Socks

I asked Moses to remember to put on some socks this morning. In response, he says, "okay, mommy! Are we going to daycare or to church today?"

I'm guessing he has earmarked in his mind which are daycare socks and which are church socks. :) 

Big boy underwear

Night 1 of no pull ups, and Moses woke up dry! We ran out of them and didn't bother to buy new ones. And he recently told me, while wearing pull-ups and awake, told me that he peed in them. Made me think that he was probably ready. And he was! :) 

Maybe he's going to be into older ladies like Daddy

Moses told me he wants to bring his pink seal to daycare so he can give it to Malik because she's a girl and pink is for girls. I asked him to describe her and he told me she has soft skin, and all kids have soft skin. I asked what color her hair is, and he said black. I asked what color skin she has, and he said, uhm, brown. And I asked if she was tall, and he said, "Yeah, she's SO tall, and she has a big head, and big legs! And her head is really really big." And I asked how old she was and if she was his friend, and he said, no, she's in the 5-year-olds class, and she is True's friend. Aiming high, huh, buddy? Going for the kindergarteners. Haha. 

Chapstick

So, against my better judgement, I bought Moses one of those round EOS chopsticks in blueberry flavor. I feel lucky that he hasn't eaten the whole thing yet, but he does, unfortunately, regularly call it his "lipstick." 

Well, the other day, after brushing his teeth, with his face all wet, he was trying to put this lip stuff on. I told him that he should dry off his face before he does that and it would be better (because, as you may know, lip stuff doesn't really go on when your lips are wet). 

After a very mini-tantrum, he dried his face off while I dried his lip stuff off on the back of my hand. 

He proceeded to put on his lip stuff once more, and in the middle of doing it, he turned to me and said, "Oh, I see what you mean." 

:) 

I was a bit sad

I was a bit sad the other day when I was getting the kids ready for bed. Moses came back out after I finished putting him to bed to tell me that during water day that day at daycare, the water was cold. And he was cold. And he was sitting out and almost crying because he wasn't happy. 

I think he was trying to show me empathy for how I was feeling bummed by telling me his story. He was trying to make me feel better, that kid. :) I told him that I was sorry he felt cold, and maybe next time it won't be so bad. And I made sure to also reassure him that Mommy was okay and that we were going to be okay. He's a good person, and his little story did make me feel better somehow. 

"Clouds"

Moses yelled, "Mommy, get the bug!!"

I leaned over to see what he was pointed at (on the ground), and I said, "No, buddy, it's not a big."

"What is it? Is it a cloud?"

"No, this is what you call a dust bunny."

Occasional tantrums

Today's tantrum was because he had wanted to put on the sweatshirt while buckled in the car seat, but he couldn't. Putting it on after getting out of the car seat was unacceptable. (From what I could make out). These kinds of hysterical crying tantrums turn my brain into annoyed mush. *sigh*