Good Morning

Just had to note N's new way of waking up. He sleeps with us, and recently he started waking me up by putting his face right up close to mine and saying "Hi" about 10 times.

Thomas: The Obsession

Oh my, but N is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine. I think it started when we were out toy shopping and he found the books with buttons to push to make sounds. He got his hands on a Thomas book, and N would not put it down. He played with it for most of that day, and still plays with it every day at some point. Then, while packing our office stuff to move it to the basement, N came across the box with left-over valentine cards. I happened to have picked Thomas cards. He wouldn't put the box down. He carried it all over the house, and even had to take it to daycare one day.

Move ahead to last week. We went to Costco and they had a pack with 2 Thomas DVDs and a couple of trains. N got very excited and wouldn't put them down. So we opened up the box there, and happily continued our shopping while he played with the trains... until we got to the checkout and he let out a scream when the woman tried to take the box to scan it in.

When we got home, I took the DVDs out of the box and hid them away for later. Didn't bother N any. He was quite happy to look at the box. On the back were the photos of all the Thomas DVDs available. He carried that around the house for the rest of the night.

And the trains... Well, they go everywhere.

Where did this come from? He only has the one book, he's only seen the show twice (and one of those times was for about 5 minutes). Oh well, as far as kid obsessions go, it's not a bad one I guess....

First Camping Trip

For part of the Canada day long weekend, we decided to go camping. Since it was to be N's first camping trip, we only went for one evening. And because we planned it last minute, we didn't get there until after 7pm and were attacked by mosquitoes. Or, R and I were. N didn't seem to get bothered at all. I think I was more vigilant with the bug spray on him than on me. We picked up some natural stuff last year from Heartsease. It works well if you reapply quite frequently. I did that for N, but got lazy with myself.

N had a great time. He played with his beach toys at the site, putting gravel into the buckets. If he wasn't doing that, he was trying to grab the mosquito coils. We tried to keep him away from them, but eventually he grabbed one by the smoking end and got a bit of a burn.

Then in the morning after pancakes, we went to the beach. We all had fun playing in the sand. R and I would start a castle and N would tear it down. He also liked filling his buckets with water and pouring them onto the sand. We tried to go swimming, until N tripped and got his face wet. He wasn't too interested after that.

Now, if we can just get our camping gear to a more mangeable size...

Blowing Kisses

N likes to blow kisses. Today not only was he blowing kisses as I left, but blowing them with both hands at once.

My Little Scientist

So last night we had the fan on in the bedroom. N was standing in front of it. Then he picked up one of those magazine subscription inserts (which was my bookmark - oh well) and held it up to the fan. Then he looked around, ran to the other part of the room, and returned with his shirt from the hamper. He then alternated between holding up the paper and t-shirt in front of the fan. Went back to the hamper and picked up his shorts. Then he alternated between the three items. Very interesting to watch. Not sure what his conclusion was, but eventually he was happy with his research and climbed back into bed.

Baptism

Well, we finally got N baptized, and I understand now the main reason people get this done when their children are infants. N was running all over the church and we'd have to chase him down when it got to a point where he needed to be there. Good thing we scheduled it to be after mass not during!

When it finally came to the water on the head part, N laughed like crazy (he does love the water). The priest said it was the first time that happened. He also said it was his fastest baptism, but that he still hit all the important parts. :)

The Duck Says Quack (or is it cack)

N is not a big talker yet, but it's starting. Last week, he said the name of his primary caregiver at daycare, and also the name of one of the little girls. Yesterday he started making animal sounds. Caught me by surprise. I've been asking him for a while now with no answer, but then yesterday, when I said "what does the duck say?" he said "cack cack cack". Oh and his cows say "oooooo".