In a recent post, I complained that my kids don’t watch enough television.? Well, it doesn’t happen often, but today we managed to get all three to watch at the same time.? They held this position for only 15 or 20 minutes, but it was great while it lasted.
Thing 1 and I were at a window table at Starbucks.? He was enjoying his chocolate milk and cookie.? I had my blueberry muffin and grande green tea.? We were watching the cars in the busy parking lot go by, as the first snow of the year came down.? I guess it was a reflective moment in the mind of a four year old.? Out of the blue he remarks:
“There are too many girls in the world.? We need more boys.”
Then he took a sip of his chocolate milk.
By “world”, I think he was referring to his pre-school class, which happens to have more girls than boys.?
I just found this very fun site which finds celebrities who look like you. Here is the look-alike match for Thing 2. The personality is a pretty good match, too!
I’ll be posting celebrity look-alikes for the rest of the clan soon…
Thing 2 often wakes up in the middle of the night, stands up in his crib, and cries until someone comes to his room. As soon as we leave the room, he starts again, until we usually break down and take him into our bed so we can get some sleep. Recently, we decided this pattern has to stop, so we let him “cry it out” one night. For two hours. When I went to get him in the morning, this is what he cheerfully said:
Thing 2: There’s no piggy!
It took until after breakfast for me to realize what he meant. A couple of months ago we went to a fall festival at a farm. They had tractor rides, pumpkins, a petting zoo, and two of the absolutely biggest pigs you’ve ever seen. There were also pig races.
Thing 2 loves animals , especially farm animals, as long as they are toys or on TV. In real life, he is terrified of dogs, cats, squirrels, birds, cows, and, yes, pigs. For several days after the trip, he kept saying “The piggies are going to get me!” when we went into the garage or basement. And I would tell him “There’s no piggy”.
Incredibly, after this one cry-it-out-for-two-hours episode, he no longer screams during the night.? I guess he just needed to make it through the night once without the pig getting him.