Wednesday, November 26, 2008
One Job
Archer and I were talking about chores and I asked him what his chores were. He started listing a few things, and then he said to me that he has one job that he takes with him wherever he goes. This job stays with him, because its inside him. And he takes it with him everywhere, and he does this job everywhere. He said his job that he keeps inside him is cleaning up. I'm proud of him for knowing this is his responsibility no matter where he's at, and his willingness (sometimes, anyway) to actually follow through and DO his job!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I want that...
...for my birthday! Mom, did you hear me? Did you see that? I want that for my birthday!
I've been hearing that about a hundred times a day for the last week or two. Every commercial he sees is another item for the birthday list. Finally tonight I told him if he said the word "birthday" one more time I'd turn the t.v. off. It took about 1 minute for him to say the forbidden word and off it went. Peace and quiet? No, not really.
The kids went downstairs to ride their trikes around and it wasn't long before there was screaming because they were running into each other and not sharing the space. And then, screaming for the other reason - injury. I went down there to investigate and found Archer on the floor under his trike. "Mom! Now Number 1 can't finish the race because Number 1 fell off his trike!" I then observed a re-enactment of the tight turn that caused the accident (at slower speeds). Happily, the ability to do the re-enactment means that there was no serious injury.
Now Archer's a frog and saying "ribbit!" and Shelly's following right behind saying "ree a bit!" Now they're into something in the closet... I suspect its the hidden Halloween candy. Gotta go!
I've been hearing that about a hundred times a day for the last week or two. Every commercial he sees is another item for the birthday list. Finally tonight I told him if he said the word "birthday" one more time I'd turn the t.v. off. It took about 1 minute for him to say the forbidden word and off it went. Peace and quiet? No, not really.
The kids went downstairs to ride their trikes around and it wasn't long before there was screaming because they were running into each other and not sharing the space. And then, screaming for the other reason - injury. I went down there to investigate and found Archer on the floor under his trike. "Mom! Now Number 1 can't finish the race because Number 1 fell off his trike!" I then observed a re-enactment of the tight turn that caused the accident (at slower speeds). Happily, the ability to do the re-enactment means that there was no serious injury.
Now Archer's a frog and saying "ribbit!" and Shelly's following right behind saying "ree a bit!" Now they're into something in the closet... I suspect its the hidden Halloween candy. Gotta go!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Halloween
This is the first year we've actualy gone out to collect candy. Shelly got the hang of it pretty quickly once she realized there was candy involved. She held the bag wide open and ran as quick as her little legs would carry her up to each door. She even overcame her fear of dogs to get close enough to grab a treat. It took us an hour to get around the block and that was enough candy for us.
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