Duct Tape Roll, my new best friend

Got my milk, got my duct tape. What more does a boy need?

Last night, Dada was working at the window, doing something that he thinks is going to keep me from dropping my toys between the window gate and the screen (he is so naive), and he was using this neat looking stuff that came on a roll, and I was like -- what is this thing? What is this roll of awesomeness that he is holding? And then they told me it's name. DUCT TAPE. (or as I like to say "duck bape") It is my new most favoritest most bestest friend in the whole wide world.

This is my happy duct tape dance.

This roll of duct tape is just incredible. You see, you can wear it like a bracelet or an anklet or a hat. You can use it to add extra grip to your sippy cup. You can roll it off the table or roll it along the floor. And Mama and Dada seem to think that the tape ITSELF does something. But I don't care about that. I don't know what duct tape does, all I know is that this roll is imbued with some sort of AWESOMENESS that I just can't get enough of. It is the best toy EVER.

The many and varied uses of the duct tape roll. See how cool it is?

I love my duct tape roll so much, I wanted to cuddle it to sleep last night, but Mama distracted me by singing "Wheels on the Tractor" and took it away. But I saw it this morning and I just had to hold it! It was all I could do to put it down long enough to eat my breakfast. As soon as I was done, it was mine to love again! And for some reason Mama and Dada and AuntK all think my obsession is amusing. Like it has some greater meaning. They keep using the word "engineer". I don't know what an "engineer" is, but if it's someone who gets to hold and dance and play and wear and sleep with rolls of duct tape, I am so all about that!

The duct tape roll and I share a quiet moment.

Construction SITE!!!

You are not going to believe where I went this morning... a real, live, honest to goodness CONSTRUCTION SITE! It is so close to my house -- just a few blocks -- and it is the COOLEST THING EVER! I mean, there are bulldozers, and excavators, and dump trucks, and rollers, and dirt -- great big hills of dirt, and I have gone there EVERY DAY THIS WEEK! You know why? Because my Mama and Dada and AuntK are the coolest people in the whole wide world and they love me and take me there whenever I want! Well, almost whenever, but good enough.

The first day my Mama walked by there after work and all the trucks were sleeping, and I thought, well, that's kind of neat, Mama. The big trucks and motorcycles and stuff that were driving down the road next to the site were, frankly, much cooler. But then the next day, my AuntK took me and you know what? The trucks were MOVING! They were digging and lifting and moving big piles of dirt all over the place! So when my Mama got home I tried to tell her what happened -- I said "excavator, bulldozer, dirt!" and led her to the gate so I could show her. We went for a walk, but you know what, the trucks were SLEEPING again! Lazy trucks! It wasn't even dark yet, and I wasn't tired, but they were all sleeping, just like in my book Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site (which is one of my absolute favorite books ever), but it was so EARLY! And I wanted to show my Mama how the trucks moved so much! It was the same the next day too -- they were moving and working when my AuntK took me, but not when my Mama did. How could my Mama ever know what the trucks were doing?

So, finally, today, my Mama and Dada took me first thing in the morning, and they got to see all the trucks too! And there was this one excavator that was working right up near the edge of the site and we got to get SO CLOSE! We got to see him digging and moving dirt and putting it in a dump truck! It was so loud, and super cool! And then we just watched for a while, and saw all these different trucks move the dirt all over the construction site. Mama told me they are going to put buildings there! I just can't wait to see it! I love construction sites!

All this excitement totally wore me out!