Silas's Haircut.

The other night, against my better judgement, I cut Silas's hair. He has been asking me to cut it because it is in his eyes, so I relented. He wanted it shorter than daddies hair. So I gave him a nice cut and he was very good and happy about the whole thing. 

Then, after he'd been sleeping for an hour, he was wailing in his bed because "I miss my curls and I want them back!" 

I tried the whole "your hair will grow back" bit but he kept crying "No it won't! It takes long time!" He was inconsolable so I left him to cry- he calmed down after a few minutes alone. 

Then, half hour later, he calls me back to tell me "It still hasn't grown and Jesus won't help [him] sleep because he has no curls anymore"

I tried to console him. I tried not to laugh. I reminded him he asked for the haircut. 

He told me "I was about to say I didn't want my haircut anymore before you cut it because I learned how to fold my hair so it wasn't in my eyes but you cut it anyway" 

Oh the lesson of regret he has learned. 

The upside to all of this is that he seemed just hunky dory and he was fine with his haircut. All that drama for nothing. 

School Progress

I haven't been happy with Ezra's school since the beginning. 

Maybe I've had a bad attitude because I know I can do it better. 

Or maybe, it just really sucks. 

We chose to put Ezra in French immersion because we didn't want him to be bored. He's bored anyway.

At least he's social and loves his friends. 

This is his report card: 

See how all the objectives have been reached? He has more than a month until "holiday break" and he has no more goals to reach or learning to be had. 

We've had two meetings with his teacher. She thinks we are crazy for expecting her to do anything above and beyond the basics for Ezra. She even told us she wants the other kids in his class to catch up to him.

I have a feeling we will be fighting for this kids education for his whole life. 

Ugh. Homeschooling is looking pretty good about now. 

Excited.

I needed to post and tell you that our upcoming trip out west takes up probably at least 50% of what we talk about these days. 

They can barely wait! 

Philip walks for Real

I got a much better video of the walking today. He's really taken off the last two days or so. Won't be long before he's running! 

Philip walks.

Reading with Pip

Silas Says

Silas is doing really well. He loves preschool and being at home with Philip and I. His behaviour has been a bit rough in the past, but recently he has been very compliant. Silas feels deeply and reacts deeply, but as he matures he is better able to understand his world and process his emotions. He loves hugging and kidding and saying, "I love you so much" on a regular basis.

Silas has also not had a bathroom accident in recent memory. Yay! We are going through testing to determine if he continues to have issues with dairy, the first step removing all lactose from his diet. If this doesn't help we will remove all forms of dairy and if that doesn't help we will do a blood test. For some reason they like to avoid blood tests as long as possible in three year olds ;). 

I've had some very interesting conversations with Silas recently. Here are some examples: 

Silas, "I want grandma to read me a bedtime story today."

Me "Awe, sorry Silas but grandma lives in __________ and she can't read you a story right now"

Silas, "Yes she can! And there's music!" 

Me "What do you mean?"

Silas, "I'll show ya."

And he brings me Twas The Night Before Christmas, a recordable story my mother gave Ezra (three or four years ago). 

Silas, "See mommy? She CAN read me a story. And after our airplane ride, she can read one for real life." 

"I think the rain cloud lives by hisself Mommy."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because he's sad all the time."

"Will Caroline be at preschool today?"

"I don't know, sweetheart, I guess we'll have to wait and see when we get there."

"Because I love Caroline."

"Awe that's sweet. What do you love about her?"

"I love Caroline when we sit in the saddle and ride the toys together." (Haha!) 

"I love holding your hand Mommy" 

"I love holding your hand too Silas."

"Know why I love to hold your hand?"

"No, I don't. Tell me!"

"Because I love you so much. And holding hands tells me you love me too. And also, sometimes it tickles!" 

Overheard while the boys were heading up to bed: 

S (in a taunting tone) "Ezra! You don't have a penis!" 

E "Yes I do! I'm a boy. That means I have a penis!" 

S "No way Ezra! You just have a pee hole on your bum! That means you are a girl!"

Halloween Twenty Fourteen

This year our family tried to have a cohesive costume idea. It worked quite well except for our middle child asserting his uniqueness. Rob went as a pirate, as well as Ezra, I was a mermaid (modled after Ariel) and Philip a parrot. Silas wanted to be an astronaut. 

Ezra and Silas both had a costume party at school (Silas does preschool Fridays), we had a party at Rob's work in the afternoon, we went trick-or-treating with Ezra's school friends, then Rob and I had a costume and games party with friends after the boys went to bed. The trick or treating was crazy. There were about a dozen children, +3 strollers and a whole lot of parents. Rob and I seem to be the only parents who cared that the children were running crazy across the streets without paying attention. I even had a mother tell me she didn't mind because "drivers know it's Halloween and kids just do that". For me the best part was the party after the boys bedtime with our friends.

We and the boys had a lot of fun dressing up. The boys got a great haul (or bounty or loot) of candy (that we've been secretly eating) and it was a fun day for all. Plus it was quite warm out to so that made it all the better. 

Long day. We even forgot to let the boys eat some candy before they went to bed and they didn't remember either!