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."

Friday funny: Bad Dream

This morning N woke up and ran to the door to his room and yelled for me. "Mommy, Mommy. I had a bad dream. Could you come here?" That really got my attention so I went upstairs right away. "Did you have a bad dream? What was it about?"

N: "I turned into a girl!" (or "goorl" as he says)
Me: "You did? Then what happened?"
N: "I had princess pants and danced with all the goorls"
Me: Well that sounds like fun. Was it scarey?
N: YES!! But I turned back to a boy and I'm okay now." Then he hugged me like he was sooo glad it was over!

Quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!

I've learned a lot in the past four months and one of them is that it is sooo much harder to keep up with everything (mainly the house) when you have two children!!! I found this poem a long time ago and read it from time to time to remind myself of the important things.

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.