plans were the usual. Christmas Eve with my dad's family and Christmas day with my mom's.
Jaimisen fell in love with Christmas the day after Thanksgiving when he started seeing christmas lights around the neighborhood. He would tell me "They have Christmas decorations. That means it's Christmas time!" He was equally amazed at Christmas lights and decorations each time he saw them. He got a wide variety of presents; toys, books, clothes. He got an even amount of each and loved every single one of them! It was such a joy watching him open his presents. This year he really understood what was going on. He also enjoyed helping other people open their presents even if the gift inside wasn't for him.
New Year's was pretty uneventful yet fun at the same time. My brother was gone for the weekend and my parents went out for dinner and a movie so Jaimisen and I had the house to ourselves for a while. I told Jaimisen if he was a good boy and didn't get an attitude, he could "stay up until happy new year." I was interested to see how long he would make it. I honestly thought he would make it no problem judging from the energy he always has at night. He ended up passing out around 10:40pm. We had watched movies, played games, and sang and danced. Obviously that was enough to use up his usual nighttime energy. Maybe he will make it next year.
On another note, Jaimisen has stayed at Sunday School twice by himself now. The first time only crying for five minutes after I left him and the second time not crying at all when I left. He also got the opportunity to hang out at MyGym for two one-hour sessions without me with absolutely no problem. I'm so happy he is learning to adjust without me so quickly. My hope is by the time he starts preschool next fall, he will have no problem staying without mom :)
Jaimisen really has been my saving grace during this holiday season. He has been my reason to smile and laugh. I am so incredibly thankful for my handsome little man and the role he plays in my life. When I'm sad he wipes my tears and says "I'll take care of you." Then when he makes me smile he says "You're happy!" and is so proud of himself. He reads my emotions so amazingly well and always knows what to do to make things better. I could not ask for a better little boy.