I face, and then embrace, my fears!
Hi everyone! Hope you are all staying warm and dry during this crazy rainy month! Mommy says spring is just around the corner, and then we’ll be able to go outside a lot more. I think she may be fooling herself!
This past weekend I went to Salt Lake City again with my mom, Pammy, Katil and Tully and we saw more than just rain - we saw SNOW! And a lot of it! Snow is really neat - it’s cold and white and it looks pretty when it falls from the sky. It did mean that we couldn’t go to the zoo, but that was ok with me, because I had two other distractions while we were there that I thought were the funnest things ever! I have two new passions, and words to go with them, and I pretty much spent most of my waking time this weekend exploring them to the fullest! When you hear what they are, you may be surprised and say, “Hey, Decker - I thought that used to really freak you out!”. But, I have chosen to face down my fears, and embrace them for the super fascinating contraptions/toys that they are:
Passion #1: The Vacuum Cleaner! Regular visitors to my blog may recall that I used to hate the vacuum, and then I grew to enjoy pushing it around (UNPLUGGED, mind you!) around the garage. Well, in Utah there was a vacuum in the upstairs closet, and I was allowed to open the door and pull it out and push it around the living room! I can identify the hose, the plug, and the handle (all by name), and I loooooooooove to say the work ‘vacuum’ over and over and over again - it’s so musical! I think I say it just fine, but my mom keeps trying to help me pronounce it slightly differently. I’m not sure why, but my aunties and Pammy kept getting the giggles everytime I say ‘vacuum’! I heard them saying they’ll need to explain that I’m not saying “F U” to people. That makes no sense at all - why would I naming letters when I am describing this magnificent machine? Grownups are so weird…
Passion #2: Hair Dryers! For a while now, I would notice that my mommy would disappear from the room for a while, and if I went looking for her I would find her aiming this really loud gizmo at her hair, which would dry it out for her. I didn’t like the noise, and it blew her hair around and was just kinda scary. But - I also really don’t like it when her hair is wet, so I knew it was a necessary evil. Well, for whatever reason, during this trip I decided that hair dryers aren’t actually scary, but are really sort of interesting! So much so that I decided it was important to take the two hair dryers in the house (red hair dryer and blue hair dryer, as I call them), and drag them around with me throughout the day. Pammy asked me what I had in my hands, so I held one hair dryer up to my head and made a noise to show her what they’re for. I also see my mom use a round brush when she dries her hair, so I grabbed a brush in the other hand and showed her how to use them together. For whatever reason, that got another round of giggles from everyone and “good job, little hairdresser!”. Since we’ve been home, I’ve learned to call my mom’s hair dryer “silver hair dryer”, and when her hair is wet, I drag it over to her and insist that “mama dry hair”. Hey, I just want her to look presentable when we go to playgroup!
Hope you all get to push a vacuum around sometime soon too!