Conversation with a 4 yr. old

Since Evan is learning about the body in school, we've had many conversations about body parts and where they are located and what each part is used for. It's quite cute to hear him talk about his heart and what it does. He even sings a song about scraping his knee or cutting his finger - loosing blood and platelets. He knows the whole song, but when he sings it....I can tell there's a few missed words. OH! Which reminds me about the funniest thing ever - I have to share this!

Over the summer, Evan was in the summer school program and they taught him some other songs. Songs, of course I've never heard of - or they were unfamiliar to me, however being that Cy grew up "hippie" he knew these songs (i.e., "Blowing in the Wind" and "The Yellow Submarine"). Well, there was this one song Evan sang, the beginning goes like - "Oats and beans and barley grows, oats and beans and barley grows" blah, blah, blah -- I can't remember the rest. But, having to hear him sing this just makes me think - What in the world? On our first parent/teacher meeting, one of the parents had asked if there was any way for us parents to get the lyrics of the songs the kids sing in school. She also said, it's very hard to comprehend what her child was singing, when she repeatedly sang, "Boats are mean and Marley's a hoe". THE WHOLE ENTIRE ROOM FILLED WITH LAUGHTER! Hilarious. I still don't know the whole song to "Oats and Beans" and we still haven't received the lyrics to the songs either.

Okay, real quick - getting back to Evan learning his body parts. In conversation about the lungs, he gestures what the lungs do (as he breathes in and out). Well, I said, "Evan, you have very healthy lungs. Do you know happens if you smoke?", he replies, "No, what happens?", I reply, "Your lungs turn black, and you can get sick and can also get cancer too". He was really like, yuck - black lungs. I emphasized on it b/c A) I don't want my kid to smoke - AT ALL and B) try to let him know that smoking is bad for you. So, now, when he sees someone smoking he is not ashamed to speak his mind out loud and will say, "Eww...look at that (lady or man) who's smoking, Mommy, his lungs will be black". And I say, "Yep - that's right, and smoking is bad for you, right Evan?" He agrees.

Just the other day, we were driving home from school and we were talking about birthday's - be it that my birthday was coming up. All of a sudden, as I was driving, he says, "Mommy, when I turn 7 years old, I'm not going to smoke, because smoking is bad." I COULD NOT HELP not to chuckle...and then he proceeded to tell me that none of his other friend's smoke at school. Thank goodness!

My Boy! What can I say? He makes me laugh!

Okay - for some ODD REASON, when I posted my birthday dinner picture @ Miyabi's (Sept. 24th, 2009), it comes up as a big red x. So, I'll have to figure it out later. Have a great weekend!

Blessing someone else

Today isn't just any other day. It's my birthday!! Woo hoo! At 12:01 this morning, my Cy turned his body towards me and said, "Happy Birthday Baby Cakes". Thankfully, I was barely awake and coherent and heard him and said, "Thank You". Then I turned over to my side and closed my little eyes. It's funny, how since we've been married - we have been doing the same exact thing to each other...wishing each other birthday wishes at midnight on each others birthday. It's sweet and thoughtful.

I started the day out with another Happy Birthday from my sweet boy Evan. Though he had his eyes closed, lying in his bed, daddy whispering in his ear to tell me "something" -- he blurted out "Happy Birthday Darby-Darby-Dump". That's his little pet name he calls me sometimes. I call him "Tweets". I'm sure you mothers out there have some nicknames for your kids too! It's a good start when Evan wakes up happy and willing to eat his breakfast. Sometimes we have those days where we have to get on him about getting up. It usually ends up with him crying, and moving even slower in the morning. It's very frustrating...and for Cy, it's worse, since he's in charge of getting Evan up, ready and out the door for school. I can blog about that in another blog entry, but I'll spare you.

I made some birthday brownies, and took them to work - sharing the love to my coworkers; at least to the ones who are in the office. :)

My day is going well and frankly, got a little bit better after I went to Publix this morning. Our Pepsi machine at the office is out of soda, so I had to make a mad dash to Publix. Got what I needed, then waited in line. This guy was in front of me and had lots of baby food jars. Oh, how I remember those days. Anyway, long story short, we had a few words between each other about baby stuff, yada, yada, yada. Turns out his credit card wasn't working, so he told the cashier he would be back. Well, it was my turn and the lady started ringing me up and so forth. So, I asked her how much was that guys stuff, she told me and I said, you know what - Let me bless that man, I'll pay for his stuff. She was like, really? I said, yeah, here, let me pay for it, but don't tell him who paid. So, I did and the bagger took the guy's bags to him (he was near the doorway or something on his phone). He kept asking who paid for his stuff, blah, blah, blah - the bagger gave in and pointed to me and I was walking out the door. BUSTED! Well, he was so thankful and kept saying, no, you can't do that - blah, blah, blah. I told him I wanted to bless him, and not to worry about it. And he kept saying no. Turns out, he's the owner of this new pizza place near my work and he gave me his card and said - consider this a gift certificate! So, while I was blessing him, he turned around and blessed me back!! Is that how its suppose to work? LOL! It was all good...

My birthday keeps getting better and better! When I got back to work, I was greeted with a wonderful surprise. A beautiful plant delivered from my parents. Thanks Mom and Dad! So "Hawaiian" looking. Hah! Can't wait to have a yummy birthday dinner at Miyabi's Japanese Steakhouse tonight. I'm actually excited that Evan will be going too! The last time he went to a teppanyaki sit down -- he freaked out! So, now that he's older...I'm sure he'll be alert and will have fun watching the chef cook our food in front of us. I'll blog about that later!

Here's the picture of my beautiful flower plant my parent's sent me. And the other photo is of Evan with a baby Alpaca. I took this last month - Ms. Lynn (Evan's previous sitter) has neighbors who have Alpaca's. Well, one of them was pregnant and we had a chance to see the new baby Alpaca. She was so cute and soft.

Who's your acorn?

Well, I'm ready for the fall -- come on already!!

This morning, as I was getting ready for work, Evan came running into my room - jumped into my bed and hid himself under the covers. I can tell the boy did not want to wake up! I greeted him with a morning hug (he's still under the covers) and was so tempted to jump in the bed too! He was so warm...I told him he was an acorn, and I'm the squirrel. I'm going to bury him until the spring! His reply, "okay mommy". We have tons of squirrel's in our yard due to the many trees that surround our house. And those trees have lots of acorns. The squirrels have daily parties at our house. We know, because we hear them up on our roof just prancing away and then occasionally, we hear acorns dropping. Either there's a squirrel up in the tree shaking the branches, or the squirrels have dropped their acorns on our roof. I'm telling you...there's plenty to go around!

Boy, I wish I was a bear so that I can hibernate. I know as the weather gets cooler, I'll be the one still in the bed not wanted to get up.

I'm thankful for a short work week. We have tons of stuff going on this weekend. Actually, we've been quiet busy these past few weekends. Cy has been working on putting in a new drainage field in our backyard. Poor guy...he's worked so hard. He has been up before the sun rises and doesn't come back into the house until well after dark. Last night he got in at 1:30 this morning. I know we're saving a lot of money doing this work ourselves - removing four huge trees, trenching ditches, cutting concrete, pounding asphalt pavement, installing new PVC drain pipes from our septic tank, etc. We've saved thousands of dollars doing it and I know in the end, we'll be a happy family again. Just two more days until it's over!!! I'll post some pics on my Picasso picture site. Check it out:

I'm doing my part by staying out of the way and watching Evan. Well, Evan and I did help out a little bit on Sunday. Who's going to move the big tree branches out of the way? Somebody has to do it! So, after taking our Sunday nap - Evan and I ventured out to the backyard and helped drag the branches to the street. It was a good bit and I tell you, I was wiped out afterwards. We were pretty proud of ourselves and stayed out until dark. While we did that, Cy continued to move the big tree trunks out of the way. He used the bobcat for that job!

There's so much stuff going on....it'll be a while before I can get you all up to speed on my life. Until next time - who's your acorn?