Halloween 2009

Today: trick-or-treating
Tomorrow: the moon!

Clap your hands but not too loudly

The other day, we were rocking before bedtime and I asked "Evan, did you have a good day today?"

In reply, E starts singing "If you're happy and you know it". I guess, yes, he did have a good day.

After the song, E says "Shhh, pace tuttle seeping, Mommy." So, maybe the song was actually a lullaby for the now-asleep (and imaginary) space shuttle in E's room.

Up, up, and away

So, I was checking my email and E climbs up in my lap and asks to watch a movie. I ask him "what kind of movie?" and he says "pace tuttle". So I start up a video of still pictures from NASA set to music. E is pretty good at naming some of the pictures: "at-naut", "apollo woket", "yunar wover", etc...

And then, a picture of the shuttle attached to an airplane comes up. E says "dat X15 woket pane wid tuttle on back". And I think, "no, E, the X15 rocket plane predates the shuttle, the shuttle flys on the back of a 747."

And then I think: "6 months ago I didn't have any idea about X15 rocket planes or that shuttle moves around on a 747."

I knew having a kid would teach me a lot about a lot of things but I didn't know I would learn more about the space program in the first 2 years of his life than from the first 30 of mine.

 

Landmarks

"DAT LIBRARY MOMMY! HAVE BOOKS DAR!"

(at top of his lungs as we drive by the library, from the opposite direction we usually approach it from)

"dat MY paygound!"

(anytime we see the city playground a couple of blocks from our house)

"see tain?"

(on arriving at my office, which happens to have a model train in one of the entry ways)

"Where backtoe go?"

(on not seeing backhoes where backhoes once were)