Mason Shoma

One of the food requests Mommy makes is for gumbo. Daddy had watched a cooking show about it, made it, and he and Mommy now like to eat it quite often! Today I got to try some. Yum! I like it!

I love all kinds of soup! Today I had tomato soup and I scooped up every last drop.

While shopping at the mall we saw that the choo-choo train was running, so we just had to ride it. We waited in line and I was very excited. Of course, once I got on the train I was focused on riding the train and it didn’t look like I was enjoying it even though I was!

I had so much fun shopping for new pajamas today. I was so excited about all the cars, other vehicles, and many characters on the pajamas. Who know pajama shopping could be so much fun!

Mommy and Daddy went out for coffee and breakfast and I joined them even though I already had my breakfast. I had a piece of toast and a hard-boiled egg, while Mommy and Daddy had the same. They ate theirs up and so did I, but as a second breakfast.

I ate all my breakfast and I wanted to eat some fruit salad since I love me some fruits. Nowadays we always have fruits in the house for me and today we had a nice variety: apples, oranges, grapes and strawberries. It was delicious!

I woke up in the middle of the night and wanted Mommy and Daddy. They took me to their bed and even though I started off in between them, I somehow scooted my way down to between Mommy’s legs. It was quite comfortable being in a leg cradle.

Another kids’ meal bites the dust. We went to a restaurant I had never been to before and I demolished the kids’ meal that they had. It was actually just the right amount of food for me, although I think these meals are meant for elementary school students. It was very tasty, and even though I wanted to eat the dessert first, I listened to Daddy and ate half of my meal first before I reached out again for the jelly.

Yum! That was very good!

Today we did some arts and crafts at school. I can’t tell you what it is for, but you’ll see in a couple of weeks. Anyway, I got to choose my special colors and I chose blue first (since they didn’t have orange). Then I went to putting my craft together.

Then we had sticker time. We put this cool vegetable stickers into circles on our special sticker page. I did pretty good and caught on to the fact that the stickers were supposed to go in certain places.

After that we had some active time where we practiced jumping on mats. I did pretty good and I’m slowly learning how to get some air between my feet and the floor.

I woke up, ate breakfast, got dressed, and just had to stuff some doggies in my shirt. Doesn’t everybody?

I’m learning to speak a lot more words. I often surprise Mommy and Daddy by repeating a word they said out of the blue. What they don’t know is that I’m constantly listening and storing all this information, and processing it and getting ready to use it. Then when I’ve got it, I say it. That is how it was when I started to say “okay”. I listened a lot and then just started using it. Now that Mommy and Daddy know I can say it, the encourage, if not push, me to use it more and more.

It is pretty amazing how many words I can say. A lot of them I just started saying consistently these past few weeks. Who knows what I’ll learning in the next few weeks as I approach two-years old.

When we get home from school I usually don’t waste any time and get right to playing with my toys, specifically my vehicles. This is good because it gives Mommy a chance to get dinner ready. I’m also very content to play with my vehicles all by myself, occasionally reporting to Mommy about what I’m doing.

I love our weekly English lessons at nursery school! They are fun and interactive and there is a lot of songs and dancing for me to enjoy. Also, I have a bit of a leg up on everyone else since I come from an English-speaking household. When our English teachesr asks us to “sit down” I seem to be the only one who understands and I go straight to my chair and sit down like a good little boy, while our teachers have to guide the rest of my classmates to their seats. When our English teacher asks a question I eagerly go to the head of the class to answer. Especially when we’re asked to find orange. (That’s one of my favorite colors!)

I got up, ate breakfast, and got ready fairly quickly today. So I have a few spare minutes to read some books. It’s nice to not have to rush out the door every morning.

I’m getting to be such a big boy that I barely fit in my crib anymore. I heard Mommy and Daddy discussing getting me a bed, but they fear that I’ll get up and out of bed at all times of night and exit the room without permission. They aren’t wrong. For now, I still sleep quite well in my small little crib. But there’s going to be a time where I kick holes through the wall just so that I can stretch out.