Move!

Cannon is saying more and more words lately, and he has a few phrases down, too.  Like, "I don't want it," "I did it!" and "There it is!"

One of his favorite words right now is "move!"  Josh and I will be sitting on the couch while Cannon is playing at the train table (which is acting as a coffee table right now, unfortunately).  He walks around it, and if our legs are in his way, he says, "Move!"

I tell him, "Cannon, the polite thing to say is 'excuse me,' not 'move.'"  Pretty much every day for the last couple of months, we've been having this exchange.  He'll say "move!" and I'll explain that instead, we should say "excuse me."

I think I must have confused him a little, because now when Cannon burps, he says, "Move!"

Olivia

Some of you have heard this story before, but I wanted to write about it anyway.  I just love it.

As you know, Bennett goes to the Montessori school here.  He doesn't like to talk to me much about what he does at school for some reason, but he'll talk to me about his friends sometimes.  He used to come home talking about Landon and Colton all the time.  Those were his buds.  Some days they were his friends, some days they weren't, but it was always Landon and Colton.

Over the last couple of months it has changed to Olivia.  No more Landon and Colton.  It was Olivia this, Olivia that.  Olivia was his new best bud.  Every day, he was coming home talking to me about what he and Olivia did, or how he was going to invite her to his next birthday party.

A few weeks ago, I went to Montessori to meet with Bennett's teacher for a conference.  When I got there, Bennett was finishing up his lunch at a table by himself.  I joined him while I waited for his teacher.

We were talking when the door to the playground opened, and in walked three girls.  A cute little blonde headed girl, who looked to be about 5, lead the pack.  Bennett said, "Look, Mama!  It's Olivia!"  The girls walked across the room towards us.  It was like a scene out of a movie, with Olivia as the head of the group and her two sidekicks following close behind.

As they neared us, Bennett said, "Olivia!  Olivia!  Hi Olivia!"  Olivia looked at us and said, "Hi Bennett" as she and her crew passed by.  Bennett turned back around in his chair and said to me, "Mama!  Olivia knows my name!"

Priceless.

What Happened to April?

I'm still here!  And I have stories.  Lots of stories.  Just no time to share them.  I hate it, but I can't even write anything tonight because my eyes are about to close on me.  Staying up until 3am three nights in a row isn't good for the ol' eyelids.  But don't count me out, 'cause I'm planning a big return ..... just as soon as I don't have a cake to make or a toddler pulling on my pants leg.

Hmmm...