Matty likes to choose a stuffed animal to bring with him when we go in the car. Today he chose one of his lions. When we arrived at our destination I opened the back door to get Matty out of his car seat. He greeted me with this question and answer, “Mama, do you you know who’s back here? It’s Lion and your old friend Angelico Bear.”
Today at naptime Matty asked me to sing my song for him. I made it up and last sang the song a month or so ago, so I had to struggle to remember. It goes something like this, “I once loved a little boy. His name was Matty. And I loved him.” I couldn’t remember what came next, but Matty of course helped me out. “Say the names you call me, Mama.” Oh yes, that was the next part. “I called him Angelico Bear. I called him Matty Bebopper. I called him Love Love Bear. And sometimes I called him McGee.”
While eating lunch today Matty said, “It’s too windy for Angelico Bear out there today.” I love when he calls himself one of my names for him.
Matty is afraid of the blue numbers on the stove, the microwave, the cable box. He says he doesn’t want them to see him or to say “boo” or “poop” to him. Also afraid of the smoke detectors in the house. Poor dear fellow.
We went to the library yesterday, and two older louder boys were playing at the train table. Matty was a little afraid of them, but he went over to the train table, took one of the toys (a dinosaur), and brought it back to the little table we were playing at. He did this many more times until all the other boys had left at their table were the trains in their hands. Our table had every single other toy from the train table- at least ten little items- houses, animals, trains.
Very cold out today, and we weren’t super bundled, so on our walk back to the car from Robeks Matty asked me to hold him. “I’m going to put my head down on you Mama. Will you keep me warm?”
