Jakob

Apart from a nightmare one night Jakob has had a good week. Oh, I forgot one disaster, he couldn't find his red car when leaving dagis on Thursday. He was so upset! we went to Maria's after dagis to play with Alice and it took him some time to get over the car thing and get on to playing.

Friday morning I took the kids to the singing in the city. All week I have been talking to Jakob about how to behave at the singing. Jakob and Finn normally run around screaming, jumping and chasing each other when the singing starts. We haven't been able to control them at all. They have had lots of fun but not really participating in the singing and Zara and I have been so worried about them hurting the babies. Anyway, Zara started talking to Finn about what she expects from him when we go there so I did the same thing with Jakob. All week I have been talking to him about how I would like him to be calmer, participate in the singing, sit with me when the singing start or sit in front of Eva (the leader) and not to scream. When we got there Friday morning Jakob and I walked up to Eva and Jakob told her that he wasn't going to run around and scream this time. And he didn't!! he behaved so well and I was so proud of him. I couldn't believe it! Why didn't I think about this before? I normally prepare him for everything we do like going to the dentist, having his hair cut, visiting someone etc but I haven't thought about talking to him about the way he has been acting at the singing. Finn was also doing great so Zara and I were two very happy mothers leaving the place yesterday.

Maria, Alice and Melvin came over after the singing and we had hamburgers together and Jakob and Alice played both inside and outside. Not long after they left Zara came over with Finn and Lykke and they also had dinner with us since Micke was out partying.