It'll cost you...

I frequently make Corin "pay" for things in kisses.  He asks for favors and they are granted for the price of a kiss or hug.

He took a nap this afternoon.  We knew this meant bedtime would be rough. Sure enough, he's been awake and sneaking down to see what we are up to downstairs. I went up to ask him to stay in bed. He agreed.

He asked for a glass of water. I suggested he go get one. Giggling he says, "But you just told me to stay in bed." I acknowledged my mistake, told him I would get him one. He says, "And will it cost a kiss?" I had to giggle as I agreed. I got my kiss. He got his water.

When he was done, I took the glass and told him goodnight. He asked me to put the glass away and come back. When I went back, I told him I was going downstairs. He caught my shirt. "It will cost you a hug and kiss to get downstairs." Laughing, I gave him a hug and kiss. With his arms still around my neck, he said it would cost another hug and kiss. This went on for 5 or 6 hugs and kisses until both of us were laughing.

I finally got away, but I must confess, I wasn't trying that hard at that point. I love that kid and his sense of humor.

Shoes

Today, he tied his shoes for school with absolutely no assistance from me. Fortunately, he thinks his Chucks are harder and said I could still help him with those. *whew* Guess that keeps me from being totally obsolete.

This has been a long road for him. He has a hard time working through something that he doesn't "get" the first time through. That made the many week process of shoe tying a very long and frustrating experience. He's got it now, though.


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Legos

Corin and Legos is like Ryanne with books. Both are far beyond their age levels, ability wise.

Corin has had a few sets for 4 & 5 year olds. He typically finishes them under an hour. He's currently working on one that's 7+ and it's taken him 1.5 hours with probably another 30 minutes to go and has been a totally independent process. The 9+ set he worked on took him a couple of days, but he also made some substantial errors. (Fixed by mom and dad, but they did keep him from progressing and required some maneuvering by us to fix.)

I haven't been able to figure out if it's sheer number of pieces that makes it take longer or if it's actual building difficulty. Pieces definitely makes for a longer process, but there's some correlation by Lego to piece counts and age range as well and I don't totally understand that.

Books are easy. Raw page limits are the answer for now. This Lego thing is going to take some work.

Sir talks a lot

Corin talks. A lot. Nearly incessantly. The bonus of being in the car with him is that there have been some real gems.

He keeps asking where Chrys has stashed the cats' "glitter" box. Chrys says that does make him feel a bit better about changing it.

Tonight at dinner he was observing the healing progress of his road rash.
"Some of it has turned to skin. You guys are a genius."

Good to know that our son has observed what our friends noticed many years ago. We share one brain. Guess some things never change.


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Religion

Corin has gone to a mother's day out that is housed by a church for 3 years. While not heavily religion based, they do have a weekly bible lesson and there is always one song in their programs about g-d or jesus or something. I don't fight it. I think it's good for them to be exposed to those things. I firmly believed he was too young to really get caught up in it so I wasn't worried.

One day, Ryanne was in the back seat pretending to be a zombie. Her intent was to scare her brother. Unfortunately, he had no idea what a zombie was. He asked me.

I explained that it was someone who died and then came back from the dead.

"Ooooohhhhhh, like Jesus. They told me about that at school."

Yes, son, Jesus was a zombie.