Two Heads

This morning, Karston was busy building robots from Legos. He explained to me that he built a spare head for his robot because "two heads are better than one. That's what they say, you know." I thought his use of that aphorism was hilarious!

Hungry

Bedtime was delayed quite a bit last night because Cale said he was hungry, and he proceeded to eat. And eat. And eat. We let him eat even though he said that when it was time to get ready for bed.

So I was a bit surprised when Cale woke me up at 4 AM saying, "Mommy, I'm hungry." I groggily gave him some juice and convinced him to go back to sleep for just a little while longer.

What's in Your Future?

This is Karston's contribution to his school's newsletter:

When I grow up, I want to be a Human Resources Manager. They teach and hire new people. It is important because everyone has to work at some place.

As long as he has LEGOs in his office too, he might enjoy that!

Sixth Tooth

I think Karston was winding up for another round of tooth anxiety (what if I drop my tooth? what if I swallow my tooth?), but he bumped his face and the sixth tooth promptly fell out!

Email

Karston has been begging me for email on his computer for almost a week, so it was time to do my research on kid email with parental controls. My short list included KIDO'Z and ZooBuh, but I settled on KOL for the sheer simplicity.

Now Karston wants to know why the emails aren't pouring in, and I didn't want to mention that his email is heavily filtered (to receive from whitelist only).

But now I know that 6-year-olds need email, and now I can describe what I do at work ("I make the networks that send email").

Crudities

Yesterday we celebrated my paternal grandfather's 94th birthday at my uncle Shannon's house! The party was wonderful, with good company and delightful stories about my grandad! Cale kept asking silly questions, like Mommy, may I eat this broccoli? Mommy, may I eat this carrot? I was, in fact, starting to suspect that Cale's favorite part of the party was having the platter of crudities within his easy reach. (Karston ate some crackers, and thought about the noodles.)

Tonight when we asked Cale what he wanted for dinner, he said, I want to go back to the house with broccoli and carrots. I couldn't convince him that our broccoli and carrots were good enough to eat, or that my uncle might be a bit surprised to see us the following night (since he knows restaurants are generally open when we want to eat).

Fifth Tooth

With so much less anxiety than the previous tooth, Karston's fifth tooth fell out today, somewhat uneventfully.

Bouncing Tooth

After interminable weeks of anxiety from Karston (what if my tooth comes out when ___?), his fourth tooth finally fell out. I was ready to cheer when it finally came out! His tooth just fell out of his mouth while we were walking away from his elementary school's winter carnival, and it bounced several times down the sidewalk. Espen, one of Karston's classmates, saw it falling and was watching it bounce. Espen and Karston found the bouncing, runaway tooth very quickly, despite a crowd.