My son the architect

Isaac has taken to building with his blocks. Yesterday when Jake got home from work Isaac was very excited to show him the maze he had made. Today he was stacking the blocks to make a car shed. It was fun to see him stacking the blocks to make a wall, but he only had enough blocks for two walls. He looked at it then said, "I know, I'll just make the walls smaller, that way I'll have enough blocks to built the whole thing." His problem solving skills are really developing fast. Now he's building walls and using the box the blocks are stored in for the roof.

Killing is bad

Isaac's take on killing, "Killing people is bad because when you're dead you can't brush your teeth, or eat food, or have fun. And you're not very healthy if you're dead."

How to get Isaac to sleep

Jake and I took the kids to Kohl's on Saturday. We let them pick out something to buy and got some Christmas shopping done. Isaac got to pick out some new jammies since his winter pajamas from last year were way to small. He picked out a two pack of toy story pajamas. One set is Buzz Lightyear and the other set is Woody. Last night he went to bed in Buzz Lightyear pajamas, and this morning when he go up he was in his Woody pajamas. I asked him what happened during the night and he said, "My Buzz Lightyear jammies were making me too hot so I put on the Woody jammies." Not sure when this happened because he didn't wake us up during the jammie switch. I thought his response was pretty funny especially since the jammies are exactly the same weight, just different patterns.

Walker!

So Indiana turned 1 on August 31. She'd taken a few steps before then, but now she is officially walking more than crawling. And it's finally turned cool enough for her to try out her Indiana sweatshirt that Gran got her!

Playing Tag

Isaac was playing tag....with the cat. He was running past her touching her tail and saying, "Tag you're it." Niko was just standing there staring at him. So I said, "I don't think Niko knows how to play tag." Isaac said, "Oh" then he knelt down and said, "Niko when I touch your tail you chase me and try to touch me with your tail." Niko does not respond. Then he looked at me and asked, "Can Niko play chase?"

The catch to all this is that if Niko actually did chase him it'd probably scare him and then he wouldn't want to play with her.

Christmas is Beautiful

Isaac picked a christmas movie off netfix to watch after his nap. I said, "Why don't you pick something else, that's a christmas movie." And he replied, "I think christmas is beautiful. Like last year when we were at that hotel and there was christmas stuff. It was just beautiful."

The things he remembers. Last year when we went to the Wilderness of the Smokies Resort for Abigail's birthday in December, they had the Christmas stuff out and the kids really loved all the activities and crafts.

The Alphabet Song

Yesterday on the way home from they gym Indiana was crying so I told Isaac to sing to her. He was pretending to be Alphapig from Superwhy. And was singing her the alphabet song. He was even saying he has two fingers and a thumb, just like Alphapig.

The funny thing was that in the back seat Abigail was singing the alphabet too, but to the traditional tune. So she's singing "now I've said my ABC's next time won't you sing with me," and Isaac is saying "sing with me" at the same time.
And Indiana loved both songs.
Never heard the real Alphapig song? Check it out. http://youtu.be/lEQ14IvtE50

This morning Isaac has been playing Alphapig too. He's been going around spelling everything he sees. It is so nice to hear him sounding out words and trying to spell them. Now if I could only get him as interested in writing as he is in reading and spelling.

What's in your nose?

Abigail and Isaac were in the basement this morning feeding Niko (the new cat) while I was making pancakes. I called and told them to come upstairs but Abigail was dilly-dallying so I went to get her. On the way up the stairs she stops and points to her nose and says, "Mommy, I smell something. There's a pancake in my nose. I smell a pancake smell. I think there are pancakes up there. Yep, there's a pancake in my nose."

Weird Food Habits

Most kids like macaroni and cheese right? Apparently not mine. I made mac and cheese for dinner last night and they had a fit about eating it. This morning I gave it to them again and told them that it would just sit on the table until they ate it. So after a few hours Isaac says, "Can I put something on my macaroni to make it taste better?" I asked him what he wanted, thinking he remembered the ketchup we put on it last time he had it. Nope, Isaac wanted humus on his mac and cheese. So he spreads the humus on it and says, "Wow, now I like this." After a few bites though he's decided he's done eating again.

It's My Room

Isaac and Abigail started out in separate rooms, then for the past year or so they decided they liked sleeping in the same room. Abigail's room has a twin bed and a toddler bed so for the most part Abigail slept in the toddler bed and Isaac slept in the twin bed. With Indiana having moved out of the crib now, it's almost time for her and Abigail to share a room. So we've started changing up the sleeping arrangements. Abigail is now in the twin bed in "the girl room." Isaac is in his twin bed in "the boy room." And Indiana is still on a mattress on the floor of "the baby room" for a few more weeks until she gets used to sleeping out of the crib. So where do Jake and I sleep? In "the married room" of course because, as Isaac pointed out, even though Mommy is a girl and Daddy is a boy since we're married we get to share a room.

We've also started separating for showers into boy showers and girl showers. Trying to explain that we need to wear clothes in the house and that it is impolite to run around naked has been on our list too. Well the other day I got out of the shower and was going to get my clothes when Isaac runs in. He immediately covers his eyes and says, "Mommy, put clothes on you're being rude." The irony was Isaac didn't have clothes on either he was getting ready to shower. Kind of reminds me of the passage in Matthew.

Matt 7:3-5 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.