Gregory at this age can be a joy to be around. Telling stories or just telling you what will happen next during the day or just an insight on something that happened at school. He has LOTS of energy and enjoys laughing that beautiful smile of his.
He is also very much clinging to his last vestiges of babyhood. As if letting go of them will somehow change everything. Its more a reversal to some toddler ways really like won't eat unless given to him which alas I will have to put my foot down as it is also effecting his eating at school. Suddenly telling me that he can't put on or off clothes and shoes or cut the veggies. The problem here would stem into a tantrum of he can't do it but doesn't want me to help him do it. It can be a tight rope!
We are still finding it difficult to have him understand emotions and needs or wants which still causes tantrums. That is our ongoing battle.
On the other hand, he is starting to show empathy once in a blue moon. He also started to show affection to those around him by hugging them. Saying please and thank you and sometimes sorry without our prompting at all. Started to sing songs whereas generally he doesn't quite like to join in (although he does tend to sing them to himself and not with us or so on).
He is still very volatile but it is getting better, very, very, extremely, slowly. I catch myself worrying way too much on him. I need to release him more into the world after all he is accountable for his own feelings and while I still need to guide him for still quite a long time, I also need to show him that he is accountable for anything he does, says or decides and while I am always there for him, he needs to find his own path.
