David says he switched his mind, and learned that "Race" doesn't have an "S" in it. I spelled "road race" for him (while he typed), and he says, "It doesn't have an "S" in it." I told him that the "ce" makes the "S" sound. No argument there from him, since he usually argues with me when he asks me something, I'll tell him, then he'll say, "no it's not."
Having conversation with David about being strong. He is very interested in being physically strong like the boys at school he plays with. I told him that he can be "strong" in other ways, like learning how to read. I think he bought it. He complained that it's hard, but I told him that's what make him stronger...Every day I get a report about what's going on with the boys at David's school. I'm getting more and more reports that go like this: "I didn't fight John Robert today." This always gets praise. He tells me he fights the other boys, but I'm not sure how much of this "fighting" is real, versus how much is pretend fighting. Based on the reports I get from his school, there's probably lots of "pretend-real fighting." I think it's just boys being boys. I'm working to channel that activity, limit it, etc. That's why David's proud of himself, because I'm telling him he's got to stop, and he's doing it. It's a slow process for sure.
David tells me that the kids at school call his hand "crab fingers." He's not a fan of that, but seems to take ok. That's what he tells me, at any rate, by just saying he was born with that...
In the realm of "what David does right," we have: he picks up the trash from Reese's peanut butter cups after he opens one and eats it. He's reading more of the words in the books, and it other places, too. For example, he was reading "Nick Jr." on the Blue's Clues DVD case, and read the "Nick" part, but couldn't find the "Jr." part. He says, "Where the 'Junior?'" I tell him it's the two letters. He gets it! He also plays with language: "It's 'Jr Nick!'" he says.
Saturday he went to the Gasparilla children's parade with Jesse, and got lots of beads.
Sunday we went to Rachel's house and made a volcano! It was Jared's science project, but David got to watch. He thought it was pretty exciting.
We've got our routine in the morning: David wakes up on his own, and shuffles out, slowly, to the kitchen where I am, on the computer. The reason he shuffles along is that he has his blanket over his eyes, and as he comes closer, he slowly moves closer to me, and occasionally will hit the little table next to the desk. Then he simply moves, and proceeds forward towards me, then curls himself up in my lap, and we sit and listen to music for a while. Then it's time for cereal, or eggs and toast, or a waffle. I try to convince him to eat peanut butter and preserves on the waffles. He usually goes for it. Once in a while he just wants butter and syrup.
Computer - David loves playing Diego on Nick Jr. He loves the "silly things" game. It's very entertaining to him, and makes him laugh.
"How many time until I can see my mommy?" "About 10 weeks," I reply. "Why are you asking?" "Because when people are far away, I miss them." He was also telling me that "the Missouri has lots of different kinds of food. Like Chinese food." Then he says, "Why don't we go out that often?" I tell him it's because he doesn't behave very well at the restaurant when we go. He thinks about this for a minute then says, "I'll try to do better next time."
Finally, it's been so much warmer here this week, that today we were able to go to school with no jacket on. David did want to wear two shirts though, so that made it easier to justify not having the jacket. It's still cool in the mornings, but even this morning it wasn't that cool...nowhere close to warm, though.
I hope you're staying warm where-ever you are.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
David Weekly, V3 - 2
I'm sorry I didn't put this out last week. I feel that I have writer's block, and as a result I've been having trouble getting myself to record what's going on with David.
We're back in a normal routine: getting up, going to school, coming home from work/school/daycare...
This week, he asked me what's under the road. He also asks me other interesting questions about the world. I'm impressed to report that David has learned that the sunrise/sunset is merely the earth turning. And then he asks me why the earth turns. I explained that science doesn't know why, just that it does, and that the earth goes around the sun. Related to this, David was telling me that he likes all 4 of the seasons. I've not told him that the seasons are related to the earth's trip around the sun.
He's stayed with aunt and cousins at various points over the last two weeks. He really enjoys spending time with them. We all celebrated Avery's birthday at Mimi's house. And a good time was had by all.
In a related behavior note, he's beginning to get the message about not fighting at school, since he's telling me how didn't fight John-Robert (his nemesis at school) on a given day. David is also turning into a bit of chatterbox! He tells me all about his day, and his theories on life. He also mentioned again how he wants to have 10 fingers. I just said, yeah, it's hard when you're different...I'm going to have to get some more guidance on dealing with this aspect of his body and self concept as it relates. I'll need to schedule his Shriner's appointment now, and hope I get it for June.
And we spent some time where he asked me to write the word Saturday. When I wrote it out, he objected that it wasn't spelled right, because it didn't sound like the way it was spelled. We eventually settled on "SA-er day". I explained about the "T" missing from the middle, since he tends to not say the middle parts of words, so he's now making more effort to say the middles of words. I also like that he is getting used to the "er" combination being the "r" sound.
The first weeks of January saw record low temperatures. In fact, at one point, the temperature as reported on one of my weather related applications, was 19º F. Florida experienced a record number of days below 60º as the high temperature, and a few days never got higher than 50º. The lows were usually in the mid to upper 20's, which is very very very unusual for this state. As the week got warmer last week, David actually got colder. The temperature as I compose this letter is 61º, and the high today was 75º. David went to school today in shorts. Of course, when it was cold, he was dressed warmly.
David plays with his dinosaur board, and puts the same dinosaurs on the board as he has in little figurines, which are about the same size.
Of his Christmas toys, he likes his scooter the best, since he rides it back and forth through the house, and outside on every opportunity. When he's going back and forth in the house, I'm reminded of the kid in the movie "The Shining" except that he doesn't have his finger talking to him about "red rum", and his father isn't going slowly insane. :-)
David had a doctor appointment followup last Friday, and while his ear is better, it seems to still have some infection. We have a followup visit scheduled for March, and the doctor told me that if his ear starts to hurt again, to let her know ASAP.
We're also enjoying the many new books for bed time reading that Santa brought for Christmas.
David tells me he hates babies. I ask him why, and he says, "Because they're really little. I hate little things." He does just fine around Jesse's little 4 month old baby, so I don't know what's going on with that. Maybe nothing?
I submitted the application for school choice, with Temple Terrace Elementary as my 2nd choice, and Lewis Elementary as my 1st choice. His default school, Folsom, is an A school as of last year, but its record before that is spotty. Separately, he went on a field trip to Chuck - E - Cheeses, and reminds me of it alot! He's concerned about being the strongest kid at his school, relative to his friends.
As usual, I am forgetting so much, and wishing I could write it all down. But that's some highlights from the last two weeks. See you next week.
We're back in a normal routine: getting up, going to school, coming home from work/school/daycare...
This week, he asked me what's under the road. He also asks me other interesting questions about the world. I'm impressed to report that David has learned that the sunrise/sunset is merely the earth turning. And then he asks me why the earth turns. I explained that science doesn't know why, just that it does, and that the earth goes around the sun. Related to this, David was telling me that he likes all 4 of the seasons. I've not told him that the seasons are related to the earth's trip around the sun.
He's stayed with aunt and cousins at various points over the last two weeks. He really enjoys spending time with them. We all celebrated Avery's birthday at Mimi's house. And a good time was had by all.
In a related behavior note, he's beginning to get the message about not fighting at school, since he's telling me how didn't fight John-Robert (his nemesis at school) on a given day. David is also turning into a bit of chatterbox! He tells me all about his day, and his theories on life. He also mentioned again how he wants to have 10 fingers. I just said, yeah, it's hard when you're different...I'm going to have to get some more guidance on dealing with this aspect of his body and self concept as it relates. I'll need to schedule his Shriner's appointment now, and hope I get it for June.
And we spent some time where he asked me to write the word Saturday. When I wrote it out, he objected that it wasn't spelled right, because it didn't sound like the way it was spelled. We eventually settled on "SA-er day". I explained about the "T" missing from the middle, since he tends to not say the middle parts of words, so he's now making more effort to say the middles of words. I also like that he is getting used to the "er" combination being the "r" sound.
The first weeks of January saw record low temperatures. In fact, at one point, the temperature as reported on one of my weather related applications, was 19º F. Florida experienced a record number of days below 60º as the high temperature, and a few days never got higher than 50º. The lows were usually in the mid to upper 20's, which is very very very unusual for this state. As the week got warmer last week, David actually got colder. The temperature as I compose this letter is 61º, and the high today was 75º. David went to school today in shorts. Of course, when it was cold, he was dressed warmly.
David plays with his dinosaur board, and puts the same dinosaurs on the board as he has in little figurines, which are about the same size.
Of his Christmas toys, he likes his scooter the best, since he rides it back and forth through the house, and outside on every opportunity. When he's going back and forth in the house, I'm reminded of the kid in the movie "The Shining" except that he doesn't have his finger talking to him about "red rum", and his father isn't going slowly insane. :-)
David had a doctor appointment followup last Friday, and while his ear is better, it seems to still have some infection. We have a followup visit scheduled for March, and the doctor told me that if his ear starts to hurt again, to let her know ASAP.
We're also enjoying the many new books for bed time reading that Santa brought for Christmas.
David tells me he hates babies. I ask him why, and he says, "Because they're really little. I hate little things." He does just fine around Jesse's little 4 month old baby, so I don't know what's going on with that. Maybe nothing?
I submitted the application for school choice, with Temple Terrace Elementary as my 2nd choice, and Lewis Elementary as my 1st choice. His default school, Folsom, is an A school as of last year, but its record before that is spotty. Separately, he went on a field trip to Chuck - E - Cheeses, and reminds me of it alot! He's concerned about being the strongest kid at his school, relative to his friends.
As usual, I am forgetting so much, and wishing I could write it all down. But that's some highlights from the last two weeks. See you next week.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
David Weekly, V3 - 1
Hello all...Happy New Year! David got back to Tampa on January 6, at about 11 PM. He was actually awake, but I put him in bed, and made sure he was comfortable, and had him go to sleep. Thursday, I decided to take the day off, and spend it with him, to allow him time to transition back. So we spent the whole day together, doing things around the house; we finally got the Christmas lights off the house and fence and put away. David really helped, by pulling the extension cords up from where they were, even as I was doing it. He also got some time to play with his Christmas toys/presents, and we played Candyland, which he really liked. In fact, we played twice! David won one game, and I won the other. We went to the grocery store, and bought a few things, just to restock. It was also a good thing we stayed home, because he had very many trips to the potty, and even required at least two underwear changes. I only went out with him when I thought it safe to do so, without the probability of accidents.
Another thing I was doing was replacing the weather stripping on my door, and David was imitating me. I'd ask him to get something, do something...whatever, and he would, at some later point, begin to ask me to do things in the same manner as I'd asked him earlier. I'm glad I was polite!
Friday, he went back to school. Nothing much to report there, except that I discovered that I'm going to buy a costume for him that costs $50 so he can perform at the end of the year in a show, for his dancing. It's in early June, on a Saturday. I'll do my best to get video of it. He'll be one of only two boys from his school doing any dancing.
Friday night we played with his two different remote control cars. It was another discovery that they both use the same frequency, so either vehicle can be controlled by either controller, or one controller can control both cars.
David woke up Thursday night, crying, or not really woke up, as much as he was just crying in his sleep...I know he has mixed feelings about being home and away from his mommy and sissy...
So that's a short week. With the New Year, I'm changing a bit the format of the David Weekly: it's now going to have a volume number and an issue number, rather than just a number. I realize that I'm beginning a third year of writing to you about David, so it seemed to make sense to mark this with a different designation. So we're on Volume 3, Issue #1.
Another thing I was doing was replacing the weather stripping on my door, and David was imitating me. I'd ask him to get something, do something...whatever, and he would, at some later point, begin to ask me to do things in the same manner as I'd asked him earlier. I'm glad I was polite!
Friday, he went back to school. Nothing much to report there, except that I discovered that I'm going to buy a costume for him that costs $50 so he can perform at the end of the year in a show, for his dancing. It's in early June, on a Saturday. I'll do my best to get video of it. He'll be one of only two boys from his school doing any dancing.
Friday night we played with his two different remote control cars. It was another discovery that they both use the same frequency, so either vehicle can be controlled by either controller, or one controller can control both cars.
David woke up Thursday night, crying, or not really woke up, as much as he was just crying in his sleep...I know he has mixed feelings about being home and away from his mommy and sissy...
So that's a short week. With the New Year, I'm changing a bit the format of the David Weekly: it's now going to have a volume number and an issue number, rather than just a number. I realize that I'm beginning a third year of writing to you about David, so it seemed to make sense to mark this with a different designation. So we're on Volume 3, Issue #1.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The rest of Christmas week
David was put in Time Out at Rachel's house, and when he was in Avery's room, he decided to "Make something beautiful for Avery!" but then, "Can you help me cut it?" What he made was just some scribbles of different colors, but in some kind of pattern, and surrounded by a box, which I had to follow the design of when cutting around it, but leaving some space. He knew what he wanted...
Christmas Eve I had to take the boy to the allergist, who says he's just fine. David has grown an inch since Thanksgiving, I have found out. He's now 43 and a half inches. We opened the gifts from each other, which made David pretty happy. He was running and running and running all over the place at Rachel's, because Jared and Avery had so much energy and excitement.
Wednesday David and I went to the store to look for his mom's gift...we'd already found something for Colleen, and I'm not sure how to handle David getting something for Tait, so we just let that one go. We also just spent a good part of the day with Rachel and Jared and Avery...In particular, David got a message from Santa: http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/f9cfc0a98a67c1e5bc362c95166bdb3a. What was interesting is that David responded when Santa asked if he'd been a good boy, and to other questions that were posed to David. It really was something to see.
Tuesday he went to school like normal...and then after that we went to the "Church Street Christmas" up in Dade City, FL, where there are churches and houses lit with Christmas lights, and carolers roaming around. David, of course (at the this point) was having none of it. He says he likes Christmas music, but doesn't like the live singing for whatever reason. I'll even hear him singing (in some detail) the lyrics of some songs, like "Jingle Bell Rock". He just sings rather spontaneously, which I like. Maybe it's just one of those things...
Christmas Eve I had to take the boy to the allergist, who says he's just fine. David has grown an inch since Thanksgiving, I have found out. He's now 43 and a half inches. We opened the gifts from each other, which made David pretty happy. He was running and running and running all over the place at Rachel's, because Jared and Avery had so much energy and excitement.
Wednesday David and I went to the store to look for his mom's gift...we'd already found something for Colleen, and I'm not sure how to handle David getting something for Tait, so we just let that one go. We also just spent a good part of the day with Rachel and Jared and Avery...In particular, David got a message from Santa: http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/f9cfc0a98a67c1e5bc362c95166bdb3a. What was interesting is that David responded when Santa asked if he'd been a good boy, and to other questions that were posed to David. It really was something to see.
Tuesday he went to school like normal...and then after that we went to the "Church Street Christmas" up in Dade City, FL, where there are churches and houses lit with Christmas lights, and carolers roaming around. David, of course (at the this point) was having none of it. He says he likes Christmas music, but doesn't like the live singing for whatever reason. I'll even hear him singing (in some detail) the lyrics of some songs, like "Jingle Bell Rock". He just sings rather spontaneously, which I like. Maybe it's just one of those things...
Monday, December 21, 2009
David killed my computer
So David killed my computer today. He spilled coffee on it. I cried. A lot. He just kept saying, "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" and "I made a big mistake"...I just kept telling him that it was ok. He draped his body over my back at one point, when I was crying. Took him to school like normal. I got a call around 1 PM and they said he had a fever. I went to get him, took him to the doctor: Ear Infection. $43 later, he has the medicine to make him feel better, and starts to feel better a couple of hours later.
Sunday night we did not sleep well. David would wake up every so often, unhappy that he couldn't breathe through his nose. Then complaining about his ear hurting...He told me at one point that he can't stop crying. I gave him everything: ibuprofen, his allergy medicine, ear drops for the pain...I spent lots of time comforting him, trying to help him not cry, since that can just make you more stuffy. At 5 AM, we finally decided to get up, and then watched "The Polar Express." He asked me what that means, and I tell him "a train" and show it to him. It was different to watch him watch the movie. He was still pretty rapt, and paid attention, but he was more active, more involved...having the emotional reactions to things that make him want to hide...
Saturday we went to Lowry Park zoo to see the "Winter wonderland". David was not overly impressed.
He has an ear infection. Sunday we spent at Tracy's and he played Wii, and even beat me in bowling.
The map on his chest. Cinnamon and I were going to dinner, and David was point to different places on his chest saying that's where we are or where we need to go...it was sooo cute!
Sunday night we did not sleep well. David would wake up every so often, unhappy that he couldn't breathe through his nose. Then complaining about his ear hurting...He told me at one point that he can't stop crying. I gave him everything: ibuprofen, his allergy medicine, ear drops for the pain...I spent lots of time comforting him, trying to help him not cry, since that can just make you more stuffy. At 5 AM, we finally decided to get up, and then watched "The Polar Express." He asked me what that means, and I tell him "a train" and show it to him. It was different to watch him watch the movie. He was still pretty rapt, and paid attention, but he was more active, more involved...having the emotional reactions to things that make him want to hide...
Saturday we went to Lowry Park zoo to see the "Winter wonderland". David was not overly impressed.
He has an ear infection. Sunday we spent at Tracy's and he played Wii, and even beat me in bowling.
The map on his chest. Cinnamon and I were going to dinner, and David was point to different places on his chest saying that's where we are or where we need to go...it was sooo cute!
Friday, December 18, 2009
David Weekly, #78
"Why?" is the answer/question to everything anymore. "You have to go to school." "Why?" "It's time for bed." "Why?" I try not to let it bother me. I explain, but only to a point, and then it becomes, "Because I said so!"
I asked David if he can show me any of the dancing he's doing at school, and he says he can only show me at school, so I guess I'll never see it!
My mother's birthday was Sunday, December 13, so for her birthday David and I, and his cousins (Avery and Jared), aunt Rachel, and some friends of my mom's all went out to dinner, and then afterward we went to the "Country Christmas Stroll" in Dade City, FL, about 10 minutes north of my mom's house. David did not really have a lot of fun. He says he likes the Christmas music on the radio, but at the same time, does not appreciate in the slightest live singing. There were singers at different points on the stroll, and David just wasn't having it. He sat on the street (which was closed off to traffic) and just pouted! Eventually I picked him up to carry him off in a different direction, and he just started to cry! Poor kid. He got over it pretty quickly, though, because I realized that it didn't make sense to keep trying to drag him around to things he didn't think were very fun. I expected him to be a bit better about all the Christmas stuff, but he just wasn't interested. We did, however, go see Santa, and I got a couple of pictures, but David wasn't into being seen with Santa, so he has a couple of sour expressions on his face. I asked what he asked Santa for Christmas, and he said, "A candy cane." After that, we went and played on the inflatable slide and other stuff that seem to pop up everywhere. Ok, so I watched David go down the slide 100 times, and go play in the two or three other air-inflate things, like the bouncy house. That's what made David happy...
Then we got back to my mom's at 10 PM, and David got the special priviledge of staying up almost to midnight! I went through a bunch of my mom's records because I've gotten my genealogy bug back lately, and as a result, I've been able to trace David's line back 4 generations on each side of his lineage, and in a few instances, much farther back. So I'm asking for any info you have to spare regarding your family tree, going back as far as you can. And so we also ended up spending the night there, and of course, all the kids got up at the crack of dawn...We spent a good part of Sunday at my mom's...
Monday we went out to dinner with Cinnamon, which was nice. I kept telling David that he needs to sit in his seat in order to impress her. And he did a really good job of behaving! He ate his cheeseburger, and a few of the carrots he asked for. Afterwards, I thought it might be nice to go look at Christmas lights in our neighborhood. Again, David wasn't having it. He kept insisting we go home, until I convinced him that the way home was the way I was going, but that it was just the really long, unfamiliar way...and he bought it! Then he began to enjoy the Christmas lights a bit.
Tuesday, I got out the Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, and we watched that. Thing is, we've been watching the two Christmas Charlie Brown specials on that DVD for two days straight! I finally replaced it with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"...I've noticed something interesting about David, though: he hides from exciting or tense (for a 4 year old) scenes on TV shows. Either he'll go in another room, or go under the closest table...
Wednesday we went to the softball game, but I didn't play this time, just watched, and spent more time with David and another little boy that was there. I think I had more fun than playing in the game! We just climbed on the monkey bars, which for David is going to be a problem owing to his hand...I was able to help on some of it, but of course, I won't always be there to help him. I'm curious, now that I think about it, how he's going to deal with it...
The rest of this week has been mostly normal. I asked David what he should get his mom for Christmas and he said...well, I can't say. :-) And for his sissy he thought of a few things, too. We bought a gift for a gift exchange at his school, and he got a transformer as his gift. He also got another visit with Santa Clause (at the school), whom I'm told there will be a photograph of at some point. David doesn't really ask Santa for stuff. I told him you have to ask Santa for stuff for Christmas...but he wasn't too much interested in that aspect of it.
Tonight, Friday, David seems to have developed a cold. He is coughing, and though I gave him some cough medicine, and some vapo-rub, he's still having a rough night of it.
Lastly, we're still working our way through the Advent calendar, and David is counting the days until Christmas. "You have to wait until Christmas to open your gifts."
"Why?"
I asked David if he can show me any of the dancing he's doing at school, and he says he can only show me at school, so I guess I'll never see it!
My mother's birthday was Sunday, December 13, so for her birthday David and I, and his cousins (Avery and Jared), aunt Rachel, and some friends of my mom's all went out to dinner, and then afterward we went to the "Country Christmas Stroll" in Dade City, FL, about 10 minutes north of my mom's house. David did not really have a lot of fun. He says he likes the Christmas music on the radio, but at the same time, does not appreciate in the slightest live singing. There were singers at different points on the stroll, and David just wasn't having it. He sat on the street (which was closed off to traffic) and just pouted! Eventually I picked him up to carry him off in a different direction, and he just started to cry! Poor kid. He got over it pretty quickly, though, because I realized that it didn't make sense to keep trying to drag him around to things he didn't think were very fun. I expected him to be a bit better about all the Christmas stuff, but he just wasn't interested. We did, however, go see Santa, and I got a couple of pictures, but David wasn't into being seen with Santa, so he has a couple of sour expressions on his face. I asked what he asked Santa for Christmas, and he said, "A candy cane." After that, we went and played on the inflatable slide and other stuff that seem to pop up everywhere. Ok, so I watched David go down the slide 100 times, and go play in the two or three other air-inflate things, like the bouncy house. That's what made David happy...
Then we got back to my mom's at 10 PM, and David got the special priviledge of staying up almost to midnight! I went through a bunch of my mom's records because I've gotten my genealogy bug back lately, and as a result, I've been able to trace David's line back 4 generations on each side of his lineage, and in a few instances, much farther back. So I'm asking for any info you have to spare regarding your family tree, going back as far as you can. And so we also ended up spending the night there, and of course, all the kids got up at the crack of dawn...We spent a good part of Sunday at my mom's...
Monday we went out to dinner with Cinnamon, which was nice. I kept telling David that he needs to sit in his seat in order to impress her. And he did a really good job of behaving! He ate his cheeseburger, and a few of the carrots he asked for. Afterwards, I thought it might be nice to go look at Christmas lights in our neighborhood. Again, David wasn't having it. He kept insisting we go home, until I convinced him that the way home was the way I was going, but that it was just the really long, unfamiliar way...and he bought it! Then he began to enjoy the Christmas lights a bit.
Tuesday, I got out the Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, and we watched that. Thing is, we've been watching the two Christmas Charlie Brown specials on that DVD for two days straight! I finally replaced it with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"...I've noticed something interesting about David, though: he hides from exciting or tense (for a 4 year old) scenes on TV shows. Either he'll go in another room, or go under the closest table...
Wednesday we went to the softball game, but I didn't play this time, just watched, and spent more time with David and another little boy that was there. I think I had more fun than playing in the game! We just climbed on the monkey bars, which for David is going to be a problem owing to his hand...I was able to help on some of it, but of course, I won't always be there to help him. I'm curious, now that I think about it, how he's going to deal with it...
The rest of this week has been mostly normal. I asked David what he should get his mom for Christmas and he said...well, I can't say. :-) And for his sissy he thought of a few things, too. We bought a gift for a gift exchange at his school, and he got a transformer as his gift. He also got another visit with Santa Clause (at the school), whom I'm told there will be a photograph of at some point. David doesn't really ask Santa for stuff. I told him you have to ask Santa for stuff for Christmas...but he wasn't too much interested in that aspect of it.
Tonight, Friday, David seems to have developed a cold. He is coughing, and though I gave him some cough medicine, and some vapo-rub, he's still having a rough night of it.
Lastly, we're still working our way through the Advent calendar, and David is counting the days until Christmas. "You have to wait until Christmas to open your gifts."
"Why?"
Friday, December 11, 2009
David Weekly, #77
David is back in Florida. I met him and his mom at the airport. He sees me, runs up to me, calls out, "Daddy!" After a minute or so, he realizes that he's not going to see his mom again for a while. He cries. In a way I've never seen. He just kept wiping his eyes...
David said he wanted to see his cousins, so Jared and Avery and Rachel (his aunt) came over, followed by my mom. I had bought a Christmas tree the day before, and had yet to decorate it...but the kids took care of that. David kept asking if he could decorate the tree, and I kept telling him yes, and he kept putting all the ornaments on the same branch, in about the same spot. I'm pretty sure my mom came in after the kids did their thing and fixed the spacing of the ornaments, because my tree looks decently decorated. I did at least put the lights on. He was also very aggressive towards Jared, so he got to spend some time in time-out.
It's been a normal week for us, and so, not a lot to report. I took David to see "Fantastic Mr Fox" which he hated. And he said so, too! We had the whole theater to ourselves, since we saw an afternoon movie. David had mixed feelings about that.
Earlier in the week I tried reading "The Little Prince" to him at bed time, but it proved to be too many words, and not enough pictures. He much prefers that I sing to him (after books, of course), and says his mommy sings to him, too.
Because it's December, I started doing Christmas cards. David kept saying that he wanted a card for him. So I told him I'd make one for him...what I ended up doing is buying him a special Christmas card, which I'll likely give him in the next day or two. The question I have of myself is whether to mail it first, so I can have him get the mail and see the card with his name on it. Also on the Christmas theme, Cinnamon gave him (and me) our gifts, and they sit under the tree. Naturally, this is killing David. He wants to open the present! I tell him that he has to wait until Christmas day to open it. And so every day, he asks if it's Christmas yet. I have an Advent calendar that we do each morning, where he finds the day and then opens the little "door" and gets the chocolate out (the days are in a random order). So, that's the first thing the boy eats in the morning, a new chocolate. He asks what day it is, what day tomorrow is, how many more days to Christmas. And then at points later in the day he will tell me what day it is. And he looks at the calendar and tries to figure out where the next day is so he's ready in the morning. Often at night he will claim that it's already the next day, which I never let him get away with.
Lastly, David asked if Cinnamon could come with us to "The Restaurant". I ask him, "Which one?" He says, "At the restaurant. That's all I know!" complete with hands held out in a shrug. Funny thing is, I hadn't said anything about going out to eat...
Have a great week!
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