Saturday, December 06, 2008
Donkey Bottom
We were at the mall this morning buying David some new clothes. While there, we spent some time at a kiosk that had a lot of board games, puzzles, and other misc. toys. David pointed out a game to me called Smart Ass. We were giggling about that when we noticed the tag line: Even a dumbass can win! and giggled even harder. Thomas noticed us looking at it, saw the donkey on the cover, and asked what the game was called. We said, "Never mind, it has a bad word in it." Well, our little reader sounded it out himself and proudly said, "Smart Ass!" We explained to him that "ass" is a bad word that can either mean a donkey or a person's bottom but that we don't say it. He thought about it for a minute and then said, "Well, I'm just going to call this game Donkey Bottom."
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Finally An Update!
I know you've been waiting for an update...Jerry. ;-) Here you go. And while I'm on the subject, where does the time go? My last post was over a month ago? Really???
Thomas has been full of funny comments lately. And since it's been a month, I don't remember them all, but I did write down a few that I wanted to share.
David was out of the country last month for a week and a half, more on that later in this post, but while he was gone, the boys and I decided to have Chick-Fil-A for dinner one night on our way home from the Y. And since no one was waiting at home for us, we decided to eat in the restaurant so they could play on the playground. Thomas immediately climbed up to the top and came down the slide. Jonathan was having fun climbing up and down the stairs but wouldn't go where Thomas wanted him to...the rest of the tube area. That really bothered Thomas and he made it his mission to get his brother up there to show him all the fun things he was missing. He kept telling Jonathan to "come on, I'll take care of you! Do you wanna go down the slide? It's fun! Come on up!" There were a couple other parents in there and they told me they thought it was really sweet how Thomas encouraging his brother. Jonathan finally decided to go the rest of the way up (a mistake because it took 15 minutes of coaxing and a trip up there by me to get him down when it was time to go) and it wasn't 5 seconds before I heard Thomas saying to another child, "Don't you block my brother from there!" We parents giggled at that. Thomas is a sweet big brother but he can also be the enforcer if required.
As I mentioned, David was out of the country, he was in Amsterdam and London. He called us every day and each day, I would ask if Thomas wanted to talk to his daddy. Each time, his response was the same, "No thank you." Luckily David thought that was funny and understood why Thomas didn't want to talk. If it'd been me, it probably would have hurt my feelings. :-)
On our way to the airport to get David on the day he returned, Thomas said, "I can't wait to see what Daddy brought me." I then reminded him that we'd missed Daddy and that the first thing we said to him had better NOT be about souvenirs. Thomas listened and then said, "I think I'm feeling what you're saying Mommy." And he did well. It was at least 5 minutes before he asked.
David brought Thomas some Euros from The Netherlands. Thomas put it in his wallet and a couple days later while counting his money said, "I'm going to take this with me when we go to Arizona next month since I can't use them in this country." We explained that although Texas IS the best state in the United States that there are actually 49 other states in this country.
Thomas is doing really well learning to read. He's sounding out words all the time: as we drive around town, in the grocery store, in his books, etc. Today he checked out a new library book from school and was trying to read it in the car on the way home. He read a page or two and was really excited that he knew all the words. The last page cracked me up though. Here's how it went:
"These are my FRIENDS! They are here to PLAY! Mommy, do you know why I said that last part really loud? Because there were two straight lines and two dots under them and that means yelling."
All I could get out between my stifled giggles was that he was right, those were exclamation points. We'll discuss another day that the whole sentence should be exclaimed and not just the last word.
Thomas has been full of funny comments lately. And since it's been a month, I don't remember them all, but I did write down a few that I wanted to share.
David was out of the country last month for a week and a half, more on that later in this post, but while he was gone, the boys and I decided to have Chick-Fil-A for dinner one night on our way home from the Y. And since no one was waiting at home for us, we decided to eat in the restaurant so they could play on the playground. Thomas immediately climbed up to the top and came down the slide. Jonathan was having fun climbing up and down the stairs but wouldn't go where Thomas wanted him to...the rest of the tube area. That really bothered Thomas and he made it his mission to get his brother up there to show him all the fun things he was missing. He kept telling Jonathan to "come on, I'll take care of you! Do you wanna go down the slide? It's fun! Come on up!" There were a couple other parents in there and they told me they thought it was really sweet how Thomas encouraging his brother. Jonathan finally decided to go the rest of the way up (a mistake because it took 15 minutes of coaxing and a trip up there by me to get him down when it was time to go) and it wasn't 5 seconds before I heard Thomas saying to another child, "Don't you block my brother from there!" We parents giggled at that. Thomas is a sweet big brother but he can also be the enforcer if required.
As I mentioned, David was out of the country, he was in Amsterdam and London. He called us every day and each day, I would ask if Thomas wanted to talk to his daddy. Each time, his response was the same, "No thank you." Luckily David thought that was funny and understood why Thomas didn't want to talk. If it'd been me, it probably would have hurt my feelings. :-)
On our way to the airport to get David on the day he returned, Thomas said, "I can't wait to see what Daddy brought me." I then reminded him that we'd missed Daddy and that the first thing we said to him had better NOT be about souvenirs. Thomas listened and then said, "I think I'm feeling what you're saying Mommy." And he did well. It was at least 5 minutes before he asked.
David brought Thomas some Euros from The Netherlands. Thomas put it in his wallet and a couple days later while counting his money said, "I'm going to take this with me when we go to Arizona next month since I can't use them in this country." We explained that although Texas IS the best state in the United States that there are actually 49 other states in this country.
Thomas is doing really well learning to read. He's sounding out words all the time: as we drive around town, in the grocery store, in his books, etc. Today he checked out a new library book from school and was trying to read it in the car on the way home. He read a page or two and was really excited that he knew all the words. The last page cracked me up though. Here's how it went:
"These are my FRIENDS! They are here to PLAY! Mommy, do you know why I said that last part really loud? Because there were two straight lines and two dots under them and that means yelling."
All I could get out between my stifled giggles was that he was right, those were exclamation points. We'll discuss another day that the whole sentence should be exclaimed and not just the last word.
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