"oh! look at this"

Dylan has many favorite books, but on this particular day (as it can be most days) it was all about the dragons. He loves his book called "Hide and Seek Dragons."  I attempted to distract him by pulling out the play doh, but he just continued to want to read his book for the umpteenth time. So, I made dragons out of play doh. Which he loved. He kept saying "Hey Mister Dragon!" and "that's a green dragon, that's a pink dragon". 

So, yet again, Dylan is not napping today.  I'm hoping it's just a phase he is going through.  This makes the fourth time in a week and a half that he hasn't napped.  I'm lucky that he will sit in his room and have "quiet time" for an hour or so on days he doesn't nap.  Little turkey.  Let me rephrase that.  Little sleep-deprived turkey.  Because he doesn't recoop the naptime sleep he misses.  We get him to bed an hour earlier than usual, but he doesn't tend to sleep any later.  Which results in meltdowns the next day (like we experience yesterday after him not napping the two previous days).  *sigh*

One of the cutest things he does these days is put a very emphatic "oh" in front of some of his sentences.  Like "oh! look at this" when I wear a necklace or he finds something appropriately cool.  He also says "oh! that's a good smooch" after giving a kiss.  Or, "oh thats a good hug".  Such a cutie boy.

Spring is upon us here and we have been enjoying every moment that it's not raining.  Dylan loves to go to the water creek (Is it wrong that I'm a little sad that it's no longer the "wa wa ceek" that it used to be?).  He especially loves that I'll bring his boots along and let him actually walk into the creek and splash a little.  This, of course, means that I have to go into the creek too.  The first time we did this (when we took these photos) it was a colder day, which meant cold, cold water to my feet (I was wearing my holy crocs).  Yesterday it was a lot warmer so it wasn't so bad.  

Give a boy a stick and some mud and he's a happy boy. Oh, and then let him slosh into the water. Then he's really happy. Until it's time to go home that is.

Dylan and I traverse the water creek.

We also did a lot of kite flying in the early days of spring.  Our first attempt was using a stunt kite, and it did okay, but tended towards nose dives more than staying in the air.  So, we bought some cheap kites from Wal-Mart and had much better success.  We may do that again this afternoon.  And since a picture tells a thousand words, here is what happened before we got into the water creek.

As you can see, on this trip to the outdoors Dylan insisted on bringing his dragon book. And he just sat in the wagon "reading" it while Denny and I flew kites. This next little progression of photos shows you what happened next.


"Mommy read it!"




And finally he notices that there's a big Tigger and Pooh kite in the sky. Funny boy.