Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Dinosaurs

A1 and A2 have been watching "Dinosaur train" and are very into dinosaurs these days. A1 knows quite a bit about different dinosaurs. A2 is not there yet, but he knows quite a few names. And all his bed time stories are about one dinosaur eating another. He loves stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus and they are his favourites. In the also rans are brachiosaurus and argentinosaurus.
A1 makes up dinosaurs. Her favourite is "Businessmakasaurus" that was created when I set up my first stall. From being a dinosaur that creates business it has since transformed into some kind of super saurus that is magical, has googol number of secrets, has many heads that go from here to the moon, has wings in the front and back, can fly, breathe fire and do a million other stuff.
She also makes up names like "Sleepalotasaurus' and "Wontwakeupasaurus", both for A2 when he wouldn't wake up one morning.
V came up with "Parkinglotasaurus" to compete with A1's "Businessmakasaurus" and one sure fire way of getting A1 riled up (very useful in waking her up in the morning) is to say how the parkinglotasaurus is better than the businessmakasaurus.

A1 is quite the grown up

A1 is all of 5 and half now. And boy does she surprise and delight me.
One morning we were pretty rushed. I had just got ready and realized that I hadn't packed the kids bags yet. As I rushed out into the hall I saw that not only had A1 packed both bags, she had got A2 to wear his as well. We were all set.

Today the three of us were in the park when I realized A2 was nowhere to be seen. A1 on the other hand was playing with her friend who wanted her to come home. When I told A1 she had come with me to look for A2, she did. She found A2 and brought him back on her cycle.
I am very proud of my girl.