Music Class

Recently at dinner Gage was talking to me about the music on Sleeping Beauty (he had watched it at Grandma's House) and he told me that the guy who wrote the music lived a long time ago. Then he said, "I'm not sure who wrote it....I think it was Tchaikovsky." Tim said "What do you know about Tchaikovsky?" Gage said he knew all about famous composers because they talk about them in Music Class. Then he said, "You know that song Hallelujah? Handel wrote that." Tim was incensed, "You mean every time I ask you about what you learn at school you could have told me about Handel?" Who knew that public schools still teach this kind of stuff? It kind of renews my faith...well, in lots of things.

Tim is an avid listener of classical music. I always thought he did it just so he could appear smarter than me, but I think he really likes it since whenever I get in his car his radio is set to the classical station. He and Gage have had so much fun talking about classical music. Gage was all excited to tell us about the song, Flight of a Bumble Bee. The title sounded familiar but I didn't know the song. Tim knew it, of course, and so he and Gage were talking about it and now I guess they are both smarter than me.

Funny Luke

My sister-in-law is good are recording the funny things her kids say. I commented on one of her posts that when kids say these funny things it makes all the trouble of motherhood worth it and it does for me. You kinda had to be there for this one to be funny so if it isn't funny to you...sorry...this record is for me anyway!

I had all the kids at mutual and the Young Women were taken with Luke....mostly because he talks so much and is such a flirt. The girls kept trying to get Claire to kiss Luke and Claire is always trying to pass out kisses to him. He kept running away and told one of the Young Women that if he let Claire kiss him it would turn him into a girl. Then Luke pointed to me and said,

"Yea, Claire kissed her and that's what happened to that Guy!"

Oh my gosh, we laughed so hard. That kids sure comes up with funny ideas.

Naughty Words

Claire is talking a lot and I love it! Her voice sounds like she has a smoking habit....really low and raspy. Very cute. There is one small problem. She is switching the first and last letter of most words. So cup becomes puck. Tim is really good at translating....it is hard for me. Bum Gall is gum ball. And then we have chip. You'd think this would be no problem....it would sound like pitch. Like, We want a pitcher not a belly itcher. Unfortunately the letters B and P are close relatives and so you know what Claire is saying.

I eat a lot of chips as the cellulite on my thighs can attest to. I love chips over chocolate or any other snack. Claire is following her mother's example so I am hearing the word that rhymes with Pitch multiple times a day and it is usually after I've said no and she is screaming it at the top of her lungs while flinging herself in front to the pantry. Sometimes she points at me and says it. I can't help but give a tee hee hee every time. Horrible I know.

Onto other Claire news....look who has as pony tail!

I could die it is so cute, but in an effort to eliminate the mullet I got her hair cut today and will be a while before I see a pony tail again. Sigh.

The Appetite

After getting every person at the table their food, forks, water, and napkins I finally settle down to take the first bite of my own food. I look down at my plate and think....yum that looks good. I load up the fork, lean over my plate and open my mouth....

"More please!"

My fork hangs in mid-air, my jaw is open and my eyes fly to Gage's now empty plate. How he has managed to eat so much food so quickly momentarily stuns me. After-all he had a bigger portion that me and it's all gone. I look under the table and under his plate just to make sure but what I know to be true is that the child has eaten all of it.

As of late, Gage's appetite is no longer just a small twinge in his stomach it has become a pro-noun. It is...The Appetite. The amount of food this kid is putting away is truly appalling. I have two older brothers so I know how the male appetite works, but I remember them in their teenage years, and trust me it was truly frightening, but Gage is only 6, so I was caught off guard by The Appetite making its appearance so soon.

Last week we went to Red Robin and Gage ordered a grilled chicken breast and if you've eaten there you know they don't skimp on the fries. I was busy talking so I'm not sure if he just hit the power button on some vacuum somewhere but suddenly his food was gone...I mean not a crumb or so much as a grain of salt and he was back to playing his DS. When we got home, less that an hour later, we were working on his homework and he told me he was so hungry. I had to stop making food after two pieces of toast and a glass of milk. This morning Gage got up early and I heard him tell Tim that he needed, "Two pieces of toast with butter, stacked on top of each other and milk and yogurt because that is how mom does it because she knows I'm hungry." I had to laugh.

The kicker of all this is that recently, when he runs or jumps, his pants are starting to fall off. His pants fit at the beginning of the year, and I keep adjusting the internal elastic, but they keep falling off his skinny back-side. He is suddenly so tall and skinny....but all kid muscular. That has to be a cosmic joke on women everywhere. The kid is putting away a loaf of bread every two days and his clothes are actually getting too big.