Update on Little D

There is never a dull moment with Dallin. In fact lately I haven't had a single moment without Dallin. He is going through several stages right now. One of them is that he is absolutely scared of everything in our house. He thinks that there are monsters everywhere and he has to be right next to me at all times. Doug was home yesterday afternoon and couldn't believe that he wouldn't leave my side for even a minute. After a few weeks of this I have started to go crazy! I don't have a moment to myself and no matter what I say to reassure him, nothing seems to work. After my shower this morning I found him curled up next to the tub screaming and crying because he heard a "stomp". I hope this stage ends soon!!Dallin loves to pretend and use his imagination. We've gone through many phases with him and currently he is a baby. Although this is super annoying, it is a lot better than his last stage of insisting that he needed to be a girl with long hair. Every morning he would wake up and want me to tie a blanket on his head for long hair and he would stay that way almost all day. I remember several months ago he insisted that he was a puppy and needed all his meals on the floor in a bowl. He also went through a brief stage of being a pig. The baby thing has been rough, but at least I'm not worried about him really believing that he is a girl! I now know that it will end soon enough.




I never thought that I would have "that kid" in primary. You know, the one that gives away all the family secrets and always has to comment on every point to every lesson. Yes...that is Dallin. He is in Sunbeams now and after being told several comments that he has made, I am really nervous to take him anymore. When he says, "Well, my mom said..." I start to panic. I guess a few weeks ago they were talking about Laman and Lemuel and the bad choices that they make. Dallin kept raising his hand and pestering until they finally called on him again. I guess he had just one more thing to say, "Sometimes, Satin makes my mom and dad make really bad choices!" I was shocked so on the way home I asked him why he said that and what choices we make that are so bad. He say, "Well, all of them - all your choices are bad." He is a scary little one and sometimes I wonder if he is a child or a teenager!!!