1. A brisk early morning walk with my love before collecting our sweet boy from his Grandma’s.
2. A rare and delicious nap in the afternoon.
3. We didn’t buy Clark any Christmas presents. Isn’t that terrible? I filled his stocking with finger puppets and board books, but we just let his Aunties and Grandparents spoil him and saved money for our trip, I guess. The friends we visited in New York have a son who is 6 months older than Clark, and he had a play kitchen that Clark loved. So today, we went to Toys R Us for the first time as parents and bought him a kitchen. We spent the afternoon putting it together, then playing with him, and it was so, so wonderful. He loves it! He was PRETENDING. Pretending to eat with the spoons, pretending to answer the phone, even holding it crookedly against his head, saying, “Hiii-eee” over and over. I am so thankful that we could do that for him and for the precious time, crouching behind him, watching him play, kissing the back of his neck now and then.
Gosh how adorable! He is getting such a grown up boy! This sort of toy is so brilliant for imaginative play and will be fun for him for years! Tobes adores his little kitchen and he turned six today!
that is the greatest retro looking kitchen. erik really doensn’t want to get one for the girls, but perhaps this will help change his mind…and dude you need to take advantage of the naps more often…morning and afternoon…when clarkie sleeps so can you…the best advice i read after i had anika was from a book i can’t remember, but said something like don’t stand when you can sit, don’t sit when you can lie down, and don’t lie down if you can sleep as “the” recipe to get through your child’s first year, i think it extends right on in to toddlerhood…
It was so fun to see you all and get to play a little bit with Clark. He’s a doll! By the way, this is just like Gwen’s kitchen and she really does love it. Sometimes I wish we didn’t have to give so much credit to “Santa” who brought it for her. It’s amazing to watch imagination at work. I had “dinner” tonight with Gwen and two of the baby dolls. One of the babies had spaghetti, lemon, lettuce, etc. Yummy. Glad you got to get a little sleep (hooray) and some special time with your boy. Enjoy!
This is a great idea, Jenny! I’m absolutely hopping on your bandwagon at my blog. Oh yes: And this child with kitchen is adorable. He comes by his imagination honestly, I do believe!