Pick myself up

This morning Maria was commenting on how strong her daddy is, and that I can pick up little kids and big kids.
Maria: " You're big, you can pick up big kids and little kids. I'm little so I can pick up little kids."
Dad: "Oh"
Maria: "I'm little, I can pick myself up."
Dad: "Can you show me?"
First she So Maria sat down, put her hands under her thighs and lifted her legs off the ground.
Maria: "See daddy."

Almost everything...

Preface: Joshua does not like tomatoes, but like most wierd people who don't, he likes tomato sauces.

The story: Today during dinner Anna made a yummy crispy pizza, but it was covered in diced tomatos. Joshua looked at it and reminded her of his dislikes. Anna said, those are cooked tomatoes, they taste like spaghetti sauce.

Joshua tried a bite: "You're right mom! You do know EVERYTHING... about Pizza."

This little guy never assumed that his parents knew everything about everything. Even since he was a toddler he has always acted suprised when we have been right and he has been wrong.

It all makes sense

The popularity of first person shooter video games has been growing at a fast pace. I don't know if these violent video games are part a driving force behind recent senseless violence. But I do know that the government will NEVER outlaw these games. Is there a direction I am going with this? Yes.

Check out this video of the new robot/remotely driven military force and comment on if you think the government has an interest in the continued growth of video games. Do you think it is good or bad to use remote "controlled" fighting forces to do our fighting for us?

Deductive reasoning

This morning at breakfast Sam asked, "Dod made Pancakes?"
We tried the detailed answer that God made the things with which me make pancakes. But them he just repeated what he had said earlier, and we realized that it was not a question...he was making a statement: "GOD MADE PANCAKES."
"Yes, Sam, God made pancakes." He was happy with that reply.

After breakfast I asked Sam who made real clown fish. He didn't feel confident enough to answer. So I asked who made everything.
"Dod (God)." said Sam.
Then I asked again, "So who made real clown fish?"
"Dod." was the confident reply.

Alright! My little two year old is deducing right up their with Sherlock Holmes.

Narnia Quiz

Thanks to Alexis, of Love Life, for helping me discover my true self.

Punitive damages

Joshua has has some money in his piggy bank, but yesterday Maria acquired some pennies yesterday and Josh has been trying to get them from her ever since. This morning while making them breakfast I heard Joshua say.

"Maria I got hurt, so can I have your money?"

Hmmm, not such a great outlook to have.

Nightmares

Fish are Sam's favorite topic, and clown fish are the king as far as he is concerned. In fact the adorable 2 year old spends much of his time carrying around his toy clown ('cown") fish, talking about his clown fish, (losing his clown fish), and now we know that he dreams about it too.

Last night at 3:15 am Sam woke me and Anna up with his desperate cries.
Mom: "What is the matter Sam?"
Sam: "Cown fish, Josh broke my cown fish!"
Dad: "It's ok sam, you were just dreaming, your clown fish is on the counter."
Sam: "wimpers" and goes back to sleep.

Follow the Crowd

At lunch today I realized that Sam's sleaves were going to become a casualty of the meal if Anna or I didn't intervene. He was given 3 choices:
1. Roll up your sleeves
2. Take off your shirt
3. Lose the pizza
He chose to lose the pizza. But Maria (the kiss-up) said in a very proud voice, "I'll roll up my sleeves dad."
This gave me the idea to have everyone roll up their sleeves.

Sam sat silently as everyone at the table rolled up their sleeves. He simply couldn't resist following the crowd (or maybe the 2 year old is learning to compromise).

But eutopia was nearly ruined when 5 year old Josh announced that his arms were itchy and proceeded to put his sleeves back down.

A nano second later Sam was saying "my ahms ichy, sweeves down."

No, No. Josh had to get quickly back in line to save Sam's sleeves from a saucy doom. Luckily we all worked together today to keep it clean once more.

Fun Educational Songs

KidsKnowIt.com  is full of 1950's music all about science and other stuff for kids to learn.

The lightning song is fun.

New Soul

A larger version of this film as at at MacGallery

Music by: Yael Naim

Video edited with iMovie 08

Soft hands

I was trying to explain to the kids how laws in our country keep us safe. I used the examlple that laws say you cannot kill someone or you will be punished by going to prison.

Maria interjected: "Dad, I can't kill anybody because I have soft hands."

Hot Tea

Apparently two years without talking has left Sam with a lot to say. He has been talking a lot lately. On cold mornings we like to drink tea, and in the past we made a big deal about it being hot (so they wouldn't stick their fingers in the boiling water. So now even warm tea and milk is referred to as "Hot Tea".

This morning while eating french toast and drinking tea Sam said, "Look Dad, burn fench toast in mouf."

Sugar

We had dinner with the Brown's and afterwards my kids wanted a piece of candy from the big candy bowl. There was, however, cheese cake planned for dessert. They were given the choice of waiting for cheese cake or having candy. We knew the kids would be disappointed with their candy decision once they saw us eating our cake in a few minutes. So we began trying to help them make a better choice. "Cheese cake is yummier." "You'll get more cheese cake than that little piece of candy." They still weren't buying it so Dominic spoke up, "Cheesecake has more SUGAR in it."

(it was so funny to see how a little boy's mind works: as if sugar content is the best way to rate food). They ended up going with the cheesecake after they saw it.