Two will be half the work of one, right?
We have 2 available.
Alarm Clock #1: To be brought into bed with you. Has a broad array of waking methods which it will employ insistently, concurrently and annoyingly. Noises include strings of nonsense syllables such as ‘bababababab’, ‘dandandandandan’, ‘baim baim baim baim’. Will also crawl all over you, and then require a speedy save to [...]
a) peering into the toilet
b) on the kitchen counter-top. (Don’t even ask… OK. So he climbed up Thomas’s step stool, got his knees up onto the handle and pulled himself up on the gas knobs. AGGGHHHHH!!!)
c) Under his brother.
“Can fairies do kung fu?”
Thus conjoining to current delights: fairies and Kung Fu panda/martial arts demonstrations at the Hanami Festival.
Our answer: “I’m not sure. What do you think?”
Thomas’s thoughts on the subject: “Yes. They’d do it like this.” And a long involved demonstration with lots of running, jumping, twirling and kicking.
Theo is One Whole Year Old …
… and he really likes chocolate cup cakes with chocolate icing.
Aged 3.5 likes the bathroom doors left open. Aged Nearly 1 has figured out that there’s water in the loo. One hundred times a day, Aged 3.5 opens the bathroom door. Aged Nearly 1 flip flaps, flip flaps across the floor, head down for extra speed. He then chuckles loudly as I scoop him up [...]
The 2 dots on the right are the eyes, the larger on on the left is the nose, the curved line is the mouth.
Thomas sat back and looked carefully.
“There’s something funny about the mouth, Mummy.”
And ran off to do something else.
“Mummy, Mummy, can I wear my fairy wings? I want to sparkle.”
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Confronted with a rainbow array of 25 colouring pencils, Thomas seems to deliberate. And choses the same colour as he has chosen for every drawing for the past year. Black.
The same with modelling clay. Black. “Let’s make a frog.” I reach for green. “No, [...]
from Gwen’s perspective:
Thanks, Eric, for the photos