dubious snack choice

We had a very nice day at home, just as I had hoped. I had wanted to take him to the playground when it was nice and sunny out, but he refused. He said he wanted to stay home and play with his toys. An hour later, he was begging to go to the playground, but then the heater repairman was on his way and David was just getting home, so mean Mommy said no. As I am writing this, I notice that I have no internet signal for the second evening in a row, so who knows when this one will post. That was a nice thing about being at the lake... Oh, hey, I got connected, let's see what happens... I'm composing frantically in Notepad...

Dennis got a lot of our undivided attention this evening. We played in our own yard, and as it turns out, the only thing his soon-to-be play structure actually has is a fireman's pole. He spent a merry hour climbing up and sliding down it, saying he loved having his own fire station. We have deliberately avoided letting him climb it until now since he learned to slide down poles this week. This one is much higher than the playground's though, and he has to lean out much further, so David got pretty unnerved watching him. We decided after seeing how tired and sloppy he was getting to stop him from sliding any more. We got out the tee ball set and played with that for a long time. It was just nice being outside in our own big yard!

Tonight David went searching for munchies and came back to the den with a snack sized bag of cocoa roasted almonds. Dennis said he wanted one and when he got one, said "what is this?" and I told him it was a chocolate almond. He looked at it, looked at me, looked at it again, looked me straight in the eye seriously and said "Mommy, is this dog food?". When I finished laughing, I reassured him it was not. He ate it and liked it, and soon it was tooth-brushing time (he's learning to rinse and spit real toothpaste now) and story reading time (The Sugarplum Tree tonight, one of my favorite childhood poems) and then he got up five times in a row. Guess it's going to take some getting used to for him being back in his own room. It's a lot lighter in the room at the lake compared to his very dark room here. I hope he readjusts soon. I also hope his darker room allows him to start sleeping past 6 am!