My mom picks my kids up from preschool and told me Evan always runs out and hugs Sara, holds her hand and gives her a kiss. I see them do this occassionally when they are playing. Sometimes they play very well together. Our basement is finished off and the two played an hour the other night without fighting. Friday my Mom took them to a new playground. The kids were playing chase with lots of other kids and one of the kids was hitting Evan. My Mom thought he may have been autisitc. Evan told the boy to stop that because your scaring my sister. The boy continued and he told him to leave my sister Sara alone. So proud of him.
Today we went to a birthday party at a childrens museaum. He took her hand when it was time to transition to another activity. It is so sweet to see him look out for her. They have been playing on our playset in the backyard while I clean up after dinner. Our slide is very fast and Evan catches Sara at the bottom.
Evan has been suffering terribly with allergies. He is actually excited when it rains because he knows he'll feel better. This morning his eyes were almost swollen shut. It was obvious he felt terrible during the birthday party. He sat with his arms crossed and a miserable look on his face while his good friend was opening presents. At first I thought it was jealousy but he told me the kids were so loud especially the little boy next to him and I think he felt awful. He took a 2.5 hour nap and Sara took a 3 hour nap, it was a fantasitic afternoon.
We survived our trip to Charleston to see Grandma. Evan threw up in the first two hours and there was no way we could have traveled 10 more hours smelling his car seat. We ended up stopping at Target when it opened and picking one up. I'm so bad, I returned it when we arrived in Charleston. He is so skinny and the seat was as hard as a rock. We have the Britax Marathon carseats and they are so overly padded that the kids don't ever complain. We stopped in Charlotte and I purposely chose a hotel with a indoor pool. Well the pool was freezing and looked very cloudy, the kids in it were very loud. So we ended up skipping the pool. The next morning we went to the outlet mall and hit the Lego store and Disney store as promised.
Evan loved the Lego store although it was the same stuff I could have ordered on Amazon. He sat in his carseat putting together Lego's for a good part of the trip. I bought them both soft trays for their carseats and brought Evan some tupperware containers and he worked on Lego's. Its not a cheap hobby but I bought all the $3-5 dollar sets I could find and then Grandma gave him a few sets so he was happy. Sara was my big concern and she was fantastic. She colored, did stickers, magantic paperdolls, and had candy buttons.
We had a great trip the weather was a bit chilly but the kids were happy to be with Grandma all week. The Easter bunny came to Grandma's, we went downtown a few times, the pool, playground, and just relaxed. We ended up driving straight through on the way home. Fifteen hours in the car and no tears!
Sara has turned into a chatterbox. I was a bit concerned in February her preschool teacher suggested we have her speech evaluated. I hesitated but said I would make the call. The more I spoke to neighbors, our sitter, and friends, they all thought it was a complete waste of time to call. Sara talks non-stop its not always clear but she has 7-8 word sentances at times. Yesterday she asked my Mom after shopping at Wegmans, "Why that boy take our cart?" Yesterday she asked for a dink(drink) and I asked he what she wanted, I had a hard time making out lemonade. She has a very broad vocabulary and can usually get across her point.
