Great Day

We had such a great day today. We started it out with our usual McD's breakfast. I usually drink a diet coke with our McD's. The caffeine gets me charged up and ready to get stuff done, so I cleaned the boys' bath tub, gave L a bath and did a few odds and ins around house. Then I decided to clean and rearrange the room we call the library.. (it's our spare bedroom with a book shelf in it. We just call it the library because it has a few books in it that's all). N has taken very good care of his books lately, so he has earned back ALL of the books. For that reason I put all of his books back on the shelves in his room and in the library. He was really excited about that, so we sat together and read for a while. I went on my first outdoor run for the season while D washed his truck and the boys slept. It felt so exilerating to be outside in the fresh air and sunshine that I ended up running four miles. My original intention was to walk about two, but ended up running 90% of four miles! Felt sooo good! Once we all got cleaned up we visited a "tractor friend" of my husband's. The man lives about forty minutes from here out in the country. He has a real tractor collection (as opposed to toy tractor collection) like I've never seen before. He was very good with N. He let him sit on his front loader and fork lift for quite a while. I think he would have let him sit on more of his tractors, but they were all outside in the snow and mud. D's friend offered to let N look through his binoculars to find the deer that were eating in the field. N loved those binoculars. I really wish I would have taken the camera with us because N looked so cute exploring with the binoculars. We told N if he was a good boy at D's friend's house we'd go to McDonald's (yes, McD's twice in one day. Eek!) to eat supper and play. The Playland at the Mcd's nearest D's friend is incredible. N had so much fun playing and D and I had a great time talking while he played. L enjoyed watching all the kids run around. We headed home after that and are now enjoying a quiet evening because the boys are so worn out they are already sleeping. Yay!!

Hope you had a chance to enjoy beautiful weather today too. -C

Friday Funnies

N told me Santa has a big beard, Grandpa has a little beard and he (N) has a teeny, tiny mouse beard..

I have really, really dry hands right now. I've been washing them more than usual because both boys have been sick. I have several cracks on both hands from being washed so much. N has been concerned about them hurting me. He asks to look at them from time to time to see if they've healed yet. The other day I went upstairs to wake him up from his nap. N reached for my hand and said, "Let me see your crack, Mom."

Friday Funnies and Tidbits

The other day N said "I need to play Legos to start the day off right."

On Monday N and I were watching a show about airplanes. I thought this would be a nice way to tell N about my sister's travels, so I explained to him that my sister just left Bangkok on an airplane. To which he replied very nonchalantly "Oh, ya, Mom. I was on a airplane the other day. I went to South of PearPop. They have lots of cheese there." Made me laugh!!

L has discovered his hands and his feet. He found his hands several weeks ago, but he continues to get better at using them. He chews on them all the time. He's at the age where he can see an object, study it for a second, then move his hands together to hold it. I can tell that he has to concentrate on what he's doing each time he draws his hands together to hold something. It's amazing to see him develop. I'm so glad I can be at home with him to see him grow.

Speaking of growing, in the last couple of weeks, L had a big growth spurt! He jumped from a 3 month size clothes to a 6 month size clothes. There is a 3-6 month size clothing in there, but he's already outgrown it. (Thank goodness because I cannot find any of the 3-6 month clothes we used for N when he was a baby. Surely we didn't let him run around in his Birthday suit for three months. Ha!)

As I said above, L has noticed his feet. He's seen them a few times, but now he's made the connection that he can move them and hold them. I like taking his hand and running them over the bottom of his feet so that he's tickling his own feet. He thinks it's funny.

N has been super yucky sick this week. This bug is circulating. It's nasty! I'm doing my best to take care of both boys while not passing N's germs to L.

Stay warm and stay well. -C

(Belated) Friday Funnies: Tooth Fairy

N and I were walking through Kohls. As we approached the boys' section N stopped walking and stared at a display of manikins (headless manikins). After a second he said "Mom! Their heads are broken!!!"

D and I have a few wedding pictures hung up in our room. N noticed them for the first time the other day. After studying them for a while N looked at D, pointed at a picture that showed my whole wedding gown, and said, "That picture's from when Mommy was a princess."

This week while playing on the computer, N came across the tooth fairy. I explained to him that everyone's baby teeth fall out and grown up teeth come in to replace the baby teeth. When you're baby teeth fall out you put them under your pillow. The tooth fairy comes at night, takes the tooth and leaves a gift for you. Apparently this story scares N because he said "I don't want the tooth fairy to come to my house and take my teeth!!" A couple days later on the way home from school N reminded me of this. He came out of the blue and said "Mom, call the tooth fairy and tell her not to come to my house. She can't take me teeth. They're mine!" So I said, "Okay. I'll give her a call."