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
Friday, April 24, 2009
David Weekly, #58
This has been a very fast moving week. Doesn't seem like a whole lot happened.
Last Saturday we went to Mimi's (my mom), and played with Avery and Jared for a couple of hours. Sunday we went to Nature's Classroom, an outdoor educational facility for all the 6th grade students in Hillborough County. The thing is, they opened to the public (for the first time ever, I think), probably for Earth Day. So David and I went with Mimi and Jared and Avery. It was a lot of fun. There's a board walk that we went on, saw some deer, walked through a cypress dome, and did a few other activities. Notably, David had an encounter with an alligator. Of course, this reptile was small, about 18 inches long, and was well controlled by a handler, and a small cage. He didn't want to touch it even when he was told he could...but he did eventually touch its tail. We spent the rest of Sunday just playing at home, throwing around a ball.
We went to the green park on Thursday, and he wanted to go on the boardwalk there, which runs along the river. On this boardwalk, many of the planks are engraved with people's names, which celebrate their births, or their lives, or an anniversary, so he's looking for W's in the names he sees on the planks, and sees the name WILL, spelling it out loud. He interprets the second letter as an L until he gets to the next letter, and then updates the interpretation as "I" instead...very good that he did that. He is asking me to spell all kinds of things now.
Another thing that was funny about going the park is this statement: "Daddy, we have a problem," he says to me very seriously. "There aren't any kids here." For him, having kids at the park is important.
David likes to stand still, like statue. He poses, usually in a very unnatural pose, and says, "Look, I'm a statue." The pose is frequently him standing, with one hand over his eye, and the other hand up, palm facing outward. Sometimes he'll stand on one leg. I have no idea where this comes from, but it's pretty funny.
Friday we went to a very different park than he's used to: a nature preserve. We went to the Brooker Creek Preserve, and walked along the boardwalk there. We saw two different armadillos in the brush. Those things are loud, so easy to find when they make noise. David was amazed at how quiet it was out there. I explained that this is not a play park, but a nature park. They also have a learning center that shows the watershed for that area, and lots of different things showing the water cycle and such, most of this is too advanced for him, but he had fun making things light up, and walking/running around the center, sitting the chairs that overlook some of the preserve. And then we had lunch at McDonald's. He did very well, sitting still eating his hamburger, drinking his milk...stealing a couple of my chicken nuggets.
Last thing: David's beginning to read things, and he doesn't even realize he's doing it. Granted, it's by sight that he knows what he's seeing, rather than the traditional knowing what each letter or combination of letters says to make up the word, but it's getting to that point. He will often make up what a certain set of words says. Interestingly, he gets the meaning of it right a good portion of the time. He knows there's meaning behind not just the words, but also in their context.
Hope you have a good week.
Rusty
Last Saturday we went to Mimi's (my mom), and played with Avery and Jared for a couple of hours. Sunday we went to Nature's Classroom, an outdoor educational facility for all the 6th grade students in Hillborough County. The thing is, they opened to the public (for the first time ever, I think), probably for Earth Day. So David and I went with Mimi and Jared and Avery. It was a lot of fun. There's a board walk that we went on, saw some deer, walked through a cypress dome, and did a few other activities. Notably, David had an encounter with an alligator. Of course, this reptile was small, about 18 inches long, and was well controlled by a handler, and a small cage. He didn't want to touch it even when he was told he could...but he did eventually touch its tail. We spent the rest of Sunday just playing at home, throwing around a ball.
We went to the green park on Thursday, and he wanted to go on the boardwalk there, which runs along the river. On this boardwalk, many of the planks are engraved with people's names, which celebrate their births, or their lives, or an anniversary, so he's looking for W's in the names he sees on the planks, and sees the name WILL, spelling it out loud. He interprets the second letter as an L until he gets to the next letter, and then updates the interpretation as "I" instead...very good that he did that. He is asking me to spell all kinds of things now.
Another thing that was funny about going the park is this statement: "Daddy, we have a problem," he says to me very seriously. "There aren't any kids here." For him, having kids at the park is important.
David likes to stand still, like statue. He poses, usually in a very unnatural pose, and says, "Look, I'm a statue." The pose is frequently him standing, with one hand over his eye, and the other hand up, palm facing outward. Sometimes he'll stand on one leg. I have no idea where this comes from, but it's pretty funny.
Friday we went to a very different park than he's used to: a nature preserve. We went to the Brooker Creek Preserve, and walked along the boardwalk there. We saw two different armadillos in the brush. Those things are loud, so easy to find when they make noise. David was amazed at how quiet it was out there. I explained that this is not a play park, but a nature park. They also have a learning center that shows the watershed for that area, and lots of different things showing the water cycle and such, most of this is too advanced for him, but he had fun making things light up, and walking/running around the center, sitting the chairs that overlook some of the preserve. And then we had lunch at McDonald's. He did very well, sitting still eating his hamburger, drinking his milk...stealing a couple of my chicken nuggets.
Last thing: David's beginning to read things, and he doesn't even realize he's doing it. Granted, it's by sight that he knows what he's seeing, rather than the traditional knowing what each letter or combination of letters says to make up the word, but it's getting to that point. He will often make up what a certain set of words says. Interestingly, he gets the meaning of it right a good portion of the time. He knows there's meaning behind not just the words, but also in their context.
Hope you have a good week.
Rusty
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
People that are important to David
I have thought about writing this for a while, but it's difficult because it's where my private life intersects with David's, and I'm not really wanting to publish this for the world, but I'm doing it anyway...
So, people that are important are: Jesse, my next door neighbor who watches him every Saturday. My mom, because she's my mom. My sister, Rachel, and her two kids, Avery and Jared. Cinnamon, because she's my girlfriend, and we spend time together. David really likes her. Veronica, who is very good with him, and watches him, and takes him on occasional shopping trips to buy him things for himself, and even makes sure that he "does things for me" like get me a shirt, or buy me a birthday card. Miss Tawanda at Gabrielle's Glen, his preschool, and she's his teacher. Dot, his main baby sitter, who he is not a fan of. He does not like going over there, and every day asks if he is, and I tell him he is, and he tells me he doesn't want to go. I'm sure there are peers of his that are important, but he doesn't say their names very often. I do know that when I bring him to the preschool, all the kids in his class say his name. I think that's very cool.
So, people that are important are: Jesse, my next door neighbor who watches him every Saturday. My mom, because she's my mom. My sister, Rachel, and her two kids, Avery and Jared. Cinnamon, because she's my girlfriend, and we spend time together. David really likes her. Veronica, who is very good with him, and watches him, and takes him on occasional shopping trips to buy him things for himself, and even makes sure that he "does things for me" like get me a shirt, or buy me a birthday card. Miss Tawanda at Gabrielle's Glen, his preschool, and she's his teacher. Dot, his main baby sitter, who he is not a fan of. He does not like going over there, and every day asks if he is, and I tell him he is, and he tells me he doesn't want to go. I'm sure there are peers of his that are important, but he doesn't say their names very often. I do know that when I bring him to the preschool, all the kids in his class say his name. I think that's very cool.
Friday, April 17, 2009
David Weekly, #57
David had a good Easter, and got lots of candy from the Easter Bunny, including a new outfit and a photo w/ the EB. It's very cute! He went looking for eggs while shouting "Egg Hunt! Egg Hunt!" And unlike last year, didn't complain about the smaller number of eggs he got, compared to Avery and Jared, his two cousins. The eggs were the plastic variety, with chocolates and jelly beans in them. David likes to throw the empty plastic eggs around...they're light, easy to throw, and don't break anything...but he does not like hard boiled eggs. I find this out because I gave him one to eat that night, and he takes a bite and then spits it all out all over everywhere. Coloring the eggs was okay.
Saturday night he colored eggs with his cousins, and that was fun. He got in some quality time w/ Mimi (my mother), and it was constructive. He also has begun to play fight with Jared, and it's working out better and better. Jared is understanding how much of an advantage he has against David when they play, but he's learning how to temper that a little bit, which is a better thing for David. They now play more fairly, and both have more fun.
Tuesday morning he got upset because it got darker outside because of the weather. Normally, the day gets lighter and brighter, so when it started going the other way, he was not happy! He knew it was still morning time, but the darkness of the clouds really threw him off. We had a pretty severe storm, but did not lose power. We lost power a week or two ago, for about an hour during the day. So when the rain and wind really hit, he was worried about us not having power. David's not a fan of not having power. Of course, neither am I, but we played outside on the day w/ no power, and he barely noticed. Otherwise, it rained a good portion of Tuesday, so we stayed inside, or went outside under the carport, and watched the rain. David, being a 3 year old, tempts fate by wanting to go in the rain. I say no, of course. It's lightning! So we had to go in.
The other day, were hanging out, listening to some music, and I'm drumming on him, because we're listening to a song with a good beat. He doesn't like it that much, so he tells me to stop, but I don't. Not right away, at least. He says, "Are you a buddy?" (that's the name he has for his blanket) I say, "No.' And he says, "Then I'm not a drum." That kid cracks me up!
David has some Mardi Gras beads that he was telling me he wants to turn into a snake. So he throws them to the end of the driveway and tells me, "Look, daddy, a snake!"
A tidbit for you: David is now signed up for VPK - Voluntary Pre Kindergarten. He'll be starting in the fall, at Gabrielle's Glen. My sister Rachel is trying to get me to put him in Montessori, but I'm not sure if I should do that. One obstacle for me is the cost. I haven't really discussed it w/ Amanda, either. So we'll see what happens.
Among David's concerns: Word World. He's been asking me for a couple of weeks to get a new Word World DVD, so I finally got one for him. Not sure how many there are, but he's got 4 now. He loves those DVDs! And his watching of them over and over is teaching him the words, and the sounds that go with them. Lately he spells p - l - a - y and tells me it says "play". :-) He's also concerned with where I park my car at his school. It's got to be in certain spot. If it's not, I'm greeted with complaints, and a disappointed tone in his voice: "You're supposed to park it there..." If I park in the right spot, I get, "Yay!" from him...
David today asked me to go to the grocery store. I said, "What are you wanting to get?" He says, "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there!" And then when we're in the store, he says he wants me to get oatmeal. I say, "When's the last time you ate oatmeal?" His reply: "I like oatmeal."
Thursday at the park we were playing with the frisbee. Another little boy who's 5 comes up to play, and David attempts to show this other child how to throw the frisbee. It was quite funny. "Like dis!" he'd say, then fling!
David says, "Pretty please!" When he wants something really bad. He also tells me he has to do his exercises sometimes, but what he does is odd: he takes the rake and holds it over his head, then lets it fall to the ground, and does this over and over again. He does other things that he calls his "exercises", but this particular thing I thought was notable.
Today, on Friday, I took him to an outdoor concert at Lowry Park (this is the same place as the zoo) with a friend of mine, and her daughter. We had fun. He wasn't so interested in the music as he was the bubbles. But we did get a chance to play, and enjoy the atmosphere, and hang out. Earlier in the day we went to another park, where he met a boy about his age, and this child had some cars, from the movie Cars. And David actually shared them very well with this other boy! It was amazing! They would go back and forth rolling the cars down the slide. I was very happy with this.
So that's another week...I hope you share things well, too.
Rusty
Saturday night he colored eggs with his cousins, and that was fun. He got in some quality time w/ Mimi (my mother), and it was constructive. He also has begun to play fight with Jared, and it's working out better and better. Jared is understanding how much of an advantage he has against David when they play, but he's learning how to temper that a little bit, which is a better thing for David. They now play more fairly, and both have more fun.
Tuesday morning he got upset because it got darker outside because of the weather. Normally, the day gets lighter and brighter, so when it started going the other way, he was not happy! He knew it was still morning time, but the darkness of the clouds really threw him off. We had a pretty severe storm, but did not lose power. We lost power a week or two ago, for about an hour during the day. So when the rain and wind really hit, he was worried about us not having power. David's not a fan of not having power. Of course, neither am I, but we played outside on the day w/ no power, and he barely noticed. Otherwise, it rained a good portion of Tuesday, so we stayed inside, or went outside under the carport, and watched the rain. David, being a 3 year old, tempts fate by wanting to go in the rain. I say no, of course. It's lightning! So we had to go in.
The other day, were hanging out, listening to some music, and I'm drumming on him, because we're listening to a song with a good beat. He doesn't like it that much, so he tells me to stop, but I don't. Not right away, at least. He says, "Are you a buddy?" (that's the name he has for his blanket) I say, "No.' And he says, "Then I'm not a drum." That kid cracks me up!
David has some Mardi Gras beads that he was telling me he wants to turn into a snake. So he throws them to the end of the driveway and tells me, "Look, daddy, a snake!"
A tidbit for you: David is now signed up for VPK - Voluntary Pre Kindergarten. He'll be starting in the fall, at Gabrielle's Glen. My sister Rachel is trying to get me to put him in Montessori, but I'm not sure if I should do that. One obstacle for me is the cost. I haven't really discussed it w/ Amanda, either. So we'll see what happens.
Among David's concerns: Word World. He's been asking me for a couple of weeks to get a new Word World DVD, so I finally got one for him. Not sure how many there are, but he's got 4 now. He loves those DVDs! And his watching of them over and over is teaching him the words, and the sounds that go with them. Lately he spells p - l - a - y and tells me it says "play". :-) He's also concerned with where I park my car at his school. It's got to be in certain spot. If it's not, I'm greeted with complaints, and a disappointed tone in his voice: "You're supposed to park it there..." If I park in the right spot, I get, "Yay!" from him...
David today asked me to go to the grocery store. I said, "What are you wanting to get?" He says, "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there!" And then when we're in the store, he says he wants me to get oatmeal. I say, "When's the last time you ate oatmeal?" His reply: "I like oatmeal."
Thursday at the park we were playing with the frisbee. Another little boy who's 5 comes up to play, and David attempts to show this other child how to throw the frisbee. It was quite funny. "Like dis!" he'd say, then fling!
David says, "Pretty please!" When he wants something really bad. He also tells me he has to do his exercises sometimes, but what he does is odd: he takes the rake and holds it over his head, then lets it fall to the ground, and does this over and over again. He does other things that he calls his "exercises", but this particular thing I thought was notable.
Today, on Friday, I took him to an outdoor concert at Lowry Park (this is the same place as the zoo) with a friend of mine, and her daughter. We had fun. He wasn't so interested in the music as he was the bubbles. But we did get a chance to play, and enjoy the atmosphere, and hang out. Earlier in the day we went to another park, where he met a boy about his age, and this child had some cars, from the movie Cars. And David actually shared them very well with this other boy! It was amazing! They would go back and forth rolling the cars down the slide. I was very happy with this.
So that's another week...I hope you share things well, too.
Rusty
Friday, April 10, 2009
David Weekly, #56
took David to his daycare this morning, and he tells a little girl there that he has a skinned knee, after she tells him that she has some kind of sore, or wound on her leg from something that happened over the weekend. Later on, after i go to pick him up, he tells me that a boy in his class hurt himself somehow, and how David "take care of him". He asks me, "are you happy?" That he took care of that other boy. "Yes, very much!" I said.
At the park today, David was telling the kids to "move your butt!" when they were in his way going down the slide. And they were complaining about what he was saying! These kids must have been at least 10 or 11 years old, and they were complaining. I thought it was funny. I was telling them, "Well, you better move your butt, then." The problem is that they were going down the slide, only about a halfway, and he was wanting to go down all the way, like you're supposed to. He was actually being pretty good about them being older kids. They just didn't know how to handle a smaller kid like David telling them what to do. I yelled at one kid for being difficult, because he really was objecting to David, and I said, "He's a really nice kid, and if you're nice, so's he; but you're not being nice." That solved it. These kids are from some kind of camp over Spring Break, so they were all over the place. I think he did well.
David can blow bubbles on his own now. Once he discovered this, he took the bubbles from me and was blowing them all over the place! He especially wanted to blow them under the car, which I thought was pretty funny.
We went to the bumpy slide park, and played with some of the other kids who were off for Spring Break. Whenever we go to this park, David says he doesn't like it when there's no other kids there. He's so good at making friends!
Today, David figured out the concept of "Opportunity Cost" but in a small way: he said we could see the small fish, and the big fish, but not if we played on the play equipment they have at the zoo. I've told him that on various occasions. "We can't do everything." He now seems to get it, because it was part of his planning for the next time we go the zoo. Yeah, he's planning his trips now, out loud.
A language note: he calls the gutter the "side-road", which is where I'm supposed to walk if there's no cars. This is when we go to Dot's. He calls the handle of his big-car a "push"...and he made up another term for something, but I can't remember what, that was a simple compound word, and had a regular word that we normally use. It's good he can invent words when he needs to, but other times if he doesn't have the word, he just skips it. And of course, we still have "gold juice" aka, orange juice.
Friday night we played and played and played, he and I, and the neighbor boy across the street, who is 7. For a while, they threw paper airplanes. Then the other boy, Adan, got a football to throw around with me. David of course, got jealous. I told Adan that we have to include David. David, for his part, didn't want to take turns. He wanted every turn for himself. And would cry every time Adan or I would throw the ball to each other, rather than to David.
Lastly, I think for his allergies, I've settled on the Xyzal, since it does the job, and no side effects. Our next appt w/ the allergist is still 20 days away, but who's counting.
Have a good week!
Rusty
At the park today, David was telling the kids to "move your butt!" when they were in his way going down the slide. And they were complaining about what he was saying! These kids must have been at least 10 or 11 years old, and they were complaining. I thought it was funny. I was telling them, "Well, you better move your butt, then." The problem is that they were going down the slide, only about a halfway, and he was wanting to go down all the way, like you're supposed to. He was actually being pretty good about them being older kids. They just didn't know how to handle a smaller kid like David telling them what to do. I yelled at one kid for being difficult, because he really was objecting to David, and I said, "He's a really nice kid, and if you're nice, so's he; but you're not being nice." That solved it. These kids are from some kind of camp over Spring Break, so they were all over the place. I think he did well.
David can blow bubbles on his own now. Once he discovered this, he took the bubbles from me and was blowing them all over the place! He especially wanted to blow them under the car, which I thought was pretty funny.
We went to the bumpy slide park, and played with some of the other kids who were off for Spring Break. Whenever we go to this park, David says he doesn't like it when there's no other kids there. He's so good at making friends!
Today, David figured out the concept of "Opportunity Cost" but in a small way: he said we could see the small fish, and the big fish, but not if we played on the play equipment they have at the zoo. I've told him that on various occasions. "We can't do everything." He now seems to get it, because it was part of his planning for the next time we go the zoo. Yeah, he's planning his trips now, out loud.
A language note: he calls the gutter the "side-road", which is where I'm supposed to walk if there's no cars. This is when we go to Dot's. He calls the handle of his big-car a "push"...and he made up another term for something, but I can't remember what, that was a simple compound word, and had a regular word that we normally use. It's good he can invent words when he needs to, but other times if he doesn't have the word, he just skips it. And of course, we still have "gold juice" aka, orange juice.
Friday night we played and played and played, he and I, and the neighbor boy across the street, who is 7. For a while, they threw paper airplanes. Then the other boy, Adan, got a football to throw around with me. David of course, got jealous. I told Adan that we have to include David. David, for his part, didn't want to take turns. He wanted every turn for himself. And would cry every time Adan or I would throw the ball to each other, rather than to David.
Lastly, I think for his allergies, I've settled on the Xyzal, since it does the job, and no side effects. Our next appt w/ the allergist is still 20 days away, but who's counting.
Have a good week!
Rusty
I took David to his daycare this morning, and he tells a little girl there that he has a skinned knee, after she tells him that she has some kind of sore, or wound on her leg from something that happened over the weekend. Later on, after i go to pick him up, he tells me that a boy in his class hurt himself somehow, and how David "take care of him". He asks me, "are you happy?" That he took care of that other boy. "Yes, very much!" I said.
At the park today, David was telling the kids to "move your butt!" when they were in his way going down the slide. And they were complaining about what he was saying! These kids must have been at least 10 or 11 years old, and they were complaining. I thought it was funny. I was telling them, "Well, you better move your butt, then." The problem is that they were going down the slide, only about a halfway, and he was wanting to go down all the way, like you're supposed to. He was actually being pretty good about them being older kids. They just didn't know how to handle a smaller kid like David telling them what to do. I yelled at one kid for being difficult, because he really was objecting to David, and I said, "He's a really nice kid, and if you're nice, so's he; but you're not being nice." That solved it. These kids are from some kind of camp over Spring Break, so they were all over the place. I think he did well.
David can blow bubbles on his own now. Once he discovered this, he took the bubbles from me and was blowing them all over the place! He especially wanted to blow them under the car, which I thought was pretty funny.
We went to the bumpy slide park, and played with some of the other kids who were off for Spring Break. Whenever we go to this park, David says he doesn't like it when there's no other kids there. He's so good at making friends!
Today, David figured out the concept of "Opportunity Cost" but in a small way: he said we could see the small fish, and the big fish, but not if we played on the play equipment they have at the zoo. I've told him that on various occasions. "We can't do everything." He now seems to get it, because it was part of his planning for the next time we go the zoo. Yeah, he's planning his trips now, out loud.
A language note: he calls the gutter the "side-road", which is where I'm supposed to walk if there's no cars. This is when we go to Dot's. He calls the handle of his big-car a "push"...and he made up another term for something, but I can't remember what, that was a simple compound word, and had a regular word that we normally use. It's good he can invent words when he needs to, but other times if he doesn't have the word, he just skips it. And of course, we still have "gold juice" aka, orange juice.
Friday night we played and played and played, he and I, and the neighbor boy across the street, who is 7. For a while, they threw paper airplanes. Then the other boy, Adan, got a football to throw around with me. David of course, got jealous. I told Adan that we have to include David. David, for his part, didn't want to take turns. He wanted every turn for himself. And would cry every time Adan or I would throw the ball to each other, rather than to David.
Lastly, I think for his allergies, I've settled on the Xyzal, since it does the job, and no side effects. Our next appt w/ the allergist is still 20 days away, but who's counting.
Have a good week!
Rusty
At the park today, David was telling the kids to "move your butt!" when they were in his way going down the slide. And they were complaining about what he was saying! These kids must have been at least 10 or 11 years old, and they were complaining. I thought it was funny. I was telling them, "Well, you better move your butt, then." The problem is that they were going down the slide, only about a halfway, and he was wanting to go down all the way, like you're supposed to. He was actually being pretty good about them being older kids. They just didn't know how to handle a smaller kid like David telling them what to do. I yelled at one kid for being difficult, because he really was objecting to David, and I said, "He's a really nice kid, and if you're nice, so's he; but you're not being nice." That solved it. These kids are from some kind of camp over Spring Break, so they were all over the place. I think he did well.
David can blow bubbles on his own now. Once he discovered this, he took the bubbles from me and was blowing them all over the place! He especially wanted to blow them under the car, which I thought was pretty funny.
We went to the bumpy slide park, and played with some of the other kids who were off for Spring Break. Whenever we go to this park, David says he doesn't like it when there's no other kids there. He's so good at making friends!
Today, David figured out the concept of "Opportunity Cost" but in a small way: he said we could see the small fish, and the big fish, but not if we played on the play equipment they have at the zoo. I've told him that on various occasions. "We can't do everything." He now seems to get it, because it was part of his planning for the next time we go the zoo. Yeah, he's planning his trips now, out loud.
A language note: he calls the gutter the "side-road", which is where I'm supposed to walk if there's no cars. This is when we go to Dot's. He calls the handle of his big-car a "push"...and he made up another term for something, but I can't remember what, that was a simple compound word, and had a regular word that we normally use. It's good he can invent words when he needs to, but other times if he doesn't have the word, he just skips it. And of course, we still have "gold juice" aka, orange juice.
Friday night we played and played and played, he and I, and the neighbor boy across the street, who is 7. For a while, they threw paper airplanes. Then the other boy, Adan, got a football to throw around with me. David of course, got jealous. I told Adan that we have to include David. David, for his part, didn't want to take turns. He wanted every turn for himself. And would cry every time Adan or I would throw the ball to each other, rather than to David.
Lastly, I think for his allergies, I've settled on the Xyzal, since it does the job, and no side effects. Our next appt w/ the allergist is still 20 days away, but who's counting.
Have a good week!
Rusty
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