The art show

Tonight was the art show at John's school. When I got home from work, I asked John if he wanted to go. He said "Can we?" I said yes. Daddy asked "Do you want me to go?" John said "Yup! But who's going to watch Gill?" 

We pulled into the lot at school and got an awesome parking spot (it was right out front). John ran to the front door. We had to keep telling him to slow down. We barely made it inside when John said "That's Shawn. Hi Shawn!" He led us down a hallway and was practically running. We told him to slow down so that we could see all the exhibits. The first grade students created their own universe. John's universe "Looks like our universe, but it has extinct animals. Like dinosaurs!" 

We walked through the rest of the exhibit and ended up at John's classroom. I held Gillian so she could see inside. She said "Wow!" He told us what table he sits at. And then we checked out his spring project outside his classroom. 

We ran into a few more of John's friends on the way out. When we walked out the front door, John asked "Are you sure you don't have to go to the bathroom?" He was so proud of showing us around his school. He desperately wanted to impress us with his knowledge. I was impressed. He has grown up quite a bit over this past year. 

Pajamas

Every night after bathtime, I dry off John and then send him to his room to get pajamas. He is pretty good at picking out his pajamas. Tonight I sent him to his room and finished rinsing the soap out of Gillian's hair. A few minutes later we heard a crash and then a cry. I ran in his room to find him sitting on the floor with his pajama drawer on the floor in front of him. I asked him what happened. He said "I was looking for pajamas and it fell." And he burst into tears. Apparently he hit his back on his bed when the drawer came out. We told him that he needs to be more careful. He said "I didn't know that was going to happen!"

Smellies

Daddy likes to use Vic's vapor rub whenever the kids have a cold. When John was little he renamed Vic's, Smellies. Tonight I went to give Gillian some bedtime kisses and I said "Oh Daddy put on the Smellies!" She nodded and said "Can you smell it? It makes me feel better!" I gave her kisses and squeezies and went to see John. He asked "What are Smellies?" I said "You know what they are! Daddy puts it on your chest when you have a cold and it helps you breathe better at nighttime." He didn't seem to remember at all. Since he has the beginning of Gillian's cold, I rubbed some on his chest too. I said "Do you remember now? When you were little you called them Smellies." He said "Yeah, but what's it's real name?" Where's my little boy? When did he get so big?

Llama

Tonight at dinner, we were talking about John's favorite animal.  He said "I bet you don't even know what my favorite animal is!"  Gilly didn't hesitate and said "A llama!"  He said "No!  It's not a llama."  Daddy and I joked with him and said "We know.  You don't have any secrets.  We know everything."  He said "You don't know!"  Gillian again said "It's a llama." He said "It's not a llama.  My first favorite animal is a lion!"  Daddy said "Yup.  I knew it!"  John said "You didn't.  And I bet you don't know what my second favorite animal is!"  Gilly said "A llama."  John said "No.  I'll give you a hint.  It is a dark animal."  Daddy said "What?"  John said "It's a dark animal that flies."  Gillian said "A llama."  John said "No.  It's a dark animal that flies."  Daddy said "I know.  There's a superhero that uses it too."  John didn't understand and said "It's not a superhero.  It's an animal."  Gillian said "A llama."  I whispered to Gillian "Say nah nah nah."  She did.  But John didn't understand our little hint.  So I said "It's a bat!"  He said "I bet you don't know my third favorite animal!"  Gillian said "A llama!" By this point, any time Gillian said llama, I would just start laughing.  Her timing was perfect and hilarious.  John didn't find it funny at all.  All he wanted to do was talk about his favorite animals.  He said "No.  It starts with an O."  Gillian again said "Llama?"  John said "Gill, that doesn't start with O.  It's an orca!"  Gillian said "A llama?"   

Dinner and homework

While preparing dinner tonight, I had a pot of water on the stove. John came over and blew at the flames on the burner. I said "What are you doing?" He said "What? It's flambago!" 

For the past couple of nights, Clover (Gillian's bunny) has been sitting in the baby seat at the dinner and breakfast table. Gillian likes to tell us what he is eating. At breakfast, "Him is eating carrot muffins!" At dinner tonight, "Clover is eating carrot soup! Him is a good boy!"

After dinner, John had to study for his spelling test. I would give him a word to spell and he would write it on a dry erase board. I said "Tight." While John was sounding out the word and trying to spell it Gillian tried to help. She said "No. Kite. Write kite." She wasn't helping. 

Jinx

Gilly is always trying to jinx someone. But she really doesn't understand how to do it. Tonight at dinner, she and John said something similar and she yelled "Jinx!" John said "That's not how it works! You need to say the same thing at the same time. Count with me." They both said "One, two, three." And John said "Jinx!" And then a few seconds later Gillian said "Jinx!" John whined "You can't say that if you can't talk." I explained to Gillian that to jinx someone you need to say the same thing at the same time. She said to me "Ok. Count!" I said "I'm not counting. You're going to jinx me!" She said "Come on talk!" I didn't say anything. So she said "blah, blah, blah, blah. Jinx!" 

Paying attention

Gilly and I ran to the food store tonight. In the car on our way there, Gilly sad "See that red spot?" She was pointing at her shoe. I said "No." It's kinds hard to look at shoes when you are driving. Anyway, she says "It's Ryan'a strawberry. He wasn't paying attention and I step on his strawberry." Sounds more like Gillian wasn't paying attention. So she continued her story, "Him doesn't like strawberries and he knocked them down. Sophia (his twin sister) at them all. Her likes strawberries. But Ryan wasn't paying attention. So I step on them and get red on my shoe!"