Conversations

Yesterday Ishish was eating breakfast while I made his lunch. Out of the blue he said "I no like Mama". He's never said anything like that before so I was caught off guard! My response: "You don't like me? Hmm. [sigh] Oh well".

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Before bed last night Ishish was having meltdown after meltdown. He wouldn't clean up his toy cars so they were left in the office (an extremely upsetting thing to him). I wondered if he'd care about that today. For the last week he's always played with them right away in the morning before I'd get him out of his room. Over the monitor this morning I heard him say "Where'd purple truck go? It's in office". He repeated that a couple times and then decided to look at a book instead.

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I had to get something out of the bathroom adjacent to his bedroom before I got him up this morning. He must have noticed I turned the light on because when I walked away he said "Where'd Mama go? Mama hiding". Then I returned to put the stuff away, and he said "Mama took socks off too". He must have been looking under the door! When I went in his room I found that indeed he had taken his socks off, which is unusual.

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Ishish was saying something during his snack this afternoon. I couldn't understand and kept trying to guess. Finally I thought I heard him say:

Ishish: I want to go Ms. Lucy's car to gym. [We often park near her car at preschool.]

me: You want to go to gym class in Ms. Lucy's car?

Ishish: Yeah.

me [baffled... where did that come from?]: Well, that explains why I didn't understand you!

Sleep

Apparently taking naps on the floor has become Ishish's new normal. Yesterday I had to wake him up, which gave me the chance to take pictures!

Mimicking

During Ishish's naptime yesterday I heard the water turn on in his sink. Alarmed, I went right into his room. I knew I had put the stool up high! I found him standing on the seat of his "big car" so that he could reach the water. He was filling up his AquaDoodle pens with water so that he could color on the mats. So... he wasn't actually trying to make a mess.

Later that night I was using them to color with him. He had me draw a bunny and some other things. I suggested he make his own picture, and he drew what looked like a blob... not too surprising. He told me he made "Kiks barf"! Umm... I guess our cats throw up a lot? After a minute he said "I need paper towel". I wasn't sure why he wanted one but went a brought a sheet back. He said "clean up barf" and proceeded to wipe the mat. I've heard that kids like to mimic what you do. I realized that there are some things we do way too often!

Easter

I was a little worried that with all the Easter egg hunts Ishish had over the past week the actual day of Easter wouldn't be very special. Fortunately he enjoyed himself a lot!

I found a spot for his basket that I thought would be slightly hidden but not too hard for him to find by himself.





Of course, Ishish took this day to sleep in and was snoring away when I went in to wake him up.



He was excited about the concept of finding his basket but when we got into the kitchen he froze... maybe he was confused? So Dada and I started to give him some hints "It's in the kitchen... maybe look at the cabinets... do any of them look different?" After what seemed like a long time he spotted it and rushed over. The big chocolate bunny caught his attention!



As usual, he played during his naptime. Right before I was going to get him up he fell asleep. When Dada went in a long time later to wake him up he found Ishish sleeping on the floor! Ishish said he had made his bed (lately he throws all the covers on the floor), but I guess there was no room left for him!



After supper we dyed Easter eggs. Ishish helped decide whose names should be on them and which color everyone got. By the end he'd even figured out how to lift the eggs with the dipper instead of using his fingers!