Bacon & Tushie

Today's entry contains two "toddler language" stories and a general update on the family.

This morning I was in the kitchen fixing breakfast for the kids while they played in the playroom (it's an adjacent to the kitchen so I can see them while I'm cooking). I kept hearing Ethan yelling "Tissy, stop! Tissy, no!" I looked over and Ellexa was standing up, holding onto Ethan's pants and diaper. I moved Ellexa over to her Playschool toy station and resumed my cooking. Then I heard "TISSY want bacon?" Before I could turn around Ellexa started crying. I asked Ethan what happened and he said "Tissy want bacon Mommy. Nin nin give Tissy bacon." I was confused, as there was no way he could have gotten bacon, nor was there any in sight. Ellexa stood up while holding onto his pants again and he turned his bottom away from her. He said "OK Tissy get bacon" and he spanked her butt softly! She started crying again. I explained to him that the word he was looking for was spankin', not bacon, and that only Mommy and Daddy are to give spankings when something very bad has been done.

We spent the afternoon working on writing the letters of the alphabet. After we did our general ABC's, we wrote thank you cards for each of the guests invited to Ethan's third birthday party on the 19th. I helped guide his hand for the full sentence, but he signed each card on his own after I demonstrated how to draw each letter out on a separate piece of paper. I was amazed at how well he did! After that was finished, we made a welcome sign for Grandpa and Gramie's visit next week. I drew out boxed letters onto cardboard and let Ethan paint the inside of the letters white. After it dried, he took colored markers and decorated the rest of the box. It was a very relaxed craft day and he did wonderful.

When it came time for dinner, I had ordered take out sushi for myself and the boys ate spicy chicken sandwiches from Chick Fil A. As I was eating my sushi, Ethan kept asking "What's that Mommy? What Mommy eat?" I said "It's Mommy's sushi. I'm having sushi for dinner." His eyes got wide and he said "TOOSHY?! Ew Mommy! No eat TOOSHY!" He was very concerned that I was eating rear-end, not raw fish.

Hide and go seek.. sort of...

I was doing some laundry at one of end of the hallway and had my eyes off of the kids for a few seconds. I heard Ethan say "Lecka, get it!" There was silence for a few seconds then the sound of the hall closet door shutting. It was promptly followed by a screaming baby. I opened the hall closet to find Ellexa at the bottom with a rattle and tears streaming down her face. Ethan ran away before I got to the door to let her out.

Math Wiz!

Well, Ethan is officially a math wiz!

Earlier, I was talking to Daddy when I said "Ugh. I'm so mathematically challenged. I can't even do simple addition." In which Ethan responded "Mommy! One, one. TWO!"

I've been working very hard with him on colors, letters, and counting. It's great to know that he's figured out that one plus one equals two without me having to explain it. Before, it seemed as if he thought specific objects we assigned numbers.

For example:
If I held up block A and said "one", he believed only that specific block was called "one". If I held up block B and said "two", he believed only that specific block was called "two". He would never call block A "two" and would never call block B "one".

When we introduced actual numbers "1" and "2", he realized that anything can be one and any additional object would be two. Though this resulted in the first block shown being "one", second block shown being "two", third block shown being "two", and fourth block shown being "two". At least he understands that if there is more than one object it is no longer considered one. Now we just have work on "more than two objects is going to considered three" until he catches on with the pattern.

Naked baby!

Sorry for the lack of entries lately; the last week has been hectic! Now we'll be preparing for the arrival of the California grandparents (mommy's parents) in a few weeks. Ethan has been very excited, as we keep telling him that Grammie and Grandpa are coming. The last time they visited was when Ellexa was born in March.

Occasionally, we let Ellexa hang out in her playpen naked to "air out" from wearing a diaper all the time. Today was one of those days. Ethan was watching Blues Clues and hadn't noticed Ellexa being put in the playpen. When he did notice he covered his eyes and said "Tissy no mants! MOMMY! Tissy ew gross baby no mants!" After laughing I said "She'll have her diaper back on in a little while. You don't have to look at her if you don't want to." He disappeared into the playroom for a minute, came back to drop a diaper in the playpen, then resumed watching Blues Clues.

The Parrot

Ethan has been repeating everything he hears lately, and I mean everything.

This is how our morning went:

Mommy: "Ethan, can you pick up your toys please?"
Ethan: "Nin-nin pick up toy ease?"

5 minutes later
Mommy: "Ethan, do you need to go potty?"
Ethan: "Nin-nin, mommy need to potty?"

10 minutes later
Mommy: "Ethan, please don't mix the clean laundry with the dirty laundry."
Ethan: "Nin-nin, mommy ease put lean lawn wit.."
He stares at the dirty laundry for a minute.
Ethan: ".. what's that? Ew, gross lawn dory? Yes, Nin-nin, that ew gross lawn dory."
He nods satisfactorily at himself.

30 minutes later.
Mommy: "Ethan do you want a sandwich for lunch?"
Ethan: "Nin-nin want sam cents hunch?"
Mommy: "Is that a yes?"
Ethan: "That yes?"
Mommy: "Daddy, do you want the left over pizza?"
Ethan: "Ohee, want left pizza?"
Mommy: "Ethan, please stop repeating everything I say."
Ethan: " Nin-nin ease pop peasing things mommy say"
Mommy stares blankly at Ethan.
Ellexa laughs hysterically as if she understands.
Mommy feels Newbie kick rapidly as if he understands as well.

Whips and Snake Skins

Ethan was running around with the charger to my netbook, yelling "Whoopsh!" I asked him "Ethan, what are you doing with that? Give it to mommy." Ethan looked at it and said "What's that? A whip?" No clue where he learned the word whip.

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I have a inch long, half inch wide burn on my arm. Ethan noticed it and yelled "EW! What's that? A snake skin?" He's only mentioned snakes once or twice, and never mentioned their skin before.

Welcome to the Poole house!

It's a party every day in the Poole household. Our family currently consists of mommy, daddy, Ethan (age 3), Ellexa (age 9 months) and we're expecting E#3 in March 2011.

Ethan is quite the jester and has inspired us to keep track of all the funny things he does or says. Recently, Ellexa has begun interacting with her brother and it has brought upon even more hilarious events. While most of our stories have been shared with friends and family via Facebook, they will now be shared in this blog. Hopefully you'll enjoy the stories, pictures, and videos as much as we do.