Mason Shoma

My teachers at my nursery school have been bring out some extra mats for us to play with and I’m loving it! I really like how soft the mats are and how they are a little bouncy.

Man it is hot nowadays. It is also really humid so I sweat really easily. Daddy tries to dry me off, but in the process messes around with my hair. Maybe it is time for another haircut.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and feel very lonely. I look around and don’t see anyone. I check the bed and realize that Mommy and Daddy are not there. I guess is not their bedtime yet so it must still be early. I usually just lie back down and put myself back to sleep. I know they’ll come to bed eventually and they’ll always be there in the morning so there is nothing to worry about.

For a hungry baby boy who is a very good eater, an empty bowl is a very traumatic experience. Not only does it mean the end of the meal but also that this is as full as my tummy will be for a while. These are not facts that I enjoy. I wish I had bowl that was never empty. That would be awesome!

Today I was playing with my classmate and for some reason decided to put my finger in his mouth. He responded by biting my finger. I cried a bit and then just stopped and went back to playing like normal. I think I learned my lesson: if you stick your finger in other people’s mouths, you might get bitten. Lesson learned.

Now I have a bit of a red mark on my finger. But I also have one on my other hand as well. Where it came from, no one knows.

The days are getting warmer and warmer, so we need to drink liquids regularly. Our teachers at nursery school are very good at making sure we are well hydrated, especially during our walks to the park.

Apparently I have a very bouncy belly.

I’m only human so even I have those moments when I’m not happy but I really don’t know why. I think I might have been a little tired, hot, and eager to go to nursery school. I was taking it out on Daddy because he was there. In the end I calmed down after we went outside to water the plants.

Yep, I made this mess all by myself.

Some days I come home from school exhausted and in a bad mood, just trying to get through the nightly routine to get to bed. Some days, like today, I’m in a great mood and just want to keep active! It can be more difficult to get me to bed when I’m this energetic, but it is a fun time for me!

Today at nursery school one of my classmates was playing with a baby doll. For some reason I thought it was hilarious and was laughing like crazy! My teachers thought it was so funny that they made sure to tell Mommy about it when she came to pick me up. I don’t know. I don’t have baby dolls at home and just thought it was funny.

My classmates and I all had fun on our walk today. We went to the park and took turns with our teacher swinging on the regular swings. It was a lot of fun!

My teachers are happy that I show them smiles more and more these days. It is hard to believe that my first couple weeks of nursery school was filled with a lot of crying. Now it is mainly smiles and laughter. Oh, and some other odd expressions. As you know, when I poop, I grunt and make an intense face of effort. My teacher saw that today and couldn’t hold back a chuckle. I have a lot of interesting expression.

I don’t sit in my chair very often, but I found another use for it. I’m stepping up my game!

Mommy and Daddy always tell me to take smaller bites when eating, but I don’t really listen to them. Most of the time I just want as much food possible in mouth as fast as possible. Although there are sometimes when I’ll tear off a ridiculously small piece of bread, a crumb basically, and eat that. I get the feeling that Mommy and Daddy want me to take bites somewhere in the middle.

You may have noticed that when taking our walks at nursery school, I’m either not wearing a hat or wearing it in a weird way, unlike most of my classmates who have their hats sitting nicely on their heads. I just don’t like wearing hats now. I’ll tolerate them if it is sunny and it is hard on my eyes. But the rest of the time I constantly try to take my hat off.

You may have noticed from pictures of me at home or at nursery school that I rarely sit straight in my chair. I’m either turned, twisted, or leaning in some way. It is just my style. The only time I sit properly and straight is when I sit seiza with my legs tucked under me.

Oh, by the way, I like sitting up on the table now. It makes Mommy and Daddy nervous, but I haven’t fallen off the table yet.

Recently I have not been happy to go to bed. Even when I’m peacefully sleeping after nursing, I wake up the instant I am put in my crib. I usually go to sleep within 10 minutes, but not without crying my head of first. It is hard to believe that there was a time when I went to bed quietly without complaint.

I’ve also been waking up in the middle of the night as well. I used to peer through the mesh to see if Mommy and Daddy were in bed and then cry to get them to pick me up. To stop me from noticing they are in bed, Daddy put a curtain across the mesh. If I don’t see them, I don’t feel the need to wake up and call them, then I go back to sleep.

But now I figured out a way to step up against the edge of my crib and basically do a chin-up over the edge to see them. It freaked them out the first time I did it because a head appeared over the edge of the crib in the middle of the night.

Mommy and Daddy wanted me to get a full night’s sleep so they even tried sleeping in the living room so that I would have the bedroom all to myself and not wake up. It worked because even if I woke up I would put myself back to sleep. But then I would not be in as good a mood, even with the longer undisturbed sleep.

These days, if I wake up in the middle of the night having spotted Mommy and Daddy in bed, I will not put myself back to sleep no matter how long they wait and see if I’ll go back to sleep. So, one of them will now just take me out to the living room to sleep so that the other parent will be able to get an hour or two more of much needed sleep. Once I’m out in the living room, I sleep quite well on the couch with Mommy or Daddy, even though I may toss and turn into weird positions. The picture above is of me having fallen asleep in between Mommy’s lower legs.

We know this is not the ideal sleeping arrangement, but we are just trying to get some sleep. Eventually, I’ll be able to sleep longer without interruptions and also allow Mommy and Daddy to have undisturbed sleep. But for now, this is the best solution for our family.

I was so into playing with the beads maze at school today that I did not even hear my teachers calling my name. I was in the zone!