All About Two

I just realized the boys seem to have a thing for the number two. If you ask how much something costs, Ethan will say "two dollars". If you ask him the time, he'll say "two o'clock". And for some reason they both say "the two bears" instead of three, even though it's their favorite book du jour, along with the "two little pigs". their favorite part is "chinny chin chin" and "huff and puff". Isaac is also obsessed with porridge, thanks to Goldilocks. He'll ask to make some but then he gets upset if I suggest Goldilocks might come eat it.

The time thing came up because Ethan is nearly impossible to get to nap these days. It's an hour or more process of him first lying quietly, then running around his room playing with trains or whatever, then going pee pee three or four times, and on and on. Today, he got in our bed, kept looking at the clock and saying "two o'clock", then "time to sleep". Then he would be talking to me, then stop and order me to close my eyes and sing "lullaby" to me. Yeah, THAT'S what would help me sleep :)

Ethan also made me laugh tonight when we were at the park and Jack was teaching them to do long jumps into the sand. Isaac was very serious and jumped as far as he could. Jack was drawing a line to see if he could beat it. So Ethan drew a line for himself very close to the jumping point, then jumped over, applauding himself. I guess he's figured out it's easy to be successful when you lower the line :)

Isaac on the other hand has a thing about his nose now. He likes to smell everything. Occasionally he pronounces his daddy stinky, or something in the kitchen. He also pronounces food as good based on its smell. I'm not sure what kind of career there will be for a professional smeller (a chef like his uncle?)....