new fads-for the grands

Mommyhood is always full of surprises-each day is new and different. This post is mostly to catch up the grandparents on what wild things their grandkiddos are doing these days. Because my brain is mostly mush and fragmenty after 9pm, please excuse the randomness.

Micah's current faves: watching Chuggington on youtube and then re-enacting the stories with his Thomas trains, making train tracks and car tracks in play doh, making train tracks with stickers, driving cars on mommy's striped shirts (because they look like roads), re-enacting scenes from Cars (especially tractor-tipping and driving through the leaves on the highway), driving cars in sand or dirt, and of course, sleep-dog. He also likes Clifford stories and Richard Scarry stories.

You might think he is completely obsessed with planes, trains, and automobiles. You would be correct. But he also paints (with brushes because fingerpainting is messy), makes phone calls to grandmas and papas on his banana and zucchini phones, cooks and then eats plastic eggs with mom and dad, makes sharks and snakes out of play doh, snuggles with mom on the couch after naptime, reads as many stories as he can get away with before naptime and bedtime.
 

Lydia's current faves: pulling on the garbage bags sticking out of the trash can, eating toilet paper, pulling her dresser drawers in and out, laughing at her brother, eating cheerios, trying to eat computer cords, and crawling anywhere that big brother has toys..."godzilla-ing the train set and airport"
She has two teeth now and would rather feed herself than let mom do it. Too bad she really can't do purees with her fingers.

 This was an attempt at sending grandparents thanksgiving cards. I thought Micah would think it was fun to use the glue stick to stick colored scraps of paper to cards. He thought it would be fun to drop the 'leaves' on his trains. "Fall is come!" Maybe next year. or maybe next child.

Please note the car park that has bit the dust to the left. Good thing Moo is sleeping.

Quotables:


On the bus yesterday, a female student asked about Lydia,
"Girl or boy? Boy probably."
No, girl actually, I replied.
"She looks like you."
Does this mean I look like a boy?


When asked his name on the bus two weeks ago, Micah replied, "Moo"
When asked his name in front of our house today, Micah replied, "blah"
I guess we don't have to worry about identity theft.