Zeke and Noah decided to have an impromtu game of “Hide and Zeke” while I fed Phoebe her lunch today. Noah searched patiently for Zeke while Phoebe made quite a mess of her food and herself. In the end, it was I who found Zeke when I reached into our linen closet to grab a cloth to bathe Phoebe with. Sheesh! (Good hiding spot though, eh?)
Daddy shaved these two heads this weekend. Cuties. (How d’ya like Elijah’s mini faux-hawk? I’m not so crazy about it, but if enough of you say you like it, I might leave it. :-)) Can you believe I was asked this weekend if Elijah and Zeke were twins? To me they look about as different as two brothers can be. Although, we were sitting at the time, and they look to be the same size when sitting.
“Going where no lego creation has gone before…”
The Scene: Two groups of people are sitting around two large tables, getting ready to enjoy a meal together. The host announces that it is time to say grace, and one table quiets, while the other keeps talking.
Middle-aged-lady: (jokingly) Hey, shut-up over there.
Six-year-old, with a look of shock and dumbfoundment, points to the middle-aged-lady and says: Uh…did she just say ’shut-up?’
The two tables laugh uproarously, and the middle-aged-lady apologizes humbly to the six-year-old.
It’s shaping up to be a great TV turn off week. We have a whole week of play-outside weather forecast! Yippee-skippee! Zeke and Noah spent a couple hours outside yesterday afternoon playing in our courtyard while Elijah was at school…
I love living at Bethany!
I love TV turn off week too. It’s so peaceful. I’ve been campaigning to get rid of our TV altogether, but Phoebe and I have been outvoted 4-2. No fair. :p
Hey Mummy…what if I put the tooth that I lost in the frying pan and heated it up? What do you think would happen? (He actually wanted to do this!)
Hey, what if there was a store called Debbie’s Darling Dresses? (What?)
Hey, what if, instead of airplanes, there were flying sidewalks to get around? (Not a bad idea.)
Hey mummy, what if someone called me Zeke the Freak?
Well, I don’t know Zeke…I mean, how would you feel if someone called you that?
Well…I guess I would just draw a skull and cross-bones on a shirt, and wear it to school.
Why?
Well, ’cause… that would be pretty freaky.
Zeke lost his first tooth! Right after his sixth birthday. If memory serves me correctly, that’s about when I lost my first tooth. I also remember being so scared to go to school with a loose tooth, and crying, begging my mother to let me stay home! The boys have been so brave about the whole loosing teeth thing. Zeke’s tooth actually fell out at school (the reason for the little envelope) and he thought that was so cool.
(It looks like we’re going to have two lower central incisers growing for the one that Zeke lost. Phoebe is getting her first tooth…in the very same spot where Zeke lost his! It will be interesting to see if Zeke’s tooth loss/Phoebe’s teething pattern will be the same.)
Some of you may remember this comment, from way back in April of 2007…
How many teeth has Zeke lost and when did he start? This usually has more to do with small motor skill development than anything else.
I had written a bit about Zeke’s preschool teacher saying that he needed to work on his small motor skills, and about his general disinterest in things like drawing, printing, coloring. His Grampie left the above comment in responce.
And then there’s this one from even farther back, in September of 2006, also from Grampie Horsman…
The chemical change in your body which causes you to loose teeth is the same change which helps you develop coordination and concentration. That’s why, in the Academy, we never pushed the children to do what we felt was “good work†until they started loosing teeth.
I am now truly a believer! I had started to notice just a couple of months ago that Zeke’s dexterity had gotten much better, and that he seemed to actually like drawing and coloring now! Very interesting.
And also on the topic of lost teeth, remember this post, about Elijah losing one of his top front teeth, and the little, twenty second video that we linked to - “Elijah The Toothless Whistler?” Up until about a week ago, it had had about 70 hits, but now, mysteriously, it’s had over 1500! How wierd. And some people aren’t very happy about being “forced” to watch a twenty second video of a kid who “can barely whistle!” We’ve deleted some of the nastier comments, but some of them we left, ’cause they’re just so silly. I wonder what exactly they thought “Elijah The Toothless Whistler” would be about, anyway?