Afternoon Fun!

I know I have said this many times, Byron is such a gem. I love...

...the ways he can make me smile inside for no real apparent reason;
...how he makes me take note of the simple things;
...his big blue eyes;
...his tight cuddles;
...his cute little bottom;
...the way he holds a crayon;
...him!

I picked him up from kindy today, as always. Before I like him to see me, I like to watch him. He might be playing on the play gym, in the sand pit or running around after his little friends. Strange as it may sound, I love watching him carrying on with his own devices. I find it so interesting...the innocence of a child.

When we get in the car, Byron usually asks without fail, "watch you been up to?". My response is usually consistent with what I have been up to (in layman’s terms of course ). He will then usually respond with, "what else you been up to?". "Not much" is usually my response! I will of course then ask him what he has been up to. Today he responded with "I didn’t do some painting today". Huh??? I think the question was what you did do today, not what you didn’t do. I should point out, that Byron’s new thing is to ask everyone that he meets what they have been up to today, with this serious concerted look on his face – it really is priceless!

His routine when he gets home from kindy is a glass of milk – sometimes he gets chocolate or Milo but only when he has been a good boy. There is no hope in hell of getting him to do anything until he gets the glass of milk. He likes to sit down and watch "Stanley", "The Bear in the Big Blue House", and his favourite, "Little Einstein" (all of which premiere on the Playhouse Disney Channel and aid in the preparation of dinner ), and drink the milk. In addition to his favourite shows I often give him his crayons and paper to do some colouring in.

I purchased for him yesterday, his first real colouring in book – "My Bumper Animal Colouring Book". It is so exciting to venture into the creative side of parenthood, beyond plain paper and poster paints. Previously his colouring has consisted of a mass of scribbles on a plain piece of paper. To his excitement, he recently learnt how to hold a crayon properly ("like mummy"). Now that he has a little more control, the next step is to get him to colour ‘within the lines’. Today’s effort was an improvement which included an orange chicken, orange flower and orange butterfly. Whilst the colouring was scribble, I am pleased to say the majority of the colour was centred over the designated object in question (albeit not completely within the lines) and not all over the page. A great effort!

Before ending today’s entry I thought I might add a few words that Byron has difficulty in pronouncing...

"Hokeanger" – Coat Hanger
"Kimpooter" – Computer
"Bob the Booder" – Bob the Builder