Wyatt - 2 1/2

It’s been awhile since I've given an update on the older boys and now that Wyatt’s 2½ he has changed quite a bit.  He’s gone from our laid back go with the flow little guy to mister independent.  He definitely wants to do everything himself which makes things a little difficult when its stuff that he can’t really do yet like buckle himself in his car seat.  He is such a sweet and funny little guy but he has definitely entered that terrible two stage and tries our patience every day.  We are working on trying to use our words more when he gets frustrated vs. hitting/biting and Ryan and I are working on not yelling as much too when we get frustrated to try and be better role models.

He’s still an incredibly messy eater.  It doesn't really matter what you give him he gets it all over his face, hands, clothes, table, chair, floor you name it.  Although Ryan tells me that he was still spilling things on himself into his teenage years so maybe it’s a useless cause to think that someday we won’t have such a mess to clean up.

Wyatt loves books and playing with Gavin.  Although they have their moments where they fight over a toy or don’t get along overall they play together pretty well and Wyatt can definitely hold out his own if they do get into a tussle.  Some of their favorite things to play are pretending to be spies, hide and seek and playing battle with the superheroes/dinosaurs.  Wyatt has also really gotten into puzzles and is getting better about putting together the bigger board puzzles and has started showing more interest in watching shows on tv.  He will actually sit still and watch a show now and some of his favorites are Super Why, Go Diego Go and anything about animals.

 One big change for Wyatt recently has been his big boy bed.  We've had it set up for about a month now and he’s been sleeping in it for a few weeks but it’s definitely made the bedtime routine more difficult.  He likes to get out of his bed so right now we basically have to stay in his room until he falls asleep or he pops right out and runs downstairs.  The other downfall is that within the last several weeks he’s decided to wake up consistently between 5 and 5:30 every morning and he just gets right out of his bed and comes into our room ready to go for the day.  We are not a big fan of this early morning routine but there’s no talking him into sleeping longer.  Hopefully this doesn't last forever as it’s no fun for us especially during the weekends.

Even though he tries our patience every day we love this little guy so much.  He is super goofy and is always making us laugh.  Even his teachers tell us what a goof ball he is sometimes.  He’s working on learning his letters and it’s amazing how grown up he seems.  Everyone always thinks he’s already three because of how much he talks and what he says.  Our next adventure with Wyatt will be potty training.  He’s wearing pull-ups and has done a pretty good job of using the potty at school but isn't super consistent at home.  We just need to find a good weekend to go cold turkey and I think we’ll be there but finding that time with a newborn is a little hard at the moment.