Trey has had a bit of a mean streak lately and it seems to be tied to a larger interest in exploring emotions. He gets very dramatic about things and exercise all 98 of his facial muscles. He loves to talk with grimaces and glares about how he is “upset”, “disappointed”, or “embarrassing” (embarrassed) and often I catch him making faces in the mirror.
This morning he wasn’t too keen on the rain outside because we got wet getting in&out of the car on they way to preschool. As we walked into the building this is the conversation we had.
“Daddy, when I get to heaven I’m gonna hit God!” he said with a scowl.
“Now why would you say that? We don’t hit our friends,” I replied .
Still frowning he answered “But He’s being mean. He’s making it rain on me.”
“Just because you don’t like the rain doesn’t mean you can hit Him. You should tell Him you are sorry,” I suggested.
The tone of his voice softened and with a bit of concern Trey then said “But He can’t hear me. He’s in heaven and that’s all the way in France.”
The Good News is that God forgives Trey (and the rest of us) when we have such bad, selfish attitudes towards Him. It’s also pretty good news that heaven isn’t in France.
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On Tuesday we drove to Asheville, NC with my aunt Jane and cousin Ben. They were doing the Asheville Brews Cruise and we headed to the Pack Place Center where Grossology was on exhibit.
While the educational content of the Health Adventure museum was over Trey’s head, he still enjoyed all the hands-on activities. He got to shoot dust balls into a giant nose, play “The Urine Game” where he pretended to be a kidney, hear a faucet with a runny nose explain the source of snot, and slide down an esophagus, crawl through a stomach, and out a giant rectum.
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Heidi has the week of Christmas off (don’t worry, they’ll make her suffer for it the next week) so we headed up to East Tennessee. The past two days we’ve spent at my aunt’s farm in Greeneville. Trey has had fun on the farm and was really excited today when Aunt Jane let him ride a horse. I shot some video of the adventure and will post it up later.
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Just up the road from us at the intersection of I-475 and I-75 is the small town of Bolingbroke. Trey’s good friend Causey Crosby’s grandparents live there and Causey’s great-grandfather is Santa every year in the Christmas Parade. The Crosby’s invited us to join them last Saturday for the event.
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Trey is spending the week in Florida with his grandparents but he is being good about keeping in touch. Here’s an email he sent us today:
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Last year my mom got Trey a subscription to the kid’s nature magazine “Wild Animal Baby“. The magazine is put out by the National Wildlife Federation (NFW) and is geared towards kids age 1 to 4.
Each month we’d get a new issue and Trey was eager to read it. We’d always explain that the mail was “for him” from Granny Sarah; it made him feel really special that he was getting mail just like mommy & daddy. Plus, he like the magazines so much that they would often make it into his nightly rotation of bedtime books.
This month my mother upgraded Trey to the next NFW magazine for ages 3-7 – “My Big Backyard“. We got our first issue last week and it is perfect for the stage in development he is at. It has three animal stories and activities that he loves. The best one in this issue was a couple pages you cut out & fold together to “make your own little book”. It is called “Monkey Business” and has 10 little pages about different monkeys around the world.
I don’t do many product promotions on our blog (wait, what are all those Google ads doing to the right there?), but this is one I highly recommend. The cost is $19.95/year for 10 issues and the profits go to the NFW whose “mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children’s future.”
Thanks Granny Sarah for entertaining & educating Trey with your gift!
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Trey has had a bit of a mean streak lately and it seems to be tied to a larger interest in exploring emotions. He gets very dramatic about things and exercise all 98 of his facial muscles. He loves to talk with grimaces and glares about how he is “upset”, “disappointed”, or “embarrassing” (embarrassed) and often I catch him making faces in the mirror.
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