Romp and Stomp

On Wednesdays there is a drop in toddler romp and stomp time at the local community centre. It's a big open gym, with all sorts of toys set out: balls, little hockey nets and basketball nets, mats, bikes and plasma cars, balance beam, and a bouncy castle. It was super fun, and Guinness had a blast. And it was only 2$!!!!! He worked pretty hard on his dribbling skills, and after many many attempts made it up to 23 consecutive bounces! He was so proud he stopped to give me a hug :). Awwww! It is so fun to be with him, my "best buddy forever"!

Dishwashing

Gemma always liked doing dishes with me, making different recipes with the soap bubbles, pouring and scooping and stuff. We would play Ratitouille and she'd be Colette and I'd be Linguini. Anyway, Gemma is asleep already because she's not feeling good, so I invited Guinness to join me.

First he wanted to take off his long sleeve shirt because it will get wet. Ok, fair enough. Then he wanted his pants off. And the goch came off with the pants, so oh well. And then he just took off his Tshirt as well. And the naked dishwasher steps up to the sink.

He was really confused that he'd have to stand on the stool. I think he thought he could get right into the sink. Maybe that's why he wanted all his clothes off! Anyway, once he understood what was going on we had fun.

Confidence

Confident is one way to describe Guinness. Another way is having an unhealthy lack of fear. I shook my head and laughed the last time we were at the beach in Taiwan, and he was literally under a wave, his eyeballs looking at me through the water, smiling!! Should you be smiling if you are under the water? Most recently he can be found at the top of chain link fences, or trying to stand in the road so he can punch the cars. (because he could stop the car with his fist you know;)

I was trying to clean up from lunch and he was trying to get my attention. A popular strategy is to lie down dead on the floor, thus requiring true love's kiss for revival. So I tried a kiss, but it didn't work!!!! He told me he needed true love's water. So I get his cup of water from lunch and offer him my hand so he can sit up and become 'alive'. He told me he could drink it lying down.

That's right, y'all. My son can drink a cup of water lying flat on his back on the floor. I ask him if he is sure, and he assures me, "Yes, mom, I know I can do it!!". So I am laughing my head off at this point because I know what is about to happen, and he is slowly, slowly trying to get the rim of the cup to his lips but starting to realize why this was not going to work. He did give up, and sat up to drink True Love's Water, and I collapsed on the floor because I was laughing so hard. Lots to learn when you are only 3!

All by myself!

Guinness came up to me this morning; "I did my pants all by myself!" I asked him what he did, because I had already dressed him this morning, and he said, "I don't want to wear goch". So he took them off and just put his pants back on. All by himself.

It's so cute; how do you correct such earnest effort?

Guinness Prays

This was Guinness' prayer on Friday... I guess he enjoys playing with her after school.

Dear Lord,
Thank you for this wonderful day. Thank you for my family. Thank you for my sister; she is so nice. Thank you for this food. Amen.

Blackberry monster

There are blackberry bushes growing wild all over the place here, and although I was 99.999% sure they were blackberries I was leary of eating them because, you know, wilderness street sense would say to never eat a berry you don't know for sure.  Today as we were doing a practice bike ride to Gemma's school and we saw people with buckets picking and this lady (originally from Saskatoon) assured me they were fine and so it was berry game on.

We ate seaweed at the park (a gift from Annabelle) and on the way home stopped at a bush to fill up the little trays the seaweed comes in.

1) blackberries are Dangerous!!!!!! Very thorny, all the way down to the stem to the berry, and on the underside of the leaves.  Ouch!
2) blakberrries are Tall!
3) blackberries will make your mouth black.


The kids were instructed to hold their little containers of berries as we biked home.  Upon arrival we had Gemma and a full tray, and Guinness with a empty tray and a mouth full of black.