Monkeys on the loose
Having a couple kids puts you on the proverbial emotional rollercoaster until you die. Lots of highs and the only lows (so far anyway) are when they get hurt.
Today Dominic did a lot of walking without holding onto anything. He is so proud of himself. When I got home I watched him take a few steps, then pivot on one foot until he was facing the direction he wanted to go….THE STAIRS….then walked to the first step and started climbing. He goes into little rants about Dada and Mama with fits of laughter sprinkled between.
Ryan is loving preschool. Today he sang the songs they were taught and danced all around the house. He was chanting something about apple sauce of which I didn’t even know there was a song about. How can you not be extremely proud of this stuff? At the moment he has become quite a story teller. His imagination is crazy and he throws things into his stories that I did not even know he knew about. Recently he became very curious about God. Last night he asked me if he can play with God and told me God is in heaven. Not an easy concept to grasp as three year old.
We added two new kids to the mix. Nim and Jaws. Nim is about 3 inches long and a very rich orange color goldfish Ryan won at the Schagticoke Fair. He lived in a bag which prompted us to buy a fish tank. We recently bought a friend for Nim and named him Jaws. Jaws is a goldfish but does not really resemble one. He is about 2 inches long and has some smatterings of the goldfish orange but mostly a white-ish color with black tipped fins. Early on they stayed at opposite ends of the tank but now they seem to be hanging out together.
Total kid count 5 including Max. 
Ryan and Nim (Jaws behind the coral)
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September 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Good stuff. It is always surprising what kids think about complex and not so easy to apprehend topics like God, death and love for example.
All four of us – me, Natalie, my boy Artem and four year old daughter Anna were walking yesterday in our quite neighborhood. We have a small road without a sidewalk. It is not busy and cars would pass us only once in about 10 minutes. We always try to walk closer to the side of the road to keep it safe and teach our kids to do so too. Well, anyway, there is dead small chipmunk flattened by several cars on the middle of the road. I hoped that my kids won’t notice it. But Anna did. Immediately she asked me what it was. I told her that it’s a chipmunk. She is – “Why does it look like that?” I explained her that it was dead because it was not careful, was not walking on the side of the road and it got hit by a car and it was dead now. She is – “Dead? . So what’s next.” “Nothing “- I told her prepared for a big number of questions. But she was surprisingly cool about it. She said – ” Don’t you die when you get old?”. I was surprised that she mentioned that because we never discussed that topic with her. I told her you can also die if you got hit by a car. And we kept walking like nothing happened and she ran to pick some acorns in front of me. My kids surprise me everyday.