How's the handling the teething?

pretty well, actually. A dose of Tylenol every now and then and she's right as rain (provided she's also dry, full, and rested ).

Devlin had his student evaluation thingy - he's still working on taking verbal direction. He either stands there and waits until you say, Now! or he does the whole Spaceman Spiff thing. But his teacher doesn't think it's going to affect him moving into first grade or anything, it's just on of his quirks.

But his reading skills are somewhat impressive. They evaluate it by letters, A, B, C, etc. She said that the basic average is D or E, Dev is up to level G. He's not the only one and it's just Kindergarten stuff, but still *proud Mummy*

Dweller your new avatar is freaky.

Mark's right! Is it giving birth or something? And why are the earflap thingys boucing in time?

Kasper loves the elevator. Our apartment is in the third floor and he always presses the buttons when going up or down. There's a place to keep prams downstairs and when I lock the pram there Kasper usually goes to wait the elevator.

Yesterday we were coming home and someone else came in at the same time. So I told Kasper to wait for me and not go to the elevator yet. But he's two and a half years old so he never does what I ask him to, ofcourse. When I got to the elevator he wasn't there, so I imagined he was in the elevator. I got scared bacause he was there either with some stranger or by himself, and neither really seem like a safe option. But I couldn't really do anything as long as he was there.

I heard the elevator stop in every floor, so I waited for it to come down. But it was empty. I could here Kasper talking to himself though so I took the stairs to see in which floor he was.

When I got to the third floor he was waiting at our door smiling happily and pointing at me "There's mommy!"

It was just so cute (and I was so glad he was ok) I didn't even remember to tell him that it's not a good idea to use the elevator by himself.

TWO teeth!

I'm liking this multiple teeth at once thing. Much less screaming to deal with.

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Originally posted by Jena:
TWO teeth!

I'm liking this multiple teeth at once thing. Much less screaming to deal with.

The better to bite you with my dear

ahhh....memories

husband: Happy Zombie Jesus Day Simon
simon: Jesus isn't a zombie!
husband: but today is the day he came back from the dead, isn't that what zombies do?

*pause*

simon: ya, but Jesus is a NICE zombie, he doesn't eat brains!

This morning on the way to dropping M off at school, I switched from a rather depressing segment on NPR over to our college jazz station. We dropped right in the middle of So What from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. After only a moment, recognition flashes across M's face:

M: Hey, Papa!
Me: Yes, sweetie
*listening ~ thinking ~ slight confusion*
M: But, Papa, this song is on at bedtime
Me: Yes it is, honey, it's on one of your bedtime CDs I made you
M: It's on the one that plays over and over (her CD recently got a scratch and starts to skip around track 10)
Me: Yes, sweetie, it's on the CD that got a scratch on it.
M: Papa, can you turn this up, please? I want to hear it louder.

Needless to say I was a pretty proud Papa at that moment.

Awwww .... That's awesome, JP!

Yeah, some around here get their kids talking about brains, mine talks about jazz

your kid ROCKS.

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Originally posted by jp:
Yeah, some around here get their kids talking about brains, mine talks about jazz

What are you trying to say?

Only that we have some amazing kids on this board. I mean, where else are you going to find kids talking zombies, jazz and dragons? Exactly.

The other day Dev somehow brought up the subject of ninjas - it must have been a toy he saw, but I can't quite remember - I automatically said Pirates are cooler than Ninjas. He said, No, Ninjas are cooler!

Graeme has a pretty clear hierarchy:

Dinosaurs
Knights
Ninjas
Pirates

Although dinosaur ninjas are, like, the killer app.

Dweller, are you sure his name isn't Gabe and he doesn't live in PA? He sounds just like my cousin's kid. Except replace dinosaurs with dragons.

Knights are slowly being replaced by Samurais by the older son, but still top on the list for the younger.

Graeme thinks Samurai are scary, and so can't be good guys (I have a book that has a lot of battle masks and some of them are kind of scary even by dad's standards.

Dragons are also bad guys.

Hrm. I wonder what his bad guy hierarchy is.