Straight From the Mouths of Babes

There is lots of learning of the "life lessons" sort taking place inside, outside and just around our house in general these days. Osten summed up one of his most recently acquired life lessons for me this morning.

We were in Marci's bathroom and out of nowhere, Osten exclaimed, "Mommy, we don't throw up on people."

"Yes, honey, that's right," I responded.

"That's right, Mommy because that's 'isgusting!" Osten explained.

Stiffling a laugh and because I just had to know where he had acquired this new information, I asked him.

"I just know that, Mommy. We don't throw up on people. That's 'isgusting!"

And there you have it, straight from the mouth of our big brother babe.

Moonshadow

As he was laying in bed tonight, Osten discovered his shadow. He noticed the shadow from his bookshelf on the wall and asked me about it. I told him to go over to the wall to touch it, and the conversation went something like this:

Osten: Mommy, can I touch that shadow?

me: Sure.

Osten: Can I touch that shadow's head?

me: Bookshelves don't have heads, honey.

Osten: Will that shadow talk to me, Mommy?

me: Probably not.

Osten: How come that shadow doesn't have shoes, Mommy?

me: Good question, honey.

From the bookshelf, we moved on to his own shadow. I showed him how he could spread his arms out and wave them around, and he was thrilled to watch his shadow mimic his movements on the blinds of his bedroom window. He even peeked behind the blinds at one point and exclaimed, "but Mommy, there's no one out there!" It was so cute and sweet, all at the same time. I made some shadow animals for him, and he enjoyed adding the grizzly sound effects as dogs, tigers and wolves attacked the bookshelf. Here's hoping for many more nights of shadow fun!

"Oh, I'm being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow

Leapin' and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow"

Beadstache

Check out the beadstache! Thanks to an active little imagination, these beads also double as sunglasses, but I didn't catch a photo of that.

Scrub a Dub Dub

It was another good day on the swingset, which of course means the kids required a real scrubbin' after dinner. Marci was remarkably cooperative as Daddy scrubbed her nails.

Osten's turn!

They found these beads in the backyard, and they played and tormented each other with them all afternoon.

All clean!!

Bubblicious

Mmm . . . bubbles are good. Bubblicious!

Struttin'

A little not-a-baby-anymore beach strut!

Naptime Debunked

Look who slept in the top bunk for naptime!