Thoughts

This morning Lash woke up early and came down into my bedroom. He was very disappointed to see that Daddy was gone already. Lash wanted to play the Kindle but I told him it was too early and he could either go back to bed or get into bed with me.

After throwing a short fit he crawled into my bed. He reached out for me so I held his hand and closed my eyes thinking that maybe he just might go back to sleep. Every minute or so I would open my eyes and there he was either looking at me or daydreaming. After 3-4 minutes I asked him "What are you thinking about?"

He looks at me with a super sweet look on his face and his squinty eyes (this the look he has right before he says "you are the greatest mom in the world"...so I had high expectations) and he said, "I'm thinking about everything...giraffes, horses, tigers, lions...."

I think that kid thinks about animals all the time. He is either playing with animals, reading about animals, pretending to be an animal...in fact, just 5 minutes ago he was pretending to be chased by a leopard. Last week we wrote down all of the animals he can identify and it was nearly 75!

On that note...here is a short video of Lash pretending to be a horse (he is watching Tangled Ever After):

Playing In The Snow

Although Lash does NOT like to be cold or wet, he does enjoy playing in the snow...or at least the idea of playing in the snow.

The snow started falling New Years Eve morning and Lash couldn't wait to put on his snowsuit and snow boots and go play in the snow with Daddy.

On New Years Day, we went to Papa and Oma's house for breakfast and we ended up leaving Lash there to play with his uncles and aunts. The ones who were not too sick took him outside in the snow. From the pictures it looks like he had a wonderful time!

Swing Set

 

We decided to get the kids a swing set for Christmas. Then we decided to put it together...in the cold. It took us a total of eleven hours, four of which were in temperatures below freezing with an even colder wind chill. 

Lash was so excited for it to be done so he could play on it.

Proof

I really meant to get this video posted with yesterday's post, but it just didn't happen. Here is proof that Henley Jane is now walking:

Life

Life in our house has been yucky for the past 3-4 weeks. We have each been sick for at least part of the past month with colds and coughs. We've taken all sorts of medicine and the kids were even on breathing treatments for a short time. I think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel...whew!!

Christmas came and went with lots of time spent with family and friends. Lash doesn't understand why Christmas doesn't last all year long...I tried explaining but it was useless. Since watching the movie "Elf" three times this season he has been arguing quite a bit lately, "No its not...yes it is...not its not...yes it is."

Henley is walking!! She started taking a few steps around Thanksgiving and she really took off the week of Christmas, although she still crawls quite a bit because it is faster. 

Life is going to calm down a little now that the holidays are over, which means I will hopefully have more time to update the blog...right?!? :)

Henley being Henley

Several weeks ago we had a friend over for dinner. We were eating fresh fruit and found out that Henley really likes blueberries. We also found out that she preferred eating them from the spoon that our friend offered rather than from Daddy. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Jesus

I couldn't help but sing this tune the other day and after I did Lash wanted to hear it for real. We found the song on YouTube and now he requests it several times a day. He picked up the words pretty quickly:

Girly Girl?

Henley Jane is fascinated with the mardi gras beads at Papa and Oma's house. Every time we visit she goes to the drawer, pulls out the treasure and puts each strand of beads on. She appears to love wearing them and they make her look very pretty.

The other day Henley found Lash's super hero cape. Just like with the mardi gras beads, she tried to put the cape on...she tried and tried and tried:

Coloring Pictures

Lash really enjoys to color and to do workbook pages. This morning he got out the crayons and notebook paper to do some drawing. He brought me two or three pictures and asked me to guess what he had drawn...I got it wrong every time.

Then he brought me a picture of a drawing of Daddy:

How awesome is that?!? He is only three years old folks!!

When I was telling him what a wonderful job he did he said "I love Daddy so much," and "Daddy is such a great guy!" That kid loves his Daddy!!

After drawing Daddy he went on to draw me and in the process made some comment about my bum...not cool. After that he drew a picture of "Baby Henley" and as he was drawing he told her, "You're going to be so pretty."

Rules

Today at lunch I had to remind Lash of the dinner table rules:

1. There are no animals at the table. When you are at the table you are to act like a little boy and not a dog or a horse or a dinosaur, etc.

2. Do not make any weird noises with your mouth because Henley Jane will mimic and spit food everywhere.

Late in the lunch Lash started listing off his own set of rules. It wasn't until he had made it to 20 or so that I had the sense to get a pen and paper and write them down:

1. We don't hit people.
2. We don't get messy.
3. We don't hit babies.
4. We don't get messy ketchup all over the floor.
5. We don't get water all over grandmas when babies or boys are in the bathtub.
1. We don't ever run a school bus on people.

(Lash: "Are you writing it down?")

2. We don't hit people.
3. We don't hit people.
4. We don't drop tater tots on the floor.
5. We don't shine flashlights in peoples' eyes.
1. We don't push down Henley.
2. We don't hit zebras.
3. We don't kick horses with your legs.

Although he would hold up the second hand, he always started recounting from one and never continued to six. He also included "We don't hit people" much more frequently than I wrote down...do you think he has heard that a time or two before?!?