Todd is Five (Month 8)

Todd at ~5 years, 8 years old – April 18, 2020

AGE 5, MONTH 8
MAR 21 – APR 20 (2020)

HOME & OUTSIDE ENTERTAINMENT

  • Favorite Movie: Croods
  • Show: Morphle
  • Book: Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, Mr. Books
  • Favorite new game app: Scary Teacher
  • Watching YouTube channel Game Play Adventure (the guy plays games with long fingernails & makes funny sounds in a different language, which cracks us up)
  • Todd made a forest picture for Eli: “To Eli, I love you, Eli”
  • Making marble mazes with cardboard, hot glue and straws
  • Lots & lots of playing ‘doctor’ with hurt shoulder/arm in sling and doing surgery like what Eric had done
  • Singing/playing ukulele; his song “And Then”
  • Quoting lines from movies (Spies Like Us) “Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor” & (The Meaning of Life) “I really want the machine that goes bing!”
  • Eric made a table surface for the deck
  • Playing card games outside: Eye spy, Blackjack, Hulk choose! (4/9)
  • Spending lots of time on the deck (i.e., having dinner outside, making art)
  • The Easter Bunny brought Todd the Frozen II movie; he had fun looking for plastic eggs & thanked the EB (unprompted)
  • Playing outside on the grass with ball, T-ball, doing ‘moves’, sitting on skateboard & playing with Juan & Giovanni
  • Todd said:
    • “I’m sick” (when he doesn’t like something- usually a song)
    • “What did you say, if I might ask?
Playing games on the new table surface – April 9, 2020
Dinner on the deck – April 13, 2020

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

  • Watching The Gods Must Be Crazy & cracking up watching the naked butts; Todd kept rewinding it (3/21)
  • Eric said, “Todd don’t rewind it. The best butts are coming up.”
  • Todd said, “But I want to see the bad butts” (watching The Gods Must Be Crazy)
  • Todd said, “Bye-bye butt show” (when I turned it off)

FUN ACTIVITIES

  • Walking to the elementary school & butt boarding on the skateboard (3/21)
  • Playing at Rotary Park (3/26)
  • Playing at St Joe’s playground (typically walk / bike ride there) (3/26 – 4/6); buttboarding, basketball, playing with kids / new friend Michael
  • On 4/6 the playground equipment at St Joe’s was roped off, so Todd played in the dirt/sand area
  • Playing his version of “Scary Teacher” in the grass
  • Cashmere pump track (brief spurt of biking but mostly running around); throwing rocks at the river & climbing up the hillside (he was more interested in climbing than throwing rocks)
  • Todd said: “Dada was a dud wall ball player”
March 26, 2020
March 27, 2020
April 5, 2020
The day the playground equipment was blocked off – April 6, 2020
By the river in Cashmere – April 18, 2020

BUTTBOARDING

Todd said, “I can beat you on the skateboard with my eyes closed”

LEARNING TO BIKE RIDE (NO TRAINING WHEELS)

April 6, 2020
Biking on the Loop Trail (Hydropark) – April 12, 2020

HIKING

Tyee Ridge (Brief, WA) – March 21, 2020
Todd hiking at the Jacobson Preserve – April 10, 2020
Family selfie on Castle Rock trail – April 11, 2020
Eric & Todd hiking at Jacobson Preserve – April 19, 2020

KINDERGARTEN

  • School from home continues. We found out school was going to be out for the rest of the school year.
  • We pick up a new packet every Monday & then Todd gets a take-out personal pan pizza (no cheese) for ‘Pizza Monday’
  • Todd meets with his teacher every Tuesday
  • No school for Todd on Easter Monday (4/13)
  • He loves watching Ms. R’s lesson with ‘Freckles’ on compound words; he makes jokes, “double decker bus,” etc.
Todd’s picture of cherries falling off trees/bushes, a butterfly and a man – April 16, 2020
April 17, 2020

FOOD NOTES

  • He likes dipping romaine lettuce in balsamic vinegar
  • He tried spring roll skin (the clear kind made of tapioca flour) & liked it
  • He asked to eat a walnut (shocker!) & liked it
  • When he eats watermelon, he nibbles well into the white of the rind
  • Juicing orange/watermelon to make popsicles
  • Take out: Chipotle (2x), Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas for Todd (7x), Burger King Impossible burgers
  • He said, “I want something refreshing”
Eating plain spring roll skin – April 17, 2020

SLEEP

  • We put up the tent on Todd’s bed to sleep in
  • Todd said he had a bad dream: he was going to eat some chocolate, but then it had peanuts in it so he spit it out because he’s allergic
  • Sleepover with Elisa 1x
  • Todd fell asleep on couch (4/15)
4:36 pm – April 15, 2020

HEALTH & MISC

  • Todd seems to have a seasonal allergy
  • A right lower molar started poking through!
  • He helps put his own sunscreen on
  • Todd said, “Now take this off [my hair scrunchie]. It will look more beautiful like this” (touching my hair & smiling)
Right lower molar poking through – April 7, 2020


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