Mands: 12

I can’t believe Tony’s still awake! He’s a machine. This boy has been awake since quarter to three in the morning!!!!!! So has Marlaina. Both of them are still going strong and amazingly still in a great mood. We started off watching Sesame Street and we built a quasi-fort with some pillows and a quilt. Later on Tony got a playhouse. We went for a walk while Marlaina and Whitney assembled it. Of course it is a major hit with Tony who has been in and out of it at least 25 times since its assembly.

We took two walks today and neither was too eventful. Just the usual running and playing in the dirt. During the digging in the dirt we relocated many times all over the courtyard like archaeologists. Then he checked out a pile of bricks and concrete he frequents. We said goodbye pretty quickly when I noticed some fire ants crawling around. On the first walk he looked through a crack in the fence and saw some crayons in his back yard. He desperately wanted me to open the gate and I tried but couldn’t. He got worked up and I told him we could open the front door instead. He was not accepting this as a valid option so I picked him up and started to carry him. Then, just in the ta-da nick of time Whitney arrived in her car. Greeting his beloved Whitney was definitely an acceptable alternative to the opening of the gate.

Now he is finished with speech and his Mom is getting him a show to watch. It will be very interesting to see how much longer he will be awake.