A Car Ride with a 2 year old

I was driving around the other day with the boys and Jack made two comments that I found very interesting. We passed a convertible - somewhat rare in cloudy/rainy England - and he said 'hey, look Mom, that car doesn't have its lid on.'

A little further down the road and Jack told me that Theo was looking out his window and then proceeded to happily tell me that he was sharing his window with Theo. I praised him on sharing his window, and then wondered how many years it would be before I hear 'Mom Theo is looking out my window, make him stop!'

Who made the soap?

One of Jack’s favourite activities is to ‘play church’. This consists of Jack and either Mommy or Daddy (some times both) acting out a service. Jack assigns one person to be the pastor and the other person is a mix between a member in the congregation and a member in the band. Some times Jack is the pastor, other times Mommy or Daddy is. Most of the time it is a fun activity, occasionally it gets old and monotonous.

Tonight Jack asked me to play church while Charles went upstairs to give Theo a bath. I agreed and before I knew it I was assigned to be the pastor and he was a member in the congregation. I was handed a Sandra Boynton book to be my Bible and the service began with the song ‘Light of the World’ chosen by Jack who was acting as the leader of the band at this point. When the song ended Jack took his seat and looked up at me to begin the talking part of the service.

I welcomed everyone to church and then told them to open their Bibles to page 10 where we were going to talk about creation (just what happened to come to my head at the time). I then really got into the preaching role and started saying that God created both the heavens and the earth and everything in them. I then looked down at Jack’s Bible (which was a First Words book) and saw that his page 10 had pictures of things used in the bathroom. I decided to start ad-libbing my sermon and told him that God had created everything including the things on his page. So I said that God had made people to make bath toys, and shampoo, and hairbrushes. Those were the first couple of things I saw on his page 10. Jack then quickly interrupted by saying ‘Excuse Me’. I then stopped my sermon and said ‘Yes, Jack.’ He then said ‘Who made the soap?’ I looked down at his page 10 and noticed that I had left out the picture of soap when giving my sermon. I looked up at his face and saw how earnest his question was. I reassured him that God had also made the soap. He looked relieved, and then quickly transitioned us into our next song, ‘All My Days’.

A Night To Remember

Monday night was a night to remember in Theo's life (and ours!). It was the first night that he slept from 10 pm to 7 am. I woke up a bit confused around 4 am trying to figure out why he hadn't woken yet. God-willing we are moving in the right direction of sleeping through the night. Theo was very proud of himself and his sleeping accomplishment as this video shows. Enjoy!

Theo and His Toys

We posted today regarding Jack and his friends. We didn't want to leave Theo out. Here is a video of Theo with his favourite toys (not friends!). Notice his double chin. He is really putting the weight on - one pound a week the last two weeks! Let's hope that doesn't continue to be the trend his whole life.

Jack and His Ladies

One of the great things about Oak Hill is that there are always lots of playmates around for Jack. This morning our family ventured out to the front orchard and before we knew it there were quite a few other families that had joined us.

Usually the parents are able to stand around and have nice conversations in between interruptions of reminding their kids to share, helping a kid up who has just fallen off his bike, or instructing their kid not to eat the apples that have lots of bad spots on it. Why didn't anyone tell us that after having kids you never have uninterrupted conversations, at least while they are awake? Maybe they did and I wasn't listening!

Anyway, in between those conversations today we noticed that the kids had invented a nice little homemade roller coaster. This is what kids do in a country that doesn't get enough snow to have good sledding. Hope you enjoy the video - we did! Oh, and yes, that is a fairy on the back of the skate board. She is one of Jack's best playmates called Grace.

And lastly, notice the ratio of boys to girls - Jack is one lucky dude!