Everyone loves Carter at church. The love Tyler too, but he had that whole biting problem and has a complete different personality. Carter goes up to all the workers and give them hugs every morning. He likes to hold the staff's hands. He loves to make everyone laugh.When I drop him off in the morning he is happy to go right into his classroom. In fact he usually runs into the room. This in itself puts a smile on the staff's face. But then he giggles, talks to them, has them chase him around the room, and gives them the sweetest smile. They crack up when he eats his lunch, as he always eats everything I send and is usually double fisting.
When they go out to the playground he sees me from outside the fence and always give a little wave and points proudly telling everyone that that is his mom. He then runs and gives his big brother a big hug. Everyday the whole playground does a collective "awww".
At the end of the day, since he is usually one of the last to be picked up, he is usually playing and running around the room. He then runs to me and I get a big hug. I then always get a good report on how well he did. Carter then helps me bring the keys back to the office everyday (Tyler gets to carry the radio back). He hands them to my boss and always needs to give her a big hug. He is Mr. Popular at the nursery - but really how could anyone resist him?
On another note - Tyler's speech therapy. I was talking to his coordinator yesterday how I think his speech is going great, but I am concerned about some of his other quirks. He still does not answer yes to a question or even nod his head. If you ask him do you want to go outside, yes or no, he will either answer "outside" or "yes or no". It seems to me that he also does not process questions, although maybe most 2 year old don't do this either I am not sure. But if I ask him what he had for breakfast 5 minutes after he finished eating he will make something up - usually pizza since that's his favorite. We have been going to the church nursery for a year now and Tyler still does not talk to any of the staff or engage with the kids (except for Carter now). I can understand if he is shy, but I would think he would interact some. He also has no coping skills. We were eating tacos last night and his came apart and he couldn't control himself. He totally lost it. Is this normal or do most 2 year olds have coping skills? I don't know. So we were going over these quirks with his coordinator and Tyler may be getting more services now since there could be more there.