Happy Father’s Day Bob! Below is my annual Father's Day blog - favorite memories from emails and IM chats that Bob sends me throughout the year. Click here for installment one and here for installment two.
We read books (not library ones) and Matt made us each read separate books and alternate reading pages.
He made me take pictures of his trucks lined up in the living room while he posed on the couch and then wanted to look at the pictures of himself. We played tea party in the bath.
When we left my work Matt fell asleep before we even passed 171 and then slept until about 5. I also took a nap from 3:45 to 5.
Matt's best friends at karate are "Jack, Bill, and Buzz Lightyear".
The Easter bunny is a "fat Pepper girl". He also said "the Easter bunny didn't talk to me" which is true.
Matt just arrived with a blanket over his head, telling me he is spooky.
Matt took one of our extra pillows to bed and he said he needs it for when he comes into our room tonight to sleep.
He's here already. "Dad I'm sneezing so much" (after one sneeze). He's here with every blanket and stuffed dog he owns.
He also told me at bath time that he would like to wear underwear to bed. I told him the 3 of us would talk about it and then he cried that I had to carry him to dinner because he broke his feet.
I covered Pepper but only because Matt burst into tears when I told him we were going to let her get rained on.
Matt told me "Diesel the girl" visited today (Hazel). We played post office. There is a large pile of crinkled construction paper on his art desk. That was the wrapping paper for the "packages" we mailed.
Matt asked if we could go on our trip "this evening". I told him 5 more days.
"Those are mad thunderstorms," Matt.
One of Mamie's kids came over to show Matt a giant beetle he caught. Not an Asian Longhorn Beetle thankfully. He calls you "Jessie Porsche" and he is "Buzz Lightyear Stickers". Stickers for Lighting Mcqueen and Porsche for Sally
Just went to check on Matt and he is sleeping on his floor. which was not where I put him to bed.
Came home and took apart your camera then threw it away.
At dinner when he wanted more milk, he told me he was a "thirsty thirsty hippo".
When it came time to pick up and he was annoying. He wanted his Spiderman happy meal toy to help put each thing away, which was going so slow that we would have been there till 10PM
He insists on staying up all night so that Jesse will take him to The Claw's birthday party when she gets home.
Matt was good tonight. He helped me put up the new light fixture in the laundry room. Actually he mostly rode his scooter around in there.
This morning, I think he was in the hallway waiting for the alarm clock because as soon as it went off, he came running and said "oh is that our alarm? “
Matt just snuck into our room. His giggling gave him away
Matt's here again. He can't find spider man.
We mostly played sequence which took forever because he insisted the mailman truck would deliver the colored chips.
It’s kind of funny to think I took Matt to Patriots when he was 3 months old. He was so tiny and just a blob who did nothing.
He saw a cut on my thumb and asked what it was. I told him it was from working outside this weekend. He said "oh did a chipmunk come and try to give you a hug?"
Thomas and Hiro played cash register. I wasn't allowed to touch the cash register, only the trains could and they congratulated each other for playing the games well.
He colored and made some goodbye cards for Marin and Andrew. The one to Marin says:
I like to run and play tag and hide and go seek with you. And trip and fall down. That's our game. I drew a picture of Maine for you. And there is ice." The one to Andrew says: "I like to jump up in the sky with you and fall down and jump. And monster truck crush cars and space ship toys. I like your toys and want to say "no that's mine!". I like all your toys"
He said he needed to go to bed so he would have energy to think about Boston tomorrow.
We have a weird kid! He told me he hasn't slept good recently because Hiro talks to him at night.
When I got there he was playing cars with another boy that Matt wants to come over for a playdate. He doesn't know his name, just that he wears a white shirt.
Matt is reading books in his room by flashlight, he picked up your love of books.
We went to get stamp. Zurg came too. Oh first Zurg called Buzz Lightyear on the phone to tell him he was going to the toy store.
Ms. Joanne said they had circle time and each kid was introducing himself and he introduced himself as Buzz which she thought was very funny.
At home we had to let Zurg out of the garage to go to school (he goes to night school).
You got a Victoria's Secret coupon book in the mail which Matt called "boobies and bums" and said "don't tell Jessie we like bad words".
Matt kept saying to me tonight "show me the car fax".
When we got home, he told me he had so much fun at the special day at Friendly's so it was worth it.
He said, “This spaceship smells funny. It smells like pineapples"
He was playing Legos with Ben when I got there. I thought he said they were making a "sewer" but later at home he was playing Legos and I realized he said "shooter" because he made a gun so I told him no shooters.
We got a toys r us ad in the mail that had lots of trains in it. I was looking at it during dinner, and he noticed "gasp....MISTY ISLAND ENGINES!!!!!!!!!" Then he looked at it for about an hour. I think he is still looking at it with his flashlight actually, I can hear him.
He told me a story about Dash and Bash going to jail for causing an accident, and Murdoch came to get them out and they all went to the airport.
Miss Joanne told me how when they put their frog magnets on the pictures of how they feel today, matt likes to put his frog upside down on the face that says he feels silly today
He had a bath which at the end he said "that was an awesome bath" probably because he splashed me so much.
One day he quietly told me he would like to run into my arms when I get there and have me pick him up.
He put on a magic show where he said abracadabra and made a lot of things "disappear" under Banana Who
When I got there they had lined up all the chairs and were playing school bus driving to Mcdonald's.
For dinner he asked me "please can you put a blanket on my hot dog". I didn't really know what he meant and he said "like when we watched sports" so he meant pigs in a blanket.
When I picked matt up, the boys were playing super heros. There was a lot of lazers and falling on the floor and rolling around going on. Matt dramatically ran to me and fell to the ground and pretended he couldn't move.
I needed a little break from reading and asked him to tell me when it was 6 3 0 on the clock. The next thing I knew, I woke up and it was 7:15 and he was asleep under the covers next to me in bed along with all his iron men under the covers with me. I tried to wake him up to get his jammies on but he said "no I'm playing".
"5 Guys! I had been thinking about that all day at school!" --- Matt upon seeing the 5 Guys bag in my car (I had stopped on the way home). We are so alike... both thinking about 5 guys all day.
At home he was very angry that the baby is taking so long to get here so we looked at pictures of when he was a baby. He was very mad he wasn't wearing diapers when he came out of you.
When I got to school, Matt and CJ were drawing maps of how to get to each other's house.
He shot his hockey puck at the basement door which didn't really make me happy
but he seems excited about hockey so that's good.
When I picked Matt up he told me he went potty 100 times at school and Ms. Joanne confirmed that was true.
At home we played hungry hippos and candy land. candy lane went on forever
every time he moved, he insisted on making his piece dance and sing about dancing, “dancy dancy dancy dancy dancy”
He also made up a song about ah 1 ah 2 ah 3 ah 4 put banana who in the refrigerator and mix her all up
They were watching Star Command when I picked Matt up. Ms Joanne said he was basically reciting the movie for the kids.
As Matt told me, meenie minnie mo, cut a scissor, there you go.
He did a lot of swords tonight. making swords out of blocks. drawing swords.. magna doodle swords. no matter how many times I told him I hate swords
Matt keeps calling me to ask questions, but not real questions, “Dad I have two questions. did you know the sun comes up in the day and the moon at night?”
There is a trio block robot waiting to scare you when you open the door. He may be a friendly robot, not really sure but he is waiting for you.
Matt was too busy "relaxing" in his bed to get up. I guess he really loves that bed.
He asked me to draw him a picture of a hockey player and Buzz Lightyear saving the world:
