Abbreviated Bedtime

Last night, Seimi came upstairs to inquire about a parental tuck-in.  After an afternoon and evening of extended family time, the tired parental units sent a message of affection and rapid lights-out downstairs via the 5-year-old.  He announced from the top of the stairs:

S, s, s, sorry guys!  Tuck-in-self time!

We will miss Mr. S's placeholder stutter that announces, I have something to say, so nobody mow over me in this conversation... Now that I have the floor, give me a sec to figure out what that is.

Another thing that is already gone but missed is Boookie and Ela's use of reflexive pronouns, especially the utility pronoun "chether," derived of course, from "each other."

For example:
Look, the animals are loving their chether.

Mommie said we need to each play by our chether.

I don't want to play LEGOs right now.  You should play by your chether.

A Cat Named Goggy

Eejee got a stuffed animal from Great Grandma Ruth for Christmas this year.  The cat has become one of Eejee's best buddies and recently, unprompted and unassisted, he named the cat "Goggy."

This is one who likes to make up his own mind.  We're pretty sure he knows it's a cat, but he went ahead and named it "Doggy."

On Ritual Cleansing

Last night, long after everyone had been tucked in, the bathroom light went on. The Mayor and Hobbit Wife were listening intently to the sounds of handwashing. The Mayor went to investigate...

Mayor: Seimi, it's after bedtime. Why are you washing your hands?
Seimi: I remembered that I touched money today. Money has lots of germs so I'm doing extra wash with extra soap.

This from the kid who NEVER remembers to wash his hands after using the bathroom.  EVER.

Today brought to you by the number "7"

Overheard during homeschool while working from home today:
Hobbit Wife: Seimi, good job on drawing your sevens on your math.

HW: You know, there is another way to also draw sevens.  I do my sevens this way:

Seimi: Oh, that's nice.  I think I'll do my sevens this way:

HW: (giggling)  Actually, let's just stick with the regular way.

Shearing

It finally came time to shear Eejee's baby curls, which were getting into mullet stage.

Christmas 2015, Part 3

We enjoyed having a number of advent calendars to count down to Christmas.  Eejee got to do this advent calendar and he would remind the Mayor every day about the calendar.  On December 26, having exhausted the stuffed items, he found a Velcro item upon his person and was insistent about adding that to the calendar (notice the piece of diaper Velcro that has come late to the party to adore baby Jesus).

With a certain movie coming out, there were obviously some gifts along those lines.

Young Padawans eagerly waiting for the movie.

Daddy Jedi Master with his Padawan boys

Jedi Master and Mistress coffee date before the movie.

Christmas 2015, Part 2

Our Christmas celebration continued with our now-annual traditional stuffed animal Cutie Kittie-Hipparella-Buppy Christmas party.  They all got Santa suits for Christmas and came dressed up to the party.

For the stuffed animal party, we also enjoyed stuffed food!

LEGO presents!

Hearts!

Books about Tapirs!

LEGO rings!

Hipparella opening her presents from Buppy and Cutie Kittie

Cutie Kittie opening his presents from Hipparella and Buppy

Buppy opening his presents from Hipparella and Cutie Kittie

Group Hug!

Christmas 2015, Part 1

We kicked off our Christmas celebration at Woodland Park Zoo Wild Lights.

Ela posing in the glow of the lights.

The indoor "snowball" fight was a big highlight.

Most of the creatures were asleep but we did get to see a few...

We ended our excursion at the carousel

Hygiene lesson #4,359

"seimi, aren't those the same undies you've been wearing? are those clean?"
"yes! they've been clean all day and all night!"