4 years old

9/8/25

Hunter did something really cool the day before yesterday. Keep in mind he’s still technically only 3 years old (with his bday coming up this week). he and Rodrigo had just gotten a Roku, the thing that lets you watch a bunch of different stuff on TV, and he was excited about it and watching different kid shows. Then after a while, sitting across from each other at the table, we started playing a game in which we both were trying to hit these leather coasters over each other’s side of the table, kind of like table air hockey, and we’re seated a few feet away from the TV, and a show he seemed interested in was playing, and he kept turning around to watch it and then turning back to our game, and after like three or four times of doing this, he looked at me and said totally unprompted, “I’m getting distracted by the tv.” I actually wasn’t gonna say anything at all because his distraction was benefiting me: every time he turned around I could look down at my phone and it gave me more time to read and complete tasks on it. But I was really happy and surprised that he noticed, and I congratulated him that he noticed that about himself. I said he could pause it, and he did, and we continued our game together, more focused. he’s really into making everything a game or competition lately. When we’re walking to the laundromat, he’s racing us to see if he’ll get there first, when we’re eating, it’s who can slurp the whole noodle in their mouth first, etc..

9/12/25

this week has been nice, just a lot of the inside of the RV which is very brown and wood themed, but cozy and calming and comfortable. And then a lot of sandy roads, surrounded by forest in the RV park, which is nice to look out of the windows and see trees moving green and sunlit during the day and black and swaying outside the windows and doors at night, and then just lots of rocky sandy trails, tonight walking back-and-forth several times to the laundry.

9/13/25

“The unicorn walks to the fart store and buys a fart!” – Hunter, 10:23 am, lying on my bed and just making up stuff to say while also  pretending he’s being tickled when no one is touching him lol

something else I really like about this RV life that’s bringing us together more: we’re doing so many more things together, because there are things I can’t do just by myself anymore. For example: I used to get groceries delivered via Instacart a lot – we can’t do that anymore because we can’t get delivery to our “house,” so we go out as a family to the grocery store and shop together every single time. Also getting stuff delivered for gifts and needs, like from Amazon, I can’t be the only one that does this anymore, because again we can’t get delivery. as I write this, we are currently all together in the car driving to get Hunter’s cousin’s birthday gift. if we were in our conventional house, this is something I would’ve done on my own – shopped online and got it delivered. But now we’re doing so many more things together.