Today was an exciting day for Tony. Marlaina and Anton had to do some shopping so we decided to take Tony to the park. When we got there, we immediately went down the slide. We took turns going down the slide with Tony. He saw Jennifer going down the pole, then he wanted to try it. We wouldn’t let him go down the pole from the top though. Instead we held him and would let him go down the pole about 3 feet off the ground. He seemed to really enjoy this. Afterwards we headed over to the swings, where he was finally willing to go on the kiddy swings by himself. He wanted Turtle to ride with him also.

Then we were all hungry so we decided to head to Chick-Fila. On the way out of the park Tony said bye bye park. After Chick-Fila we headed back to the house to eat and watch some Blue’s Clues Christmas. Tony started asking for his mom a lot and was not able to be redirected except when we asked him if he wants to go back to the park. He immediately forgot about mom and was ready for another adventure to the park. Tony was getting sleepy so we headed home. When we were walking from the car back to the house, Tony pointed out all of our shadows on the concrete and said hello to them all. We got him to wave to them.

We put in Muppets in Space and Tony drifted off to sleep. After about 30 minutes he woke up screaming for mom and could not be redirected so we called Marlaina to come home. We finally got him to stop crying by telling him we would go wait at the door for mom. He was so excited when her car pulled up and kept saying hello mommy.

Once Anton and Marlaina arrived, we went on another car ride in search of shoes for Anton. We went to Ross and Shoe Carnival. Tony seemed pretty amused looking at everything in the stores, but when that didn’t amuse him anymore he decided to start singing. He seemed to enjoy listening to his voice echoing throughout the store.

We headed home and Tony was content playing with his new playdough while Danielle ran to the grocery store and Jennifer tried to clean up before it got dark.