weekend miscellany

Somewhere in the last week, Leo has started to get into the "mother" and "father" thing, even occasionally calling us those instead of something more kid-like. It was really amusing tonight. I got home from a trip in to school after he had gone to bed, but went in when he was up a while later. When I whispered at him to go back to sleep, he responded with a whispered "Father, are you home?"

He's had a little bit of a reaction to his flu shot, and that plays into the other really funny thing he said this weekend: "I'm ready for this cough to go away now."


At some point this morning, he was stretched out across both stools while we were working on something. I don't honestly remember what. {Kirstin sez: I don't remember what we were doing either, but in case you can't tell, he was having a fit over his paci...}






Even though the temperature was 34 degrees this morning, he insisted on going out to the back yard to play for a while after grocery shopping. Then he wanted his yellow shovel. After he caught me taking a picture or two, he told me he was digging up a castle. After switching the camera back to video mode, the following conversation ensued: