Morning 🙂
I laid in bed a moment ago with E, and he said something that I don’t want to forget, because it is *so* E. I’d put the duvet over him and he threw it off because his legs “need some fresh air”. He said it last night as I tucked him in too and I don’t want to forget it. It’s a lovely phrase that doesn’t really make sense literally but I still understand what he’s saying. And yes, it was another night where he’d ended up in bed with us, on my pillow with me, with daddy getting half of the king size bed, E having the other half, and me dangling out of the bed. But I’m used to that now, and woke up this morning in tracksuit bottoms and an old hoody. I must have put them on in the night. I don’t remember doing it though….
And W, what do I want to remember of W in 20 years time? I want to remember how he talks like Yoda from Star Wars. “My am here Mummy”. And the putting of the hand on the hip provocatively, defying you to query what he’s saying. His stroppiness – everything needs to go his way these days, or it will be the end of the world. And of course, his obsession with hot chocolate. It started out being phrased as “Hot choc” and now we have the phrase “my need hot choc mummy”.
And I also love the “please may I ….” that gets trotted out so nicely when they really want something. And that E and W are learning about “deals” that we shake on. They are the most surreal things. I can’t remember the terms or a good example of one now. Lovely Bloke says they are usually around food: “You need to eat three pieces of chicken before you get down”. “No, this is the deal. I will eat two pieces now, get down and play and then come back later to eat the last piece, right?”. And there’s a finger being wagged at you whilst he announces his terms. We love that kind of thing here. Lovely Bloke feels E is learning life skills…
At pre school this week the boys trotted in and both said “Good morning Jayne” as they always do. Jayne loves it as apparently they are the only children in the whole class who say it every morning. I didn’t realise that we had been training them like this. But now that I do, I’m really proud of it.
And I will forget this but W is 3 next month and still cries if you don’t put his nappy back on quick enough so no toilet training or big boy pants here for a while. Last weekend Lovely Bloke gave W and his bum bum some fresh air time. E did a wee in the back lounge, went to find daddy to announce “my done a wee, you can go and clean it up now”. Nice. And E, although toilet trained has forgotten twice this week that the toilet exists and done poo’s in his pants. Lovely Bloke is getting very annoyed with E about this.
And finally, on that toilet orientated note, E now shows W how you wee up a tree in the garden, because life’s too busy to come in the house and stop playing. You wee up the tree, pull your pants up and get back on with playing. Simple eh?
Do you have phrases or activities that you hope you’ll not forget?
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