Jay has been invited to numerous play dates. In fact, he has had a play date nearly every day this week. This morning he is going to join Agatha’s play group for and art class and will make a puppet of himself. Yesterday he ran around Ty’s back yard, stark naked with black swimming goggles on playing “Astroid Attack Shooting Aliens” which basically entailed blasting his new mate Ty (from Dallas, TX) with a water gun and befriending his equally naked 6 yr old sister Zoe and shooting her as well. She was armed with the garden hose and had the winning edge. Earlier in the week, he had a play date at Joy’s house, she has three sons, 10, 9 and 7. Jay adores all three and talks endlessly about them. Joy prefers bathing suits so he had to curtail his desires to run around naked although he did manage a good sprint through her house in an effort to avoid getting dressed to go home. Next week, I’m hoping to have him enrolled in a “play group” three mornings a week. Mummy Bunny is ready for a little time off! 7.45am to 11.15am sounds like a decent break. The bonus being at the end of the day when Jay should flame out to dreamland earlier rather than later, because I am currently letting him sleep for as long as he needs with bedtime officially starting at 8pm, after we’ve done story time. Karen, a note for you, Jay is almost word perfect on the “There’s Dirt on My Shirt” book. He can read / recite every poem in the book word for word. He even changes the words to make up his own rhymes which is actually quite clever, and can occur at any given time not just bed time. Of course, he gets most excited about this because he knows, that I know, what he is doing and he gets a real kick out of that. Rex on the other hand, doesn’t get it because he doesn’t participate in story time. Well he does, he just lies flat on his back with his eyes firmly closed and listens, or so he says. Jay and I are yet to hear him recite any of the rhymes, maybe one day he’ll surprise us!