Saturday, April 20, 2013

Special Delivery

I love this happy boy, seeing his smiling face makes mornings easier. He was being a ham for the camera.
I guess he's still thinking about his owie. You can barely see it. 
He really wanted a peanut butter granola bar this morning!
Our strong boy carrying some fish Baba caught. 
Delivery boy bringing some fish to our neighbor.
There they go! 
I went back outside and found the boys sitting and talking, how cute!
Hungry boys sit down for lunch with me.
NJ was a great helper with cleaning up the house and vacuuming up the floors and furniture. 

Friday, April 19, 2013

Strangely large bagel that would not fit into anything! 
"Can you read this shaggy dog to me?"
A little bike riding, but it was hot so we didn't stay out for long. 
Scene of the accident. NJ came whining to me and showed me where he hurt himself. Not too surprised that he took a tumble from running with the dump truck around the house. He landed on it and got an owie. 
Showing Mama his owie on his chest. Can't even really see it in the photo. It's just a little red from a scratch. But he made the saddest face. 
We made a stop at our favorite store. After getting out of the car, NJ points down and randomly says, "Yeah, you parked in the white line." He's always so concerned about my driving and parking jobs. He's very vocal about what to do, what not to do, how I'm doing, what to do, where to go...
My random shopping list was tissues, tylenol, and mascara. NJ was eager to help and offered to help hold the items. But then he says, "No, I don't want to hold it."
M- "You said you wanted to hold it."
NJ- "No."
M- "Ok, then give it back to me."
NJ- "No. I want it."
M- "Ok, then hold it nicely please."
NJ- "No. I don't want to hold it."
Ok... I was totally confused until finally he walked away and I realized what he was thinking. He grabbed a basket and put the items in. He just wanted to hold a basket. Sometimes I'm lost by what is going on in that mind of his because of the way he communicates it. But good thing I know him pretty well to figure it out most of the time. 

"I want the restaurant with the soy milk." We didn't go to where I know he wanted to go, but we still had a nice dinner with good friends. I got him some watermelon juice as a treat instead of soy milk since they didn't have any. 

Thursday, April 18, 2013

"Somebody's on fire... or in trouble."

NJ's hair would not go down today no matter how much water I used or how much I brushed it. Oh well. My sweet messy boy with his flowers for his teachers for teach appreciation week. Today is bring your teacher flowers day. I hope it's ok that I loosely translated that into any flowers and sent him with ones that are home made, not real ones. 
He didn't finish his fruit, yogurt and granola this morning so I brought it for him to eat after school. He was happy to eat it even though he asked for a treat. I was glad since this is healthier. Another plus is that he finished his whole lunch (half a sandwich, strawberries, blueberries, and carrots) and all his milk.
He said quite a few things on our way home:
"Somebody's on fire... or in trouble." (when we passed a fire truck)
"Why some people don't know that green light means go?"
"Can I have some cheesecake? It's gonna be bad if we don't eat it!" (Nice try!)
"Can I get some chocolate milk?"
"Can we go to the practice park?"
"Is tonight movie night?" 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

"No girl toys"

"Read this book to me!" He really likes this book I picked up at the recent yard sale about a boy and a dinosaur. I read it to him several times a day. 
Just before this, NJ was looking at Baba's fishing reel and asking about it. He wanted to know how to catch fish on it. I tried to explain that it wasn't all of it, there's also a pole involved. I asked him if he wanted to fish he says: "No. I don't want to fish because I don't want a shark."
Why not?
"Because it's gonna eat me!"
I asked him if he liked this r2d2 and he says, "Yeah. No girl toys!" 
Ok...
As I'm washing dishes I look up and see him eating at the counter out of a play-do container. I had to stop and do a double take, I was confused. Then I realized that was the one he emptied and he was eating some crackers I gave him. He emptied the package into the play-do container to eat out of it. Resourceful and creative, but eeeeww... I took it from him to wash it. I dumped out the remainder of it's contents. It used to hold white play-do so the container had a combination of white play-do dust and cracker crumbs which all looked about the same. Play-do's not hazardous to ingest, right? It can't be, it's for kids. Hopefully. I think it's fine.
We had to explain to him that we don't have a night free until next week for our movie night. So for his patience we gave him some chocolate milk with a few m&m's while he watched his favorite show. He was one happy boy. These are the m&m's he picked out at the store. This is how long it's taken for us to give them to him. He was begging the first day or two and then forgot about it. 
Did I already say what a happy boy he was after some treats? He ran around the house sharing his m&m's with us saying, "For you Baba, I want to share!" or "Mama, for you, I'm sharing. I don't want to eat all of it." 
NJ asked me, "Can I ride my bike for just a leeeee-lo bit?" as he puts his thumb and forefinger together really close to his squinty eye. How could I resist? And he really did only ride it for a little bit. 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

"Later we can go get some mochi, we all go together ok?"

NJ's been asking to go get mochi ice cream, but we haven't been able to go. On the way to church he asks if we could go and seemed to have it all planned out, even what we were doing after:
NJ- "Later we can go get some mochi, we all go together ok? I'll ride my bike or then we just walking all over. I go to Ah-ma's house to get my money. Then go get mochi. Then can I go to Ryan's house and then to Joshua's house? I take the freeway."
Baba- "On your bike?"
NJ- "Yeah. I follow you in the car and drive next to you and wave and say hi and when we get there, I tell you which way to turn ok?"