Imagination

It has been fun to watch Deacon's imagination grow lately. We went to the grocery store last night and as I was looking at the Summer clearance section, Deacon spotted a bucket he wanted. The bucket had a little shovel hooked to the handle and when I gave it to Deacon he wanted to take it off. of course. He was able to pull one side of the handle off and get the shovel off. After he did that he started to pretend to spray everything in the store with the end of the handle he had taken off. I asked him what he was doing and he said "sprinkler." I wasn't planning to buy the bucket, but he was so cute with it that I couldn't resist. Later that night he wanted to have it in the tub with him. He took the handle completely off the bucket and pretended it was a fishing pole in the tub. He also put his feet in the bucket and said he was in a boat and started to sing what he could remember of "row, row, row your boat." I was surprised at how imaginative he was with a simple bucket with a handle and shovel. When we went to the park last Wednesday it was packed with kids. Deacon enjoyed the other kids and would tell them "hi, my name Deacon." I was impressed that he knew that. The other kids kept yelling the word "shellyington," which I don't think is a real word and never figured out what it meant, but Deacon thought they were yelling "Chuggington," which is a show he likes to watch with trains, so he would yell that back. It was pretty funny.

On a lesser note, sadly we have entered "Tantrum Town!" Deacon can through a mighty tantrum when he wants to. The past few days he has been very upset and hard to handle when we try to change his diaper and his clothes at night and in the mornings. He ended up sleeping in the clothes he wore one day because he became so attached to them and would throw a huge tantrum when we tried to get him into his pj's. Sometimes you've got to pick your battles.... 

My friends and I enjoyed a nice girls weekend in St. George last week. It was a quick trip, but we had fun. We went shopping, out to eat, to the pool, and got pedicures.