Proper

Well, Tobias is officially 18 months old. I cannot believe I gave birth to a little, helpless bundle a year and a half ago. What a big boy and what a character he has become.

The past few weeks Tobias has started to use “proper nouns” – naming people and things… He says his name! (so cute!) “Toe-bee”, “Wuggles” (the Wiggles), “Elmo”, “Cookie” (for Cookie Monster), “Mickey”, “Minnie”, but my very favorite is…

…When I drop off the kids at Mother’s Day Out, Lydia likes to park in front of the church so we can say “Hi” to Jesus. You see, they still have their Nativity scene prominently displayed. Last week as we bid “Good morning” to Jesus, Toby blurted out “Gee us”.


“Ka goo” = “color” in Toby’s world – a task he greatly enjoys. I’m not sure which he likes better, the act of coloring or taking the markers or crayons in and out of their containers. Either way, he has a blast. He shows much more interest than Lydia did at this age.




Lydia likes to tell stories. We often hear, “Mommy, wanna hear a story?” Over breakfast this is what she told me,
“Once upon a time we lived in a castle where it was nice and cold and cozy. At the beach. Near the ocean. But there were whales who would bite us up, so we stayed in the castle where it was nice and warm. Theeeeee End.” (Can you tell she is a little bit traumatized by the whole “Jonah being swallowed by a whale” story?)
Here’s the one immediately following, “Once upon a time there was a girl and a boy and a dog and a cat (M: What were their names?) “Mason and Sheferty”. They lived in a castle. We lived in three beds. We had lots of animals. You guys (mommy and daddy and Toby) were there too. Theeeeee end.”

Another Lydia quote: She took instructions out of a new game, opened them up and said, “What does this say? Oh, it’s a message from the Lord. (now she sings)Don’t eat bugs, don’t eat cats…”
This is how we’ve spent the majority of our past few weeks… Goodbye “meditative”, Welcome, “Latte”.

Well, we did take a couple days off when we all had the stomach flu in succession. Lovely.

We also spent a lovely, warm, winter afternoon at the playground. Come on spring!