Snow Night

Just when we thought it was getting to be spring, we had a snowfall! Too bad it wasn't earlier in the day -- Mattie was already in bed, and James was supposed to be in bed, but was up late and got to see a little of it out the front door.

As you may guess from his shirt, Matthew's affection for the color orange has continued unabated. (For instance, he only wants to wear orange shirts to bed. Since he didn't actually have any orange PJ shirts, we picked this one up last week.) In fact, the boys were watching Sesame Street today, and there's a segment about the letter R where an orange R is standing on a road.  James pointed to it and said, "That's Matthew's R." And Mattie said, "That's my R."  Too funny.

Also today, Mike put up some new smoke detectors and put new batteries in the existing ones.  We were explaining about smoke detectors to the boys, but perhaps we weren't totally clear, because a few minutes later, James turned to me and said, "Where's the fire truck?"  (This is possibly because there is a Caillou episode where the kids learn about smoke detectors, and then the fireman brings his truck to visit the playschool.  Ah well, the boys will learn early that real life sometimes isn't as exciting as TV!)

Mattie is so funny when he picks up a new phrase, because he uses it a lot even when he doesn't mean it.  A recent one was "wait a minute!" and now it's "I have a surprise for you!"  (Sometimes followed by "it's in my pocket" and sometimes followed after that by "it's a teddy graham!") 

Jamesie loves to watch the Mickey Mouse club on TV.  (I am kind of surprised by this because it seems like the worst possible program for a hearing-impaired child -- the characters all speak in these high-pitched voices that are in the worst part of James's hearing range, AND the characters have a variety of speech impediments and oddities that make them hard to understand just on general principle -- but hey, it makes him happy.)  It inspired what may be his longest sentence so far: "Mickey Mouse went in the water and got wet in there!"  (In general, James has been talking a lot lately -- the FM system really seems to be helping compensate for the ear problems.)