It's been a while since the last post, and I found a half-finished one from the holidays in my edit box so I'm including it here at the end for prosperity's sake.
In the meantime, here's a bulleted list of what's been happening at the HH the past 3 months:
- Finn: registered for Kindergarten (!!!!), obsessed with robots and mad scientists, learning to write ABC's and counting pretty well. Loves to "invent" things. We've been on a Wizard of Oz kick there for a while, but not the movie version. Finn prefers the more grisly version where the Tin Man slings an axe around.
- Eli: slowly coming out of the Terrible Three's. Getting less moody and much more talkative. Has a toy sword collection. Loves any and all kinds of super heroes. Eli can be a bit of a brute when it comes to his brother, very much The Heavy. He went to the dentist for the first time in February and loved it because he got to choose a ninja sword out of the toy chest.
- Hotwheel Hubs: Poor guy... working hard to keep his head above water. We went to NOLA a few weeks ago for a long weekend without the Beastie Boys and it was great. Thank goodness for Grandparents!
- BookMama: Also working during the day, still trying to get scrimmage eligible at roller derby practice, doing various and sundry volunteer work in her (infinite) amount of spare time.
This post started sometime in mid-December...
We've been listening to a lot Christmas music in the mornings on the way to school in hopes of Finn & Eli learning their songs for the school play next week. I threw in some other fun songs to help mix it up, and I think we've heard to this one about 3,429,016 times:This year, Eli is a Drummer Boy, and Finn is one of the Wise Men, specifically the one with the gold. (He is NOT the one with the "frankenstein".) The only version of Little Drummer Boy we had was the Bowie/Bing version and it always makes me weepy and nostalgic for some reason that I'm not quite sure about, except that I get weepy and nostalgic about just about everything lately.
Finn has really nailed "Away in the Manger" and, unlike his parents, he has a pretty good singing voice. He would much rather be singing "I Don't Want a Hippoptamus for Christmas". Over and over and over.
3 comments:
can't believe F is going to be in K. Our turn soon enough.
Know you said F likes the grisly version of WofOz but wanted to know if you knew the regular version would be at Fantasy Playhouse in April.
Keep up the good work! :-)
Could have sworn I was already a stalker of your blog but it didn't come up when you posted....oh well....I so love that the boys are little male maniacs, or did you just teach them to swing swords and draw monsters? Don't recall them teething on little knives and montsters as infants. Isn't it amazing that they just are what they are no matter what you do sometimes!!!! Love y'all. I can finally read the Papa Loyd post without crying.....today, anyway.
Little Drummer Boy has been my fav. Christmas song since I was younger than I can remember. And the hippo song is awfully fun. ; )
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