lately, Ezra has indicated that some of his toys are crying. he doesn’t offer any reason for why they cry, just that they are indeed crying. he then proceeds to bash the toys about like he usually does, so he doesn’t seem to be giving the crying toys any special treatment. I wish I knew why the toys were crying?
By Ezra
They are awesome.
I hate standing in line, but standing in line for forty minutes for a hayride to a pumpkin patch with Ezra is worth the wait. I actually didn’t mind standing because I knew he would enjoy the hayride because ever since the hayride last week he has wanted another hayride.
This hayride was long, muddy and bumpy, and Ezra smiled the whole way to the pumpkin patch and from the pumpkin patch with our pumpkins. We got two. One with warts all over and one that is smooth and near round.
We took our pumpkins and a hayride back to the barns and sheds and shops with Ezra smiling and already asking for another hayride. We then looked at ducks, goats, rabbits and a lama, and he asked for another hayride; then we shared fry bread, corn-on-the-cob and a hamburger, and he asked for another hayride; then Ezra selected, and we bought a small pumpkin and a gourd that looked like a used candle, and he asked for another hayride, but the day was late and his passion not that great and the wait would have been an hour or more, so instead of a hayride he got a car ride home, which induced a nap and a few more calls for another hayride.
Ezra told me, ,,Círculo,” to help him build a circle with the wooden train track. Typically this circle then becomes the boundary of a parking or living area for cars and trucks. So, we were building the círculo of track and then he said for me to, ”Do this,” but, ”Do this,” meant doing something that wouldn’t have helped create the círculo of track. So, I tried to explain to him that we couldn’t make a circle if we laid the track the way he was wanting it to be laid. He said, ”Do this, do this,” and laid the track to make a wavy train line away from the incomplete circle then he began telling me to, ”Círculo, círculo. Círculo,” but he also wanted me to, ”Do this,” and I didn’t know what to do because there wan’t enough track despite getting 100 new pieces to make a círculo while laying track away from the point of the original círculo plan.
The days are getting shorter, which means less time to go to the park. During the summer, when Ezra would announce his desires to go to the park, we would go. Or we would wait and go after dinner. These days, whenever Ezra expresses those park wishes, I look out the window and see that it’s getting dark, and so I have to tell him that it’s too late to go to the park. Lately, he will also look out the window at night, or first thing in the morning, and see that it is dark and so he will tell me that it’s too late to go to the park. Fortunately, preschool has a huge playground in the backyard where, weather permitting, the kids all get to play at the end of the day. Equally fortunate is that the weather has been permitting. So now when we come home, we generally play with the trains and other inside toys before and after dinner, even though I am pretty sure he’d rather be out at the park.
Ezra got some cloths from Grandma O today. Ezra wanted to wear them all as we pulled them from box. The fire engine shirts, the Lighting McQueen (of the movie Cars) pajamas and shirts. He could barely wait for the cloths to be washed. But he did wait, and we reminded him when he didn’t want to take a bath that he could put on one of the new shirts after the bath, so then he was happy to take a bath. And then after the bath Ezra was excited to wear the shirts. It did take us putting on and taking off three shirts until he calmed down for the one he wore tonight for sleep and the one he will likely be wearing tomorrow for playcare. The shirt has fire trucks.
Ezra’s request of me when I came home from work was for me to play with his toys. So I did. And we had fun.
So, Ezra has a daily, some times hourly, some times by the minute routine of cycling through a list of people and asking where they are. He will ask were his pre-school classmates are. He will ask: where’s Grandpa and Grandma T; where’s Grandma O; Where’s Grandpa and Grandma Oster. Then he will continue with Uncle Dylan and great uncles and great aunts then begin again a minutes later or a day later. There really is no order nor is there a given reason why he begins to ask where. We just answer knowing it is good to know he remembers family and friends. And he is learning his geography as we try to give him accurate guess of where these people could be.
I was a chaperone for Ezra’s preschool trip to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday. A lot of work! But super fun too. We got to see puppies, pigs, baby cows, chickens, goats and llamas. Each kid got to pick their own pumpkin. We all went on a hay ride with a real tractor pulling us along. We rode down a slide and the kids bounced and bounced in the bouncy house. And last but not least, the kids rode ponies! I didn’t think Ezra would ride one at first. He surprised me by not only wanting to ride the horse, but being very specific about which one he wanted to ride. He wanted to ride the WHITE pony. No other pony would do. Fortunately for us, the little girls in the group were willing to ride the other brown ponies, even though I’m pretty sure all the girls wanted the white pony as well. And fortunately for me, the white pony was very well mannered, and Ezra had a safe and fun ride, ending his (safe) and fun trip to the pumpkin patch!
Today it took some topical cream in Ezra’s bum, two diapers changes to find the right diaper Ezra wanted, reading three books, playing with his trucks, fussing it out for a few minutes, then another diaper change for the diaper he selected, then have -v- and me help build a car garage, then he was near happy. To get him finally out the door, it took him looking at a big book with stickers in the book and getting a sticker of a transport truck stuck to his favorite John Deer tractor t-shirt, which he had been wearing since yesterday, but this morning was no morning to ask him to take off his favorite shirt and put on a new shirt.
The last two nights, Ezra has asked for the light to be left on at bed time.
Is he growing afraid of the dark or is this just another of his bedtime
Delaying tactics? I try to placate him by leaving the door ajar and the
Hall light on rather than leaving the light on in his room.
I’m really hoping he will not be afraid of the dark like I think I was!
No pre-school for Ezra, so I remained home with him, and we had a great time. He and I made a train track. We read books. We strolled to the fire station. We shared a muffin. We played at the park. We looked at pictures. Then after his nap we created a town with all his various blocks, cars, trucks, trains, container and toys. After we had been playing with cars in the town for awhile, Ezra decided he needed to go to work, so he picked up his mini-lunch pale and pack full of toys then said, ,,Daddy, kiss,” as he stepped to me navigating his snot covered lips to mine. As I stared at his snot covered lips, I felt loved because he’s never gave me the soft peck kiss of affection that he has given to -v-. I was happy to kiss his snotty lips as he walked off to work, which was over by the windows in the main living area. I’m not sure what he does for work.
…It was a tiring time with Ezra, but it was a great time. By the end of the day, he was calling out for, ”Daddy, daddy,” then running to hug me.
There was a binky incident after Ezra’s last known binky was damaged beyond use by Ezra’s sucking and chewing on binky. The binky had holes, so we took the binky from Ezra, so he wouldn’t chew of the nipple and swallow it. And we cut the nipple off the binky, and Ezra found some comfort in holding the binky with the nipple cut until bed time. It was during bed time the fussing began. Then by chance and some looking around Ezra’s room -v- found another binky that had been lost months ago, so Ezra has a binky to sleep.
It’s pre-school, no is playshool.
I was out for Futsal tonight, and -v- was home with EeZee - Oh, and -v- wasn’t feeling good but not totally bad because of the mild cold I have gave her, which I think I got from EeZee - Oh.
-v- had two hours until EeZee - Oh’s night-night time. -v- pulled the Cars Card and watch the movie Cars with EeZee - Oh because she was feeling like I was feeling when I pulled the Cars Card nights ago and watched Cars with EeZee - Oh.
It’s a Cars Card because it is the easiest way to subdue EeZee - Oh for two hours on those nights when you don’t have the energy to read him all the books, and play trains, and say the ABC’s, and talk because you are sick and tired.