Zoo Day

transTHORmers!

Thor and the Girl Next Door

Thor Idol

I have probably posted this before, but it's worth seeing again. He was 2 in this video. I'm so impressed with his speech in retrospect!

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I Know

How did I forget to blog this? While we were out and about (doctor's office, pharmacy, grocery store, Waffle House while waiting for drugs, pharmacy again) yesterday, a woman stopped me and asked how old Thor was. I told her and she shook her head, smiling.

She said, "I have to tell you. I've been a daycare teacher, and a Montessori teacher. I have never seen a child that well mannered. He is the best mannered, smartest child his age I have ever seen."

I gave my usual reply, "Thank you. We're very proud of him."

And we are.

Ni Hao Cry Lan

As I type, I am surreptitiously watching my child watch a cartoon. A character on the cartoon is crying and garnering attention, and he is watching it like it is an instructional video, positioning his hands to mirror the sobbing tiger, and trying to copy his expressions. I know it is only a matter of time before I hear him say, "But Mama, I just need to rest, and then I will go Trick-or-Treating."

Hide and Seek

This morning (after a feud resulting from Thor's refusal to wear pants), on the way to school he said to me, "I was sad when you left me at school yesterday. I was going to go find a truck, hop on it, and go to your building and look for you. Yup. That's what I was going to do."

I sat through a light just smiling at him. Cars behind me were not happy.

Genetics

There's no denying this one is mine.

Faces

Thor is an impressive little guy, made all the more impressive for his forethought. This is a child who thinks before he acts. Before he does much of anything, he has considered the consequence. So if he disobeys it is because he has already decided that it is worth any potential outcome.

This was one of those mornings. I could see it in his face. He knew what I was going to do, and I knew what he was going to do, and we did our dance all over the house.

We got into the car and he sniffled at me, "I do not like it when you make that mad face at me."

I eyebrowed back at him, "Well, I don't like it when you make that screaming face at me."

He harrumphed.

I said, "I only make mad face at you when you disobey. Am I making mad face at you now?"

He said, "No."

I asked him, "And right now, are't you doing what I have told you to do?" He agreed, so I carried out the thought, "So if you don't want me to make mad face at you, shouldn't you do what I tell you to do?"

He considered and shook his head. "You just shouldn't make mad face at me."

I managed not to laugh, but not by much.

Bright Ideas

Thor was studying the refrigerator and the water dispenser. I walked into the kitchen and he asked, "Mama? Is that the idea button?" I couldn't figure out what he was talking about, then I realized that the light-on button is a light bulb with lines emanating from it, much like the icon associated with having an idea.

I wish we had an idea button on the fridge! Man, I'd be in there pressing that button all day long!