Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Stuff to remember

Cai is walking around in circles in his soccer shirt and his new Incredibles underpants. Like everyday, they are on backwards and he has removed his soccer shorts agreeing to put them on five minutes before we leave because he wants ‘everyone’ to see the picture. Everyone consists of Chocolate and myself. The former is following Cai around chanting just like his brother “T-O Robot, T-O Robot.” I have no idea what this means and I’m too tired to ask. Choco is wearing a pair of Cai’s old underpants over his diaper and a chocolate milk stained batman wife-beater. He has one yellow snow glove on his hand which is a habit that we hope does not reflect any MJ tendencies. He is talking like crazy. He is bossy as hell. One of his new favorite words is ‘actually’ which he can work into a 60 second conversation 12 times. “Achally Mama, my puppy-dog. Achally it’s mine and I’m go to da park. Achally Mama, you sit here, now! Achally Mama, we watch Little Bear?”

His other favorite new game (imitated from his brother) is that he’s a magician. His magic words are either “Magic-Patagic” or “Aga Da-daba!” The second is by far my favorite.

The boys have now gone to sleep in the same room for two nights and counting. Up to this point Cai has gone to bed in his room on a toddler bed mattress on the floor and Solomon has slept in a playpen in our room, and in our bed. Cai had a great train bed that he got for his third birthday that he decided one day was not suitable for sleeping. He moved to a little futon on the floor and once I got rid of the train bed agreed to sleep on the mattress alone. Now he’s back on the futon and Choco is on the mattress. They are becoming really good friends and I’m doing my best to teach them how brothers are supposed to act. While they do the inevitable puppy-playing and fighting, I’m hopeful that they are learning to love and protect each other, to be loyal and kind to each other.

Cai is taking soccer now and is a machine. The boy is aggressive and competitive and his coach puts him into scrimmages against three and four kids because all the other four year olds are kind of dazed and just there for fun. My boy is there for fun, but it’s the winning kind. Right now we are just supporting him, but soon we’ll have to show him that you don’t have to be the best. Solomon and Cai are both doing gymnastics and we are all swimming a lot now that summer is here. Last week we spent a week at the cabin and spent hours in the creek and on the lake in my father’s boat.

Solomon also spends a lot of time singing these days. He will either sing unintelligible lyrics of his own making or he takes requests. I usually ask him to sing about his Mama and how wonderful she is. Mordecai is a coloring machine as well. Give the boy crayons and a coloring book, especially one with super heroes, and he’s good for hours. Let’s hope these things last, what more could I want than an artist and a musician?

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