Tuesday, June 9, 2015
The Cheese Stands Alone
Monday night T was playing nursery rhyme songs on Starfall ... "The Farmer in the Dell," "Georgy Porgey," and others, but those are the two I kept hearing. I looked over at him and noticed he had a sad little face and tears in his eyes. I asked what was wrong, which made him sniff and nearly break down into tears. Then I went to the couch and put my arm around him and asked him why he was so sad, to which he responded "The Cheese is all alone." He's such a tender little soul.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Interview with a 4.5-year-old
- What is something mom always says to you? I love you
- What makes mom happy? Doing what she asks you to
- What makes mom sad? Seeing the cats die
- How does your mom make you laugh? Doing the goo goo ga ga *T does the sunflower dance* and saying Mr. Snoopypants
- What was your mom like as a child? Laughing
- How old is your mom? I don't know
- How tall is your mom? HUGE
- What is her favorite thing to do? play with her child
- What does your mom do when you're not around? work
- If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? to give her son a hug
- What is your mom really good at? sewing
- What is your mom not very good at? making her son get away from her when she's going potty
- What does your mom do for a job? hug her child again
- What is your mom's favorite food? chives (really?)
- What makes you proud of your mom? my mom giving me a heart colored in what isn't scribbled
- If your mom were a character, who would she be? Han Solo
- What do you and your mom do together? give hearts to each other at valentines day and Mother's Day and Father's day and having hugs and having kisses
- How are you and your mom the same? there skin is the same 'cause your skin is light and my skin is light but there's the difference of our hair. Your hair is black and my hair is gold. Do you know the difference of our ears? Your's have earrings and mine don't.
- How are you and your mom different? My hair is gold and your hair is black (it's really dark blond)
- How do you know your mom loves you? giving me hugs and kisses and hearts
- What does your mom like most about your dad? giving him hearts
- Where is your mom's favorite place to go? The Lego world. The Lego world is where all the live Legos are. Have you ever been to the Lego world? I have (This story went on a bit longer, but I couldn't type fast enough)
- How old was your Mom when you were born? 5? 4 or 3 or 1 or 2
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Dramatic Magnets
T decided to play a little prank yesterday and won himself an X-ray at the ER. He walked up to his teacher and said he's swallowed some magnets (spherical gumball sized magnets). Then he laughed and said he was just kidding and showed the teacher the magnets in his hand. This is pretty typical for T and wouldn't have been a big deal if a couple of his friends hadn't claimed that they saw him swallow magnets. The magnets in his hand were the typical metallic color and his friends claimed he swallowed the "colored" ones. At this point it was T's word against his friends and T maintained his stance that he didn't swallow them. I talked to him on the phone and was 99.9% sure he didn't swallow them. However, after talking to my supervisor who also has little kids I took her advice and called our pediatrician. She recommended that since no with impeccable credibility could vouch that he hadn't swallowed the magnets that he should to go the ER and have and X-ray to be sure because magnets can cause very severe damage. The Scoot took him to the ER, and as expected the X-ray was clear. We had a little chat about how one always needs to tell the truth in order to always be believed. I feel that I can usually extract the truth when something is important like this and I so wanted to believe him, but in this case we just had to be sure. Poor kiddo. Hopefully this object lesson in truthfulness will help set him on the path to a truthful existence. I should also point out that he's a ridiculously good kid and that is probably less devious than many 4-year-olds, but he does like to play jokes.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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