I told David that he's going to see his mother next week, and it's been hard on him. He really wants to see her. He's desparately trying to figure out what "a week" means, and learn the days of the week so he can figure out when he's going to see his mom. He also cries every time I tell him he's not going to see her today. And this is a couple of times a day, when he asks. Monday night/Tuesday morning he asked me at 2 AM if he's going to see her. He'll be going to see her Sunday night, when I drop him off w/ Matt and Virginia, and they're leaving Monday morning, early. David says he'd rather fly, than drive. I know we'll do that next time, just have to figure out the exact timing on that. Have to wait for my vacation time to be approved, since I'm thinking June 30/July 1 would be ideal for sending him up there.
Saturday we went to Mimi's, and hung out there for a while. While there, I mentioned that I have a new work schedule (which is only slightly different than the current one), and that I no longer will be working on Saturdays. So I told my mom that I plan on using Saturdays to enroll David in some kind of dance class, because he likes it so much. When he heard me say this, he told me he wanted to dance! So we played some disco music that my mom has, and ran around and he danced, and had a good ol' time, movin' to the music. Later on I asked him if he wanted to learn how to dance, and he said yes, though I'm concerned he would have said yes if I had asked him if he wanted to eat snakes or something.
A couple of funny bits about his language: he says "I may have found ..." whatever he's looking for, or if he just happens upon something interesting..."I may have found the remote!" One of the ways he protests something is to say "La La LA! " So if I say, "you need to clean up," he'll say, "La La La!" And then get sent to Time Out since he's not doing what I asked.
Cinnamon (my girlfriend) gave David the "Hungry Hungry Hippos" game and he makes me play it with him, but he also put the balls in the wells in different combinations, and makes me count them. Sometimes it's 3, 3, 5, 4, or 1, 5, 5, 4...or whatever he can think up. Thursday morning he put the balls on the carpet in a sort of line, and he asked me what animal it was. I said, "Snake!" and he says, "No! It's something else!" I could not figure it out, so he tells me it was a "Catepillar!" We got the game on Sunday afternoon, then went to Rachel's house, so he could play with his cousins. They had a grand and wonderful time. When we got home, David actually volunteered to take a bath! I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised.
Last week, we got the DVD for the movie Cars. We've been watching it non-stop since then, too. Interestingly, he found the story book of the movie, so as the movie plays, he has me read the appropriate section of the book to him...
And here's a couple of other tid-bits:
We were playing on Thursday afternoon, and as he was running around, he would say "I have to use my awesome powers!" to do whatever. He's so funny.
At another point, he turned off the TV, and said, "I need to tell you something. Then, "I'm sorry." I don't know for what, though. It was amazingly sincere, too. I'm puzzling over it, because it came out of the blue the way it did, and because I don't know why he said it.
David also knows how to work my web cam, so he has begun to take pictures of himself...What I like about these pictures is that he has to go up to the computer, push the button (in my case, it's the track-pad), and it counts down from 3 before the picture snaps, by which time he's back at the refrigerator door, in a pose. Each of these poses is after he follows this process, yet they look like they were done in a quick series, rather than 15 - 30 seconds apart, with lots of back and forth in-between. I'm in the background, just off camera, doing the dishes. I wasn't fully aware that he was doing this, either.
Friday we went to the park, then did some shopping with a friend of mine, Tracy and her husband, at the bookstore. He was so excited to show her how he could jump! As tall as the trees, he says. He is spending the night with his cousins tonight, since Jesse (his regular Saturday sitter), is going to Disney World w/ her sister for their birthday. My new schedule begins in June.
So that's another exciting week!
Rusty
Friday, May 8, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
David Weekly, #59
It's been windy for the past couple of days/weeks, and David's been bugging me that he wants to fly a kite, so on Saturday, we flew the kite. The thing is, it was really windy that day. Jesse and Shawn (her nephew, he's about a year younger than David) came with us to the park, to do the kite flying thing. Unfortunatly, the kite actually flew away because I let David hold it, and the string ran all the way out, and it was gone! Did I mention that the wind was really strong? When we were on our way to the park, David was trying to read "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" to Shawn. It's good that Jesse has Shawn on most of the Saturdays she keeps David. It works out for all three of them.
Tuesday night/Wednesday morning...I get to Dot's at the usual time, 11:20 PM, to pick up the boy. He's asleep. Dot tells me that he woke up before I got there screaming for his daddy... For me, in the middle of the night, he wakes up, screaming for gold juice (orange juice). I gave him some water instead. I was surprised by the intensity of this request of his, because he really wanted it! This is new behavior...not sure what brought it on, or why...in the morning, he tells me he had a dream about his mommy and sissy and daddy and school. I wasn't able to get a lot of details out of him.
Wednesday we went to the park, after school. He ingratiated himself with some kids who were playing with sidewalk chalk, and had a blast playing with them, and drawing on the sidewalk. It's amazing how people are generous to a small child. Even more amazing is that he was offered an apple, which I told him it was okay to accept, from another small child, maybe a year older than him. He also met this child at the playground.
Thursday was our trip to the allergist, and I told the allergist that everything is great. I'll be getting a prescription for the Xyzal, and sending some up to Amanda for when David goes up there. The doctor says that Zyrtec is a less concentrated form of the Xyzal. And that he can take it every day, and it won't hurt anything. I don't need to give it to him here. At least, not anymore. But I'm sure he'll need it up there in MO.
David refers to where his mom and sissy live as "The Missouri." "Daddy, mommy and sissy live at the Missouri."
Friday morning, I had to go to work. I usually have Fridays off, but I had traded schedules with someone at my job. The reason that this is important is that I had to take David back to Dot's, which he was not happy about. Breaking of the routine, for sure. He says he'd rather go to "school" (his preschool) than Dot's, even though there are other children there.
Friday night we went the Pier 60 park, which is at Pier 60, at Clearwater Beach, at the end of State Road 60, at the Gulf of Mexico, at the beach! David and I went with my girlfriend, and her two kids. We had a wonderful time. David loved playing in the sand. At the park is some playground equipment, which he loved playing on. We did some other stuff, too, like play in the water (without getting too wet), and wandered around on the Pier itself, looking at the vendors' stuff for sale, and even went to the end of Pier after the sun had set. David was not at all interested in the sunset, but he was already so excited and happy! He didn't want to leave of course. On the way home he never did fall asleep. He was wired. He also found a large, circular shaped leaf that he kept, and used it as an excuse to get close to the water. We were at the beach, after all. So it was a good excuse. If not for him, we would have stayed away from the water. It was important to him that he get the leaf wet, to wash it off. We lost the leaf somewhere along the line, though the intention had been to keep it.
David's beginning to ask for specific things now. First, it's important to note that he thinks that there are stores for individual things, like the milk store, or the underwear store. In some cases, this is true, such as the shoe store. In other cases, the milk store is the 7 - 11. He was able to recognize the grocery store truck, too, which I liked. Smart kid! He says, "That's the gro-she store truck, right?"
He woke up the other morning, at about 5 AM, asking to go to the potty. It turned out to be a stressful event, since I thought he might be constipated, but it was the reverse! He was worried about staining his underwear, and was adamant that I put on clean ones after he was done. Very insistent. After he got his clean underwear (insert Bill Cosby joke about clean underwear), he was able to go back to sleep.
Lastly, David will be going to see Amanda on May 11. I'll have to work out the details with Matt and Viriginia, as they are the ones who will be bringing him up there, and returning him on June 4. He'll be going back to Missouri at the very beginning of July (either the 1st or the 2nd), and staying the whole month of July. Mark your calendars!
Have a good week.
Rusty
Tuesday night/Wednesday morning...I get to Dot's at the usual time, 11:20 PM, to pick up the boy. He's asleep. Dot tells me that he woke up before I got there screaming for his daddy... For me, in the middle of the night, he wakes up, screaming for gold juice (orange juice). I gave him some water instead. I was surprised by the intensity of this request of his, because he really wanted it! This is new behavior...not sure what brought it on, or why...in the morning, he tells me he had a dream about his mommy and sissy and daddy and school. I wasn't able to get a lot of details out of him.
Wednesday we went to the park, after school. He ingratiated himself with some kids who were playing with sidewalk chalk, and had a blast playing with them, and drawing on the sidewalk. It's amazing how people are generous to a small child. Even more amazing is that he was offered an apple, which I told him it was okay to accept, from another small child, maybe a year older than him. He also met this child at the playground.
Thursday was our trip to the allergist, and I told the allergist that everything is great. I'll be getting a prescription for the Xyzal, and sending some up to Amanda for when David goes up there. The doctor says that Zyrtec is a less concentrated form of the Xyzal. And that he can take it every day, and it won't hurt anything. I don't need to give it to him here. At least, not anymore. But I'm sure he'll need it up there in MO.
David refers to where his mom and sissy live as "The Missouri." "Daddy, mommy and sissy live at the Missouri."
Friday morning, I had to go to work. I usually have Fridays off, but I had traded schedules with someone at my job. The reason that this is important is that I had to take David back to Dot's, which he was not happy about. Breaking of the routine, for sure. He says he'd rather go to "school" (his preschool) than Dot's, even though there are other children there.
Friday night we went the Pier 60 park, which is at Pier 60, at Clearwater Beach, at the end of State Road 60, at the Gulf of Mexico, at the beach! David and I went with my girlfriend, and her two kids. We had a wonderful time. David loved playing in the sand. At the park is some playground equipment, which he loved playing on. We did some other stuff, too, like play in the water (without getting too wet), and wandered around on the Pier itself, looking at the vendors' stuff for sale, and even went to the end of Pier after the sun had set. David was not at all interested in the sunset, but he was already so excited and happy! He didn't want to leave of course. On the way home he never did fall asleep. He was wired. He also found a large, circular shaped leaf that he kept, and used it as an excuse to get close to the water. We were at the beach, after all. So it was a good excuse. If not for him, we would have stayed away from the water. It was important to him that he get the leaf wet, to wash it off. We lost the leaf somewhere along the line, though the intention had been to keep it.
David's beginning to ask for specific things now. First, it's important to note that he thinks that there are stores for individual things, like the milk store, or the underwear store. In some cases, this is true, such as the shoe store. In other cases, the milk store is the 7 - 11. He was able to recognize the grocery store truck, too, which I liked. Smart kid! He says, "That's the gro-she store truck, right?"
He woke up the other morning, at about 5 AM, asking to go to the potty. It turned out to be a stressful event, since I thought he might be constipated, but it was the reverse! He was worried about staining his underwear, and was adamant that I put on clean ones after he was done. Very insistent. After he got his clean underwear (insert Bill Cosby joke about clean underwear), he was able to go back to sleep.
Lastly, David will be going to see Amanda on May 11. I'll have to work out the details with Matt and Viriginia, as they are the ones who will be bringing him up there, and returning him on June 4. He'll be going back to Missouri at the very beginning of July (either the 1st or the 2nd), and staying the whole month of July. Mark your calendars!
Have a good week.
Rusty
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