Todd is Five (Month 3)

AGE 5, MONTH 3
OCT 21 – NOV 20 (2019)

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Playing games on the phone: Tom Gold Run, Mr Bullet, Bottle Flip, Clumsy Ninja
Todd said, “I’m killing it here, on the Pitfall” (playing Pitfall on the old iPad)
“Show of the month”: Booba
Practice riding his new bike with training wheels
Drawing with his magnadoodle; he drew a boot (11/1); there’s increased use of parallel lines, scalloped lines and he likes to draw ‘maps’
Studying the rocks he took home from Walla Walla park
Watching Bruce Lee & imitating him (he calls him ‘Bruz Lee’)
Decorating one of our Christmas trees (11/20)

LEGO LIFE

Building with Legos; we built the Avengers Compound Battle set with our own pieces using the downloaded instructions (11/17)
New Lego set: Harvester Transport (he did a lot of it independently)

APPLE VALLEY GYMNASTICS
[3x this month]

PARKS

Eastmont park (2x), Washington park (1x), Pennsylvania park (“purple park”) (2x)
Walla Walla Point park (11/1, 11/2); playing at the park, throwing rocks, looking at the disgusting goose poop & cracking up
He likes to bring Hot Wheels cars to parks & roll them down the slide

PENNSYLVANIA PARK

On 10/27 we walked to Pennsylvania park. Todd played there & jumped into the leaf pile. We walked to Safeway & then back home. Todd picked up a dried hydrangea & wanted to keep it because he said, “It’s so pretty.”

WALLA WALLA POINT PARK

ERTH’S PREHISTORIC DINOSAUR SHOW
[10/25 @ the Performing Arts Center]

KINDERGARTEN

HALLOWEEN

Todd was dressed as a ninja; we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, then he wanted to get in the car to see his school, so went to one house before he said we were done

HEALTH & OTHER

Reading words: the, end, go, and, a, see, I, to
He reads with less effort now
Dentist appointment (11/4)
He counts to 20 & above without skipping numbers now
Todd said, “So this is my work, and this is cool. And this is my drawing for dada, and I love him and I love mama, and I love my work because my work is cool. And I’m gonna go out and see where is dada.” (see video, “110319 Magnadoodle”)

FOOD NOTES & DINING OUT

Dining out: Ice (10/26), Lemolo (10/30) before Todd’s conference; Taco Del Mar (11/1); Ice (11/2); El Porton (11/8); 509 Bierwerks & playing with their Duplos & foosball table (11/15); Carl’s Jr (11/17)
Todd’s Goppa consumption is way down