Thursday morning…whilst toddlers sat on the potty, we were reading books. I asked Miss Squeaky, “where’s the banana?” she pointed to the small banana, just a detail in the picture, and then she pretended to pick it up by pinching it, pretend to put it in her mouth, and then chew. AWESOME imagination at work!!
Later, she engaged in her favorite hobby of the now, peeling the paper off the crayons. Then she had to show off her skipping and jumping for grandpa. First time I’ve seen her get both feet off the ground.
Mr Grunty’s new word, “No-ah” for the Noah’s Ark play set he has. At the park, he notified me of a “bee” before I even saw it. While his sister was showing off, Mr G was pushing the vacuum cleaner around the living room (foreshadowing?) . At the daycare, they put out the 4-colored dinosaurs and bowls. He yelled at his sister for putting green & red dinosaurs in the blue bowl. One of his hobbies is to sort out the blocks by color, and make sure they are in a perfect line. Another hobby, grab a fist full of colored pencils and either tell me the color (black or blue) or ask me “wha’s t’at?”
At the park, I was calling up the slide to both toddlers. I think Miss S was upset that Mr G was pushing her. Later, she went down the slide. Look of terror on her face. And at bottom she was doing the nervous laugh. Then Mr G went down, scared look on his face. Laughing happily when at bottom.
Mr Cuddles took a couple of long naps. And he also did an 8 minute session of tummy time. He likes it more, when I get down on the floor and do tummy time with him. We called MyBetterHalf, because he was being very talkative, so she got to hear coo-ing.
We saw “Itsy”. As in Itsy-bitsy-Spider. It was crawling across the carpet. I pointed it out, and the childrens were fascinated. Luckily I was able to capture it under a glass, they watched for a bit, and then we put it outside.
Once again, screaming at bedtime. This time from both of them….because they were playing tag in their room when they were suppossed to be sleeping. They both cooperated and went to bed, no trouble. Because I think they knew they would keep playing once the parents left. Miss S is more prone to run back to her bed, and get in it if a parent opens the door, trying to play Miss Innocent. 45 minutes before they quieted down…
I’ve started doing nightly prayers with each of them, folding my hands of theirs, bowing my head, “Dear God, thank you for Mommy & Papa, [sibbling] and [sibbling], Oliver-kitty & Sophie-kitty. In Jesus name we pray, amen.” Then they say “ah-mun”.
this week in tumbles…Mr G took a tumble down the thankfully carpeted stairs. Miss S had been straddling the passenger front hold-bar on their stroller, I took her down from there twice, third time, I didn’t get to her soon enough and she tumbled off onto the deck.
