Karen brought home a bag of foam bath toys in the shapes of letters, numbers, and sea creatures this week and Zeeke's been going out of his mind for them. He wants to take a bath just about every night now and will happilly keep playing with them long after we've drained the tub. He enjoys trying to spell words (and invent new ones) with them.
Zeeke did not have a great week at school. He got in trouble for hitting his friends and not listening to his teachers. Time outs haven't been working there (although they're still very effective at home) so they've been putting him in the baby room when he's bad, which seems to be shaming him into behaving better (along with being denied television at home).
Friday, Zeeke's day care closed early so he and Steve did some watercolor paintings in the afternoon.
Saturday, after insisting all morning that Steve needed to hurry up and drive him out to West Philly for dance class, Zeeke took one step inside and refused to participate at all. It was a tense drive home. In the afternoon, we drew some pictures and performed some shows with some animal finger puppets Karen brought from home work. Zeeke even insisted on sleeping with some of the puppets that night.
Sunday, we had a long, fun morning at the playground with Jen & Amelie. Zeeke & Amelie led a group of younger kids around to collect all the acorns. Then all five of us went to Birra for lunch. In the afternoon, we headed to a different playground with Tanya & Lettie. Zeeke & Lettie had a blast trying out all the new playground equipment and showing off their climbing skills.