Zeeke now loves swinging as high and as fast as we can propel him, grabbing handfuls of clouds and moon rocks with each swing. And with the long weekend, there were quite a few trips to the playground. When he wasn't blasting off to space, he was making Steve play Daddy Komodo dragon and Baby Komodo dragon.
This week, he's been experimenting with adding "I thought that..." to the beginning of all sorts of sentences ("I thought that we should have some cherries" or "I thought that we would see Amelie at the playground"). It makes him sound very pensive. And he's continuing his crusade against us calling things by the wrong word ("They're not pants. They're jeans.").
Someone did a gender headtrip on him at school this week. He told us that he wants to give away all of his Dora underwear because it's for girls. And he wants to play some game called "princess numbers," but is convinced he can't because "it's just for girls." Steve got Zeeke to teach him how to play the game and the played a little before school one day. Talking about it later, he told us that it was just a fellow classmate that got him thinking that way, not one of teachers, which was a little relief.
Thursday, when Steve picked him up at school, Zeeke came running, yelling, "Daddy, I have credit cards! Let's go shopping!" (One of his teachers had given him a couple discount cards from her keychain and he was determined to go shopping with them.) When Steve asked him what he wanted to buy, he said "Apples!" It seemed like a reasonable choice, so they headed off to a corner market and Steve slipped the clerk a dollar while Zeeke was fixated with his purchase.
Day care closed early Friday, so after a nap, Steve & Zeeke headed down to the playground for some serious swinging and drawing monsters with chalk.
Saturday morning, we made silver dollar waffles and then it was back out to the playground where we ran into his schoolmate Del and his classmate Amelie. After nap, Karen's dad and his girlfriend Joy came up for a visit. Of course, their visit called for a return to the playground, followed by pizza at Birra and gelato at Capogrio.
Sunday morning, the three of us were back yet again at the playground with Amelie. That afternoon, Steve dropped Karen & Zeeke off at the library while he went to the Acme for supplies.