Porter headlines

Continuation of "Not speechless:"
"thang"---mama, I want to ride my tracta thang. Mama, here is my sucka thang....
And along the same lines...
"stuff"--mama, tha's daddy's stuff, or what is that stuff?
[Do you see the trend of everything starting with mama?]
"Stop guys."---this one showed up on a recent trip to destin. As we were walking through destin commons, Jared and I were playing around with porter, and he throws out, "stop guys."
"Don't pow me, daddy!"---porter likes to "pow" you by pointing at you and say pow as if he is shooting you. He doesn't like it when you return the favor and you will usually get a "don't pow me, daddy (or mama)" back.

Topic #2: "scared of the dragons in my room"
That's what he said this morning when he got in our bed for our morning snuggle time. He has recently become scared of things that have not been an issue in the past, and we have done nothing to create these fears. He is scared of the dark, and he used to go in a dark room by himself and sit there and hide from you. He is also talking about things like the boogeyman, monsters, and dragons, and he is scared of them. How did he learn all this? I'm sure some of it comes from school, but he is the most verbal child in his class, so I'm sure that the other kids didn't teach him all this. These are not words or concepts from our household, so where did he pick it up?
Tonight we went to samurai for Japanese, and as soon as he saw the man with the tall hat and cart full of food he freaked completely out and wouldnt sit in his high chair and layed on Jared hiding his face. He said, "I scared of fire" and as soon as we told him that the man wouldn't do fire and that there was nothing to be afraid of, he turned around and announced to the rest of the table that he was not scared of fire, but quickly hid his face again and wouldn't sit in his chair. We finally had to put our foot down (or all four parent feet) and made him get in his chair. After a short meltdown he complied and was fine after that. When the guy finished cooking our meal, he reloaded and went to another table, where he did the fire. Then porter said, " I wanna see fire again." We like to say he's indecisive. ;)

Topic #3: good day at school
No biting or pinching = afternoon treat. Since he likes blue ice cream and we don't have that here, Jared took him to the recently re-opened Sno Biz. He got a blue snow cone.












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Ready for school!

Winter hat--check
Fruit roll up in pocket--check.
Ok, we can go now.



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Porter's spring collection: overalls

We have finished 2 pair. The next pair will be a different variation.





















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Not speechless

That would describe porter. Here are a few of his new words and phrases:
"just"----I just want two more. (He uses this when referring to candy.)
"everywhere"---mama, cwacker poop everywhere.
"probably"----ummmm, it's prowy in my woom.

"I ready to takeoff!"---while sitting on his Mickey mouse airplane.
"Bwue, go get in crape. Mama, tell bwue go get in his crape."---he has obviously learned two things here. 1. Toddler "etiquette" (?)--telling an adult to make another being do what you want. He has also learned to tattle. Great. 2. He mocks the way we talk to the dogs. Funny sometimes. Sometimes not so flattering.
"mama, make it woud."---referring to the radio in the car. We jam out now.
"porter pick one."---he still refers to himself in the third person, and is very very independent. He always wants to "pick one" of whatever he is getting.
"I want a bi-man"---(aka vitamin). He loves flintstone vitamins.
"go dis way"/"go day way"---he likes to be a backseat driver.

Lastly, he likes to identify backyardigans episodes by name, and frequently points out the characters by name and will ask "where's Tasha?" or "where's Austin?" or whichever one is not currently on the screen. And tonight he said, "backyargins (that's how he says it) come to my house." He loves them. Glad it's a very cute and imaginative show...


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Streakin' attire

"raincoat boots"









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Blue ice cream

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What? On time to church?

Hard to believe but without any loud "discussions" or running around we are all neatly dressed and headed to church. We are still attending mosaic church in crestview, fl. If all goes well at church porter will be rewarded with seeing the fish and getting blue ice cream (bass pro shop and cold stone creamery cotton candy flavor). Let me elaborate...
You may have noticed the post earlier in the week where I bribed (yes, bribed--hey, whatever works in some situations) my child with ice cream if he behaved at school. No biting or pinching. He takes after his mother, and I was quite scrappy. Ask some of those kindergarten victims, and one particular victim that my mom brings up every time we have a discussion about my biting history. I did carry the nickname of "the crab" for a while. Anyway, the punishment at school is not severe enough to deter the behavior, so we have been experimenting with alternate methods. If you google this type of thing there is a lot of garbage about positive reinforcement for good behavior and ignoring the bad behavior (garbage when you are dealing with the irrational and impulsive 2 year old mind), along with other sure fire methods like making him apologize to the child and his mother (porter laughed at that one). Well, the ice cream lasted 2 days before we put our other plan into action. I would direct you to the loving corporal punishment website for a detailed description, but it doesn't exist. I got the call Friday morning that porter had bit and pinched a classmate and was being detained in an isolated location *anxiously* awaiting my arrival. I was actually busy (odd, I know), so I dispatched the daddy. The plan was enacted and got rave reviews from porter. The bonus at the end was that his daddy was not taking him with him when he left. Shock and dismay. It lasted forever in that little mind, but he was good by lunchtime, which was less than 30 minutes away, and all was forgotten after naptime. Well, not forgotten, actually, but he felt better. He said he bit his "girlfriend" Molly on the playground that afternoon, and she had wet marks on her sleeve, but no physical evidence on her skin. Faux bite? Anyway, no ice cream after school, which was more devastating for daddy I think. We don't have problems with biting at home, but porter does like to pinch the dogs, which is a new trick he's trying out, but the methods effective when he was biting his cousins are being employed and I think it will be a short lived experiment. So we ha a relatively toddler violence free Saturday, but Sunday brings church and the nursery... That brings us full circle with church, bass pro, and blue ice cream. And we're gonna be early. :)


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Movie # 2 at the theater: Rango

Let us know how it ends.


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No biting or pinching today!!!

Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have had a time with biting and pinching at school, but today we had a good day, so we are rewarding good behavior with ice cream. At home other methods of correction are effective and they don't involve ice cream. ;)
















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I <3 spaghetti!!

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