When Daddy leaves for work I always see him off. Even if he says goodbye and gives me a hug in the living room, I follow him to the entranceway and say goodbye there as well. I give him a hug, high five, fist bump, and wave as he leaves. I’ve been pretty good about not crying anymore when he leaves. I know he’ll be home by dinner time and that I have to go to school, so I’ve accepted the morning goodbye routine.
I was finally well enough to go to school today since my fever went away over the weekend. I was still not 100% so instead of going for on our walk, I stayed back at he school and played with interlocking bricks. Oh so may interlocking bricks.
It was nice to be back at school. I was happy to see my teachers and classmates again after such a long break. But because of that long break I cried when Mommy dropped me off. I’ll get back into the swing of things soon enough.
Recently I like to play horsey with Mommy and Daddy. It is fun with both of them, but for some reason I look really huge on Mommy. It looks more like a 3-year-old riding horsey instead of a 20-month-old. I must be heavy on Mommy, but she doesn’t show it. She is very strong and so comfy that I have to give her a hug while riding horsey.
You’d be surprised how much fun you can have with a box of drink cans. After we came back from Costco I found one of Mommy and Daddy’s drink boxes and started to pick it up, push it around, and ride it. So much fun for a box of drinks!
Oh Daddy, we all know it is bad manners to lick your fingers. But wait…there is no rule against licking someone else’s finger, is there?
Recently when we go for car rides I’ve been taking naps. I think because it is warm and comfy in my seat it is easy to fall asleep. Also, with my cold, I find it easier to breathe sitting up than lying down. I just slowly close my eyes and drift off to dreamland.
I am so into The Wheels on the Bus right now. I want Daddy to sing it all the time! I’ve always liked when Daddy sang me the song and even started doing the hand gestures a while back. But that was just one of those occasional things. I’ve been making Daddy sing it every day for quite some time now. It kind of started when I was playing with my bath toys and Daddy started singing the song to me. Then I started pointing out the different parts of the bus on my foam toy and Daddy would sing the appropriate line. Wheels go round and round, wipers go swish swish swish, and children go up and down. Then we added horns going beep, blinkers going on and off, and then all sorts of animals in the bus making the sounds they make. Daddy was washing me when he got to the doors opening and shutting when all the soap suds on his hands went flying everywhere. I was hooked. I wanted him to sing about the doors again and again. He even put some soap suds on my hands to make them fly when I did the gestures with him. Now, when I want Daddy to sing the song I point to the doors on a picture of a bus, or any vehicle, and do the open and shut motion. Daddy knows that he is supposed to sing. I’m so addicted that when I wake up crying in the middle of the night I ask Daddy to sing. He does so, sleepily and with uncoordinated hand motions, but he sings to me until I fall back asleep, mimicking the hand motions all the time.
Daddy told Grandma and Grandpa about his addiction and at the mention of it I, of course, wanted Daddy to sing again. So I showed Grandma and Grandpa how well I know the song.
I asked Daddy if I could play with his Nintendo Switch. But apparently I’m still too young. Someday, Nintendo Switch, someday.
When it is time for my bath I often go willingly because I like to take baths and play with my bath toys. There are times when I’m not as eager to go because I would rather keep playing with my toys in the living room. For the past few weeks Daddy has been marching off to the bath and I can’t help but follow. I like the rhythm of the march to the bath. So far even when I am adamant about not wanting to take a bath I still get suckered into following Daddy with this march. Oh well. In the end I always have a good time in the bath anyway.
Even though I’m sick, I still have a good appetite. That is a relief to Mommy and Daddy. They know that eating is one of my favorite things to do and are glad that I still enjoy it. I’m not as neat or smiley as usual, but I’m getting the nutrients I need to get over this cold.
I was feeling a little better after a very long nap. I wanted to be helpful so I tried to help put away some groceries. Apparently I did not put the eggs in the right place.
I like to say hi to my Anpanman potty and press all the buttons, but it is always in the bathroom. It is not a good place to play and it is cold over there. I remedied that today and temporarily moved my potty to the living room.
I still haven’t gotten over my cold and am often in a bad mood. Today I begged to go for a ride in the car because I’m almost always calm and happy there. It was really nice. I was so comfortable that I started to doze off. We stopped by a restaurant for lunch wanting to get me fed before I took a nap.
I usually like going out to eat but I was in a bit of a mood. I ate some udon, but then the littlest things started to set me off into tantrums. It was not a pretty sight. I eventually ate enough and then we headed home for a much needed nap.
I’m still not feeling great. I still have a slight fever and when I get tired the smallest things set me off. I don’t like this at all!
Mommy and Daddy always have much bigger cups than me. I want that! They also have cooler straws too. I want that too! I just want all the grownup things that they have.
Daddy always is happy to play with me. He likes to play cars with me, but even allows me to play cars on him. He was my parking garage today.
Later he taught me about how racecars are so fast that they just zoom by and you have to turn your head quickly to keep track of them.
Mommy had a meeting today and since I still couldn’t go to school because of my lingering fever, Daddy took a half day to watch me. We went out to take a drive and ended up stopping for a mid-morning snack. Even though I was still feverish, I was pretty well behaved.
After my snack at the cool projection table, we visited the baby supply store. We are looking for new shoes. Mine are getting tight already even though it has only been a few months since I had them. I’m just growing that fast. We found some nice options, but didn’t get any on this visit. Then we spent a good amount of time window shopping. I wandered the aisles and pointed out every single Anpanman product in the store, and there were a lot of them! I also perused the toy car collection. They had a nice ambulance which is one of my favorite vehicles. I can say, “kyukyusha” which is the Japanese word for ambulance. I was very excited about it and wanted to get it, but I was a good boy and did not throw and tantrum when Daddy said we weren’t buying any toys today. We just bought some diapers. I helped.
When Daddy comes home I am so happy that we get to play together. And as you know fathers and sons tend to roughhouse. Today I smothered Daddy with a cushion and fish-hooked him. It was all in good fun.