A Creative Spelling Lesson

So it went like this:

Me: Divide the syllables, please.

Hero: The eruption goes.... here! Bwahahaha!!!

And there you have it! He's not wrong...

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Tasty Snack?

Dragon: I need something for my stomach.

Mom: Shall we give it a boot?

D: {giggles} No!

M: A worm? A tasty fish head?

D: No! We don't even have one of those! And if we did, it would taste nasty!!

M: Well, you don't like any of my suggestions, but you're not making any of your own...

D: How about some peaches?

M: Sure. Go get 'em.



I do enjoy giving that boy a bit of a hard time.

When I Am Big

Dragon(4): When I am big, there aren't going to be any time outs.

Mom: Ok. When you are big, and the Daddy, I'll remind you of that.

My guess is, he'll figure out the advantages time outs offer quickly enough, when he is big!

Big Fish

I went into the bathroom and took over bath duty so the Daddy could go do something with Hero. I saw cute wrinkley feet in the tub and this was our conversation:

Me: Hi, my little fish!

Dragon: I'm not a little fish!

Me: No? What are you, then?

Dragon: I'm a BIG fish!!

Hurray for Avocados!!

Mom: What's your favorite vegetable?

Hero: Potato soup.

Dragon: Avocado!!

So I look for avocado recipes. And I find this list of healthy things to do with avocados. And this is what I heard:

Hero: Avocado noodles? Gross. Avocado smoothie? Ew. What's that? Avocado soup?? Avocado popsicles??? Ew ew ew!!

He was particularly offended by avocados in popsicles. I must admit, I didn't keep any of the recipes. A couple came close, but in the end, I kept looking.

These 'Tater Skins, with avocado, though, those made the menu. The avocado cheesecake... not so much. Even if I *am* looking for a cheesecake recipe for my birthday. Think I'll keep looking. These Cheesesteak Quesadillas look pretty tasty. We'll try those. And these Paninis are making me droll a bit. This Potatoes with Avocado Sauce looks pretty good too. And avocado with bacon in grilled cheese. I could eat that.

How much avocado do you think I can put on the menu before there's mutiny at the table?

Too bad Hero left before he saw the avocado ice cream.

Best Conversation

The Daddy: "Dragon, what would you think about another baby in the house?"
Dragon: "Can I have some of this?" *Holds up bacon bits.

Reasons

Dragon: I want to be a Mommy

Mom: Only girls can be Mommys. You're going to have to be a Daddy. 

Dragon: Nooo!! I don't want to be Daddy. I want to be Mommy!

Mom: Why is that?

Dragon: Because, one, you have to follow my rules. And, seven, you have to do what I say. And nine, you have to listen to me...

I'm not really a tyrant, I swear. Except it  was naptime. And I'm pretty sure he thinks a nap is cruel and unusual punishment. 

Also. 

Dragon: why is our baby sleeping?

Mom: Because she's tired. 

Dragon: Nooo!! I hate when she's sleeping! She shouldn't be tired! 

I love 3. Three year olds say the funniest stuff!

The Poop Parts

"Look! It's the poop parts!"

"Yep. Those are called intestines, and they make poop."

He digs around in the body some. 

"Look! More poop parts!"

"Well, actually, those are pee parts. They're called kidneys."

Gotta love spontaneous science!

Funny Things They Say

"I don't know why milk is wet."

-Dragon

Hero's Rover

This is Hero's Rover, which he built today while we were trying (only semi-successfully) to read from our Solar System book. After a while I stopped bugging him about the book, because he's telling me about this Rover, and it's cool. Here's what he says about it, in his words:

"My Rover is an 'Angry Cat' technology type of rover. The red piece, as you see in the picture, is a little light that has a transmitter that goes to the receiver, and then the Rover also has a little slot that holds nine baggies, and those nine baggies hold little samples, inside of the Rover. The arm is really small, it's between one and two inches long, and it's invisible. The white arm that holds the satellite head, that is the arm that can spin any direction and stop at any time and shoot. From both sides at the same time. It drives around on cities and on other planets. It sends back the information on my little receiver that you see in the next picture. It measures how wide and how tall and how fat it is, with its little red piece that I've already told you about. So, and, and the orange piece is the antenna. It sends the signal all the way to my device, all the way to the planet, whatever planet I am on. And that's the end of the Rover information."


He also built a receiver. He wants to talk about that too.

"The receiver is the thing that the Angry Cat Leader, me, Hero, the Hero Angry Cat is the Leader. So I'm the one who holds the receiver, and I have 10 rovers. Five of them right now are taking images of Ultron's technology [Ultron is an Avenger's villain], and the other 5 are taking pictures of a planet called 'Deplety.' Deplety is a rock planet. And my rovers are on different locations. Two of them, right now, are on the western part, and the other two of them are on the eastern part, and the last one is on the way southward piece. And the 'Angry Cats' are good guys. They are defenders; they save peoples' lives. They can walk through a fiery building and save people. No matter how scary people think an Angry Cat is, they will help. They can breathe water, they can breathe fire, they can breathe ice, and lava. They can also breathe rock. And they only do that to bad guys. Like for instance, a battle between the Angry Cats and Ultron is going on. I need to get back out there an start leading my army of Angry Cats again."

I thought about stopping him and making him "do school," but then I came to my senses. There's a huge amount of synthesizing going on here from the astronomy that we've studied this week. And when the things that he learns show up in his play then is when I notice that they really get internalized, and they stay with him. Can't argue with that!

Awesome.

Daddy: You're awesome, Dragon. Did you know that?

Dragon: Yek. (He can't quite manage his S's yet.)

Daddy: Do you have any idea how awesome you are?

Dragon: Chocolate!



Oh yes. This kid knows what awesome is.

Scrapbooks and Missile Kisses

I've recently discovered digital scrapbooking, and I love it. I've been working on Dragon's baby book while I try to figure out how to make digital scrapbooking work for the family books and Monkey's books. Creating the pages is a blast; printing them is a challenge. I don't have a system, but I'm getting closer!

Tonight Dragon saw this page I made for his book, for February of 2011.

When I told him, "That's Baby Dragon," he responded by kissing his hand and saying, "BOOM!" Around here we are raising manly-men, and they don't blow kisses. Nope, they stick 'em on a missile and shoot 'em.

"BOOM!!"

Nap Time

It's nap time, and I have my boy all snuggled up. He has a lot to day about it:

No no no no. Don't need it need it need it. No. I don'tdon'tdon't need it.

Dada Dada Dada

Don't. Dat. Don't. Dat. Dat. Dat.

Done. Done.

Lois Lane

Dad: So, what does Superman do?
Monkey: He defends his girlfriend.


Have you ever watched those Superman cartoons? That Lois has quite the scream on her.

Money!

Dragon: "I need money."
Mom: "You need money? Why??"
Dragon: "[babble babble] I tell Daddy."

Miscommuincation

Monkey: Mom! I'm thirsty!

Mom: You're in the shower!

Monkey: I want people water!

Oops. Guess I should be more specific. That should have been, "You're in the shower you can have some when you get out!"

Let's Pretend

"Let's pretend to be dirt. And the excavator will cover us up with dirt for naps, and then when we wake up it will scoop us up and the dump truck will dump us down the stairs."

Open Sesame!!

Mom: Open Sesame!!

Monkey: opens mouth

Mom: (Pops in a peanut he's tasting.)

Monkey: (Makes a yucky face.)

Mom: Thank you for tasting it.

Monkey: My mouth was Sesame Street. A yucky Sesame Street.

Focusing?

Monkey's been pretty distracted tonight, and as he was (sort of) getting ready for his shower, my husband asked him to focus. Pretty soon I hear:

♫♪"Focus focus focus on getting naked..."♪♫

Good Manners

Monkey: Buuurp

Mom: What do you say when you blech?

Monkey: Oh yummy yummy yum!!