May 1, 2011

Sunday:

Ruth had meetings and appointments yesterday. I stayed at home with the kids. Liam didn't want lunch for the longest time. I was a little surprised, but finally he came around and had a pb&j. Liam wanted to play with play-doh, and read a few books, so we did. He pointed out several times that Annabelle was trying to eat several of the books, "Don't eat that Annbelle," he exclaimed. Also there is a creepy looking blue bilingual creature that makes laughing noises and attacks my feet in the night when I get up (see post from Feb. 18 (Annabelle)). For some reason, any time Annabelle focuses her attention on the creature, Liam decides that he doesn't want Annabelle to play with it. I had to convince him that it is ok that Annabelle plays with the creepy blue thing. We have a set of knit finger puppets in different animal shapes. One is a green hummingbird that I entertained the kids with for the better part of 45 minutes. I placed it on my finger and made what seemed a reasonable analog for whatever noise it is that hummingbirds make and tickled Liam's face, ears and neck. Of course it attacked my face and neck as well and Liam really got a kick out of that, "Dad so silly," he said. At nap time, Liam went down pretty easily. When he got up, he was in good spirits and really craving some edamame. I advised that I would make it. He decided that it should appear, fully prepared, immediately. I had to patiently explain that some work was required to get the edamame to an edible state. Also, we were dog-sitting and Liam wanted all three dogs in the house. I did not, and had to think of a creative way to allow him to play with the dogs without letting them all in, so we rotated. I would allow Liam to let the dog of his choice in, then when I saw he was uninterested or if Honey made too much noise we switched. That all ended when he let one of the dogs in the garage. I came into the living room and Liam asked, 'where's the dog?' I was a bit confused and we went back and forth until I realized he was playing a guessing game with me and gave up on me trying to figure it out; 'dog is in garage,' he told me. We had fun yesterday.