Saturday, September 8, 2007

(HBOT 74) Playing with Kids Continues

We overslept today and Daddy and Jonathan had to jump out of bed and leave for the HBOT without breakfast. Daddy said that the dive went well. They went to eat while I was out grocery shopping and when I got home (with my dad and Vanessa), Jonathan was getting ready to go bowling with Abuita.

He really likes to go bowling. Abuita said that he is now even trying to throw the ball without the metal guides made for little kids. They played a couple of rounds and they came home.

At home, it is very hard for him to play with toy. He wants to play with his computer. He got very interested is books again about 2 or 3 weeks ago, especially the Dr. Seuss' ones. He told me he wanted to see a video for "Green Eggs and Ham" and I had the brilliant idea of looking it up in www.YouTube.com. Well, he has gotten addicted to that, which is very scary. They sing a song at school that he really likes called Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. It teaches the alphabet with music. He asked me to find it in youtube and I did. He saw me typing the words in the search section and he now does it, finds it and finds his Dr. Seuss' ones. It is great but dangerous. This kid learns way too quickly. Now, he turns his PC on, launches IE, goes to youtube and finds his videos without any assistance and he learned it in a day.

I restricted his PC to 1 hour. After that, I told him to shut it down and he did. We got ready and went to visit a friend who was having some friends over. Jonathan fell asleep in the car. He slept for about 45 more minutes at our friend's house. When he woke up, he was confused as to where he was. He wanted to hug me for about 5 minutes. 5 min was enough and he started walking around the house to find something to do. I did not tell him what to do or where to go. He slowly started joining the other 5 kids. Suddenly, he was gone playing with them. After about 2 hours of crazy play, they all started screaming louder. It sounded like they were playing monster and Jonathan was the monster. I was concerned that Jonathan was making to much noise and told daddy that we should tell him to lower his voice. All the parents (the 6 of us) and a couple more friends were sitting at a table, some drinking, some eating and all talking when daddy said to me "honey, we have been waiting 5 years to see Jonathan play with other kids and now that he is you want to tell him to be quite? No, let them kill each other up there" And everyone else at the table backed him up and I found myself enjoying hearing how Jonathan was playing with the other kids. Once he felt comfortable, he was friendly and playful. Something good for me to know. And when we left, he gave everyone a hug goodbye and turned to tell the other kids "guys, I'm leaving. I'm going home. See you later" and we all left.

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