We were singing one of our favorite bedtime songs tonight and Milo asked me what the word “avoid” means (it comes up quite a bit in the lyrics “…sometimes I think, that you’re avoiding me…”.
We talked about it for a bit and then Milo asked a follow up question.
“Can babies climb trees?”
Not sure where this was going, I said, “no probably not”.
To which Milo replied, “well I can climb trees, so if I want to avoid the baby, I’ll just climb a tree!”
Things have gotten very competitive around here lately. Milo takes great pleasure in doing things first…like opening the car door first. And zipping his zipper first. And he’s always very quick to point it out to me when he’s “beaten” me. This is kind of confounding. Like I’m even competing…
Tonight while I was making dinner Milo told me:
Dad, I think I can beat the calculator…
Good luck with that Milo…
I don’t know about you, but I get tripped up after Thomas Jefferson…
A courageous cat caught a crow cawing at a crooked crack.
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
Animation of 44 Valentine’s Day cards (fronts and backs)
card concept: Rachel
card artwork: Milo
card animation: Morgan
but decided to spend $20 on new rain pants instead.
Rachel recently pulled out a checkers and chess set and we’ve been playing 4-year-old variants of both games. The rules are very dynamic, so you have to stay on your toes. For example, this evening we were in the middle of playing “chess” when Milo suddenly announced that he could go forwards and backwards but I wasn’t allowed to move my pieces anymore…
I still managed to pull off a victory, but that story is for another post.
At one point Milo asked me about the horse pieces and I explained that they were called knights. Predictably he asked me what knights were and I said that they were “warriors” who traveled around on horseback looking for other knights to battle with swords and lances.
He thought about this for a second and asked if they were called “worriers” because they were worried about killing other people.
The Mummy Family (serious)
The Mummy Family (not so serious)
Mummy from the back
Mummy from the front
Mummy hangin’ with Jonas
Marching with the What Cheer Brigade and lots of other crazy people around Providence
