The Mouse

Jacob finished playing computer games today and was so great about tidying up after he was done. Then he said something that made me laugh while he wound the cord around the computer mouse.

"Mom, I'm twirling up the mouse so it won't run away."

Sitting

We are also practicing sitting. She's not too far off from being independent. We got a new carpet just in time!

Ashlyn's Feet

I introduced Ashlyn to her feet today. One of my favorite things babies to is eat their own feet. She thought it was the most interesting thing she has explored to date. She is also quite confident that she can get the binkie into her own mouth now and it makes her exceptionally happy when she can manage to also let go of the binkie without pulling it back out. I love the extra time I get by having Gina around so I can focus on Ashlyn and play on the carpet every single day. I don't think I have ever been able to do that. It's fantastic!

Handwriting

Ben brought me this note this afternoon what room I should visit for his Chinese teacher at Back to School Night. It was most definitely kid writing but looked like a sixth grader wrote it not a sloppy third grader. I kept looking back at it and wondering if they wrote it and traded papers or something.

It was one of those cases when you want to ask but by so doing you may totally insult the person. Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I asked, "Who wrote this note?" "I did," came the reply. In genuine shock I told him how amazing it looked and that I'd never seen anything he'd ever written look better than this note I was holding in my hand.

Benjamin smiled proudly from one ear to the other and looked just the tiniest bit embarrassed. Then he looked right at me and said, "I know it was good. I can do a LOT worse than that!" he grabbed the paper and wrote a certifiably awful "Ben" on the paper.

Golden Melon Gets an A+

Looked like a rock melon and tasted like a really great honeydew. Same consistency too. How many times have you had a hard honeydew or one that wasn't actually sweet. Ben liked it so much that he sent me a text while I was at the store the next day asking for another one so he could make a golden melon smoothie. Too bad I left my phone home and didn't see the request until I got home.

Mystery Fruit

Tonight we are having yet another mystery fruit we found at the grocery store yesterday. What do you think it will look like inside? We found it next to the watermelon and rock melon (aka cantelope). It was simply called golden melon though I'm not sure that is the real name since sometimes they label things generically like that so you have no idea what you are actually buying.

True Love

Jacob: "Mom I love you because you disappointed me. So I disappointed you."