week ending dec 10, 2006

Week ending December 10, 2006: This week Alex has started to use our old digital camera to take pictures. By the end of the week he has learned how to turn the camera on, put it in picture mode, get the object he wants to photograph into the frame, take the picture, and put the camera into view mode to view the picture. Chloe is continuing her streak of saying things that sound like they should come from a much older child. This week she said “Mom, why do we have a moose on top of our Christmas tree? Why can’t we have an angel like everyone else?”. To this Casey replied “you’re 3!”. We just ended another session of story hour at the library. We go once a week and a group of about 20+ 2-5 year olds listen to the librarian who alternates stories with songs, dances, and games, and then everyone does a small arts and craft project. A few months ago Alex would not participate at all but would only watch. Now he is participating right along with the group. The story hour is a nice incentive to get the kids dressed and out of the house so that we get new books and videos each week. This week we got the “Night Before Christmas” book along with other Christmas stories. This week the kids invented a new game called “vacuum me!”. While I’m vacuuming with the hose extension they scream “vacuum me!” until I chase them and suck their clothes with the vacuum and they giggle and scream like it is the funniest thing in the world and then they scream “vacuum me again!”. Something else not new for this week, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that when Chloe is talking to Alex she calls him “Brother”, as in “Brother, can I have a turn?”, and “where are you going Brother?”. She doesn’t do this when she is talking to us about Alex. In that case she calls him “my brother” as in “where is my brother?” rather than “where is Brother?”. The pictures this week are of Chloe sitting on Alex’s lap on my mattress which is ½ off of the bed (they used it as a slide for about an hour and a half while I was getting ready to put the bed skirt back on), and of the kids “hiding” in the toy chest. After hiding, they decided that the toy chest was an egg and they were hatching from the egg.