Calvin is doing really well these days. He still has his moments...though his fits aren't as long or as intense or as frequent, which is great.
Lately Calvin has been really into stuffed animals. Lexey was sweet enough to give Calvin one of her stuffed animals "pup" a dog from build a bear that she got a year ago. Calvin talks to pup, takes pup on his bike, to school and to bed. It is very cute.
A few days ago I took Calvin with me to do some errands. I stopped by a thrift store to see if there were tennis rackets. They didn't. But they did have lots of stuffed animals (stuffy's). Calvin looked through each one. He spent about an hour and found several that he really wanted to take home. Since they ranged in price from $0.75 to $3.99 he had enough money to get a few. He ended up picking 4 very small cheap ones to share with the girls and then one bigger one to give to Jo...a build a bear bunny. My hands were all greasy from touching all of those disgusting used stuffed animals so we hurried home to wash our hands and wash the stuffies. They came out of the wash looking good as new! Calvin made name tags for them all and has been taking a couple of them on all of his adventures.
Dave mentioned that perhaps Calvin has matured from toddler (2-3 year old in constant tantrum) to a 4 year old. Funny and sad at the same time. Glad he is in a sweeter stage.
Just saw this Denise.... Makes me happy to hear that Calvin is doing so well in Houston! That's a good point about him possibly being in a new stage of development now... and how great that you are experiencing such sweet and endearing times now. Hugs to all your kiddos.... sounds like you've all bloomed where you've been planted! Not easy, but you certainly do it well! <3
ReplyDeleteI love that he bought some for his sisters. :)
ReplyDeleteThe last few posts have reminded me of the silver lining of difficult times: the sweet moments taste so much better than they normally would! Something that could get overlooked is instead savored and appreciated for what it represents: progress and innate goodness.
-Anne