Ryder and "fearlessness"

So, the other night Kia read a book to Zoe and Ryder. In the book there is a monster who is looking for its "hairy toe". The picture of the monster develops and the full picture is shown on the last page. So, Kia reads the entire book and they both laugh and love the book. Shortly thereafter, Ryder starts to be scared of being left alone foe any amount of time. Its been going on for some time now. We are hoping it's a phase and he'll quickly outgrow it. He literally wakes up in the middle of the night and runs to our room screaming/crying in a panic. It's sad because the fear is obviously very real to him... But... Would be cool if he outgrew this soon.

 

On another topic, Tonight after dinner Zoe asked if she could have some W-A-T-E-R. She spells things sometimes to not trigger Ryder. So, hearing this, Ryder says: "can I have some W-X-Y-Z? That spells ice cream"

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Ryder can swim!

So, lately Ryder has been wanting to swim without his floaty. Mainly because Zoe can now swim as my last post indicates. So I've been letting him go without his floaty in the hot tub and he's been practicing. He'll go off the step and start kicking his legs trying to keep his head above water. He can keep up for a few seconds... After a few days practicing like this, he determines he is ready and just puts his head down into the water, floats on his tummy and starts to move forward using his legs completely holding his breath.

He's so excited he wants to show mommy. So we go to the "cold tub" and:

 

So, he does that a number of Times and then I decide to get him to jump off the side of the pool and:

 

 

 

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