Michael called me at work today to tell me Liam was sitting on the toilet "going poopy" reading a starwars comic book.

Like father, like son. :)

Indians and Pilgrims at School

All of the kids in Liam's class were required to dress as Pilgrims and Indians. The teacher sent home a note specifying which to dress as. Liam was supposed to be a pilgrim but I requested that he be allowed to be an Indian.

When we got to the school Michael said all the Indians had something in common. I nievely said, "a feather", to which Michael replied, "nope, there's something else." Sure as shit, I walk in the room and all the black children were dressed as Indians and all the white children were dressed as Pilgrims. wow. WTF???

As a sidenote, all the Black kids were seated at the 2 tables closest to the door. sigh.

We will be touring the Catholic School at our church very soon.

UPDATE (11/2008): We have been in FREEEEE public school since July and LOVE IT!

Liam and I are on page 50 of Harry Potter and he's still keeping up! He loves it. If Seth wasn't such a distraction, Liam would be able to pay attention better. We read until mommy gets a headache from Liam talking to Seth and Seth saying, "mommy, mommy, MOMMY ... a ball, a ball?" Too bad we don't have more hours in a day.

When the boys are ready for bed, or when I'm ready for the boys to be ready for bed, we do our normal routine of bath, bed, brushing teeth, and books, and I put the baby gate up so they stay in there. Seth usually floats around the room for at least 30 minutes and then crawls in bed next to Liam. He has his own bed but they will only sleep together. Last night was a little different. I thought I heard a thump sound and when I went to their room to check on them, the 1st thing I saw was Seth, asleep on the floor next to the gate. The funny part was that instead of climbing into bed with Liam he went over to the bed, got his pillow, stuffed pig, and a blanket and took it over the gate and went to sleep. I guess he was so pissed off by being told it was bedtime he refused to sleep in his bed.

yes...I moved him to his bed.

Wonderful new words

Well, Seth finally has some words.

Last weekend he saw my coffee cup and said, "Mommy's agua".

Beer bottle = "Daddy's agua"

All cereal, crackers, goldfish and other crunchy foods are "fish".

Anything round, edible or not, is an apple.

OH yeah.....most stuff is preceeded by the word MINE. Mine apple, which really sounds like mine appooo, mine shoe, mine fish.

Luckily, potty is really potty so there are no bathroom miscommunications. I am thankful for small favors.

Liam Loves Reading Harry Potter

We've tried reading Harry Potter twice before but Liam had a hard time keeping up with the story so he lost interest pretty early on. I decided to try it again and what a difference!!! I stop every couple of paragraphs so we can briefly review what's going on and that seems to help keep him focused. He was so interested this time we read for over an hour before bed and I had to cut him off at the end of the chapter. He was asking about what might happen to certain characters and wanted to keep reading until we knew for sure what was going to happen.

I think it's so cool when he stops me to ask what a word means. That tells me he's really paying attention. Tonight he asked about spectacles, sparkling, and odd.

I wonder if I can a section to my goodreads.com profile for his books. :)

UPDATE: yes, I can.

I got home from work today completely exhausted. Not long after sitting down, Liam and Seth decided to run around in a circle. Seth was chasing Liam and they were just running and laughing. It was just about the cutest thing ever. As I watched them I thought, "I bet adding a 3rd child to the mix increases the collision rate drastically." hmm.

I wonder if you can love someone you haven't met yet...probably so.

:)

Liam...what do you mean your finger is stuck...

yes, stuck! In a kaleidoscope. On the morning of Seth's birthday party Liam decided to put his finger in the eye hole of a party favor kaleidoscope. OY! Naturally, it got stuck. We tried everything to get it off without the help of the ER. Of course, mommy took pictures while daddy got to work with the tools. I never thought I'd hear myself tell the pediatrician, "Oh, you can cancel our appointment. We found the right Dremel tool attachment. That and a bag of chips and he's all good." I'll post the pictures tonight. HAHA!