My Big Boy

Well, Obie turned three on Monday. I know. I can't believe it either. He wanted to have his birthday meal at Chuck E Cheese's with Grandma and Grandpa Supan. We went whole hog! Pizza, official Chuck E wacky straw cup, and lots and lots of tokens with lots and lots of time to spend on spending them.

Obie and his dad enjoyed this speed boating game. You can see that this boy is serious about his job of shooting the booster button.

After food and games, we went home to open presents and have cake and ice cream.

1. I do not want to go home.

2. I do not want to take a picture with my sisters.

3. I do not want to go home.

Robot Birthday Cake

(with Twix bars for easy arms and legs. Clever mama.)

Presents! Obie got some great presents this year: A giant Mario and matching blanket, a bunch of Thomas trains and track, a matching mama kitty and her kitten (that are all his and not stolen from his sister), and a Leapster game system and Thomas game to go with it.

And after the festivities were all over, he got to go spend the night in the "camp car" with Grandma and Grandpa - which is always a big treat, and a great way to end a great birthday.

Happy Third Birthday, Obie!

Almost Two

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Diesel (Shouted at a passing train. Someone's been watching Thomas the Tank Engine.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Spice, 'Weet, Sauce. (He knows hot sauce and identifies it by "spice", but was a little thrown off by the red strawberry syrup we put on his pancakes. It took a while to convince him it's a sweet. He also calls catsup 'sauce'. )

When Beatrice was little she'd sometimes leave her juice cup sitting around for too long and then take a swig of bubbly juice. She called this "picey" and I think it's funny that she left of the 's' at the beginning while Obie leaves off the 'y' at the end.

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Crayon (Obie likes to dwaw with a trayon or makah.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Coin. (Said while pinching his thumb and first two fingers together on both hands, as if holding coins. The big black pirate at the renaissance faire gave him two plastic gold doubloons and now he has to have one in his pocket at all times!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Dere 'e is!! Deeeeee!! (exclaimed as the cat, Dee Dee, came bolting down the stairs.)

Obie's Word of the Day

I'm way behind. Obie repeats everything he hears lately, so it's hard to come up with just one word of the day, but while playing with Beatrice and his train set he came up with this one and it's great!

Obie's word of the day: Oh, man! (complete with smack to the head!!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Red. (I pulled a row of icee-pop popsicles out of the freezer and asked him which one he wanted, just like I ask the girls. He pointed to the red one and said, "red." He is a brilliant 22 month old!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Not me!! (Who forgot to flush the potty?? Not ME!!!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Bless You. (Today is a high pollen count day, everyone is telling mama bless you.)

Obie's begun stringing words together in sentences lately. Of note, "C'mon, kitty." He also says Beatrice, Maggie, and Mommy instead of their shortened versions. He adds lots of y's to the end of words. My favorite is "gummy" when he wants a piece of candy.

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Michael. (He also shouts, "Hi, John!" at Michael's brother.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Bang!! (said while brandishing an orange cap gun.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: All Gone. (Pretty self-explainatory, anything that he's eaten all of, used up, was empty to begin with, or has disappeared from sight is all gone. Usually said with both hands palm up at his shoulders.)

Sand Castle vs. Obie

Last week we went to Hok-Si-La beach to build sand castles as part of the reading program. For some reason it didn't enter my mind to bring towels or swim suits or water or any useful thing that you would normally bring to the beach, except for small shovels and rakes - to make the castles with. We did put on sunscreen, though, and I brought the camera.

Maggie was disappointed that the sand wouldn't pop out of the castle-shaped bucket in a perfect castle shape, so she soon abandoned castle making to gather seaweed. She constructed a T-Rex nest, heart shaped, you know, because a mama T-Rex surely has a tender side.

Beatrice went for the scooping-sand-into-a-mound style of sand castle and then collected trash, ahem, treasures to decorate it with.

And here's Obie standing next to the one semi-successful attempt to dump the sand out of the bucket in a shape. Beatrice stood next to her castle for pictures, so he wanted to stand next to this one.

And Maggie sat in her nest, so Obie wanted to sit in this castle, too. I said, "no, no, no". But he wanted to sit down anyway.

Can you guess what he's thinking?

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Me!!!! (At breakfast time he ran into the kitchen yelling, "EAT!!!!" and when I asked, "Who wants cereal?" Beatrice and Obie both said, "ME!!!")

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Yuck, Ewww, Gross, Flush (Yep, still potty training. He hasn't had an accident all day, and we left the house for four hours!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Pig. (Pronounced pee-ugh. The book read at library time today was Pigs to the Rescue.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Bye-bye, Poopie. (That's right, Potty Training is going GREAT!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Notebook. (Thanks, Blues Clues!!)