Children are a blessing from the Lord and I was blessed tonight. My husband, Adam; our 2 year old son, Christopher; and I usually share the bedtime ritual. Adam takes care of bathtime ("tito aguas"="ba~nito con agua!"), and we both do the story/prayer/tuck-in time. But Adam was working tonight, so it was just Christopher and me. So after "Tito Aguas"/story/prayer/tuck-in time, I stayed with him, hanging out a little while longer.
And I just had the coolest time!
Christopher's really been flexing his imagination muscles recently. During lunch today he was "serving" Adam and me imaginary "ocholalis" (chocolate milk), and bringing us imaginary airplanes and race cars for us to play with. Then we asked him what else he had in his "imaginary store", and he had ocholalis, airplanes, race cars, a toothbrush, apple juice, pan 'lali (chocolate croissant), and a few other favorite things!
Tonight his imagination kick continued. He has a little stuffed coqui (puertorrican frog) that my friend Stacey gave him for his birthday in January. Adam and I taught Christopher the "Oh, coqui" song (yes, the Menudo one!) And Christopher actually sings it to the little stuffed coqui as he tucks him in bed. But tonight, it wasn't just songs and tuck-in. He was giving the coqui imaginary ocholalis, ice water and race cars so he would sleep better! You have to understand that Christopher loves races cars and oftentimes takes 3, 4, 5 or maybe 8 (!) to bed with him, and just crams them all around him. So, he figured coqui would like this, too! He's just so sweet! Christopher, the coqui and I took turns kissing each other, sharing imaginary sippy cups of ocholalis and ice water, rearranging the race cars and patting each other on the head "good night". I loved it! It's so much fun seeing him engaged in "serving" others. :)
I love seeing how his imagination works. It's so fun to spend time with him! And you should have seen him in his little Superman pjs! It's too cute!! :)
This was definitely a good night. (Now, I can't wait for Adam to come home from work...) :)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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