My Photo skills are too slow

As the kids were stripping down for their showers this morning Alyssa took off her shirt and said "you have to be strong with my shirt off" and this was in conjunction with her and Logan pretend boxing topless. 

I ran to grab the phone to take a picture/video, but I was too late...they were down to their b-day suits still boxing...that didn't seem like as great a photo/video :(

Pretend Names

All week Alyssa has been telling me "I'm Uncle Mike".  Other names she really likes to be are June and Mavis. 

Sometimes they are Mom or Dad, Logan or Alyssa and actual gender is really not a factor in pretend play.

3 yrs 8 months

Here is a quick list of notes I have recently kept to keep track of them

As we drove to Katy in July and we passed the statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville the kids started calling him Statue Sam

they still call shamu shampoo - ongoing at least a year now since they went to sea world

grandmas crutches are crunches

they call lemonade lem-o-lade...and then the other day Logan said "Lemon-lade...mommy I said it right" with the biggest smile

Alyssa got a little sick recently and was throwing up and was saying...I don't like grow ups

We are starting to speak a little more Spanish with the kids and we have begun some colors...Logan's blue blanket is Azul and Alyssa's pink blanket is grossa

Today Alyssa learned how to blow up a balloon.

Sweetest Little Boy

Anyone who has spent time with Logan knows that he is a sweet little boy. 

Well this sweet little boy made my day today.  I don't even know where he got this from, but I have to write it so I don't forget. 

This sweet little 3 yr old at the end of church ran to the the truck and opened my door while I was helping Alyssa into the truck and putting my bags in the passenger seat.  When I got to the driverside I opened his door to help him in and he said:  Mommy I opened your door for you (and as I was about to tell him the usual...jump in and buckle up) he continued with:  I am going to close it for you when you are in.  And he did just that and then got in his seat and buclked up.

What a gentleman.  He opened and closed my door for me...and melted my heart.

I hope my little boy stays this sweet forever.

Imagination Play

Alyssa is always facinating me while I overhear her conversations while she is playing. 

Today while I was working on my GD lesson and Alyssa was playing with her little people I heard one of them tell the other: Your I-pad is not working anymore.

ABC Class

We started our alphabet class today.  I am mainly doing it for Alyssa. Logan can identlfy the alphabet already, but Alyssa does not seem to have the time/desire to sit down and work on them...so I thought maybe having a class would help her. 

We have a powerpoint presentation thay shows the letter of the day and different words that start with the letter...we sing the alphabet song and point at the letters as we sing them.  Then we end the class with an activity and a snack that we can tie to each letter.  Today we started with A.  We ate apples and did some archery.  Used our Merida suction cup arrows and shot them at the back door.

Hopefully the classes continue to go well.

Why?

So the kids have started asking WHY?  a lot more often now.  Unfortunately they seem to be asking the hard whys like..What happened to Nemo's Mommy?  and What happened to Elena's Mommy (on Zoro)?

I guess they are paying attention to what they are watching more and more.