Pho will come and Pho will go and I know that we will be eating and enjoying our Pho for many years to come.
Check out this shot of the ground beneath Lily’s chair.
One day that floor will be clean! She’s come a long way!
Lily
Day Two Ten
Love when two worlds collide in a child’s mind, so easy for a child, so hard for us adults.
Yesterday we went to the Aquarium. Luke’s favorite area was the shark tank where you can touch the bamboo and hammerheads. There is a person telling you facts about the sharks while you touch. One of the facts that stuck in his mind was that the sharks can hear for a distance of one mile underwater.
Today Luke built a robotic arm to add to his rocket ship (sometimes it is a Delta 5 and sometimes it is a Space Shuttle) He did the whole thing by himself, cutting the cardboard with his wood saw.
After liftoff I overheard this one tidbit
“Endeavor is now one mile above the surface of the earth where the sharks can still hear us”
It doesn’t get much better than that.
Day Two Zero Eight
Luke: “We’re eating wampum”
Dad: “That sounds hard, how is it?”
Luke: “Great!”
I then look out the window where Luke and Lily are sitting at the kids table with a container of GORP (good old raisins and peanuts, and in this case CHOCOLATE MORSELS)
Dad: “Which is the best part of the wampum?”
luke: “The CHOCOLATE part!”
Day Two Zero Six
The meek shall inherit the couch.
we have tried everything to keep the kids from using the couch as a climbing structure, launchpad, trampoline, etc.
But today I think they moved every single piece of furniture in the house to their own design. Ma and me decided, oh well, it is just a couch.
So, there you have it, pretty much everything in the house is a prop of some kind for them to play with, use, manipulate, to their little hearts desires.
Day Two Zero Five
I have been having a give and take with Lily over her use of a diaper. Sometimes she wants just one small pee, and a new one, yet she sleeps all night in a diaper, so…
Other times she just wants to be naked, like Beau, which is fine except for the pee spots all over the house (the truth is she is really good about coming to tell me she has gone pee, after the fact)
Today there might be a shift.
She was naked and did not want her diaper put on. I explained to her, as I have done many times before, that if she wants to use the potty, she does not need to have the diaper on. I thin put the diaper on. I went on my way.
I come back to find Lily sitting on the potty, diaper at her side, all done.
She then had two more pees on her own, and then…the whammer
Luke comes to get me all excited because Lily had her first poo intentionally outside of her diaper.
I am sure I will sound like an over zealous parent, but jimminy crickets she is TWO YEARS OLD, it just doesn’t seem possible to me.