The Captain is being very cute this morning. Usually he gets about an hour of playtime with his dad in the morning, but today Sir Monkeypants had to leave early for a course, so it’s just the two of us. The Captain isn’t too impressed with my attempts to eat breakfast and clean the kitchen, so he keeps stealing things like tea towels and juice cups and running away with a cackling laugh, so I’ll chase him.

I think he needs some extra support this morning because we bought him a new toy truck on the weekend. He was getting bored with his existing toys so we bought him this dump truck with a shape sorter and blocks in the back. He likes the blocks fine, but when you press the driver down, it makes horn and engine noises and rolls forward about six feet, and poor Captain Jelly Belly is just terrified of it. Whenever he accidentally sets it off, he runs over to be held and you have to rock him for about 10 minutes before he calms down. Even now when he goes into the playroom he gives the new truck a wide, wide berth. I guess we’ll have to put it away for a while.

Now, it’s off for playtime!