Could anything be cuter. I keep going back to my phone to look at these two pictures again and again and again. Teddy loves face painting so much that when I put sunscreen on him he stands very still and says “Do it like a dog.”
I can’t believe the school year is almost over. It is so bitter sweet. Everyone had such a great school year and have grown so much. They are all getting so big. Summer will be so much fun.
Today we made strawberry ice cream and strawberry popsicles with the strawberries we picked.
Scottie and Nell have started a game with each other where they stand facing each other in their cribs and Nelly hands Scottie her stuffed animals and dolls one at a time and Scottie throws them across her crib or Scottie will bite them and then give them back to Nell by putting them in her mouth for her to bite. I know this because I watch them on the video monitor all the time when they are supped to be napping but are playing or rolling around in their beds. I can’t get enough of them.
Nelly loves my phone and computer and if she sees them will crawl across the room screeching for them. She goes crazy crying and grabbing when she can’t have them (which is every time she wants them because I don’t think it’s good for her to play with them).
Teddy sings all the time. He sings ABC, You are my Sunshine (which makes me want to weep it is so sweet), and Winnie the Pooh. He especially in the car. He also asks me to sing all the time. The other day in the car he wanted me to sing a Transformer song but since I didn’t know the words to the whole Transformer song, I sang to the tune of Winnie the Pooh
Deep in the Transformer village square
Where Transformers come to play
Autobots show up there to take their food away
Deceptacons come and try to stop them right in their tracks
Transformers defend their town and stop all of the attacks
Transformers, more than meets the eye
Transformers, robots in disguise
Teddy loved it and made me sing it about 10 times in a row.
We have been working with Charlie on no screaming and not having too many treats. He claims he deserves treats each day. Hannah has been working with him on playing games and I tried to teach them backgammon. Playing with Charlie would actually be a treat.
We took Teddy and Charlie to pick strawberries in the late afternoon today. It was the nicest afternoon. We rode a tractor out to the fields and we all started picking strawberries, looking through the bushes to get ones that were ripe and not munched on my little animals. Teddy and MJ lasted for only a few minutes (as MJ said, “When it’s 100 degrees outside and I have some free time, I don’t want to go be a farm laborer”). Charlie and I kept going and going. Charlie did such a great job of finding ripe strawberries and was so thoughtful about getting good ones. I couldn’t have been happier walking through the fields with just him and me. He is such good company. I loved every minute of being with him.
I then walked over with Teddy to see the farm animals. I said “Teddy, look baby animals.” He took off running towards the first pen with his arms open yelling “Baby animals, come to me!” He went right up to a goat and said “You are a cutie” (which is also said when he found a teeny tiny strawberry–“Look Mommy, a cutie.”). Talk about a cutie. He petted all of them. He noticed “Two goats have ears and have horns, one goat has just ears no horns, ” which I thought was extremely observant.
Charlie found a baby goat who was so sweet and cute and Charlie took pictures and said “Let’s frame it and hang it on the wall next to the lamb picture in my room.” It is a great picture and we will do that. Later that night Charlie played baby goat and he was the goat and I was him petting him and feeding him grass.
