An epiphany

I had just tucked Scott into bed tonight when I decided to flip on the Olympics for the first time.  Diving was on, so I got Scott back out of bed to show him a little.  It's a good thing that I did.  He had never seen divers before, and he was very impressed.  As I was tucking him back in, he said with all sincerity, "It took me a lot of time to figure what I want to be when I grow up, and now I know.  A diver."

(He may need to learn to put his head under the water first, but at least he has a vision.)

 

Scott told me the other night that he didn't need to go to sleep because he was nocturnal. 

 

Miss Natalie has been causing us to smile a lot too these days.   Everything is exaggerated.  She tells us she is...

-"VERY hungry!"
-"VERY tired!"
-Car seat is "TOO tight!"


If something is hard for her to do, she says it's "VERY heavy!"


When she wants a drink, she asks for "COLD water" or "COLD milk!"  (As if we often serve them to her warm)

I was forced to wear my glasses for three (long) weeks recently, and Natalie didn't care for them.  She kept telling me, "No glasses!  Just eyes!"

We did some painting this afternoon, and Scott had fun painting a little car.  Natalie had fun making a huge water mess with a small cup full of paint water. 

Jon and I sometimes secretly refer to our favorite pizza restaurant, Donatos, as "The Big D".  Jon asked Natalie last week if she wanted to go to Donatos or The Big D.  She chose the latter.  As we pulled into Donotos several minutes later, she started to cry, and say, "The Big D!  The Big D!"  Obviously, she didn't understand our code.  Scott caught on and told us that he wanted to go to The Big C.  We tried to guess where he was referring to, and he finally told us it was Chick-Fil-A.  This is funny since we rarely eat there as a family.  I have taken the kids to play on the playground there a couple of times though, and I think that's what stuck in Scott's mind.  So we are not just eating out for the fun of it, we are doing it for the betterment of our children's reading and spelling skills.  :)