Mason Shoma

I was cleared for our walk at school today! I was so happy to go outside with my classmates and my teachers! My teachers found some dandelions and made them flutter away! It was really cool!

If you listen carefully at the beginning of the video, you can hear me singing to myself while playing. Not any particular song, just a tune I made up.

Just kidding! I didn’t do any cleaning. I make messes, not clean.

I had to put up this little partition to get some privacy while reading my books in the morning. Daddy is always watching me!

By the time Mommy picks me up from school and brings me home, I’m pretty thirst and hungry. And when I’m hungry I am not in the best of moods. I get a bit fussy and needy. Which is to my disadvantage because by needing to be carried I make it more difficult for Mommy to get my dinner ready, so I delay my own mealtime, which upsets me. I know that I should be more patient, but I’m a baby, and we can be quite demanding and unreasonable at times.

At least I can quench my thirst right away.

I always wondered who picked up after me while I was at school. It wasn’t cleaning elves after all. It was Daddy! And I heard Mommy does the same after I go to bed! Thanks folks! It is just all the more fun to make new messes!

I woke up today feeling so much better than before. It was a pretty tough three days, but I was a trooper and made it through and was even able to have some fun too! I’m glad that my fever subsided before school today. I was back to normal and happy to be at school, but just to be on the safe side I stayed back at the nursery school while the others went for their walk.

I wasn’t alone. One of my classmates also had a fever over the weekend and missed out on the excursion to the zoo as well. Daddy was talking to his mother and it seems that he has been getting a lot of fevers as well and has not had a full week of school yet. I guess that babies our age all get a lot of fevers at the beginning of starting school. It must be our immune system building up its defenses.

Being back at school was great, but I think I should work on being a more attentive student. I wasn’t really paying attention during our safety lecture today.

Even with a fever, I have a pretty good appetite. This is good because it gives Mommy and Daddy one less thing to worry about. But I was an especially good eater this morning since my fever broke. I’m feeling a lot better.

I had a lot of energy and was excited to play in the morning before school.

Can you believe that I still have my fever? I can’t seem to shake it. It even got a little worse today, rising as high as 39°C (102.2°F). I slept a lot in the morning.

Then I started to feel better in the afternoon. I could play a lot more and explore a lot. I actually was so active that Mommy and Daddy had to create some quiet time to let me rest.

After a very active afternoon, I had my dinner and then had a bath. And then my fever broke. My temperature dropped down back to normal and I seemed to be back to my normal happy self. It was a tough three days, but I feel much better now. I’m sure this will not be the last time I get a fever, but I’m glad I know I can survive even the tough ones. I’m so happy to feel normal again and look forward to going to nursery school tomorrow. Let’s just hope there are no more surprise fevers. Keep your fingers crossed.

Naturally, it is important to keep hydrated when you have a fever, so I make sure to drink my electrolytes. But come to think of it, the moisturizer is unnecessary. I don’t see how soft skin will help me deal with this fever. I guess skin care is a daily thing.

Today I managed to nap in my crib. It is not often that I take my nap there. I usually am put to sleep by Mommy or Daddy rocking me to sleep and then usually just nap on them. But somehow they got me to nap in my crib. I wonder if this is going to become a thing.

So like I said, I was feeling relatively good for having a pretty high fever. So even though I was supposed to be taking it easy, I still was pretty active.

And it goes without saying that I had to read a lot of books today. Like I said, I was very busy. I read books in the morning and all the way up till bedtime.

I woke up quite early in the morning and my fever had gotten worse. I woke up crying at around 4 and Daddy picked me up and was shocked by how hot I was. He had a hard time getting me back to my sleep because I was so uncomfortable with my fever. He had to rock me and sing “This old man” to me. He hasn’t done that in a very long time. I was able to go back to sleep but it was a restless sleep. My fever was now 38.7°C (101.7). We kept hoping that it would go down before it was time to leave for my parent/child excursion to the zoo, but alas, it did not. It’s too bad. We were all really looking forward to it. But I needed more rest and also it is also not a very safe time to be around others when you have a fever, even if it is most likely a side-effect of inoculations. So it was day at home for me. Luckily, despite my fever, I was feeling pretty good (compared to yesterday when I had a lower fever but was feeling pretty tired).

No matter how great the zoo would have been, I’m still happy to be at home with Mommy and Daddy. Our time together is just as fun, exciting, and important as excursions out in the big wide world.

Sometimes even the simple things are so nice to do together.

I had a restful day with a lot of naps. My fever is still lingering, but with any luck it will be gone by tomorrow. Obachan came over to take care of me in the afternoon, and I was quite happy to see her. But I didn’t really see much of her because I was asleep most of the time. It is tough being a baby and having to develop my immune system like this. It is a lot for a little body to take, but I’m quite the trooper and am doing quite well despite the fever.

Just because I have a fever doesn’t mean I’m going to give up on my books. I need to read my books every day.

I woke up with a fever this morning. It could be a reaction to my inoculations yesterday. Whatever the reason, I don’t feel very good. I’ve had fevers before and I was still in a pretty good mood, but today I am so tired, uncomfortable, and lethargic.

Of course, I stayed home from nursery school. Tomorrow we have an excursion to the zoo and I want to be in my best form for that. So I’m going to take it easy today and rest. That shouldn’t be a problem. I’m so so so run down.

Nap after nap after nap. I pretty much slept for an hour, woke up, played a bit, and went back to sleep for another hour. I wanted to be active, but I just didn’t have the energy in me.

After my bath I suddenly remembered that I had some filing to do. So instead of putting it off I got right to it. I didn’t even bother getting dressed.

I had to get more inoculations today. I was not happy about that. However, Mommy took a half day off to take me so it was nice that I got so see more of her. When we got to the hospital, I heard some other girl screaming and thought, “Oh yeah, this place, where babies cry and scream.” Naturally, I cried a bit, but I was a trooper and got over it fairly quickly. But like I said, I was not happy about getting more inoculations. So I showed my feelings when we got home.

I was feeling pretty drowsy during our morning walk today. You can see it my eyes. I was just staring off into the distance and eventually fell asleep. It is too bad, because I missed the chance to see Daddy. After he dropped me off at school he went grocery shopping and ran into our group on our walk as he headed home. He said hi to my teachers and peeked inside the buggy to say hi to me, but I was fast asleep.

Just watching some TV before heading off to nursery school and giving the buckles on my carrier a safety inspection.