Bye Bye tai!

As Taka tends to spend most of his waking hours with me, he acts and sounds like me too. Of course, he has his own personality, but I can see and hear "me" within his personality. Unfortunately, children seem to be excellent sponges of weak points! I know I yell at him too much! (Working on resolving that issue!) He also makes up the silliest songs a habit picked up from me.

Recently, he likes to say "wait for me". He often used "wait, mommy. I`ll be right back, will you wait for me?" (sometimes I am impatient, so he is making sure that I will wait. Children teach us so much, don`t they!)

In the morning, when Taka does not want to go to school, he tells me, "Taka worried." Seems like everyday he thinks of a new excuse. But once he goes to school, when he goes and comes back...he seems to have a sense of pride of "working" all day long. (I tell him that his play is very important work, and that I want to hear every detail about what he did all day long.)

The other night, when I was going to quickly go to the store, Taka wanted to come. He felt panic because he thought I was going to leave without him so he screamed "Bye Bye tai" Bye Bye tai" (the tai is what you add to a verb in order to make the `I want` form) He was trying to say I want to go bye bye. The things he comes up with when he feels anxiety and stress are so funny. His main goal is just to communicate his idea, but he goes all out. He is usually comfortable talking with me, cause I tend to easily understand him, but his dad and people in the community do not so he is stressed. (Especially if I am with him, then people in the community go berserk with confusion in how to communicate with him...umm he is growing up in Japan....I suppose you should speak Japanese to him...umm)

Another anxiety/stress thing...still sometimes when he requests to have more of something and I say no, but he really wants it....he will in a panic, revert to the sign language for "more", pounding his fingers into his palm shouting more, more, more, more.