Saturday, October 31, 2009

Life Lesson...

I am not sure how it got started (maybe it is the racing game I have been playing), but David has started telling me to drive faster. I had to explain to him that if I drive too fast then the police will take my money away from me. That seemed to satisfy him, and he changed the subject.

Later this afternoon, he started telling me to go faster again. Sooo... I repeated the story from this morning except, this time, I told David that if we do not have money, then we cannot buy any donuts on Saturday mornings. This really seemed to capture David's imagination, and he spent the next few minutes in frantic discussion about officers and donuts. So let me sum up today's lesson according to David...

-If you drive too fast, the police will take your money.
-If you do not have any money, then you cannot buy donuts.
-Therefore, if you speed, then the police will take your donuts!

Somehow I managed to play right into the stereotypical picture of an officer. I hope I have not skewed his view of our fine police officers forever! (sorry Uncle Kyle.)

Kyle

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Long time no talk...


It has not been a particularly busy month, but for some reason we have not been as studious in updating the blog. Soooo.... here are a few tidbits to help fill in the gaps.

David's daycare was closed today so I was able to stay home and play daddy daycare. We did the usual (donuts, play cars, read books), but a couple of things stuck out. We went to Target today, and I caught David saying "thank you" to the automatic doors when they opened. I could not help laughing but also thought it was cool that he says thank you like a good gentleman. (Even if it is just an electronic door.)

I wanted to go to Target to get a little LEGO set to see if David could handle the little blocks because I want to buy him some basic LEGOs and make a table for him to build on "Gotcha Day." (The celebration of the day we finally got David.) I settled on a little 6 in. by 6 in. castle play set and went back home. David and I built the castle, and he was really excited! He played for over an hour without getting up from his table. He just kept moving the blocks around and yelling for me to look every few minutes to see his latest creation.

Needless to say, the castle did not last long and David's creative juices are now mainly focused on creating "pirate ships" for the three of us. By the looks of them, I think they are only pirate ships in the imagination of a 3 year old boy, but I would not have it any other way!

I hope life has been as good to you as it has been to us!

Kyle

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Safety Day...

David and I recently participated in Lowe's latest "Build and Grow" project, a fire truck. David was very excited to get his apron and googles on again and he was really pumped when he saw that he was getting to build a fire truck. David was very careful not to hit my fingers and did a good job hammering!

Things really started heating up when a Yukon Fire Department truck arrived followed shortly by a Yukon PD car and K-9 unit. David could barely contain himself! However, that was not the end of the proceedings. As David was finishing his building project, a Life Flight helicopter flew over and landed in the parking lot! We spent the rest of our time exploring the knooks and crannies of all the vehicles on display! It was a great way to spend the morning!

Kyle

PS-Seeing as I am a failure as a father and forgot to bring a camera, I have included the following pictures as visual aids. :)



The first step....

...into a larger world.

It has been a busy few weeks for us and probably will not be slowing down anytime soon, but I wanted to share something from the other day.

Soooo... David and I were wrestling around on the floor. At some point I picked him up be his feet and was dangling him a few inches above the ground. The next thing I hear is David grunting real loud and stretching his little arm out as far as it would go. While I tried to figure out what he was doing, David started whispering "lightsaber." What!? My little jedi was reenacting the scene from Empire Strikes Back when Luke was stuck in the cave. My little geek heart has never been more proud!

Kyle