TV time

The kids have been really good the past couple of days, so they got to watch a few TV shows tonight. They mainly watch shows on Netflix. Since John knows how to operate the remote he normally gets to pick what they watch. They started watching an episode of Super Hero Squad.  During Super Hero Squad, there is normally a point where all the super heroes "Hero Up" like the clip below.

Tonight while watching and the Hero Up started, John said "Finally a Hero Up sequence!"

We have also discovered, that when the kids watch TV, John has a tendency to walk around the room.  Gillian likes to sit on the couch.  John starts in one spot and then gets closer and closer to the TV (unless something scares him, then he hides from the TV).  If he happens to stand in front of Gillian, then she will shout "Can'tseetheTV!"  And yes, she says it so fast it sounds like one word.   

No nap

I picked the kids up from school today. In the car on our way home, I asked the kids about their day. Gillian said "I don't wanna talk about it now!" She crossed her arms and refused to talk to me. I asked John about his day. He said "It was great. Mom, can I tell you something?" I said of course. He said "I saw Gillian in timeout today. I was walking past her classroom and she was in the hallway." I asked Gillian if she went to timeout today. She said "No!" I asked John if he was sure she was in timeout. He said "I think so. She was all by herself in the hallway. And then she took a nap." I said maybe that was the problem. Maybe she didn't take a nap and she was in the hallway because she was making too much noise. Gillian did you take nap? Then Gillian burst into tears. She calmed down and John and I stopped talking for a little while. I looked back at the kids and told them that they looked like sleepyheads. Gillian said "Not me! Johnny is sleepy! Not me!" I said you look sleepy to me. She again burst into tears "I not sleepy. I don't wanna nap!" Clearly someone did not nap at school today. 

Dress-up

Gillian loves to play dress-up. She loves wearing her princesses dresses and more recently she has started to dress up as a super hero. She loves to wear John's cape and all the various super hero masks. She always asks for help with the masks and they need to be placed on her head so that she can see, but not out of the eye holes. I don't think she likes to have the mask on her face.

On Sunday, she wore the red cape, carried Captain America's shield, Ironman's blaster and Wolverine's mask. Daddy says that most days she wears a princess dress and fairy wings under the cape, shield, blaster and masks. Love that she knows all the super hero names and that she mixes the princess with the super hero.

Costco adventures

In the car on our way to Costco today, I said to Daddy "What's that clicking sound?" The clicking I heard sounded like it was coming from the engine. But from the backseat, Gillian said "It's me!" And she started clicking her tongue and continued to do it until we got to the store. The kids love going to Costco. They like sitting next to each other in the cart and they love the samples. Today we went to a different Costco than usual, because we had other errands to do this morning. We rolled into the store. John proudly showed the greeter my Costco card. He then said "Wow! I'm really impressed!" Daddy and I asked him why he was impressed. He said "Cause they moved everything around! I'm really impressed!" We explained to him that it was a different store. He said "But it's Costco!" Again we explained that it was Costco just not the same Costco we normally go to.

We went through the entire store and got to the register. We left the kids in the cart as the ladies rang us up and loaded the cart. The one lady said hello to the kids. You never know how they will respond. Either they will not say anything or they will talk their ear off. Today it was the latter. Gillian said "Them are my parents!" The lady giggled. John said "Don't squish the bread! We don't like squished bread!" So embarrassing! Daddy and I simultaneously said "John!" Luckily the lady was very understanding and said "I won't squish it! I don't like squished bread either."

Too much FaceTime

Yesterday we called Mimi for her birthday. We had Daddy's phone on speaker so Mimi could hear both of the kids. John talked first and then Gillian got a turn. She said "Happy Birthday! Look at my kitty!" And she took the phone and pointed it at her shirt. She was trying to show Mimi the kitten on her t-shirt. This is not the first time Gillian has done something like this. Daddy and I think it is because she is used to using our phones to do FaceTime. So anytime she is on the phone she thinks the other person can see her. She has done this to Grandma too, asking her "Can you see me?" Another time, Gillian was watching videos of Winston and Jaxx on Aunt Missy's phone. She kept yelling at the dogs as if they could hear her.

Playground

It was so nice outside today. Daddy picked up the kids and decided to go to a local playground. I met them there. John had already made a friend by the time I arrived. John was chasing the little boy all around the playground. Then John started yelling, "Hey! I got a sister! Her name is Gillian!" "Hey I'm over here!" Then John banged his head on a slide and he blamed it on the little boy. I made John apologize. It wasn't the boy's fault. He was no where near John.

Gillian was playing contently by herself. She would climb up a ladder and go down the slide. Or climb up the rock wall. One time she went down the slide and then lost her footing and fell down. She giggled and got back up again. She went down the slide again and "fell" at the bottom. Again she giggled. She thought it was so funny. "I fell down!"

John's new friend had to go home. So it was just John and Gillian on the playground for awhile. Gillian was trying to climb the rock wall. She had done it a few times during our trip but somehow she lost her confidence. John stood at the top of the jungle gym and said "Come on Gill! You can do it! Keep going!" That's all she needed, a little support from her big brother.

Passing the buck

Tonight, Daddy and I asked Gillian to get her brother for dinner. He was upstairs in his room. She started to walk toward the stairs and stopped. "I can't do it." Again, we encouraged Gillian to go upstairs to get John. She looked at us, pointed at me and said "Mom can do it!"

During dinner, Gillian didn't really want to eat dinner. She kept starting conversations to keep herself busy. At some point she pointed to my glass and said "I drink that?" I told her, "No, it's Mommy's milk." Gillian shook her head and said "That's not milk! You no drink milk!" She was right. I'm not sure why I said milk. It just came out. I was drinking water. Can't get anything past The Bean.