Wednesday, January 28, 2009

A small world...

I know that a child lives in a much "smaller world" that expands to them as they get older, but this was too funny. I got a sheet from Brooke's speech teacher today about the things that a 5 year old should know. One of them was to identify different coins and their worth. Well can I tell you the last time Brooke saw me use something other than my debit card?? Anyhow, I decided we'd do crayon rubbings of the coins as a fun way to learn. We started with the penny and I asked her if she knew who was on the front. "Oh! It's daddy!" - Close Brooke...it's Abraham Lincoln and he use to be president. We turned it over and I asked if she knew what that was a picture of. "It's daddy's work!" Close again Brooke, it's the Lincoln Memorial. She was just too cute in how proud she was that she thought her daddy and his work were on this coin.

One other funny thing - when I told her that Abraham Lincoln was a President, she said, "oh, he must be very smart." "Mom, is our president now - Obama - is he very smart?" I told her that we hoped so and we also hope that he makes good choices.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Repeat after me...

I love how eager Brooke has been recently to teach Clayton new things...or maybe she's just excited that she can command him to do things and he occasionally will oblige. I walked in the other day to find them sitting on the chair reading a stack of books. Well...actually it was Brooke asking Clayton to repeat a long list of words after her. It sounded something like, "Clayton, say cow." And he would. "Clayton, say horse"...and he did.

And a few funny stories:
  • Our household has been sick the past couple weeks which has led to some very interesting conversations and comments. Brooke informed me while she was eating her popsicle that Jesus made her tongue just so she could eat a popsicle...as though there were no other purpose in the world other than for her to eat her popsicle.
  • Clayton's answer to everything is "I not know" he doesn't know his name, why he did anything, where he's going, what he's doing. Canned answer is always, "I not know" And, he just figured out this week that since he's not in a crib anymore he can actually get out of bed willingly anytime he wants. Boy, did that take a while - not that I'm complaining. But I do think it's cute that he'll come out of his bedroom, shut the door behind him and then come to find me.
  • Clayton's also really into hiding recently. I love that he has to announce everytime he's hiding. He'll run behind the couch or into his room behind his crib and yell "I'm hiding!"
  • Brooke and her friend Tommy were playing and I overheard many funny conversations but one of them, Tommy asked Brooke if she had big muscles or little muscles. Brooke replied very matter of factly that she has both - she uses her big muscles for big things and her little muscles for little things. Tommy's response - WOW! That's cool!