Shoe Fly Jr.

I hate flies in my house. So I've learned a number of techniques over the years to shoe them out of the house. Well it appears that one of my boys has been watching. Our doors have been unavoidably open recently, so the fly count is high. Mrs. Scott said I would be proud how our four year old used a tissue to remove two flies from the living room window yesterday. Way to go, Boo-Boo!

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb - The Real Story

Correction:

The story got lost between Mrs. Scott and my blogging. Here is the way it really went down.

Mrs. Scott has taken to calling our two youngest "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb." One day our four year old asked "Which one of us is Tweedle Dumb?"

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Mrs. Scott remarked about our two youngest: "You guys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
Our four year old replied: "Am I Tweedledum?"

Girl Friend

Our 22 month old said, "Girl friend" - or so I thought. "Girl friend?" I asked. He approached me with a Tupperware container full of Goldfish crackers. "Ohhhh, you mean Gold fish?" I asked. Suddenly a burst of laughter came from Mrs. Scott in the back room as she heard him say "girl friend" too.

Not A Toy

Mrs. Scott told our 22 month old not to touch something. "Not a toy" was his reply.

Home Run!

I turned the tube on this weekend to the Giants/Dodgers game and went into the other room briefly. Our 22 month old walked in and saw the TV. "Home run, daddy, home run!" I don't know why he chose those words to describe a game on TV, but it was as cute as could be.

F-Word Art

Some kids say the F-word. When they are young, they may not know what it means. They just hear it from their friends and it sounds impressive so they use it, too. I learned the f-word when I was four. Well, our oldest loves art and is quite active at drawing, and has a creative mind.

So, what do we find taped up in his bedroom? Well, he spelled out the f-word in 2 1/2" high letters, in what looks like Arial true-type font, bold, with fill. Each letter is about 3/8" thick with a dark outline. The fill is a combination of two separate hatchings. Dark green hatching consisting of sharp crayon width lines with no spacing in between each line, the lines being directional with the length of each letter. A second cross-hatching is in yellow, perpendicular to the letter direction, with approximately 1/8" spacing between hatch lines. The entire word is surrounded with red sun rays at about a 1/2" spacing, and a 4"x6" cloud shape is cut out around the word and taped with Scotch tape to the frame of his bunk bed. He's seven. Parents tell their kids not to use the word. So what do we say? Don't draw the f-word?

Oh, I forgot to mention it's all lower case. Should we pin this up on our fridge?

Maybe He Turned On The Hose

There was a pool of liquid on the floor and a wet shirt on our 22 month old as he stood next to the liquid.

Mrs. Scott: "How did this water get on the floor?"
Our four year old: "Maybe he went outside and turned the hose on."

I'll Sit Down - Verbal Explosion

Our 22 month old had a verbal increase this week. Sentences suddenly started coming out. I told him to sit down so I could put his shoes on. "I'll sit down here, daddy, I'll sit down." Or, in the bath tub with his brother out came, "My turn. My turn, daddy, wash me now." Scary.