Starting to Dread Mornings

Ellis is one giant breakdown these days. As soon as he wakes up he is difficult.

"What do you want for breakfast?" no answer

"Do you want cereal, egg sandwich, toast, WHAT?"

I usually give up and wait for the hunger induced breakdown to commence and then I put something in front of him at which point he says "I didn't want an egg sandwich, I want oatmeal." Ah - a response. Today he whined about his oatmeal until I pretended I was going to steal it and then he ate it. Anyway - Cyp usually quietly escapes as Ellis is screaming and I think - LUCKY!

Yesterday we went to the water park with Tanya, Leah and Graham. We somehow got our timing right and made our ferry. Yay!

The water park really is a great place - although Ellis had said he didn't want to go and resisted me at every instance, as soon as we got there he jumped right in and swam around and around. He now heads for the deepest part of the pool. Rowan and I have a hard time keeping up. Poor Rowan has to go where Ellis runs. Soon Tanya et al turned up and things went pretty well. Graham seems to like Ellis (not sure why was Ellis tried to elude Graham the entire time and when Graham came near Ellis would chuck water or sand at him). Afterwards we went to the GOMA again - this time Ellis played in the toddler area (see pictures). He had it to himself for a long time - he got a tad possessive of the flowers and leaves. A bunch of kids came along and decided to take all the flowers and leaves that he'd carefully arranged on the wall and put them back on the tree. You may note the picture of Ellis sitting surrounded by bare walls. The kids had moved all the flowers to the trees except for the ones he was sitting on. One girl tried to distract him and steal them out from under him, but he grabbed back. It looked like it was going to get violent (the girl was much bigger than him) but she got distracted by another kid who started removing leaves from the tree again. Phew. I convinced Ellis to leave by suggesting we could go stick puffy stickers on Buddha again.

After that we headed home - we made our citycat - yay (it's brutal waiting for ferries with the boys, especially in the heat).

When we got home we spoke with G. Anita. Things went pretty well for the most part - G. Anita has good patience and would read the messages that Ellis typed that looked something like this:

skdfj0skerjslkdjf sdflj

lskjdg 0dlkjgs s

She would ask him a question and he would reply:

0o9sldik209ytslkddvlkhsdg

She did get him to type "Hi" at one point. Eventually Ellis became his 3 year old self and started hanging up on grandma. After 3 times, even her patience had run out. We decided it was time to end our chat. I also spoke with Suzy and Max - tried to set up a chat but had network problems. Maybe next time.

Watched a lot of TV last night -Rowan quietly sits in his corner and puts his toys into and out of a cardboard box. Last night this entertained him for an hour and a half. Cyp wondered how he could get on Border Patrol and we watched a fairly predictable movie that I actually kinda like "Derailed"

Today we watched on the news that watching a lot of tv shortens your life span significantly. Of course.