Nelly loves my phone and computer and if she sees them will crawl across the room screeching for them. She goes crazy crying and grabbing when she can’t have them (which is every time she wants them because I don’t think it’s good for her to play with them).
Teddy sings all the time. He sings ABC, You are my Sunshine (which makes me want to weep it is so sweet), and Winnie the Pooh. He especially in the car. He also asks me to sing all the time. The other day in the car he wanted me to sing a Transformer song but since I didn’t know the words to the whole Transformer song, I sang to the tune of Winnie the Pooh
Deep in the Transformer village square
Where Transformers come to play
Autobots show up there to take their food away
Deceptacons come and try to stop them right in their tracks
Transformers defend their town and stop all of the attacks
Transformers, more than meets the eye
Transformers, robots in disguise
Teddy loved it and made me sing it about 10 times in a row.
We have been working with Charlie on no screaming and not having too many treats. He claims he deserves treats each day. Hannah has been working with him on playing games and I tried to teach them backgammon. Playing with Charlie would actually be a treat.
We took Teddy and Charlie to pick strawberries in the late afternoon today. It was the nicest afternoon. We rode a tractor out to the fields and we all started picking strawberries, looking through the bushes to get ones that were ripe and not munched on my little animals. Teddy and MJ lasted for only a few minutes (as MJ said, “When it’s 100 degrees outside and I have some free time, I don’t want to go be a farm laborer”). Charlie and I kept going and going. Charlie did such a great job of finding ripe strawberries and was so thoughtful about getting good ones. I couldn’t have been happier walking through the fields with just him and me. He is such good company. I loved every minute of being with him.
I then walked over with Teddy to see the farm animals. I said “Teddy, look baby animals.” He took off running towards the first pen with his arms open yelling “Baby animals, come to me!” He went right up to a goat and said “You are a cutie” (which is also said when he found a teeny tiny strawberry–“Look Mommy, a cutie.”). Talk about a cutie. He petted all of them. He noticed “Two goats have ears and have horns, one goat has just ears no horns, ” which I thought was extremely observant.
Charlie found a baby goat who was so sweet and cute and Charlie took pictures and said “Let’s frame it and hang it on the wall next to the lamb picture in my room.” It is a great picture and we will do that. Later that night Charlie played baby goat and he was the goat and I was him petting him and feeding him grass.
Hannah came to town this weekend for a special trip to see the capitol and The Music Man with Mitzi and Grandpa. She also went on a social shopping trip with Mitzi and invited me along–I was so honored and flattered and had a lot of fun. She came and played with the babies and the boys and we went with her swimming. She is so sweet, and lovely, and smart, and thoughtful–we love her so much. I can’t wait for Milly to come visit on a special trip.
Teddy is beyond thrilled to be going to the NCRC end of the year pajama
Party. He says “I’m going to find honey everywhere and spill
It all over. “
I bought Nelly and Scottie a new little doll house. Their first real toy just for them. They seem to like it.
I often have the boys run races in the park because they think it’s fun and it let’s them get out energy. Today they ran and ran and then fell over and wrestled forever in the grass. I like to let them wrestle in a safe spot because they have so much fun doing it. I like to let them have as much fun as possible in general. Life for them
Can and should be fun. Teddy even used to say time outs were fun.
Charlie’s class is doing a little performance tomorrow followed by an end of the year party. While we were walking to the store he said “First we sing a song, then we show our pictures, then we do a show of not a box, then we sing a song and at the very end we have cupcakes. Only one for each person. Teddy can’t come cause he will try to eat all the cupcakes.” I told him if the rules are one cupcake per person then Teddy would also only have one. He said “teddy won’t know that. He can’t come. “
