Favorite Things

Here are a few of my favorite things right now:
* G is constantly trying to spell things. Instead of saying YES and NO he spells them to me. M has picked up on this though his spelling is even worse than G.
*It has been raining off and on since last Thursday; we went 30 days with no precipitation before that point. Too early in the summer to be in drought mode. Let it rain--- at least until July 1 when 2 of 3 munchkins go to zoo camp.
* We saw the movie UP for Father's Day. Not as great as Monsters VS Aliens. The lost baby thing at the beginning bothered me and the dogs were a little vicious and the whole thing was a little dark. My favorite part was the squirrel part. The boys keep randomly yelling out 'squirrel' now. At the movie M was quite a sight. He has to sit at the front of the theater seat otherwise he gets folded up in it. So he sits at the edge of the seat with his little bag of popcorn and the 3D glasses on and when he gets thirsty he tilts his head my way and loudly whispers "Drink!" and takes a sip of root beer without taking his eyes off the screen. He was too funny.

One final thought: isn't it interesting how different kids can be? When E did camps at the Y in preschool and kindergarten in the summers he would beg not to go and come up with fake illnesses and cry the whole day before. He would get there and act sullen and sad as I left and then at the end of the morning finally realize I hadn't been mean or wrong and he was going to have fun. Oh yeah, the Y was one mile from our house. G headed to zoo camp for 2 afternoons last week and couldn't wait to get there and pestered me about what day and when we would leave and couldn't we go early and why wasn't it more days. And he bounced into camp with me saying "Don't I even get a hug goodbye?". And the zoo is far from home across the bridge. E is headed for zoo camp next week for one day and he has already started the bargaining and whining about it. Maybe G can help him get used to the idea of having fun and not worrying so much that it won't be fun.

love and hugs, B