Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Laughing


Tani laughs a lot and is a lot of fun.  We have this book which has a page of different facial expressions children make such as "yuck!" and "huh?".  If we say one of these words and make the appropriate facial expression he'll just laugh and laugh and shout "Again!".  We can say it ten times in a row and it's still funny to him.  If you're reading this, try it out with Tani some time - guaranteed for laugh!   All three of us had a good laugh the other day over this next story.  Melissa had recounted to me in the evening that Tani ran out of the bathroom that morning waving a tampon shouting "I found a cheese stick in the bathroom!".  She told me this in front of Tani and when I heard the story I started laughing and then we all started laughing and Tani repeated "I found a cheese stick in the bathroom!" and then we all laughed some more and so on...  Today Tani picked up a pad of paper, a pencil, a pen, and a remote control.  He then wanted to open a door but his hands were full.  I always chuckle in these situations because he clearly has to go into problem solving mode.  Today he handed me first the pad of paper, then the pen and pencil which freed up a hand to open the door, but then he also handed me the remote control and then opened the door.  This has happened a number of times in the past - he's going somewhere, sees an object he wants to hold and gathers them up until he can't hold anything else and then has to figure out how to pick up the next thing. It's very cute.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

It's raining

It's been raining every day for almost a week now.  Since Tani loves to jump in puddles and he only has two pairs of shoes and each pair takes a couple of days to dry out, it seemed prudent to buy Tani some rain boots.  Tani loves his rain boots, which have smiling dragon faces on them.  He really jumps in the puddles with gusto now.  He rode his tricycle in the light rain Monday evening - he likes to drive through the puddles and he likes to go fast.   I had gone inside a few minutes before Tani and Melissa and I heard them outside.  I went out to investigate and saw that Tani had picked up a worm and was carrying it around.  He was trying to open the car door to take his worm in the car.  I said "Tani, do not go in the car with that worm!" and then ran away.

It's 8 AM Wednesday morning and Tani is still sleeping - he's usually up by 7 or 7:30.  He's up now, have to go...