Kid Funnies

My kids keep me laughing all day long. For those of my friends and family members that don't get to see them on a regular basis, I thought I'd capture a few of their doings for your reading pleasure!

Timmy is a crack up, a total ham, who delights in charming total strangers with million watt smiles. If you number among his favorite people, he will have a full body celebration when you come in the room. He waves his arms, kicks his feet, and wiggles like you are the best gift he has ever gotten. If you turn away without acknowledging his little party for you, he gives a little squeak of dismay and starts to fuss.

One of his favorite things to do is lay on your lap and reach up to your mouth as you talk to him. He cooes and gurgles and generally flirts with you. He has the brightest most expressive little eyes -- laser beam like in intensity and focus. He loves singing and actually sings to himself in his sleep.

Connor is keeping us laughing with his turns of phrase. He is a myna bird, repeating everything he can. He and Pop watch for the metro trains in the tunnel chanting, "Waaiiiit for it, waaaaiiit for it..." and that's now his go to phrase. He is in love with "Super Why!" on PBS - Elmo is for babies! - and when he's told no, no Super Why! he says, "Oh no, where is it? What happened??" like a global disaster destroyed the show archives because surely he would be allowed to watch it otherwise! He spends a lot of the day asking for new signs (as in ASL) and repeating his favorite learning stuff. Nothing more disconcerting than a naked toddler running by yelling "Big D, widdle D...ddd...donaud doo and a duck dog too!" (10 points if you guess the kid book) Connor read out his first entire proper sentence today all by himself (Wake up Bert) with no phonics help from mommy -- his reading aloud had been limited to simple lists of two to three nouns per page. He loves to sing phonics songs with mommy after school so mommy's had to brush off the pipes and render the "If you see a double e, you say EEEE!" song all its musical due. He also figured out left from right and wants to demo his knowledge every chance he gets.

He of course has also added a few less endearing phrases; I asked if he would like some yogurt and we found that we only had lemon left which prompted a high volume "EWWWWWWW!" It was funny and I laughed...and now get EWWWWW every time I turn around.

And oh dear...mommy needed some new shirts and Nani needed a swim suit so we took the kids shopping at Sears. Connor got a little bored waiting for Nani to try on clothes so he thought he'd join in the fun and promptly stripped down to his skivvies in the store. No matter what store we went to, Connor had to be naked if there was clothes trying to be done. Sigh. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't try to model his Thomas the Tank Engine underwear and scare the 80 year old ladies with his manly physique.