Tuesday, February 7, 2012

While Daddy's away...

Well, Hubby is currently away at the Alberta and the Territories Synod Pastor's Study Conference in Canmore.  Yep.  It's a hard life :)  So while he is enjoying the mountain air and the occasional beer with colleagues, we are home.

This afternoon set up the 2 person tent in the living room again (it's been out a few times for the kids to play in this winter) and I decided to let the boys try to sleep in it.  The last time we tried it, they didn't really want to sleep so they ended up with being stuck back in their own beds.  They are currently still awake but quiet, which is better than the last effort.

With it set up, the Boy said he was tired just before 6 this evening, so he got the sleeping bags, pillows, and stuffed animals out and into the tent.  Then he got his jammies on.  Since he had his on, Boy2 wanted to get his.  Then the Girl didn't want to be left out....  I really didn't want them asleep at 6, so we did some story time.  I read as slowly as I could, but the Boy still was trying to get into the tent early.  Got him to wait for the good night phone call from Dad, and shortly after that it was late enough I could let them in.  Boy!  Was the Girl ever upset that she wasn't able to sleep with her brothers!

In recent weeks, she's taken to climbing into Boy2's bed at nap time or bed time before I or Hubby brings her to her own bed.  She may be ready for the toddler bed...  I'm not sure I'm ready for that, but it may help her sleeping, so we'll maybe try it by the end of the month.

The Boy has started a new unit in school.  They just completed a unit on China, and now they are starting one on Space and the Solar System.  He came home talking about the red planet and Pluto.  And how all the planets go around the sun!  Can you believe it!

They both are really into Star Wars... They got new books from the Clone Wars, they ask about Ahsoka and Anakin, why Anakin's mommy had to die, why did he have to become Darth Vader, and these are very serious questions for these boys.  We have to stop them and remind them occasionally that all Star Wars is pretend and never really happened.  Just the result of someone's imagination.  Not sure if they believe us, but we're working on it. They will sometimes run around, pretending to shoot the evil droids from the Wii game we have.  They sat down to the Lite Brite and put the pegs in, pretending they were R2 units and Clone Troopers.  Very vivid imaginations :)

Yesterday afternoon, after Hubby left, time just dragged on.  So I got crayons out and started to colour with the Girl.  The Boy soon joined in.  Boy2, however, stayed in his own world for quite some time.  He was being Yoda on the couch, then he was being Pikachu...  When we went to the Big Mall Saturday, he was being Yoda the whole time, running ahead holding a pretend light-saber.  This evening, the Boy pointed to a picture of a Jedi on his book and asked what his name was.  I couldn't remember despite Hubby telling us a few times.  Boy2 remembered.  It may seem like he doesn't pay attention or remember things, but he really does.  It astounds me sometimes.

There is probably lots more that I could write.  The new Baby seems to be missing Daddy, oddly enough.  It hasn't been anywhere near as active as usual today.  So I had a bit more extra sugar to see if it would move around after the boost.  Nope.  Didn't really start moving around until I did lullabies, and even then, still not alot.  Tomorrow I'm planning on baking cookies and muffins (may blueberry and banana if I have time for two batches).  And maybe we'll order pizza in as a treat :)

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