Cars

Hi All,

I like learning new things and lately I've been learning to identify the different cars types by recognising their symbols.

I know the symbols for:
Mazda
Mitsubishi
Toyota
Ford
Holden
Peugot
Suzuki
Lexus
BMW
VW
Nissan
Mercedes Benz
Audi
Jeep (although this one is easy because it just says Jeep)
Honda
Hyundai

So when we are driving around in our car, or walking past cars or passing a car dealership I yell out every car symbol that I see. I have establised that I see a lot of Holdens but not many Lexuses or Lexus' or Lexi (whatever the plural of Lexus is).

Also, very importantly, it is my birthday this week. Do not forget.


That is all,
Roman

Imagination TV

Hi All,

Do you remember how I told you that mum and dad only let me watch tv on the weekend? Well today I made my mum sit in front of the tv (while it was turned off) for about an hour and I made up the shows that we could have been watching. I made up an episode of Octonauts and told her everything that was happening with Dashi, Kwazii and Captain Barnacles. When that was finished the news was on (just pretend remember!) but we didn't want to watch that so I decided we would "watch" Play School. I told mum that Jay and Justine were on today. Jay was building houses with blocks.

I suppose that this "no tv watching" fiasco has probably helped with my imagination skills.




This is a photo of me and my mum. I mean, mum and I. We went on the train last night to meet my daddy and have dinner in the city. I love it when we do that. I love hearing the announcements on the train. I love repeating them. Again and again. Loudly.

That's all for now,
Roman

My family

Hi All,

On the weekend we went to St Kilda. We had a play in the park before eating yummy greek food.

I took this photo of my mum and dad:


And then dad took this photo of all of us:


We had a very happy day!

That's all for now,
Roman

Me (if you couldn't tell...)

Noodles

Hi All,

Tonight we went out for dinner.

We had some noodles.

I love noodles!!

They taste even better when you eat them with chopsticks.




Delicious!

That's all for now,
Roman

Lovely things

Hi All,

Do you remember that I told you I love being naked? I have found one drawback - sometimes it gets cold. But I have found a solution... I have found that if I lie down in front of my chest of drawers beside my bed the central heating vent blows right on me.



Mum found me there, laying naked. She asked me why I was laying there and I told her, "Warm air!" She covered me with a blanket and I chilled out for ages reading a manual and talking with dog.

One of my favourite things to do at the moment is play with shredded paper. You would be amazed at all the different things you can do with it. I build machines with my dad's saxophone stands and then put shredded paper into all the little holes. It is a lot of fun and I'm pretty sure my mum really enjoys picking up all the bits of shredded paper I leave laying around the house.



Today I went on a special outing with my mum and my special friend Phoebe. We went to a magical place called Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio. It had lots of delicious treats.



I picked a passionfruit meringue as my treat and it was delicious.

That's all for now,
Roman

Correction

Hi All,

It has come to my attention that I made an error in yesterday's blog post.

I said that I was a 4 year old when in fact I am only 3.

This seems like a strange error for me to make and I apologise unreservedly for it. Why would I say I am 4 when I am only 3? Strange. Also a terrible mistake to make as this would mean that I have missed my 4th birthday and the associated presents. That would not be good.

I love the idea of presents at the moment. Mum and I went shopping the other day and I asked mum whether she could take me to Target. She said there wasn't one at that shopping centre but there was Kmart and Big W. I said Big W would be OK. Mum asked me why I wanted to go and I told her that I wanted to show her all the things I wanted for my birthday. So mum took me to Big W and I pointed out anything and everything that looked remotely like a toy and told her that I wanted it for my birthday. I hope she was taking mental notes because she certainly wasn't writing anything down.

So again, I apologise for saying I was 4 when I am in fact 3. You will certainly know when I am 4 because I will tell you all about it (and about the many presents that I will receive).

That's all for now,
Roman

Terrible news

Hi All,

I have some terrible news. It happened a couple of weeks ago but it's taken me this long to be able to tell you about it. It is truly shocking so please be prepared (you may even want to make sure you are sitting down).

Mum and Dad announced to me a couple of weeks ago that I would only be able to watch the tv, or use the computer and ipad on the weekend. Shocking, I know. Unbelievable, actually. Crazy.

They said that because I would rather do those things than do kid things like play and read and create we needed to rebalance and the best way to do that was go cold turkey. I know that you are thinking that my parents are incredibly mean and totally unfair. To be honest, I agree. What is better than hopping in a basket and watching playschool?



I don't know...

So I've had to start making my own fun:

• Like taking all my teddies, getting my cd player and rockin' out to music
• Building cities out of my craft things
• Playing lots of board games

• Looking at mum's masterchef magazines
• Having quiet time doing puzzle books and activity books
• Helping mum do the cooking

I know what you're thinking - what kind of life is that for a 4 year old? I think for the moment I'm going to have to humour mum and dad (although my favourite question at the moment is, "Is it the weekend?"). The funny thing is often I get to the weekend and I have so much fun that I forget to ask to watch the tv and play on the ipad. I'm really going to have to work on that.

If you see my mum and dad, please could you tell them they are being unreasonable? Thank you in advance.

That's all for now,
Roman

Sunday afternoon

Hi all,

What do you do on a Sunday afternoon?

Well, today mum and I made a city with craft things.



We made bridges and tunnels, ponds and electricity poles, parks, swings, roads and stop signs. Lots of good stuff.

I really don't have anything amusing to say about this because there is nothing funny about building a city. City planners must be dull folk.

That's all for now,
Roman

My Friend

Hi All,

Today I got a visit from a long lost friend.

I haven't seen her for a long time and I have missed her.



This is me and Phoebe! Phoebe is very patient with me. She lets me show her lots of things that are very important to me but probably very boring to her.

I would also like to tell you something about me that you may not know.

I love, love, love board games.

I've got monopoly, trivial pursuit, balderdash, cranium plus other games that don't have boards but are still very good like pass the pigs, dominoes and uno. I love them. I could play them all day long. If you come to my house I'll probably ask you to play one with me.


That's all for now,
Roman

Sorry

Hi All,

Sorry.


It has come to my attention that I have been missed.

That some of my lovely friends out there have missed hearing about my life.

I am sorry.

I am glad to know that your life is enriched by my life. I am glad that you miss me. That makes me feel special.

I will tell you a story so that you won't miss me any more. It goes like this.

I was jumping on the trampoline the other day. Jumping, jumping. When I did a jump that did not quite work properly. I started crying very hard. Mum and dad asked me what happened. I was too upset to tell them.

Mum: Did you hurt your head?
Me: No
Dad: Did you land funny on your hands?
Me: No
Mum: Did you land funny on your legs?
Me: Yes

Later, however mum questioned me some more. That is when I demonstrated on the bed the action that had hurt me on the trampoline. Mum laughed and told me I had done "the splits". Mum then informed me that I had actually hurt my groin. I did not know that I had a groin but it turns out I do and that I can hurt it by landing on the trampoline doing the splits. Ouch.

That is all for now but I will try and write again soon so you don't miss me too much.
Roman

Away

Hi All,

My family went away for a quick holiday this week to Metung.

We ate lots of good food, went for lots of drives and even went on a boat trip.



I got to be the captain on the boat. We also saw kangaroos and goats on the islands but even more exciting than that was that we saw dolphins in the water. Lots and lots of dolphins. Fast ones, slow ones, big ones, baby ones. Probably 30 of them. Very exciting.



I have learnt some important lessons in the last week. I will share them with you:

• You should not pour a jug of water down the heating vent. Your mummy will not be happy
• I do not like change. If something gets moved in our house it upsets my equilibrium. Couches should stay in the same spot. Forever.
• My mummy can be very resourceful. We forgot to take one of my teddies on holidays and this made me have a bad sleep. So the next night my mummy made me a new teddy by getting a pillowcase, stuffing it with daddy's tshirt, putting a hair elastic around it and calling it Bugsy. Worked like a charm.

That's all for now,
Roman

Me!

Mother's Day

Hi All,

On Friday we had Mother's Day at Kinder. A special day when all the kids got to bring their mum to Kinder. We had made presents, had prepared a song, made afternoon tea. Very special. But my mum didn't come. Nope. She had conjunctivitis. Going to Kinder with conjunctivitis is not allowed. So you may think that I was very sad about this. But I wasn't. Do you know why? Because my Grandma came along instead!!



That's right! Grandma and Grandad came and stayed with us this week so I got to take my Grandma to Kinder with me. She was very well behaved.


I have had a lot of fun this week with Grandma and Grandad. But enough about them because today is Mother's Day!



I love my mum.

That's all for now,
Roman

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