Yeye's Post: February 7, 2014
Jean and I were just talking about our day - we really enjoyed the boys today! We had gone shopping before we picked them up, so when we arrived home there were groceries as well as the boys' packs to bring inside. Jean asked Nicholas to help us carry things, and he grabbed both his and Joshua's bags and also a shopping bag that weighed considerably. He really had to struggle with the 3 bags, but he did it and got them all to the door.
Inside and groceries put away, Jean fried bacon for the boys and hamburgers for me and herself. Nicholas ate his 'bacon butty', and was eyeing Joshua's bacon. I told him that he shouldn't take his brother's bacon, but then Joshua offered it to Nicholas. Nicholas politely refused to accept it; they were both quite genteel.
Jean put some strawberry yogurt into the blender along with some fresh strawberries, and then offered the liquified result to Nicholas. He gobbled it up and was very pleased with it.
Joshua went for a sleep at about 1:30, or maybe it was 2 p.m. because he had a poopy diaper and I changed him before we went down to the crib. I'd looked at a few books with him before that, and he tried to distract me with The King, the Mice and the cheese, but when I took him down and tucked him in for his nap he was quite calm and content.
When I came back up the 3 of us played Go Fish. Nicholas knows this game quite well now; we still make a wall of kleenex boxes to shield his cards from our eyes, but he understands the rules of the game. Each player, in turn, asks another player - Do you have any sharks/whales/clownfish, or whatever he has in his hand. If the other person has, he has to hand it over. When we were almost finished the game, and once again it was Nicholas' turn, he asked me: Yeye, do you have any eyes, do you have any noses, etc. He was just being silly, but he was enjoying himself, he understood the humour of what he was saying, and we both laughed and accepted the silliness in the spirit it was offered. After that we also played a game of dominos; Jean said she thinks the dominos came from your houre. They're the set of stars/lambs/cabooses/moons/hearts/etc. That game was enjoyable too.
During the afternoon Nicholas needed the toilet, so he and I came upstairs. After he was seated on the toilet I came into the computer room to check on email, and when Nicholas called out that he was finished I returned for toiletpaper duty. There had been an empty wastebasket beside the toilet, and when I returned to Nicholas he was wearing it, overturned, over his head and shoulders! He laughed, and I asked him: are you Mr Baskethead? He was very content to adopt that moniker. I laughed too, and got him cleaned up and dressed. He wanted to show Jean Mr Baskethead, so after he had washed his hands he carried the basket downstairs and showed her.
Joshua slept for 2.5 hours - he would have slept longer but we thought we should get him up. We all had a pleasant supper together, and then we got the boys ready for the ride home. On the ride home Joshua wanted to listen to the music, but then he got bored with it and began to hum his own song. Hearing this, I turned the disc off, and told the boys I would sing them a song that my father used to sing: Donder Blitz. As you know Cam, Donder Blitz invents a sausage machine, and then ends up as sausage himself. Nicholas was quite interested in some of the words (crank, yank) and Joshua didn't protest.
Anyway, we all had a lovely day. Jean and I look forward to seeing the boys again next week; they are what makes us happy (and you too!). Oh yes, they're also work, but then, you know that.
Have a good weekend!
Robert
Inside and groceries put away, Jean fried bacon for the boys and hamburgers for me and herself. Nicholas ate his 'bacon butty', and was eyeing Joshua's bacon. I told him that he shouldn't take his brother's bacon, but then Joshua offered it to Nicholas. Nicholas politely refused to accept it; they were both quite genteel.
Jean put some strawberry yogurt into the blender along with some fresh strawberries, and then offered the liquified result to Nicholas. He gobbled it up and was very pleased with it.
Joshua went for a sleep at about 1:30, or maybe it was 2 p.m. because he had a poopy diaper and I changed him before we went down to the crib. I'd looked at a few books with him before that, and he tried to distract me with The King, the Mice and the cheese, but when I took him down and tucked him in for his nap he was quite calm and content.
When I came back up the 3 of us played Go Fish. Nicholas knows this game quite well now; we still make a wall of kleenex boxes to shield his cards from our eyes, but he understands the rules of the game. Each player, in turn, asks another player - Do you have any sharks/whales/clownfish, or whatever he has in his hand. If the other person has, he has to hand it over. When we were almost finished the game, and once again it was Nicholas' turn, he asked me: Yeye, do you have any eyes, do you have any noses, etc. He was just being silly, but he was enjoying himself, he understood the humour of what he was saying, and we both laughed and accepted the silliness in the spirit it was offered. After that we also played a game of dominos; Jean said she thinks the dominos came from your houre. They're the set of stars/lambs/cabooses/moons/hearts/etc. That game was enjoyable too.
During the afternoon Nicholas needed the toilet, so he and I came upstairs. After he was seated on the toilet I came into the computer room to check on email, and when Nicholas called out that he was finished I returned for toiletpaper duty. There had been an empty wastebasket beside the toilet, and when I returned to Nicholas he was wearing it, overturned, over his head and shoulders! He laughed, and I asked him: are you Mr Baskethead? He was very content to adopt that moniker. I laughed too, and got him cleaned up and dressed. He wanted to show Jean Mr Baskethead, so after he had washed his hands he carried the basket downstairs and showed her.
Joshua slept for 2.5 hours - he would have slept longer but we thought we should get him up. We all had a pleasant supper together, and then we got the boys ready for the ride home. On the ride home Joshua wanted to listen to the music, but then he got bored with it and began to hum his own song. Hearing this, I turned the disc off, and told the boys I would sing them a song that my father used to sing: Donder Blitz. As you know Cam, Donder Blitz invents a sausage machine, and then ends up as sausage himself. Nicholas was quite interested in some of the words (crank, yank) and Joshua didn't protest.
Anyway, we all had a lovely day. Jean and I look forward to seeing the boys again next week; they are what makes us happy (and you too!). Oh yes, they're also work, but then, you know that.
Have a good weekend!
Robert
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