Today Dennis wanted to eat us out of house and home. He woke up cranky from his nap and didn't perk up until I told him that I'd bought him a banana at the store today. I cut it up for him and put it on a plate and he immediately dried his tears and began cramming as much banana as would fit (plus some) into his mouth, giggling as he shoved in carefully cut up bites. Why did I bother? He was still hungry and asked for more banana so I had to dig the peel out of the trash and show him that it was empty. And I had to give him some goldfish crackers. This still didn't fully appease him, so I got out the Cocoa Puffs and told him what they were as I put them on his plate. When he finished them, he brought the plate into the kitchen and said "Mama Co-cos", so I gave him a few more. He kept repeating "co-cos" and laughing. After supper, he went back to the plate of cereal on his table and ate a few more, then said "uh-oh all gone". Then he brought the plate to me and said "co-cos" again. Clearly we've decided on a favorite cereal and snack.
The other super cute thing he did today: he went to the window and saw the trees blowing in the wind (we're having some severe weather tonight as it changes from a high of 72 degrees today to a high in the 40's tomorrow) and said "uh-oh trees". Then he called me over to the window and said "Mama frogs" and I listened and heard all the frogs singing outside. They are always loud on rainy days. Then he sat on the window sill and said "chair". I really couldn't argue with him.
There was a period of immense quiet, and we wondered what he was doing. When we went looking, we found him sitting happily on the floor in his room playing with his farm. I went in to play with him for awhile, and he moved the animals from the barn to the stable and back. He loaded a cow in the horse trailer and then removed it and put a horse in. He hooked the trailer up to the truck, put the farmer in the truck, and said "bye bye" and drove them away from the farm. Then he put another little person in the tractor and drove him around. We had a nice time playing and he wasn't in the least disturbed when I left to go to the kitchen and make some tea. He was so happy playing alone, and the play was pretty sophisticated. We again thanked God for our happy, easy child.
Today he said "hug" and then went and hugged the dog several times. I don't know if she understood what was happening, but she let him do his hugging. We'd been asking him if he could be a little nicer to Honey, to pet her more gently and to stop trying to bounce up and down on her whenever she is lying down. He must have felt apologetic and decided to give her hugs instead. Yes, it was as cute as it sounds. I am overwhelmed by all the cute that's going on around here.
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