First lunch of the season outside!
Coloring, coloring and card making. Yet another birthday, this time a luau at home. T told me what to draw (chickens and a rock and bushes, and the exact front of his Kaua'i chicken shirt) and then he colored it in (with a little help when it was time for nap.)
Let me vaccume, no, no, me... T's one time girl friend - or rather the girl he said he might marry - They both wanted to play with the vaccume, but Zora go there first. Classmates Campbell and Maren recline nearby with their moms (and Tate and Miah can be seen in the back.)
Look at him go! Only a year and a half after we got him the bike... T has been resisting riding his bike, but I am insistant he can't get a peddle bike until he learns to ride the one he has. Yestrerday the neighbor boys were out riding, so I brought along his bike just in case. Eventually he picked it up, and after just a bit he got enough of a hang of it to keep going, and going... until he couldn't wait to get out there today! He gave up early this morning (cold, bottom hurt, wasn't erfect right off), but took to it again this afternoon. That pedal bike isn't too far off now! If you are interested in T's bike check here.
Monkeys and a tiger (guess who) in a tree
T and I have been getting ready for Valentines day all week. We've been cuting and coloring hearts, and today sewed them together. T even did some sewing!
We had our first family movie night tonight. T was VERY excited, "I can't wait for movie night!" he said several times leading up to the event. We watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which was a little scarier for T than either B or I hoped, though I knew part of it might scare him. We had already told him the story, though I'd fudged on some of it - calling Yukon Cornelius Klondike Mike - for example. He was rather obsessed with knowing when the Abominable Snow Monster would be on screen even knowing what would happen. He didn't end up hiding from any of it, but he did cuddle close a number of times.
We had meatloaf, garlic mashed potatoes, and steamed broccoli with lemon pepper for dinner. Then to go along with the fun of the evening we had ice cream sundaes - two kinds of ice cream (Heavenly Hash and French Vanilla), hot fudge, whipped cream, sprinkles, and crushed candy cane. There was banana too but no one chose that - to much after the big dinner I think. T wanted us all to eat from one big bowl, then when we chose separate bowls he wanted to trade bites. In the end he didn't eat that much, but did enjoy it. Family movie night was a success.
Waiting for it all to begin and very excited (perhaps a bit nervous too.)
Ice cream sundeas for treat! The green with loads of whipped cream is B's, T's is the red, and I had the yellow - Yum.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
We later pulled in one of Grandma Kay's blankets to cuddle under and use to hide, though it didn't come to that.
I am now editing five days after I wrote the two sentences below:
My father-in-law quoted Yoda from Star Wars in a Skype conversation: "Hard to see. Always changing future is."
After first asking what 'Uh huh" means after my mom said it this weekend, at bedtime T asked why yup, uh huh, and yes all mean yes.
I had had many more quotes I wanted to write, but time has robbed my of what they were. Perhaps a little caped wonder could figure it out? My mom came to visit for the Labor Day weekend and on the way home from picking up T at school we stopped at the park.
Mom is reading Moonfleet from the Osborne book Illustrated Classics for Boys.
We had a great first night dinner with T engaging with mom, we made it to the book festival (largest Independent book fest), we had yummy apple pancakes with blueberry syrup, we watched all four segments of North and South until 1:30am, we got a cute replacement for the mat at the back door that I burnt with the pizza stone, I planted some plants I had been wanting to, watched Enchanted April, and had a pleasant dinner on the patio of a local pub where T spent happy times writing out words we dictated to him (we had to spell them for him.)
