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| May 27, 2014 I am born! |
6:00 AM We're off to the races!! Typical morning
routine: I express a desire for breakfast. Nana whips up a bowl of
"tasty" yogurt and blueberries. Two bites and I am ready to get DOWN
from Nana's lap and UP on Pa's lap for...
6:30 AM Breakfast Take #2: eggs!! Sometimes I hate
these yellow things! Today I love them! It's called keeping them on their toes!
7:00 AM Playtime!! I rotate between throwing and
catching a ball (remarkably well), and my electronic English/ Chinese
"Cognition Books" (20 or so buttons to push with images on them. Two
options to hear them in the two languages.) I am a superstar!!!
8:00 AM Get dressed! I don't need a fresh diaper! I
am happy being wringing wet!! AND I want to continue to wear my pajama bottoms as
a fashion statement. Shoes? No way!! Let's head out into the yard in bare
piggies!
9:00 AM A saintly parent pushes me in my stroller
to the train station. Trains are my reason for living!!! I am at Oreland
Station so often that the conductors wave to me! Already plotting for the day I
get my Eurailpass and bust out of here!! Toot toot!!
10:00 AM Time for TV! You can keep your Real Housewives of NYC, I've got my Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends! If
the weather is too icky to be outside, I will hang in for an episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood but honestly
feel that the total innocence and lack of ironic undertone is a little
"young" for me.
11:00 AM Snack time! I will either a) eat 10,000
grapes and an entire box of goldfish or b) skip the whole thing. What will I do
today? I'm not telling!!
11:30 AM Throw a ball to/at Nana, and laugh
hysterically as she pretends to be wounded. Nana is also good for blowing
bubbles (my other current obsession). She doesn't mind if I throw the ball onto
the piano keys because it is SO FUN to hear the sound it makes. She will leave
it to my Mom and Dad to undo the damage when I am in third grade and still
hurling balls at Steinways.
12:00 Getting tired now. Should be ready for a nap.
Operative word is "should." I would rather scream and fuss awhile
first. Clears the lungs!!
12:30 OK, OK I surrender!!! But before I retire to
my crib I require: a drink of water, my blue blanket from Aunt C, Mom's blanket
so I can smell her, my 50,000 stuffed friends, a selection of my favorite board
books, and one of my little trains (of course). Off to Slumberland!!
2:30 Waaah!!! Lest you forget, there's a baby in
the house!! I awaken in a foul mood, allowing only Mama to hold me until I
really come to. Eventually I realize that I am STARVING. Mama juggles me in her
arms as she heats up my noodles, meat and vegetables. Don't put me down, Ma!!
3:00 Let's go to the park! Raining? Freezing?
Broiling hot? No matter!! I need my exercise! Let's climb and slide and swing
and run around flinging wood chips!!
4:00 Home again and I'm on the alert for: Airplanes
up in the sky! School buses in front of the house! Trucks and cars rumbling and
roaring through the neighborhood! Glad I am on duty to keep East Oreland safe!
5:00 Baba (Daddy) is home!!!!! My joy is complete!
He lets me jump on him and he swings me upside down and backwards!! Baba and I
build "da bridge" out of Brios for my trains, and it takes a
satisfyingly long time. Dinner is being prepared, but at this point I am only
interested in...cookies and ice cream!!! It is my daily challenge to
"sweet "talk one of my grownups into giving me dessert before
supper--and I usually win!!
6:00 Starting to wind down, but I will never
surrender!!! I may be lying on the floor pushing a toy car back and forth for
fifteen minutes, but I am ever ready to snap into action! I' m awake! I'm
awake!
6:30 Dinner! I get a kick out of holding hands with
everybody and saying grace, even though I have no clue what they are saying.
Whatever is on the menu, I am interested for precisely three minutes or three
bites, whichever comes first! Then down from the high chair I go!!
7:00 Lala time!! There's a Chinese song calling
baths "lalas" so that's good enough for me! I splash splash for at
least a half hour, and most enjoy standing up and throwing bath toys around
because that's just how I roll! Lalas forever!!
7:30 This is where I shine--stalling!! If Baba or
Mama is practicing an instrument, I am all ears and adorable reactions. If Pa
is watching the baseball on TV, by gum so am I! Anything but the dreaded
C-R-I-B!
8:00 Maybe the crib isn't so bad after all. I am
WIPED OUT. But I will not go gentle into that good night without two drinks
of water, my blue blanket from Aunt C, Mama's blanket so I can smell her, 50,000 stuffed friends, a different selection of board books, all of which
include a "good night" theme (not that I pay them any heed) and my
"yaats." "Yaats" means lights and they are some of my very
favorite things. I need a yaats or two before I can settle down. Maybe three.
Who cares? Am I paying the electric bill? I didn't think so!
8:30ish I call it a night. At least, that is my
grownups' wish. They want a few minutes to unwind without chasing me all over
creation. I don't want to spoil them, so I often keep the party going for an
hour or more, until they are slumped, snoring, in front of my crib. Victory is
mine!
Sleep quick, my grownups!! The whole things starts
again in just a few hours!!
Seriously, though, today is my Aiden's second birthday. I cannot imagine
life without him, and adore him in ALL his many moods. God bless you, my little
darling, today and always!
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