In my defense, I was running a fever.

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I spent most of yesterday running a 100.4* fever, which is enough to make me really stupid and tired and out of it. Over the course of the day– which, let me remind you, was spent ENTIRELY ON MY OWN WITH A TODDLER because Nesko wound up spending over 30 hours at work, finally getting home after we were asleep– I managed to cut myself, burn myself, tear the knee of a nearly new pair of pyjama pants, drop a whole lot of food on the floor at different times, close my hand in a door, and hit my head on the fridge. I was in rare form.

I also became obsessed with the snow caked on our window screens, and opened a window to try and knock the snow off the screen. Only the snow had gotten between the screen and the window, so when I opened the window, dirty snow fell all over the window sill and the wood floor. Did you know that squirrels sit on our window ledges and poop? They do. I got squirrel poop in our house. :C

I should be less of a hot mess today, although we are running out of food and food-like substances. None of the side streets or alleys have been cleared out yet so they are all choked with snow… 2-4 feet of snow, depending on where they are. Nesko got home to our general vicinity in good time last night, but then was driving around for about an hour looking for a place to put his car. He couldn’t get down or street OR down our alley (which had a 5 foot drift of snow along one end of it). He wound up parking 2-3 blocks away and walking home. I think he’s going to have to do the same tonight. Hopefully he can stop for groceries on the way home.

Moo

Niko has three kinds of trains. He has a wooden train that he calls “too too,” tub time squeezy trains that he calls “wawa too too” and a small brio-compatible train that he calls “baby too too.” He also has a wooden block puzzle that has parts of a larger image printed on the blocks’ surface. You can assemble the blocks into different farmyard scenes: a pig, a cow, a hen, a duckling, a horse, etc. Sometimes he’ll bring you a block and make the animal noise he wants you to help him assemble the puzzle into. In general, though, he refers to it as “moo.” When he lines up the picture puzzle blocks behind one of his trains, it becomes a “moo too too.”

He has a (large) number of cars, all of which are just called “car,” except he also has some farm yard animals with wheels instead of feet. There’s a cow, pig, horse, sheep, rooster, hen. He calls them all “moo car.”

He apparently likes cows quite a bit, or maybe he just likes mooing. Sometimes he’ll point to a horse, then moo, and then laugh. Because horses don’t moo! Oh man. What a joke! MOO. Am I right, folks?

He’s also lately started asking us (mostly me) to move. He’ll usually come up and pat/gently push the person, then say “moo?” I’m trying to get him to include please in this, and can occasionally coax out a “pees mama moo?” but usually he just begins stridently demanding that one moves out of his way, often while navigating around the blockage just fine.

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