Kian-isms

At school they were playing the song Who let the dogs out. Kian replied, "My Mommy." He went on to tell them all about Porter, Molly and Missy. Missy, aka Nimbus, our male dog who Kian has officially renamed. Even poor Missy, er Nimbus, now responds to him new name.

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Kian is more interested in doctors then any kid I know. He constantly asks, "Doctor says?" We have used this to our advantage for those important points in life. I brought him with me to Liv's doctor's appointment a couple month's ago so that "Doctor" could tell him he could no longer unbuckle his seat belt while we're driving around. The seat belt has remained safely in place ever since. Zac had "Doctor" explain to him that poop goes in the potty at his last appointment. Ever since Kian has been potty trained.

He *loves* to go to the doctor's office. He even sat nicely and watched as the drew blood for another round of allergy tests last week, said thank you when the were finished, and has asked to go back for another blood test. For the last year if you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he will tell you a doctor.

I asked yesterday, he told me he wants to be Bob the Builder. I guess the 529 plan is sufficiently funded.

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On the way home from school the other day Kian explained to me "the horses are all in my fields. Yeah, because we all just share the horses." If only you were right my socialist little one.

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Kian's classmate Ashlyn has decided that they are getting married. She told him this was the plan and is very possessive if a teacher tries to give him a hug or another classmate gives him too much attention. Kian seems to have taken the new fact that he is marrying Ashlyn as merely a statement of fact.

On the way to school we were discussing that his teacher won't be there this week. "Why." Because she is on her honeymoon. "Why." Because she got married. "Why." Because when people fall in love sometimes they get married. Like Mommy & Daddy fell in love and we got married.

"YOU'RE MARRIED????" said with complete and total disbelief and possibly a bit of disgust. Yes, buddy, your mommy & daddy are married. I know you thought this was something only three year olds do.

Inspired

A late night tonight - out at Robin & Bob's for Robin's birthday celebration - and now after almost falling asleep on their floor before I left, I'm up surfing the web unable to sleep (btw, Dairy Queeze Reeces Blizzard ice cream cake - yumm, *so* much better then my expectations). The past couple of weeks I've been feeling motivated again - motivated to craft, to cook, to decorate, to organize... to appreciate life, take more pictures, take a photography class, to find order, to finally figure out the office, to do a little every day, to make big changes, to invest in fencing the property, putting in built ins, hardwood floors.

So as I peruse blogs I think - I can do this, I want to do this. I ran across another 365 challenges. One blogger decided to take a picture everyday for a year, and the favorites left in the link are beautiful, artsy, full of memories. I want that. So now what do I want to do for a 365 challenge. A craft a day (not likely), a blog post (still probably to zealous given the wealth of posts I have so far and the time that has passed since starting this blog), a photograph (possible), saving an inspirational photo (doable but will tat just leave me with even more ideas that I'll never get to.)

Part of me says don't give yourself one more goal that you won't have time to live up to. Part of me says challenge yourself. You're missing out on too much of the life that is whizzing by you.