tonight at dinner

"I don't like toad food."   -Lily

(aka: tofu)

"Dog and Baby"

For several months now, one of the kids' most favorite things to pretend is something they made up and call "Dog and Baby".  Before naps, they will tell each other "Let's play dog and baby when we wake up".  I'm not sure why Lily's role is the "baby" because she's more just a dog owner, not a "baby".  I think that sometimes they say she is a Mommy too in this scenario??  They also talk about "pushing their buttons" and transforming back into Peter and Lily when one of them is tired of playing.  

There's a little delay in getting to the actual dog and baby part.  The leash is stuck under the dog and Peter is distracted by a book and almost ropes Lily in instead (get it?).  

Sometimes you just can't force these things.  ;)

Lily is so cute saying, "Fetch it, Boy!"  Peter is quite into and good at his dog role!

privacy

...is pronounced "prive of seat" in our house.  
As in, when I'm in the bathroom, I need some prive of seat.  
Thanks.

Sorry, Buddy.

We had a very OT sorta day.  Peter had OT through HCPS early this morning.  Then he had an OT eval at Children's later this morning.  His OT eval at CH really encouraged me.  It was with the therapist he saw all last year.  I was able to see good progress in his skills since his previous evals.... even since his first informal eval by an OT friend at church 1.5 years ago.  Its a similar standardized test... so it really encouraged me to see his progress in skills.  I hate to sound like a worry wart but since we really don't know for sure what we are dealing with (the cause of his epilepsy and low tone) and there were some crazy things included in his work up, and still unknowns, its just so relieving to see good, normal progress.  He will still receive therapy this year, spaced out over the year to spread out our insurance benefits.  The therapist was reassuring me that many of the levels he's at are developmentally appropriate and that often nowadays schools push kids beyond what is appropriate for where their brains are at each age.  And it was good to spend the time with just him... some quality time with my littlest man that we don't often get.

I bought him a 'paint with water' Curious George recently so this afternoon he worked on it.  He LOVED doing them.  It really kept his attention (that's always encouraging!).  He did one after another!  

Yes, I know his grip isn't right in a lot of these, we did correct that.  ;)

I think he did 7 total!  The harder you've had to work at something, the sweeter the victory!

 I also bought him a book of mazes.  We worked on those together then he was doing them on his own and really into them.  He'd pretend the characters in each maze... help the boy in the bath find his duckie, help the birdie out of the chimney, etc.   He tried and tried the "turtle" maze in the pic below, then gave up and said to the turtle, "I'm sorry buddy. I just can't help ya!" Love that boy.  He keeps me laughing!

It makes me happy too that he is wearing his crown from SS yesterday...  

In Preschool Quest, they learned that Jesus is Prophet (takes a message from God to man), Priest (makes sacrifices to God on behalf of man) and King (dwells among men, rules over us, the world and satan).  His crown has this verse on it... 

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Revelation 21:3-4

a morning with Goo

So a fun thing that I love is that Kathy will often write down funny things that the kids say while they are with her and then she'll share them with us.  :)  Its usually just on a piece of scrap paper but tonight it was in an email... so I get to share it on here!  Hilarious.  
Since its spring break, the kids spent the morning with her (while I straightened the house, work that's never done.  I think they had more fun.  I need to join them next time!).... 


Here is Kathy's email to me (with permission):


Thoughts from today ... 

Why buy toys if you already have old brown paper, inchworms, and peanut butter in your house.  You can see here the brown paper and inchworm, but no pictures of 20 minutes spent practicing the spreading of peanut butter and folding the bread to make a "foldover" sandwich!  So cute.

Favorite Quote ...

Me:  Lily, do you want me to go up and get your doll? 

Lily:  I'm not a mommy today.

Me:  Oh, okay.  Who are you today?

Lily:  A doctor

Me:  Oh, that's good.  Do you take care of grownups or children?

Lily:  Children

Me:  Shall I get the baby doll?

Lily:  (Thinking for a moment)  Goo, I really just want to be Lily today!!!   ;-)


And Pictures:

a conversation

This morning Lily and I were at the Clothes Closet (which I am loving!).  She was standing next to me, with her hands up...

Lily:  "Hold me, Mommy.  I want you to hold me."

me:  "I can't hold you right now, love."

Lily:  "Whhhhyyyy?"

me: "Because I have some work to do."

Lily:  "But Mommy... you're not a Daddy!"

OH, I love it!  :)   So I held her!  :)

A Helicopter

Hopefully, the video is working now... Turn your head to the side ;)

(probably not the best idea for a child with his history... but he is clueless of that... he only knows that he is passionate about vehicles and his imagination is wild.)

I felt certain that it wasn't "real", that he was being silly.  The silliness felt a little more justified when he explained  that he was being a helicopter.  I think it freaked out the coach a little, for good reason.
(Men or boy mamas, please tell me this is somewhat normal...)