The kids and their expressions!

Last night at story hour I took this picture of Walter and his friend Cyrus sitting in his mom's lap while Linn the librarian read to them. Walter looks forward to going every week and as he would say he gets "encited" (excited) when Tuesdays come. He is really starting to do some deep thinking lately. The other day we drove past a smokestack and he said "mama the mining building isn't their anymore, did it get hit by a tornado?" I never thought I would be explaining the mining strike to my 3 year old son, that is for sure. He was cute tonight, he helped me with supper. I had him help me cut up vegetables for soup I made and mix in ingredients for cookies and when we where all done he said "I is proud." Talk about melt my heart. It was also cute because last week when we had our rummage sale he saw we had change for it and he said "can I borrow some money (who knows where he picked that expression up from)" when we asked what for he said "geo trax trains." So we made a deal that for chores such as helping clear the table after meals he can put ten cents into his piggy bank and when he has enough we will go out and buy some new geo trax. He was usually willing to help before but now he is really into it and loves putting his money into the bank. It is also teaching him to recognize some coins.

Yesterday I also recorded this video of Rose E's precious little voice. She had just gotten done playing with playdoh so she was holding a Popsicle stick and she was saying "see?" (see what I have) then Walter ran by in his pajamas and she said "bye bye" and you can hear her say "oopsie" and oopsie daisy" after she dropped her stick. She is saying so much now it just blows me away. Tonight I was sitting next to her when she had a snack and she said "oopsie" and I said did you drop it and she said "see this?" as she pointed to the piece of cereal that she dropped.