Photographer at the park
The weather was beautiful this morning so we went to one of our nearby parks. I managed to take one picture of Daniel (the first one here) before he wanted my phone to take pictures. The rest of these pictures are his.
Happy 4th Birthday, Daniel!Yesterday was Daniel’s birthday. He had a whole day of birthday fun.
Daniel really enjoyed opening his gifts. He likes using his scissors to cut the ribbons and tape. Daniel got train track, Koko the train, two train cars and an auto crossing from Ms. Edith. From Mimi and Poppy he got a play mat with roads and landscape, railroad bridge, desk and chair. From Mama and Papa he got two Leap Frog Explorer games, a sign for his desk, keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Daniel is really enjoying his new desk and computer setup. Papa got a video of his serious computerizing. 2012 Birthday PicturesI took Daniel in for birthday pictures today and he had a good time. We had some good pictures from the batch.
Quotable Quotes – October 2011October 1 – Me: “Are you in a mood?” Silence. Daniel, five minutes later: “I am not in a mood.” October 3 – Daniel often says that he will do something when he’s “a little bit older.” Just now he said he was going to do something “not when I am a little bit older, but when I’m a different guy.” I had no idea how to respond to that one. I was too busy biting my tongue not to laugh out loud. October 5 – Daniel was examining a drinking straw and said, “this operates the water.” October 7 – Daniel holding a pen to his temple: “I need a clip.” Me: “What do you need a clip for?” Daniel: “To clip this pen here like this.” Me: “Why do you need to clip it there?” Daniel: “Because that’s what Handy Manny does.” October 8 – Daniel holding up a toy airplane: “Where did this come from?” Me: “Phillip’s Toy Mart. Where did you come from?” Daniel: “Toys’R’Us. Do they have babies at Target? Do they have boys?” October 26 – Future politician? “I didn’t fall on you. I just came to you really quick.” Quotable Quotes – September 2011September 5 – “My son was singing at the top of his lungs while at Wal-Mart. He stopped long enough to ask, “Do I make beautiful music, Mama?” September 6 – So while the other three-year-olds at Wal-mart were looking at toys, mine went straight to the cooking gadgets aisle and started cooking up all kinds of stuff. Warning: he was putting oregano in everything. September 7 – Looking at a picture of himself his second Christmas: “Look! No hair!” September 8 – Daniel asked why cats eat without using their hands. So I explained opposable thumbs and told him cats can’t write like he does. His answer was “They have to put the pad on the ground and hold the pen in their mouths.” September 12 – Me: “You need to wash your hands before you put them in your mouth.” Daniel: “I put my finger to my mouth so I can think.” September 13 – Was at JCPenney’s with Daniel. He stood by a group of mannequins and said, “I’m one of these people.” September 14 – As I drive Daniel around, he wants to know the name of every store and what they have or do. Today I was trying to explain tanning salons. “Do they get crispy?” September 15 – Daniel pushing his mini shopping cart around in the kitchen: “I need to park in a handicap parking place because I don’t walk very well.” September 15 – We have a neighbor named Ibrahim. Daniel just handed me a play $5 and said “This is Abraham, but I changed it to Ibrahim.” September 16 – Daniel turning a sand timer: “I’m making minutes.” September 18 – Daniel told me he needed grocery sacks to play with. I asked him how many he needed. “One hundred.” September 18 – Me: “I sure do like you. I believe I’ll just keep you forever.” Daniel: “Will you really?” Me: “Yes.” Daniel: “Well, good.” September 19 – Daniel petted my hair and said, “You are a good boy.” Then he kissed me on the head. September 25 – “Me: “Do you know I love you?” Daniel: “Do ya?” Me: “Yes.” Daniel: “Well, good.” September 27 – On Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey always says this about Toodles (my son’s favorite character): “He’s here for me-dles and you-dles”. Whenever Daniel repeats this he says “needles and noodles”. September 28 – Daniel: “My leg hurts.” Me: “What’s wrong with it?” Daniel: “It just has allergies in it.” Quotable Quotes – August 2011August 1 – “I want a fax machine when I’m just a little bit older.” August 3 – Daniel holding a serial cable: “This puts your blood pressure down so you will be healthy.” August 3 – Daniel was so careful to whisper quietly to me at the library. It must have been creating a backlog of volume that needed to be used because as soon as we walked out the library door he said in a much louder voice than he ever uses “So that was fun!!” August 5 – Daniel has a printing calculator that he uses to make “receipts”. He handed me a short one and told me to write my name on it. I did and handed it back to him. Then he handed me another one and said “Here is your receipt.” August 8 – “I’m not a booger-booger. I am a cutie.” August 8 – Daniel talking to Pappy on the phone. Pappy: “Did I see you at the reunion yesterday? Did you enjoy it?” Daniel: “Just a little bit but not a whole lot.” Pappy: “Have you fed the ducks lately? You need to feed the ducks a lot or they will get hungry.” Daniel: <giggle> “The ducks don’t get hungry like that.” August 10 – “When I get on my account, I check my e-mail.” August 11 – “I am the dentist. I’m going to make you talk funny. Do you want strawberry or bubble gum?” August 11 – “You stay at the Super 8. I’m going to stay at the sixty-eight.” August 12 – “It is not too hot for me today. There is a little wind and it feels good on me.” Then he took a notion and started weeding the flower beds. Here are some of the weeds he pulled up by the roots and threw on the side walk. August 12 – “Poppy needs to be a doctor. Someday he’s gonna be a little older and he’ll be a doctor.” August 14 – Daniel: “I made a dream about Christmas up.” Me: “What happened in your dream?” Daniel: “I got presents.” Me: “What presents did you get?” Daniel: “I got flowers and another Buzz Lightyear.”” August 15 – Daniel, pointing to a robin in the front yard: “Look at that pretty bird. He’s looking at me! He thinks I’m pretty.” August 17 – We’ve been fooling people all over with driverless shopping carts until they notice a little blonde curly head peeping through the leg holes. August 18 – I was singing along with music in the car when Daniel said, “You can’t sing that. Just let them do it.” August 19 – “In a few days you will be small and I will be big and I will drive you to Wal-Mart.” August 19 – Daniel when putting him down for his nap: “I’m going to make a dream about a birthday with Buzz Lightyear.” August 19 – Daniel took my temperature with a toy thermometer and said it was “three hundred and sixty cents.” August 21 – Papa and Daniel were playing McDonalds and no matter what Papa ordered, he was only being served sandwiches. Papa: “I need to talk to the manager. I have some grievances.” Daniel: “You are the grievance.” August 21 – Daniel leaving the room: “I’m going to work. Everybody be sad and cry.” August 23 – Putting Daniel to bed for his nap: “I’m going to make a dream about Mimi. She will like that.” August 24 – Daniel: “Does Mr. Kevin eat food?” Me: “He eats food just like everybody else.” Daniel: “And when his back hurts he goes to Papa’s chiropractor.” August 24 – Daniel’s bedtime parting words: “I’m going to dream about Papa and Papa is going to dream about me.” August 28 – “Poppy is coming this afternoon. And I will say, ‘Pa, take me to Wal-Mart’ and he will do it.” August 29 – Daniel’s last words to me when I put him in bed tonight: “I’m going to make a dream about carrots, and I’m going to eat carrots.” August 31 – Sometimes I wonder if I should be concerned about the things that come out of Daniel’s very active imagination. This morning he was pushing one of his cars around in the grass pretending it was a lawn mower and said, “I lawn mowered Mimi. Mimi’s in pieces.” August 31 – Daniel has come up with the cutest way of saying something is going to happen in the not immediate future. He says it will happen “after many many naps.” Quotable Quotes – July 2011July 8 – This morning Daniel told me about a dream he had for the first time. He said his back was talking but all it said was “Ah”, and Poppy was petting it. July 8 – Daniel and I went to nearby small grocery store and they didn’t have the little mini cart for him to push. I explained that someone kept the cart and that was wrong for them to do and when people do things wrong, it usually makes other people sad, like he was about not having the cart to use. And I told him it always made God sad. He said, “and if they take the cart back then God not be sad”. July 9 – There are so many things going on in my child’s mind. Out of the clear blue he says, “I want to see God when I’m a little older.” July 13 – When Daniel and I were getting out of the car to visit the ducks today, they all ran up to meet us. At first Daniel was concerned about it. I told the ducks I was sorry I had not brought them any food. For the whole rest of the visit, any duck that showed Daniel any attention, Daniel would crouch in front of it and in the most syrupy sweet voice say, “I am so sorry I didn’t bring you any food.” July 14 – I park at Office Depot and Daniel says, “There not going to be many people in there, so I can sing.” July 15 – Daniel enjoyed a visit from Baby Stan yesteday. This prompted this cute monologue this morning: “I saw Baby Stan. I love babies. They make funny noises at me and laugh. I love Baby Stan.” July 20 – Daniel was in his car seat cradling an ice pack and singing Rock-a-bye Baby to it. Then he said, “This ice pack is talking.” I asked him what it was saying. “It saying, I want to be in the freezer.” July 22 – Had some fantastic cuddle time with my boy, watching Pinocchio this morning, after which he said, “I’m not a real boy, but I’m a good boy.” July 22 – Daniel was playing McDonald’s drive thru with the laundry room door and wanted my order. I asked for a Big Mac. I told him that was a hamburger. “I don’t have hamburgers. My name is not Chick-fil-a. I just have coffee, burritos and bad grapes.” July 22 – Daniel was in his car seat going “Boom bah boom. Bah bah boom. Boom di dah boom bah boom.” He was having so much fun I joined in. “No! Don’t do that. You can’t do that. You are a big boy. You can’t do that.” July 26 – “I’ll be the mailman and you be the lady.” July 28 – “I’m going to work. I need to earn some money.” Beautiful day for a trip to the parkDaniel was so excited to be able to wear a t-shirt and shorts today, so he tried them out at a park. He had a wonderful time and made the rounds trying everything the park had to offer.
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