You came down with a cold for a few days, and had to stay home from school. You like to ask me to take your temperature because the thermometer shows either a happy face or a sad face. Once, you asked me to take your temperature so that you could have some medicine. When it showed a happy face, you said, "Take it again!"
You've been learning phonics at pre-school, so now your conversations are punctuated with, "Juh juh juh juice. Kuh kuh kuh cup." It's funny. You sing a lot of songs at school, too, and then you come home and ask if we will sing them with you. Grandma finally wrote a note to your teacher so that she would send home the lyrics to the songs. There was one day that I accidentally guessed the right lyric. You were singing about the continents. Then you said, "Who lives in Asia?" I said, "Asians!" which I meant kind of as a joke, but then you started singing, "Asians live in Asia! And who lives in Africa?" It made me laugh.
Dad and I put up some clingy film on your windows to block UV and IR spectrum light. Hopefully it will keep your room a little cooler. You have the south-west facing room, so you get the most sunlight and the most heat. You also get the most breeze up from the coast, and the most noise from our neighbors. It's not a great combination, because there are nights I want to leave your windows open but the neighbors are annoyingly noisy. 2015 exceeded all kinds of heat records, so it might just be time to put in some air conditioning and solar panels to power it.
You are very three-years-old right now. We have conversations like this:
You: No!
Me: Why not?
You: Because no!
It was Halloween this month, which was a lot of fun. You and I generally do the Target run each weekend, while Dad takes Corbin to gymnastics. Over the past six weeks or so, they've had their Halloween costumes and decorations up. So you always want to go through that section of the store to see the fake pumpkins and things. We managed to be there on a day when costumes went on sale, before they got too picked over. We found a witch costume for you, and a ninja costume for Corbin, so that worked out pretty well. You got to do a Halloween parade at pre-school, then Trunk or Treat at Los Cerritos, and then trick or treating on Halloween night. So you ended up with a giant pile of candy. Some day, you'll figure out that I put a little bit in the cupboard, and hide most of it in the closet until you forget about it. It's for the good of your teeth, and everyone's sanity.
Love,
Mom
At school for Trunk or Treat:
Trick or Treating with Corbin and Celia:
