The boys just love their daddy and miss him terribly when he's at work. The first thing they do when they wake up in the morning is ask for him. They will walk around the house calling out "Daddy, where are you?" and I will try to explain to them that he is at work. Yesterday Caleb must have been feeling particularly lonesome for his daddy because he started going through Joe's closet and pulled out various shirts and pants and said "Daddy! Daddy!" and then he did the same thing with Joe's shoes. Their favorite shirts from their own wardrobe are their striped button-down shirts which they call their "Daddy" shirts, because they look like the shirts that Joe wears and they want to be just like him.
When Joe and I get sodas when we go out to eat, the boys will usually insist on having a sip. When they do, they will pucker up and say "spicy!" and not want to drink any more of it. They also think that their Emergen-C multivitamin drink is "spicy".
Joshua has grown quite attached to Oliver, one of the Thomas trains that Uncle Chris gave the boys for Christmas. He takes Oliver everywhere with him, including the car, bathtub, and bed. The other night he lay in bed and screamed "Oliver!" over and over again and refused to quiet down and go to sleep until Joe finally found him.
"Uh oh, what'd you do?" is a phrase that we often hear the boys saying to each other these days. It's amazing the words and phrases they pick up just from hearing us talk to them. They can also often be heard requesting the following foods: "nugget! fry! pizza!" I promise we actually do feed them healthy food, too!
I got Joe the Old School Sesame Street DVDs for Christmas, and now the boys frequently ask to watch "Ernie". Even though we have been forewarned that these older episodes from the late 1970's "may not meet the needs of today's preschool child", we would rather have the boys watch these episodes than modern Sesame Street shows. The boys twitch with excitement as they scream out the alphabet, and they think that The Count muppet is their "Babo". So much for not letting them watch TV... it seems like we always let things slide when someone gets sick. Oh, and speaking of associating characters with their grandparents, they also think that the teacher in the Brown Bear, Brown Bear book is "Mimi".
Oh, I want nugget, fry, pizza!!! LOL. That is cute how much they love their Daddy. The twins are very attached to Josh, too. Noah got very upset the other day when he saw me wearing Josh's sweatshirt and only when I admited "yes, I am wearing Daddy's sweatshirt," did he smile and relax.
ReplyDeleteMy little bro (who is now 17) ADORED thomas the tank trains. I think Oliver is a newish one. Gordon was his favorite. And funny enough, I remembered that because i watched all those Thomas videos with him, I actually knew what the word "quarry" meant on some standardized test. Must have be the TJ one because he was around 3 then. So sometimes tv is not the enemy. Haha.
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