Saturday!
Eric took a bath this morning. He played with his rubber ducky and his toy boat. I opened another of the compressed egg towels that he got for Easter. It is a wash cloth compressed very tightly into the shape of a small egg. It expands and opens when it gets wet. We played with this for a while. I showed Eric how to squeeze all of the water out of the towel. It was so cute to watch him squeezing with both hands and making a scrunched up face. We did this over and over until I showed him how to open the towel and lay it flat across the top of the water. Then we pushed down in the middle. He was fascinated and did this many times until it was time to get out of the bath.
It is the weekend, so we managed to have some fun along the way. We ran around the pool table chasing each other and laughing. We played ball in the hallway. We watched his favorite TV shows: Dora, Umi, Barney, and Word World. This evening just before bedtime, we intiated “Project Castle Relocation” to move his castle from the living room to the poker room. This was no simple task. Carrying the main castle structure was easy. The side castle and the drawbridges requires significant re-assembly. Some minor architectural changes were made for structural and cosmetic reasons. Eric did very well with replacing all of the letters, numbers, and shapes to their appropriate tiles.
I read two of Eric’s favorite books before settling him in for the night: “Peanut” and “Lullaby Moon”. He insisted that I read each book several times, which I happily agreed.