The nublins were in fine form today! I got a week’s worth of blog material all in one day.
Breakfast:
C: Pleasth open thisth for me.
Me: Let’s practice your “s” sound. Say, “Pleassssse open
thisssss for me.”
C: Can you open that?
M: Come on, let’sssss
practisssse. Pleassssse open thissssss.
C continues to avoid
the dreaded s sound, ignore me, and/or turn his mouth away from me so I can’t see
if his tongue is in the right spot. Finally, when he sees I’m not going anywhere.
C: Well, I have to sthay THA-AT if you’re holding it!
In the car:
Our conversation
somehow gets from ancestors to smoking, then cancer, then chemo, then baldness,
then Uncle Tarl, then male-pattern baldness vs. bic-ing your head voluntarily. The boys were a little worried that their hair
would fall out when they got older.
Me: Yeah, but then you
could just shave it like Uncle Tarl. I think he looks pretty cool without hair.
C: Yeah! He looks like a guy who could do sweet moves on
Mario!...Hey! Mario is like Papa. Hair here (points to right side) and here
(points to left side), but no hair here (points to top of head)
R: That’s his hat, Calvin.
Lunch:
They take their
charving skills to new media: Reed charves pork roast (lots of wood products)
and Calvin charves bread and vegetables.
C (holding up piece of broccoli): Is this a tree, (turns it)
an upside down tree, (takes bite out of top middle) or a clown?
It was a clown.
Play time:
After putting up the Christmas
tree, they took the Christmas toys out and started having a heyday. I’m not
really sure what the storyline was, but when I spied, I learned that it
involved reindeer, snowmen, a King, Baby Jesus, a Christmas train, and a truck
made from a triceratops skeleton. Here’s the one line I overheard:
C: Uh oh! Baby Jesus’ hay is frozen! (knock knock) How will
we break it?! Get yooour weapons!!!
Toy pick-up time:
After finishing his
assigned rooms, Calvin “helped” Reed in the living room by making a Ninja
out of an exercise ball, comforter, two DS games, coat, slippers, and couch
cushions.
The couch cushions are
arms, a shield, and a sword. I told you this boy was creative.
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In between all the funnies there was also decorating the
Christmas tree, baking Reed’s b-day cookies, eating popcorn and cheese for
supper while drawing dinosaurs, attacks under the mistletoe, and Max peeing on
the potty for the first time! It doesn’t
get much better than this.
2 comments:
Can't wait to see that picture! Darn you, dial-up is right! This post was a scream!
Just read the Mario part to Papa and we're both spewing coffee and tea. :)
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