Gonna Be a Pilot

Deklan spent most of yesterday afternoon playing with his airplanes and pretending to be Papa Barney. I helped him build a hangar, equipped with a door that raises and lowers, and he laid out DVD covers in a row for the runway. He would take off, spray a field (patch of carpet) and land again and put his plane in the hangar. He even went as far as using his two fingers to get out of the plane, and "walk" back to the house. I commented on that and said, "Oh, is Papa Barney your fingers?" to which he responded, "No, his LEGS!"

This morning, he resumed playing with his hangar. I asked him, "Are you going to fly planes when you grow up?" Deklan said, "Yeah, I'm gonna be a pilot when I get big!"

Mom: "Will you fly us to the moon?!"
Deklan: "NOOO!" He giggled. "I can't fly to the MOON!!"
Just when I thought his imagination was already limited at the ripe age of 3, he finished...
"Cuz I don't know how to start the airplane!!"

Dear Santa...

Deklan dictated a letter to Santa last night, and through me, we got it written down and ready to send to the North Pole. He was probed with questions of what he would want to say, and the rest is all Deklan.

"Dear Santa,

Very Christmas! I was...have been NICE! May I please have a drum set? I would like a blue one. I want a cymbol. Bring Blakely some undies. Blakely is my sister. She's been nice, Santa. I love my mom and dad. I want some big bowls for my kitchen. I guess Blakely should get a teddy bear, and I will get a drum set and my mom and dad can have a lantern. Why do you have a beard? I also want a sink for my kitchen, and a toilet for my kitchen and don't forget about soap. I will call you.

Good-bye Santa
For Deklan"

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!!