In today's news...

WOW - we hit a milestone today! Little Bitty did just a little tiny bit of pretend play, actual role playing type pretend play! He was playing with a cord and put it around his neck (NOT tight, loose like a long necklace) and after checking it and re-checking it, he smiled and said, "dot-ter" I was stunned (because he's never done anything quite like that before!). I realized what the cord was supposed to be - a stethoscope. "Are you a doctor?" I asked. He got a huge grin on his face (he loves it when we can show we understand him) and started holding the end of the cord up to to one of his trains. "ee sick!" Wow again! Not only is he pretending to be a doctor, but this little play session actually involves a whole little scenario of what he's doing as a doctor, cool! "Is your train sick?" (yep, we're in the habit of repeating everything back b/c that's how we confirm either for ourselves or for him or both that we understood what he said). Another big grin. Then he was back to rolling his trains around and lining them up (in a row so straight it would make Sir Topham Hatt proud!). Pretend play, here we come!

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Bearhug threw out a random phrase yesterday that just cracked me up. I asked him and Cuddlebug how their day at school had been. They both had a good day, but Cuddlebug confided that, "sometimes our schoolwork is hard." Bearhug jumped in with, "Yeah, but sometimes it's easy, peasy, lemon squeezy." I couldn't help but laugh, he said it so matter-of-factly. "Where did you hear that?" I asked. He shrugged, "in one of our books." I wish I knew which book it was, I'd love to see the context it was used in. But hey, he used it appropriately!

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It was so nice out today, Cuddlebug and Bearhug had a chance to play outside which they haven't been able to do for a while. They came in for a few minutes to get a drink, and on his way out the door again Cuddlebug said, "I love you." I assumed he was talking to me and said, "I love you too!" He looked back at me and said, "I was talking to Orion. But I still love you too." LOL

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A couple of nights ago as we were getting the boys to bed, Cuddlebug said to me, "Mama, we don't like it when you and Dada say 'nothing.'" Huh? "What do you mean?" I asked him. He responded, "When we ask what you're talking about and you say 'nothing.'" Oh, yeah. I guess dh and I have been doing that lately, if we're talking about things that we don't figure the boys will be interested in, but they ask what we said, we just say, "oh nothing." Now that he brought it up, I can see how that would be pretty annoying, so I told him we'll make an effort not to do that anymore.





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