Being Naked

Hi All,

Today I would like to tell you that I love being naked. Love it, love it, love it.

I love the freedom, the happiness.

I am without a doubt at least 20% happier when I am naked. I am generally a very happy kid but get me naked and I kick things up a notch. I play better, I tell better jokes, I am a better version of myself when I am naked.

Mum, however, seems obsessed with me being dressed. She thinks that I should have clothes on most of the time.

Every morning mum asks me to put my clothes on. She asks me to go into my room and put the clothes that she has carefully laid out for me onto my naked body. I do not like doing this because this would mean that I would cease to be naked. So usually I am still naked an hour later. Unfortunately sometimes we have to go out and mum says that I absolutely MUST get clothes on.

The good thing is that if I have a lunch time sleep I have another opportunity to be naked when I take my PJ's off. So I might have morning naked time and afternoon naked time (and if I'm really lucky after bath naked time too).

Sometimes I even get to go to sleep naked (well, apart from my nappy). I ask mum or dad before I go to bed if I can have belly skin and leg skin and moopy skin and arm skin. And sometimes they let me. This makes me happy.

Naked Roman = Happy Roman

That's all for now,
Roman

The Great Outdoors

Hi All,

I love being outside and I love having adventures. I've done some fun things this month - like going on a bush walk to a waterfall, going to the beach, going to the park and climbing walls I find along the way. Lots of fun.



That's all for now,
Roman

Easter

Hi All,

Today is Easter!

Today should be a day to get up early, to be very excited, to jump out of bed and find my Easter eggs. That did not happen this morning. Nope. I woke up at10am. Yep, 10am. I think mum was going slightly crazy as she wanted me to get up and find my eggs. Mum and Dad opened my door up at about 9:55am in the hope of waking me up. It took another 10 minutes until I called out, "I'm up!" What made my sleep in even more strange was that my bed was completely wet. It turns out that mum and dad put me to bed in a hurry last night (because they were going out on a date) and they forgot to put my nappy on! So I slept in a bed of wee and slept until 10am!

So instead of getting up and finding my eggs, I got up and had a bath. Mum told me to close my eyes on the way to the bath so I wouldn't see my eggs, but I kept shouting out, "There's one! There's another one!"

Anyway, EVENTUALLY, I got to do my easter egg hunt. I found 12 eggs but mum said I can't eat them all this morning (meanie...). But I did get to have one for breakfast, along with a hot cross bun and a hot chocolate.




Here's me and some of my Easter loot:


Happy Easter!
Roman

Kinder craft

Hi All,

Today was my last day at Kinder for term 1. Today was an exciting day because Dad took me to Kinder and picked me up. And I got to bring home my Kinder craft - an Easter basket with an Easter egg inside! I stamped the basket and stapled it together.



After mum took the lovely photo above things started to get out of hand:



I don't always pose exactly how mum would like. I am a boy with many funny faces.

That's all for now,
Roman

An outing with my Dad

Hi All,

Today I went on an outing with my dad. We went to Grant's Picnic Ground in Kallista. We got to see lots of beautiful birds.

I was so excited about my outing with my dad that I didn't have my afternoon sleep before we went. When we got home Dad told Mum that I fell asleep in the car but I told her that I didn't fall asleep - I was just closing my eyes because the sun was very bright. Dad says 20 minutes is a long time to keep my eyes closed just to avoid the sun...



I had a lovely time with my dad.

That's all for now,
Roman

Museum

Hi All,

Yesterday mum and dad took me to the Melbourne Museum.

I was very excited because I thought we were going to the Science Museum (which I love) but it was a different one.

This one was very cool too. It had dinosaurs and bugs and planets and lava! I got to see a 3D movie about lava and volcanoes.



It was a lot of fun and I definitely want to go back again.

That's all for now,
Roman

Kinder

Hi All,

Yesterday I had a sleep before kinder. Mum woke me up about 10 minutes before kinder started, got me dressed super fast and drove me to kinder. I must have been sleepy and a bit confused because when mum was signing me in to kinder I started to take my clothes off. Mum saw me and came over and said, "Roman, why are you taking your clothes off?" I had no explanation. So I sat down and started to take my shoes off. Mum said to me, "Roman, why are you taking your shoes off?" I didn't know the answer to that either. Very confused.

Anyway, here are some photos that make my mum and dad smile.



That's all for now,
Roman

Happy Birthday Dad!

Hi All,

Today is my dad's birthday.

My dad is a special kind of awesome.



My dad is big and strong.

He is funny.

He is really good at playing tackle games with me.

He is good at silly games.

He is good at football.

I love hugging him.

I love shredding paper with him.

I love doing craft with dad.

I love playing lego with him.

I just love him.

Dad - thanks for being a super cool dad.

That's all for now,
Roman

jokes

Hi All,

Sometimes I tell jokes. Want to hear some?

Me: Knock Knock
You: Who's there?
Me: Banana
You: Banana who?
Me: Banana

Ha!!

What about this one?

Me: Knock Knock
You: Who's there?
Me: Apple
You: Apple who?
Me: Just apple

Ha Ha!!

What about this one?

Me: Knock Knock
You: Who's there?
Me: Sardine
You: Sardine who?
Me: Sardine Sardine

I'm not sure I understand jokes quite yet.


That's all for now,
Roman

Friendly Roman

Hi All,

My mum and dad encourage me to be a friendly boy. For example when I'm at the park, I go up to the other children and say, "Hi, my name's Roman. What's your name?"

At swimming today I was feeling friendly so I went up to one of the other mums and had a chat. This was our conversation:

Roman: Hi! When I grow up... (I think she may have not heard this part of the conversation which may make the rest of the conversation worrying)
Roman (cont.): I'm going to fly to Canberra
Other mum: Oh really. Why is that?
Roman: I've got to go and earn some money
Other mum: What are you going to do with your money?
Roman: I've got to pay for our house
Other mum: Oh
Roman: Yep, and buy our food. And pay for kinder.
Other mum: OK

I know about what money gets used for because every day when we take dad to the train station Mum and I have this conversation:
Roman: Why does daddy have to go to work?
Mum: To earn money
Roman: Why?
Mum: To pay for our house and our food
Roman: What else?
Mum: So Mummy and Roman get to do fun things together like swimming and Sporteka
Roman: When I grow up and you and daddy are small, I will go to work and get money to pay for our house and food.
Mum: Sounds like a plan

That's all for now,
Roman

Play School concert again

Hi All,

Today I got to go to another Play School concert! This time my dad took me. Abby and Teo were the presenters again but I didn't mind. To be honest with you I liked going to the concert with dad better than going with mum because after the concert dad took me out for a Babycino and also bought me a Humpty Dumpty toy!



At home mum and I made our own play school concert. We made tickets for my teddies:


And then lined them up on the couch so they could watch the show:


Then we put on our Play School music and did some singing and dancing for them.

That's all for now,
Roman

My Family

Hi All,

My kinder teacher asked us all to bring in a photo of our family so yesterday we took a family photo.

This is my family:



That's all for now,
Roman

Woccamole

Hi All,

On Play School they made guacamole and I asked mum if we could make some. Although I call it "woccamole." We had some avocado in our fruit basket but had to wait until it ripened which it did today.

I scooped the avocado, squeezed in lemon and lime juice, added salt and pepper and stirred and mashed. I then scooped it onto my rice cracker. It was yum!



Also my dad asked me to tell you that we made another tower that went all the way to the ceiling:


That's all for now,
Roman

Marble Track

Hi All,

Today my Dad brought something into the house that has been hiding in the bungalow for a long time. 2 boxes of Marble Tracks!

I had so much fun all afternoon playing with my dad (to be honest, mum really is very bad at making marble tracks but my dad is AWESOME!!).







Love it!

That's all for now,
Roman

Play School and a new toy

Hi All,

Yesterday Mum took me to see the Play School concert. Teo and Abby were the presenters. I really loved it! I danced and sang (and just quietly I think I was the best dancer).

Also on another note, I found a box of my baby things under Mum and Dad's bed. I don't know why it's under there because I found the BEST toys. One of them I've been playing with it ALL day.



I've used it as a fire extinguisher and as a telephone (see below):


I've also used it as a gun but don't tell mum that.

SO MUCH FUN. Mum says she doesn't remember it being that much fun.

That's all for now,
Roman

Yes - I'm a boy

Hi All,

The other day my mum gave me a little box of lego. It was the little green soldiers from Toy Story 3. I had a great time putting them together with my mum. Then I found some little pieces of lego and I didn't know what they were called. I asked mum and she said,

Mum: "Oh, they are called guns but we may put those away."
Roman: "WHY??? I LOVE guns!"
Mum: "No. Guns aren't very good"
Roman: "Why?
Mum: "Guns can hurt people"
Roman: "Why?"
Mum: "Because angry people use them to hurt people"
Roman: "When I'm angry can I use a gun?"
Mum: "No. I think we'll put them away now"

I got the box from the lego and showed mum the picture of the soldiers with the guns and told her, "See mum. I HAVE to have them. It says here!!"

Since then I've been slightly obsessed with guns. I have never really shown much interest in my duplo but now I use my blocks to build guns. I find sticks and make them into guns (like this photo):



I know my mum doesn't like it so I don't call them guns. I call them "something" or "rubadub scrubbers." Somehow I think she may suspect what I'm really making.

That's all for now,
Roman

Things I say to my mum

Hi All,

Sometimes I say lovely things to my mum. Like "I love you" and "you look beautiful" and "I love playing with you." But yesterday I said something which wasn't so lovely.

Mum was having a shower and I asked if I could have one too. Mum said, "Sure, hop in." So I took my clothes off and got in the shower. I was playing with my toys but there wasn't lots of room like when I have a shower by myself so I looked around to see what the problem was. Then I said my not so lovely thing. I said, "Mum, your bum is SO big."



Sorry mum. I still love you (big bum and all).

That's all for now,
Roman

"Pause yourself"

Hi All,

Today my mum was doing something and I wanted her to wait so I could do it too, so I said to her "Mum, please pause yourself." She thought that was funny.



That's all for now,
Roman

What I'm up to

Hi All,



I've been a very busy boy!

If you're wondering, this is what my week looks like:

Monday - Mum's Group
Tuesday - Swimming Lesson and Kinder
Wednesday - Play Date with my friend Lydia
Thursday - MOPS (every fortnight) or an outing like the zoo or the play centre
Friday - Sporteka and Kinder

I love going to Kinder. This week I start going to full sessions - 2 hours and 2.5 hours. 3 of my friends from Mum's Group go to Kinder with me so I already have some friends. I told mum that some of the other kids names are Meth, Death and Cad.

I'm doing well at Swimming Lessons too. I told my mum that I love Claire, my teacher. I don't really like floating on my back but I'll do it if Claire asks me really nicely.

I have all new kids in my Sporteka class this year as the other kids graduated to school. I think I'm one of the older kids now so I'll have to show the other kids how to do things. Next week we're doing basketball.

Last week I went to the dentist for the very first time. I sat on mum's lap while the dentist looked at my teeth. He told me I had 20 teeth. I told him that, "Actually I have 12." Obviously not a very good dentist. He did say that my teeth were lovely and clean though.

Gotta go now (to Mum's group if you've checked the schedule above...)
Bye!
Roman

Gardening

Hi All,

Lately I've been talking a lot about seeds and planting things. I found an apricot seed in Daylesford and asked mum and dad if I could plant it. They said yes, so I planted it in the garden. I was very disappointed when I checked the next day and there was no apricot tree.

Because of this interest in growing things, we spent the afternoon in the garden planting seeds and seedlings and plants.



I was very helpful (except I kept stepping on the seedlings - whoops).

Mum says it is my job to water the plants every day.

That's all for now,
Roman