Week ending March 15, 2009: Chloe’s cough is almost completely gone, but now Alex is starting with it, of course.
This week I was watching Alex goofing off, singing a made up song and dancing, generally acting like an adorable little 5 year old when I had one of those fast-forward moments during which I remind myself that this little person will one day be a grown up and do grown up things. As this is occurring to me I said to Casey “can you believe that one day Alex will bring home his wife to introduce to us?!” Alex replied before Casey had a chance, “Mom, you’ve already met her, she’s Angie!” I thought that was the cutest!
Also this week Chloe asked if she could have cinnamon raisin bagels instead of a birthday cake at her birthday party. I asked why and she said because she almost never gets cinnamon raisin bagels. Of course on the next trip to the grocery store we picked up a whole bag of cinnamon raisin bagels for her. The kids often ask for toys and junk food and I tell them that I will buy them toys on their birthday (or Christmas) and that we already have enough junk food (I’m not paying twice as much for mac-n-cheese because it has a cartoon character on the box), so she must have reasoned that if she asked for bagels I wouldn’t get them for her unless it was a special occasion since bagels aren’t something we normally buy. It is hard for the kids to understand what’s junk and what is perfectly healthy food that we don’t normally stock.The kids were playing out back one day this week and I poked my head out the door every few minutes to check on them. At one point Chloe was trying to get Alex to play “duck, duck, goose” which is problematic enough when there are only 2 children, but she was also insisting that instead of saying “duck, duck…” they should say “tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus…” I am often amazed by their imagination and cooperativeness with each other.
This week I was watching Alex goofing off, singing a made up song and dancing, generally acting like an adorable little 5 year old when I had one of those fast-forward moments during which I remind myself that this little person will one day be a grown up and do grown up things. As this is occurring to me I said to Casey “can you believe that one day Alex will bring home his wife to introduce to us?!” Alex replied before Casey had a chance, “Mom, you’ve already met her, she’s Angie!” I thought that was the cutest!
Also this week Chloe asked if she could have cinnamon raisin bagels instead of a birthday cake at her birthday party. I asked why and she said because she almost never gets cinnamon raisin bagels. Of course on the next trip to the grocery store we picked up a whole bag of cinnamon raisin bagels for her. The kids often ask for toys and junk food and I tell them that I will buy them toys on their birthday (or Christmas) and that we already have enough junk food (I’m not paying twice as much for mac-n-cheese because it has a cartoon character on the box), so she must have reasoned that if she asked for bagels I wouldn’t get them for her unless it was a special occasion since bagels aren’t something we normally buy. It is hard for the kids to understand what’s junk and what is perfectly healthy food that we don’t normally stock.The kids were playing out back one day this week and I poked my head out the door every few minutes to check on them. At one point Chloe was trying to get Alex to play “duck, duck, goose” which is problematic enough when there are only 2 children, but she was also insisting that instead of saying “duck, duck…” they should say “tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus…” I am often amazed by their imagination and cooperativeness with each other.
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