drama king, dogs and one more thing

So you can see from the below video how good he is at acting, very dramatic ending I must say.
He makes a great tiger don't you think!







and then there's dogs.

we don't go outside because of dogs. we don't go to the park because of dogs. JoJo is EXTREMELY scared of dogs. He was semi-afraid of them before, but after ONE particular incident, he will SCREAM everytime he hears the doorbell......

One of our neighbors has a dog called Daisy. She is maybe a year-ish old. Very active, very feisty dog. The breed is some sort of collie I think, probably a cross breed. Anyway. The doorbell rang and I opened the door, JoJo was standing behind me. DAISY just appeared, acting all crazy and peed on the mat outside the door, and was rolling around and just so hyper is scared the crap out of him. He started crying and I had to tell the girl, who owned the dog, to PLEASE keep this dog on a leash! This dog is constantly running the neighborhood, loose, terrorizing some kids, including mine. JoJo won't even sit in the back garden anymore because they let this dog run all over the place, and Daisy came into the back yard once and scared JoJo.

Now we are having to deal with this. Slowly we open windows and doors, for a short time. We point out dogs in the street, we make doggy noises and we show him doggy pictures and we talk about dogs. I am sure it will be a long time before he is comfortable around dogs. Especially crazy ones.

I told JoJo to just call the doggy Crazy Daisy. Yup that's her new name. He thought that was funny. So now he wants to look out the window and look for "crazy doggy". Maybe that's a good thing.

One more thing. We were at the commissary yesterday and I could tell this guy kept looking at us. He eventually came up to us and asked us if JoJo was Ethiopian. After some exchanging back and forth, he was from Ethiopia too and we were talking about JoJo and when he came home and how marvelous it was etc etc. Then he speaks to him in amharic. I haven't been teaching JoJo amharic and he wasn't even speaking until a few months after we came home with him.  I do think JoJo understood what the language was though, he seemed to smile and then turn his head away almost embarrassed. But it was great meeting someone from Ethiopia, we certainly don't meet that many over here, and I would love that for JoJo.  That's why I am seriously considering a culture camp in the next couple of years.