We wanted to christen our home by recording our own thoughts and some well wishes from family on the foundation. Here are some of the things recorded in our home:
In the boys’ bedrooms:
In my and Jacob’s room:
Throughout the main house:
I love our family and extended family and I love the love that will fill this house! :)
Elijah has the craziest imagination that keeps us laughing at all times. At any given time he’s using it. He’s either sharing stories or crazy little thoughts or he’s telling himself stories as he plays by himself. He also has quite the vocabulary. He uses big words all the time that I have no idea where he got them. He even uses them correctly!
Today Elijah started talking to me about giving me a tremendous treat. It’s not uncommon for his imagination to be so wild that I can’t figure out what he’s talking about or how to respond appropriately. This was one of those times. Eventually he pretended to pull a hat off his head, reached deep within, and pulled out a ball and a target before replacing the “hat”. (This is a move that I know he picked up from Imagination Movers.) Then he handed me the “ball” and told me I needed to play the game and hit the “target”. I complied and pretended to throw it as hard as I could. He got a big grin on his face and said, “Yay! You opened the gate!”
Then we proceeded through the gate and moved through some obstacles of chairs and into his “house”. I had to move through a number of pretend barriers by playing more games and doing all the right things, including wearing “curly mustaches” that he repeatedly took on and off my lip. I was NOT allowed to pretend that it hurt when he pulled it off. We finally reached the last room in the house where I partook of many “tremendous treats”. He enjoyed the fact that I played along giving a different reaction to every treat he fed me. There were MANY treats (to the point that I eventually had to escape by claiming Joshua needed a diaper change!) that he gathered with great effort from every corner of the room.
This kid is the king of crazy, but it’s a good kind of crazy. Along with the crazy, he is also very sweet and loving. He constantly kisses, hugs, says he loves you, and takes care of us in whatever way he sees fit at any given moment. Tonight I was leaving to go to a meeting and he insisted I take his most beloved new (old) phone that Grandma gave him in case I “got in trouble”. It is an old style phone that has a pocket clip case and he clipped it onto my pants as I left. Jacob dared me to wear it to my dinner meeting :) I wasn’t brave enough.
We love our firecracker!
Josiah has a new buddy these days. They’ve been acquainted his entire life, but he has recently become buddies. They spend a ton of time together and sometimes this buddy get him into trouble, sometimes mischief, but mostly they work well together to be a great pair. His buddy has done a lot of maturing along with Josiah this past year or two and he’s benefitted greatly from this buddy’s presence. They have a close relationship, but sometimes argue about what should be done vs. what they want to do.
Who is this buddy? Why, it’s his mind. His brain. Yes, I said his brain. Josiah now calls his brain his “buddy”. He totally cracks me up! :) He first told me this when I asked how he learned something that I didn’t know he knew and he said his buddy taught him. I asked who his buddy was and he said his mind. I was mystified and asked if his teacher refers to student’s minds as their buddy and he said no. I asked where he got that idea and he said he just thought about it and decided his brain was his buddy because it helps him figure things out. I thought that was pretty insightful. He’s been referring to his brain as his buddy ever since. It is pretty obvious that he thinks intently about things. He always has and he’s always been very observant. I hope he keeps approaching life in this calculated way. It may just keep him out of trouble!
In contrast, Elijah learns everything from his “baby”, his beloved blue stuffed bear. Most of his learning happens in his bed when he’s supposed to be sleeping. He tells us all the things baby taught him when he gets up. As a side note, when I woke him from naps today and I was laying with him in bed, he told me that I deserved some fun time with him. I guess he’s using positive reinforcement on me.
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