Week ending December 9, 2007: In my last entry (below) I forgot to write about the funniest part of decorating the Christmas tree. After we were almost done Alex stood back and looked at the tree and said “I think Santa will see this tree and he will say (imitating a deep man’s voice) ‘This is a fine nice tree!’”. Casey and I both had a good chuckle over that one.
Alex is getting to be quite confident in his speaking. In September when Sunday School started back up our pastor started calling all the kids in church up to the front of church for a mini-sermon about 15 minutes into the services before the pastor released the kids to Sunday School. At first Alex wouldn’t go up to the front with the other kids, I guess he didn’t like being in front of the rest of the congregation. Today, however Alex ran right up with the rest of the kids. Pastor Dave noticed that Alex was wearing his “fire fighter boots” and asked Alex if he was going to be a fire fighter when he grows up. Alex said “No, I’m going to be an astronaut”. Pastor Dave said “you’re going to be an astronaut?” and he said it loud enough so the congregation could hear. Alex said “yes, I’m going to fly to Mars”. Pastor Dave said “you’re going to fly to Mars?”. Alex said “Yes. But first I have to learn how to fly the space shuttle.” I thought Grammy Barb and I were going fall out of our seats laughing. Pastor Dave said “I hope your dream comes true, I’d like to see you fly to Mars”. Alex told Pastor Dave he could come along. The sermon today was about how we might be better off if we were wild-eyed dreamers who saw the possibilities in life with child-like simplicity. Of course Alex doesn’t think that becoming an astronaut is a dream, he honestly believes that he will fly the space shuttle to Mars, but that’s what makes it so beautiful.
Chloe’s funny question of the week is “Mom, do snails have birthdays?” I told her they do, but they don’t have hands so they can’t make birthday cakes to celebrate. It turns out that earlier in the week one of the kids had asked if everyone has bones and I’d answered that all people have bones, but snails don’t have bones, so they got Chloe wondering, if they don’t have bones, do snails have birthdays?
Also this week, we made snicker doodle cookies. Alex didn’t want to touch the dough, so he wouldn’t roll them around in the cinnamon sugar mix, but he did count the cookies as we put them on the cookie sheet. Each time a new cookie was placed on the sheet he’d start over from 1 and count each cookie all the way up to a dozen. The kids have known for a long time the order of the numbers one to ten, but they had trouble “tracking” or making sure to assign only one number to each object without skipping objects, so this was a milestone. Throughout the week Alex counted several other things correctly and even counted the 12 Christmas cards that I’ve hung which I find especially impressive because they are up high so Alex couldn’t touch each card as he counted.
The kids went to 3 parties this week, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, one party was hosted by a family who had 3 daughters and each daughter invited 5 kids. I don’t recall ever having been in a house with that many kids at one time in my life! It was fun though because all the preschool kids sat at one table and decorated gingerbread houses and Alex kept saying “my house is the yummiest!” and then another boy said “my house is the yummiest too!” and Alex said “oh yeah, yours is too”. And then all 6 preschoolers decided that they ALL had the yummiest house and we all had to agree.
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