Lily's Love Notes

This evening, as we were about to go to bed, we noticed a little note next to each of our beds on the nightstands. They were lovingly placed there by Lily as a surprise to Aaron, Mommy and Daddy. We love you Lily!

Waiting for the Doctor

We went a little nuts while waiting a long time for our doctor for our 5 year checkup. Aaron has a shark drawn on his smock; Lily a flower It was a wild hour-and-a-half in a very small examination room.

Poison chicken nuggets + Cool school

Aaron and Lily in the bath together. They are into the Power Rangers these days (don't want to talk about its appropriateness) ... Lily says to Aaron: "Hey -- Aaron, you pretend like you're giving me poison chicken nuggets and I die ... then you pull my hair." Aaron says, "That doesn't even make sense."

Where does he get this from.

Then, Aaron wakes up at 3 am this morning. I ask him if he has to go to the bathroom or if he needs something ... He says, "No, but guess what center I have today at Kindergarten? Music!" ... He's back to sleep within minutes ... I'm up for the next half hour smiling .. and thinking how I'm glad that he's that excited about Kindergarten.

Kindergarten: Here we come!

Dear Mommy, We love you and we love to go to school also. But, we really want to go to school to have fun and we really want to see our friends (Aaron); Today, I went to the gym and I also played the noodle tag. And, everybody in the whole entire gym got tagged. The coaches won. I like school. (Lily).

Becoming independent

Lily is so proud to make her own bed. She lines up her stuffed animals and pillows just so -- a perfectionist in the making! Aaron took on his own art project -- painting model cars -- completely on his own initiative, unsupervised and was so proud!

Now, HERE'S a jellyfish!

I think I'll call the Louvre and see if there is any wall space next to that lady with the funny smile....

The trick of the Ice Cream

Aaron and Lily really love their "magic" fingerpaints Mike got them for our Alabama trip. It's the Crayola kind that only shows up on a certain kind of paper, just like the special markers they have.
They love this game riding in the car where they tell me they are painting a picture of a jellyfish (Lily, nach) and shark (Aaron), and "unknown to me" they are putting a fingertip in each of the colors, painting colored dots in a row they call "ice cream."
They say, "Here's your jellyfish," or "Here's your shark," and of course, when they hand it to me it is yet another picture of "ice cream." I act like, "Aaaagh...not another picture of ice cream! I feel like we're at Braum's!".
They think this is the greatest ruse they have ever pulled on their dimwitted dad.
We all get a big laugh out of this.

---Mike