Honk if You're Flying South!

I pointed out some geese honking, and flying over our heads today to Deklan while we were outside. I tried explaining to him how geese fly south for the winter.

"When it gets cold, geese will fly south to a warmer place."
He was silent.
We went to Phoenix last year and he associates that with warm weather, so I tried again.
"Once it gets cold here, the geese have to fly down to Phoenix to stay warm."
Deklan: "How do they get there?"
"They fly..." I said, to which he stopped walking, looked up at me in awe and replied "like on a Geese Airplane!?"

Welcome Back!

I'm welcoming myself back to my blog, since it has been a while. I guess Deklan hasn't said anything funny in a long time... :o) just kidding. He makes me laugh daily with his remarks. Blakely is still demanding and I'm not sure if her knew ability to speak actual word clusters works in our favor or not. She loves to take Deklan to school with me and wear her backpack and screams if she's carried and doesn't get to 'walkt' by herself. She loves shoes and picks out her own every day- and don't try to get her to wear anything but what she picks out. We have yet to get her to sleep through the night without waking (yes I realize she is almost 2). We never had this problem with Deklan. They are two polar opposites for sure. I think she is deliberately waking to try to squeeze one more second of attention from us and away from her brother. Deklan is in the 'nightmare' phase and can recall his dreams better than I can most nights. He tells them in exact detail, despite how 'weird' dreams can be. And his recollection is always in vivid, story format, with actions and all. It's quite entertaining.

Deklan told me the other day, "Mom, I tell you I love you so much because I like you!"
Blakely told me the other day, "HUH-AHH!" and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that.....

The Better to Trick-or-Treat With My Dear

Halloween2009, originally uploaded by eyenetgraphics.

So, once again, I forced my children to dress in 'themed' costumes this year. Deklan really wanted to be the Big Bad 'Wuff" so the natural thing to do was ask Blake if she would like to be Little Red Riding hood. She shook her head yes, so that was that. Since I had to make a wolf costume, my logical thinking was to cover up as much of it as possible....hence the nightgown and the look of the Grandma. Deklan didn't quite get it at first, but after he saw pictures of the story he accepted it as the only way he was going to get to be the 'wuff'.

X-Men Anyone?

DSC00955, originally uploaded by eyenetgraphics.

Nick and I decided to go out for Halloween this year. He could think of nothing he'd rather be than the Wolverine, so I of course had to follow the theme. Mystique was a bit risque for me, but thought it would be funny to try. Here I am with my best Rebecca-Romijn-foot forward.

"The Stool"

Blake's teeth marks in the stool, originally uploaded by eyenetgraphics.

Kind of hard to see, but here are two deep grooves into the history book of Blakely's life so far. The stool held onto the little buckteeth and yanked them out from the roots. Yeeeouch!!

Blake's teeth

Blake's teeth, originally uploaded by eyenetgraphics.

A picture of Blakely's teeth....I'm beginning to forget about them... :o(

Blakely in the ER

Blakely in the ER, originally uploaded by eyenetgraphics.

For those that never saw pictures (or heard about it) Blakely knocked her two front teeth out via falling off of, and then head banging, a wooden stool. Here she just waking up from a snooze in the ER once she finally got some pain medicine.