Things Said Tonight.

I had conferences tonight, and got home after they were already in bed. I went in to talk to them since they were still awake.

Kevin told me about his day and how he got to play in the hayride at school. Then he started singing "Down on the corner. Howdy in the street. That song was on in daddy's car." Can you figure out the song? Great band to be quoting.

Then I went in to see Colin who told me about playing outside. He had a small toy in his bad. It has a little net on the end of a stick to catch a ball. (See picture.)


Then he told me it was for catching bees. (He calls all bugs bees, remember?) Then he said "Yeah, like in this book." He got out of bed, opened a book, and flipped to this page.


These boys are so cute!

Big Words

Tonight Kevin wanted to read one of his dinosaur books to me at bedtime. (That means he flipped through the pages and just talked about the pictures.) While talking he told me that the ankylosaurus lost his herd. I asked his what a herd was. He pointed to the picture of a group and told me "that." I asked him how many ankylosauruses are in a herd and he told me "a lot."

Impressed, I said "Herd is a pretty big word. I am surprised you know that word."

He replied "Yeah. Rhinoceros is a a big word too."

Too funny!

Wow, they can be creative!

Here are pictures of what the boys built Sunday morning.




As they explained it, the part on the right is the shark fence so that they can be safe behind the fence when the sharks come. Then the machine will take them over to the shark trap. I thought that sounded pretty normal. Then they kept talking.

We were told that "the shark trap with catch them and and make them into small bites and cook them and then we will eat them."

Yesterday Colin told me that there was an alligator outside. Then alligator climbed into our car and was going to drive away. When I asked how we would get home, he pointed to another car and said "Drive that one home." A few minutes later he told me a Red Claw (T- Rex) was outside. I asked if he was nice or mean. He told me mean, so I said that Red Claw had to stay outside if he was going to be mean. Colin explained that he "kicked Red Claw in the head. Fell down. Dead. In the road. Ran over now!"

Okay. Should we be concerned with this creativity? They are just too cute about it, and it almost always focuses on keeping us safe. To be fair to them, most of the time they are pretending to be and do normal things. (Like animals and construction workers.)

I don't care! I love it!

Kevin's Newest Drawing

Kevin is drawing people! At first we saw A LOT of spider webs. And then flowers. And then spider webs with spiders in them. This week he brought home this!


He told us it was a superhero, but now he says "I think a pirate!" He said he didn't like it very much, but since I hung it up on the fridge and put it on the blog, he seems to be more proud. Good for him!

Colin's First Zoo Class

Colin was very excited about his zoo class. Kevin had two this summer, one in May and one in June. Colin had to wait until September 11 for his class. He was very patient. By the time his class came he talked about it for days, and even told his teachers about it.

The class was called "Romp And Stomp." In it, they talked about different animals and how they move. When he first entered the room, they had animal puppets matched with real animal parts. While all the other children were nervous and clinging to parents, Colin was comfortably moving from table to table. He started to feed some of the animals, and made their sounds.

Colin feeding the snake saying "hissssss." Then he told me it was "thirsty" and was "going over to the waterfall over there." (The waterfall was pretend.)

Putting the turtle "in his home." "Safe now."

All the kids sat around a rug on the floor to listen to stories. When the teacher would ask questions, he would shout the answer without any help from me. Afterwards the teacher brought around several animals to touch. (Frog, chinchilla, snake, bird, etc.) Colin was brave and touched some, but not all of them. Then it was art time, so Colin and I both made dragonflies.

Sitting in my lap with a penguin.

Touching the snake.

Coloring his dragonfly. I love his "working hard" face!