Holey, Moley, Cannoli! (my boys think that this phrase is hysterical. In fact, they laugh at everything I rhyme with moley)
We are sick-o-la.
All three of us.
Yoda, Yoda, lee---iiii----whooooo (they like that one, too)
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Chills and Thrills
So far, so good! I believe it is like a 14 hr difference. awesome.
This past week Evy cashed in his ice hockey ticket that he earned and went with his dad to a game. AWESOME! Merritt and I came home to watch a show and eat cookies and candied popcorn. AWESOME!
Evy had a blood draw, getting ready for March Neurology Madness. He did a great job. No tears. He even, after it was over, said,"Sometimes getting a shot isn't bad."
I'm starting to feel better. Yay!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Hockey Game with Dad
Evy earned the chance to get tickets to an Allen American hockey game. He was so excited to go with his dad!
A trip worth all that work to earn!
Friday, February 10, 2012
Gifties
One of the things that we do as a family, pretty regularly, is we give things to people. One of our favorite outings is to take goodies that we have made and leave them anonymously at a friend's house. I grew up doing this with my family and my kids love doing this.
We also bring stuff and claim it as we say hi to our friends at their door. The boys like this interaction as well.
Right now, the boys are taking turns bringing each other "gifts" to the doorways of their bedrooms. Evidently, as I listen in, there are rules:
We also bring stuff and claim it as we say hi to our friends at their door. The boys like this interaction as well.
Right now, the boys are taking turns bringing each other "gifts" to the doorways of their bedrooms. Evidently, as I listen in, there are rules:
- The other person cannot know what you are going to leave in the gift box (Evy's is an actual gift box, Merritt's is a Lightning McQueen lunch box).
- Fill the box with stuff from your room. No rules on this, can be cars/animals/toothbrushes/random pieces of trash.
- You have to knock at the CLOSED door with box in hand.
- The person on the other side says,"Come in!"
- The door opens. (Merritt likes to say "FOR YOU" when he is the giver.)
- You sit down together and open the box.
- The giver outlines the details of the gift with whatever "fun" story he wants to tell about buying the gift.
- Then the receiver says 'thank you.'
- Then you take turns.
Playing cheetah
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Priorities and Perspectives
Evy cracks me up. He is pretty adept at communicating his thoughts and needs.
Today, I sat down with the boys and asked them to help me pray for a friend who is having a hard time. Evy started the prayer, but it was clear that he had a special purpose for the prayer.
Evy: Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless that Merritt will listen BETTER!!!! Amen.
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I am still trying to teach Everett that he needs to write the letters of his name down in a particular order so that people recognize that he is spelling "Everett"--working on it today, I wrote down his name.
Evy: Mom, (pauses and looks at me with pity) you don't really know how to write. There isn't a 'K' in my name.
Mom: That is supposed to be an 'R' . . .
Evy: (clearly knowing who needs to be schooled now) An 'R' is like a 'P' with a line from the circle on the 'P'. That's okay. You just didn't know how to do it right.
One would never guess I actually taught kids how to write in school
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Merritt is off doing something. I don't know what. I am laying down, feeling sick, coughing, sneezing, and kind of not caring what is destroyed in that moment.
Evy: Are you going to check on Merritt?
Mom: In a minute.
Evy: I think you should go take care of him.
Mom: Got it.
Evy: (not impressed with my lack of action) Well, are you going?
---
I am feeling yucky and put on the movie "There's No Business Like Show Business" . . . I can usually entertain them for about 30 minutes with a show like this. They love the singing and dancing.
Evy: (watching the chorus line dance and sing) Are they wearing feathers to be modest?
Evy: (watching a dance number with guys in kilts doing something similar to Riverdance) I wuv their dancing. I want to learn to do that.
---
He loves to earn money by doing work. We don't pay him for doing his chores, but we do let him earn money for doing extra chores. He puts 10% aside for tithing and 20% aside for his savings bank.
We've been doing this with him for a couple of months now. He vacillates between wanting to keep his payment clenched tightly in his fist so that he can buy something "expensive" now vs being excited about putting money towards tithing which will help those that aren't as fortunate as him. I love having conversations with him about tithing and helping others.
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We recently were at a fast food joint and there was a worker who looked physically different than the rest of the staff. After Evy made a couple of comments to me, quietly, about he looked, I gently corrected him and let him know that if the boy heard him say those things it would hurt his feelings.
Although, no one but me heard it, Evy felt so bad. He cradled his head into my chest and just cried with remorse. We talked about how Evy wasn't in trouble and that we all learn how to be nice and that it is good to learn how words affect people.
That was about a week ago. Every once in awhile, Evy will turn to me and clarify his thoughts by saying,"We all can look different, right?"
He is such a tenderhearted guy.
Today, I sat down with the boys and asked them to help me pray for a friend who is having a hard time. Evy started the prayer, but it was clear that he had a special purpose for the prayer.
Evy: Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless that Merritt will listen BETTER!!!! Amen.
----
I am still trying to teach Everett that he needs to write the letters of his name down in a particular order so that people recognize that he is spelling "Everett"--working on it today, I wrote down his name.
Evy: Mom, (pauses and looks at me with pity) you don't really know how to write. There isn't a 'K' in my name.
Mom: That is supposed to be an 'R' . . .
Evy: (clearly knowing who needs to be schooled now) An 'R' is like a 'P' with a line from the circle on the 'P'. That's okay. You just didn't know how to do it right.
One would never guess I actually taught kids how to write in school
---
Merritt is off doing something. I don't know what. I am laying down, feeling sick, coughing, sneezing, and kind of not caring what is destroyed in that moment.
Evy: Are you going to check on Merritt?
Mom: In a minute.
Evy: I think you should go take care of him.
Mom: Got it.
Evy: (not impressed with my lack of action) Well, are you going?
---
I am feeling yucky and put on the movie "There's No Business Like Show Business" . . . I can usually entertain them for about 30 minutes with a show like this. They love the singing and dancing.
Evy: (watching the chorus line dance and sing) Are they wearing feathers to be modest?
Evy: (watching a dance number with guys in kilts doing something similar to Riverdance) I wuv their dancing. I want to learn to do that.
---
He loves to earn money by doing work. We don't pay him for doing his chores, but we do let him earn money for doing extra chores. He puts 10% aside for tithing and 20% aside for his savings bank.
We've been doing this with him for a couple of months now. He vacillates between wanting to keep his payment clenched tightly in his fist so that he can buy something "expensive" now vs being excited about putting money towards tithing which will help those that aren't as fortunate as him. I love having conversations with him about tithing and helping others.
---
We recently were at a fast food joint and there was a worker who looked physically different than the rest of the staff. After Evy made a couple of comments to me, quietly, about he looked, I gently corrected him and let him know that if the boy heard him say those things it would hurt his feelings.
Although, no one but me heard it, Evy felt so bad. He cradled his head into my chest and just cried with remorse. We talked about how Evy wasn't in trouble and that we all learn how to be nice and that it is good to learn how words affect people.
That was about a week ago. Every once in awhile, Evy will turn to me and clarify his thoughts by saying,"We all can look different, right?"
He is such a tenderhearted guy.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Night Out
Erik and I had a chance to see Keb' Mo' in concert a couple of weeks ago. It was AWESOME! It was the first time that I had ever sought out a concert and bought tickets for it. I was so excited! The setting was great . . . not a bad seat in the house at South Side Music Hall. He used his resonator guitar for a couple of songs and that was so much fun. I wish he used that guitar for all his songs.
One of the best loved songs of the evening "Shave Yo Legs"--(He is using a resonator guitar here.)
One of the moments I will remember most:
There was a couple sitting on the row behind us. They were closed lipped and almost angry looking through the opening performer . . . but when Keb' Mo' got on stage, their frosty looks started to melt. And, not but 3 songs into his performance they were relaxed swaying to the music and enjoying themselves. I honestly loved watching music bring them happiness.
Another highlight is we were able to go to a new restaurant Wild Salsa. The food was just amazing! I wish we lived closer because we would go more often. It was the kind of place you can go and forget that just 30 minutes earlier you were trying to convince a kid to to pee and frantically eyeballing the house to make sure your underwear wasn't sitting in a pile "in plain view" to greet the babysitter.
A fun, fun evening!
One of the best loved songs of the evening "Shave Yo Legs"--(He is using a resonator guitar here.)
One of the moments I will remember most:
There was a couple sitting on the row behind us. They were closed lipped and almost angry looking through the opening performer . . . but when Keb' Mo' got on stage, their frosty looks started to melt. And, not but 3 songs into his performance they were relaxed swaying to the music and enjoying themselves. I honestly loved watching music bring them happiness.
Another highlight is we were able to go to a new restaurant Wild Salsa. The food was just amazing! I wish we lived closer because we would go more often. It was the kind of place you can go and forget that just 30 minutes earlier you were trying to convince a kid to to pee and frantically eyeballing the house to make sure your underwear wasn't sitting in a pile "in plain view" to greet the babysitter.
A fun, fun evening!
Today in School . . . First Stop, Singapore
It it time to tour Asia next week.
We'll be exploring Singapore first. We'll talk about where it is, conservation on beaches, the food (I'm thinking curry puffs and hainanese chicken rice at Lion City Chinese Cafe for our finale night. . . the only place near us that serves Singaporean food), Singlish, festivals, and I'm still looking for some art/craft thing to do with them. Just as when we studied, Dubai, there is little of preplanned ideas for preschoolers to learn the culture aside from commercialism.
SingaporeExpats
Wild Shores of Singapore
NationalLibrarySingapore Picture SG
Tchoukball
Durian Fruit
Sri Mariamman Temple
JC Sum the illusionist, of course
The Merlion
Lots of world domino records were achieved in Singapore.
Frankly, their toilet program just makes me want to move there.
I wonder if there is a Jet Li film I can show the boys. He's from Singapore, evidently.
From Singapore, we'll go to India (our participation in The Color Run will help them visualize the Holi Festival), and then China.
We'll be exploring Singapore first. We'll talk about where it is, conservation on beaches, the food (I'm thinking curry puffs and hainanese chicken rice at Lion City Chinese Cafe for our finale night. . . the only place near us that serves Singaporean food), Singlish, festivals, and I'm still looking for some art/craft thing to do with them. Just as when we studied, Dubai, there is little of preplanned ideas for preschoolers to learn the culture aside from commercialism.
SingaporeExpats
Wild Shores of Singapore
NationalLibrarySingapore Picture SG
Tchoukball
Durian Fruit
Sri Mariamman Temple
JC Sum the illusionist, of course
The Merlion
Lots of world domino records were achieved in Singapore.
Frankly, their toilet program just makes me want to move there.
I wonder if there is a Jet Li film I can show the boys. He's from Singapore, evidently.
From Singapore, we'll go to India (our participation in The Color Run will help them visualize the Holi Festival), and then China.
Chills and Thrills
We had a busy week. It ended, thankfully, with a trip to Austin for the Color Run. I'll post more later on that.
Evy is more and more interested in writing. He isn't convinced that I understand exactly how to write or how to spell his name. So, he's been working on his own way to write stories and his name using the letters of our conventional alphabet.
Right now, he is using the *real* tools he got for Christmas to take apart his laser gun to get parts to make a robot. He has full confidence that he'll be able to put it back together in working order.
"Which way is Lefty Loose-yyy?"
Merritt has some fun responses these days to basically any announcement we make (what's for dinner, where we are going, etc) Here is how it goes--
M: What?
Me: Yes, peanut butter and jelly.
M: No WAY!
Me: Yes, way.
M: You are KIDDING me!
or
Me: Do you want to ____________?
M: Toadawwee
Me: Okay, let's do it.
M: Sweeeeeet!
I love my boys!
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