Anderson moved to a new big-boy bed complete with adorable mismatched bedding from Target's Pillowfort line. His sheets have black clouds on them, and one night as he was trying to go to sleep, he started screaming hysterically. When I ran in and asked him what was wrong, he was able to compose himself and tell me that the "eye cloud" was scary because it was looking at him. I had no idea what he was talking about, but noticed that one of the black clouds had a white notch in it that apparently looked like spooky eye at night.
Anderson's imagination is running wild lately; he will play independently for hours making up stories and mixing characters. He has a fondness for the "good guys" and an extreme fear of the "bad guys". A tiny little Lego man rocked his world after about 45 minutes of playing on the floor of Buddy's closet with normally-off-limit Legos. Ear shattering screams and hysterical crying were brought on by the "bad guy with the long hair". I don't know what the bad guy said or did, but Anderson brought him up several more teary times.
After talking about haircuts for a few days, Anderson kept requesting his hair to be styled like "Nonny from Bubble Guppies". We had to look up pictures to show Mr. Jay Anderson's inspiration. Only an almost three year old would request to look like an orange haired cartoon character! Alekzander followed up with a related request when it was my turn to get my hair cut, "Will you please get your hair cut like Molly in Bubble Guppies?"
Sweet, smart Alekzander still mixes up words sometimes. Animals still comes out as "aminals" and my headaches are "head-ics". I hate to correct him because he makes me smile!
I love listening to both of them talk, play, sing, and learn. The resulting laughter is an added bonus.
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