Finally, A warm day (and my little dictator)!

today we finally had a nicer day! It was about 56 degrees and sunny! last night, our clocks sprang ahead an hour also. so when you woke it was 10:00 instead of 9:00. We had breakfast and we were outside by 12:00 and enjoyed a picnic outside. I took your little wooden table out there to sit at, too. I ordered you a collapsable white picnic table a few days ago so that we eat outside all summer! the very back side of our house doesn't get any sunlight and there is still a few inches of snow waiting to melt from our recent blizzards! so it was pretty funny because you were playing in your sand/ water table in the sun and then would run to the back of the shaded house and throw snowballs :) today you got the best of both worlds! Baby had even perched herself up in the open kitchen window when you threw a giant snowball at her, hitting the window screen and knocking her completely off of her perch and into the sink inside!! it was quite the throw!

You decided to swing today also, and usually this is quite short lived as you dont sit still for long, but today you swung for about 15 minutes. you put your arms out and said, " Im in a hair-pane! Look at me mommy! Lets pretend!" it was the sweetest thing and your imagination is in overdrive these days! It is so amazing and fun to watch! You keep us all laughing nonstop. we talked about how we were going to redecorate the backyard this spring and create you a raised playground area. And when i say "we", i mean me and you! You told me where things should go and you told me to say "uh huh" as you explained your plans. You are bossy, or as i like to say, you enjoy scripting everything- you tell us all how to play trains and what to say, how to play dollhouse and what to make the dolls say, how to play hide and seek and what to say when you find us....its always scripted.. maybe you will be a screen writer? a director? 

Eventually you said, " mommy i have to pee!!" and being in overalls and far from the bathroom i didnt want to ruin your fun day with wet pants, so i said lets go outside! You laughed and thought that was hilarious and it took you a good minute to even pee because it was just too weird for you! Eventually you did and cracked up saying, " im peepeeing on those leaves!!!" and then you went on your merry way. So today we had a first, an outdoorsy pee. good for you big boy! Thats one perk to being male ;) 

Since the time change was kinda funky, we skipped nap and you didnt miss it one bit. you were happy and funny all day. We did have some quiet time, me and you, in my bed after dinner and played games on the ipad. Then you declared, " its 8:00!! walking dead is coming on!" when you saw the clock change to 8:00.You dont actually pay attention to the show, but you love the opening song and you love to say you watch it. Again, you dont have the patience for a tv show, but you say you love it none the less :) we get a big kick out of it.

You have also continued sleeping with the bedroom door open this week. You recently began the phase of being scared of being alone at night and being in the dark ( although youve always had ample light, youre at the point where its never enough- ive always been afraid of the dark, too). Its times like this that im even more thankful to have your dutch door made by your great grandpa pappy, because the bottom being closed helps keep the cats out, but with the top open it helps let hall light in and gives you more peace of mind. youve been sleeping better with the top open. your bedtime routine continues about the same otherwise: we read several books in the rocking chair, we put you to bed where you snuggle all 3 bindins and then we cover you up with a separate blankie ( currently a soft thomas blanket from bens aunt carla and uncle darren but is often times a curious george blankie from grandma), and then you yell for daddy to come pat your back, he usually sings one round of "bible" with me ( aka 'jesus loves me' which you call bible) as you rock your body back and forth putting yourself to sleep, then i sing a few more rounds until i finally sing myself out the door, you usually fuss at me as i do this but then quickly give in and continue rocking yourself to sleep. often you dictate how i sing the songs: sing like pawpaw, sing like grandma, sing like daddy, sing like a kitty, sing like the mailman, sing like tom and jerry, sing like mommy, or sing this song (and youll make up lyrics for me to sing, no joke) <----- these are all real requests that you ask for. see comments above about how you like to direct and script everything haha:) i cant imagine life any other way :) xoxo