"Don't call me Guinness...

...Call me Super Spy Guinness!"


No other name will do. Most often I am Batman, and there is a car on the train tracks.

"Quick, Batman! There's a car on the train tracks!"

New Phase

The boy has been whiny and ornery lately...

Also at an awkward stage where he is too big for his high chair but not near enough self control to sit on his own for a whole meal. The phrase that we are learning this week is, "May I be excused from the table?"

Make Believe!

I hope your passport is up to date, and you have plenty of traveller's cheques: The wide world of make believe is READY for you.

"I'm the blue bad guy. You're the yellow bad guy, daddy is the pink bad guy and Gemma is the red bad guy"

"I'm Deigo"

"I'm a Super Spy"

"I'm the King"

"Let's rescue the princess/baby jaguar/snow leopard"

"There are monsters chasing us!"

"I'm a puppy, you're the kitty"

And on and on and on! There is no end to what this guy talks about.

Painting Day

I scooped out the flour and salt into 7 little containers to make this homemade puff paint. Guinness filled up a big cup of water for me to add bit by bit to the dry stuff to make a thick and creamy paint. The first thing he did was pour the entire cup of water into my little cup of flour/salt, sigh, ok great, throw it out and start that cup again. He did a good job stirring the colour in one cup, then two cups....then he got curious and he dipped his brush into the cup he was stirring and scooped some paint into his mouth. EWWWW! Didn't like that one bit.

He did make 3 lovely paintings, then got out of there (much to our relief:) I mean, we love him, but he is so hard to craft with.

Freeze!

Oh, if I could freeze these precious days with our boy. What a cutie, could just hug him and squeeze him all day.

Things he says:
"That's my sword"
"You bethca!"
"I'm the super Hero Boy!"
"I love you, too, Mommy"
(2 days prior to this: "I LOVE Crystal." (this is his babysitter) "I don't love you, mommy. I love Crystal.")
"Get your sword, Mommy!"


I also love how he walks around tapping things, listening to the sound they make.

Paying Attention

Usually in Sunday School Guinness walks around and wreaks havoc, rather than sit sweetly on a carpet circle and listen to the story and then do a a game and craft. But maybe he has been listening lately: he was flipping through our kids Bible and said "That's Joseph'. (It wasn't really Joseph, but it was a robed, bearded Old Testament man...could have been:) Flipped a few more pages. Next bearded man: "That's God!!!" Then he saw a woman. Auntie asked him who that was and he said...


"Cinderella."

He also put on pretend lipstick this week and announced how pretty he was :)

Names

Tonight we were playing Gemma's favorite game, Mother-Daughter, where I was the daughter, she was the mother, and Guinness was the little brother. During this game it is customary for Gemma to call me 'Daughter', and then at one point Guinness said to me, 'Look at me, daughter'. Copycat.

And last week we had a glimpse back in time to a Gemma conversation. Guinness was talking to me and Chris, and assigning roles for play. He was the prince, Daddy was the King, Mommy was the Queen, and Gemma was.... the cleaner! Ha Ha!