Greece

The kids' Uncle Joe (my big brother) is currently the Navigator for the USS George H. W. Bush. At dinner tonight, I told the kids "Guess what? Uncle Joe is in Greece today!" We showed John where Greece is on a map. Daddy told John "Do you know a long, long, long time ago Greece was the first country to have the Olympics!" John loves the Olympics and hopes to be an Olympian one day. John was very impressed with this little fact. Daddy also told John "You know the torches that they carry in the Olympics? Well they first start in Greece and then go to the country where the Olympics are held." John asked "When are the Olympics going to be by us?" Gillian said "No! The Statue of Liberty has a torch!" Daddy told John "Maybe one day they will be in New York." Gillian again said "The Statue of Liberty has a torch. Remember last week, I tell you all about it. And we can go in it. Can I go in the elevator?" John tried to explain to Gillian what we were talking about, but she was too focused on the statue. Thanks Uncle Joe for inspiring tonight's lesson about Greece!

Surprise Visit

After bath time tonight we were having a dance party in John's room. While we were dancing, Duncan ran out of the room and downstairs. Daddy and I looked out the window and saw Grandma and Grandpa's car. We all went running downstairs and Gillian was yelled "Grandma!" John immediately started to perform. He ran around the living room. He started to tell Grandma about what he is going to do in the olympics. He asked "can I go upstairs and get the laundry basket?" He ran upstairs and showed Grandma how he "vaults" over the laundry basket. Grandma gave him scores on his vaults. Daddy and I explained that John wants to "run and jump" in the olympics and we have been showing John all the different events he can do. Gillian, meanwhile, was walking around the living room with her blanket. At some point she had the blanket over her head and John tried to help take it off. Instead of helping he ended up pushing her to the ground. My little drama queen. She did hit the floor hard. But there were a lot of tears. Grandma calmed her down and also cheered up John (who was a little upset that Gillian got hurt).

Grandma and Grandpa did not stay long. But I am glad they stopped by and got to see the kids and all their silliness.

Rain, desserts and Olympics

Wednesday is water day at school. The teachers had a little pool and a beach ball sprinkler set up when I dropped the kids off at school. It was supposed to rain today so I didn't think the kids would get a chance to play outside. I asked John tonight if he got to do water day today. He said "First it was on and then we were going to go outside and then it was cancelled. Cause it was raining. And then it stopped raining and we went outside. And I felt a raindrop on my head. But it was from the beach ball."

After dinner and bath John asked "What's for dessert?" I told him he could go upstairs and get something out of the snack box. He goes upstairs and comes down with one Kit Kat bar. We sent him back upstairs to get something for Gillian. He came back downstairs with a box of raisins. Really? Raisins?

I let John stay up late tonight. He really wanted to watch some of the Olympics. Daddy and I love watching the Olympics so over the past couple of days John has learned a lot. He says to me "I'm going to be in the Olympics for running. Cause I'm fast and I'm good at jumping." I asked him if he would run short or long distance. He didn't hesitate and said "Long!" Then he got off the bed and ran around my bedroom. He also turned over a laundry basket and put it in the middle of the floor. I must have give him a crazy look because he said "What? I'm not going to jump over the bed!" He then ran and "jumped" over the laundry basket. He did it a few more times until he needed "a rest." We watched some more of the synchronized diving. He loved when then did the backward dives. "Mommy. I like the backwards the best. Did you see that?" He gives the best play by play. I highly recommend watching any event with John.