Rockam's first day of preschool at Grace

Rockam has been in denial about starting school. Even this morning at breakfast he insisted he wasn't going to school. (see video below) But he gladly had his picture taken.

Oliver was a little jealous so he photo-bombed it from behind.

My little-big boy is growing up!

Feeling some trepidation.

Finding his hook.

Rockam chose a seat away from the little girl that was trying to "help" him.

"Wook, Mom, I made a boat! Ok. Byyyyeee, Mom!"

[My cue to get lost before I dent his reputation]

He seemed pretty well-adjusted despite his attitude at breakfast:

Healthy Kids Day

Stephen and Evan eating lunch at the Purple Cat Cafe. We had grass-fed beef burgers and baked Lays. Stephen just ate the chips.

After lunch, lots of bouncing fun.

After bouncing, the boys got their hair sprayed orange. Stephen didn't care for it.

I'm more than a week behind on posting. These photos are from April 21. P.S. Stephen just hopped up to me, spotted this photo as I'm posting and said matter-of-fact "And there's me screaming" before skipping off to play in the living room.

So, I've been delinquent again...

My excuse for not posting on the Daily Muchie is that I've started yet another blog: Emigurumi. It's where I've been documenting my new love of amigurumi, the Japanese fad of crocheted cute things.

But finally, per my mom's insistence, I'm back to Munchie documentation. He's been saying the darndest things lately. For example:

Yesterday I heard him scampering through the house murmuring, "Can I talk on my phone? Can I talk on my phone? Can I talk on my phone?" Each time, his question became more insistent as he got closer to where I was sitting. When he reached me, he said, "Mommy, I don't HAVE a phone!"

Last night, Joe was watching The Daily Show online and there was a video clip of the president. Stephen shouts out, "Hi, Barack OBAMA!!!" The kid is 27 months old.

Stephen loves to have "jam sessions" where I have to play his little ukelele while he drums with chopsticks on his fish xylophone or the bongos. He says, "Mommy is Pastor Brad. She play the GUITAR. I'm Ross. I'm playing the DRUMS."

Anyhow. He's quite the talker. I tried to get him to display some of his verbal skills in a video today. See the next post...

Update to the Stevetionary

There are number of words that have recently come into vogue for Stephen lately:

Aht-da: outside
beeeeeeeeer: Brrr, it's cold
MMammy: Grammy
Nan: Nan, his great grandma
Uh! Oh: I dropped something, you dropped something
Deese?: What is this, Give me this
Deeese eeese Dat: This is that (we think!)

A few new words deciphered

Stephen started saying "Hvoo-Hvoo" for owl and he's been saying this funny word for a long time: Ah-poo-geee!

Finally this morning it dawned on me what he was saying as he pointed to the apple juice bottle in the refrigerator.

"Munchie want apple juice?"
"Ah-poo-gee ah-poo-geeee!"

So cute.

He also likes to "count" pictures in some of his books, like the Very Hungry Caterpillar. His version of 1-2-3 is "Teee.... Taaaa.... Teee... Taaaa," in a really soft voice.

Here he is the other day, enjoying a banana.

Reading in bed

Nashville Science Center

Last Wednesday, we had a family day in Nashville. We took Stephen to the Adventure Science Center, where he ran through the galaxy, operated a digger in a ball pit, watched choo-choo trains, and climbed the tallest playground equipment Joe or I had ever seen. Here's some photos and videos of our adventure.

The altitude was making this kid crazy.


Steve can use a wheelchair!


Watching Daddy- aka "the drunken marionette!"

Reading

Four months old

Working hard at his blog... ;-)

Stephen was up to his usual antics this morning (and he's been up since 4:30)... surrounded by toys, but more interested in chewing on his blanket. Blech!
We're not planning anything special for this mini-milestone, but I recently got Stephen a bunch of Leo Lionni books. Kind of a present for me since I get bored of reading the same books over and over. Stephen is a good listener and he seems to stare pretty intently at the pages of each book.

It's been a little dry at our house and we've all had some congestion so I also got a frog-shaped humidifier with my Toys R Us gift card from "the two Kathys" -- Thanks, Kathys :-)