Tommy's Cutes

I should be making the dinner right now in my window of time, but I know if I don't write these things down they will be gone with the wind!
Tommy has been so cute lately with some of the things he says and thinks through. His little brain is really growing from the toddler age to the preschooler one.

The other day at the breakfast table, Owen was making a fuss about having to eat with a grapefruit spoon (all the other regular spoons were dirty) and James or I made some remark about trying it with a fork instead. Tommy piped up as if he had a helpful suggestion with the words, "Maybe you should get your cup and wipe milk all over your face!"

At night we have to leave the door beside Tommy's bed wide open otherwise he says he "Will be FWEAKED OUT!"

When Grandma was here, she taught Tommy to spell his name. It is very cute to hear him say, "T-O-M-M-Y, what does that spell, Mom?"

Today when I told him he needed to have a nap for quiet time he pulled out all the arguments--"I don't want a west!" "If you make me have a west, you won't be my bestest buddy anymore." "If you make me do that, I won't even yike you anymore!" and last, and worstest of all, "If you make me have a nap, I won't yuv you either!" Where did he learn to threaten like that?

Tommy is trying to figure things out. Today at 8:30 in the morning, I told him it was his first soccer day later in the afternoon. I should have kept this to myself because he has asked a million times already. I just told him it will be in an hour and a half. "What does that mean?" he asked. He also keeps asking when April will be, because in March I told him Easter was in April. We'll get this figured out somehow!

I am reading The Hobbit to the boys (Tommy always asks if I have time to "weed us a chapter?")and ever since Tommy saw the dragon on the cover he has been in anticipation of me reading about it. Of course, the dragon doesn't come until the end of the book, and that is really hard to explain to the T. I finally told him, "When they get through the forest, that's when they'll meet the dragon!" Now he asks when they'll be through the forest.:-)

He still loves to help in the kitchen. He is really becoming a time saver for me. The other morning I was trying to practice with Owen and cook tortillas at the same time. Note to self--don't do that again. However, Tommy came to the rescue and pushed a chair up to the stove and flipped those tortillas for me. They were perfectly browned and none burned! He also has a very gentle tap with an egg. He never gets eggshells in things anymore and hasn't dropped an egg in ages. Yay!

We talked about peacemakers for family home evening this week. I had felt we needed a discussion on that since the volume and frequency of arguments have seemed to increase of late around here, and then Elder Robbins talked about it a bit in his conference talk, and Tommy and I read some of the Beatitudes for his scripture study. So we had a lesson on it on Monday. Tommy seemed to be getting the hang of it, and even said we should be peacemakers because that's what Jesus wants us to be. I'm wondering when the lesson will sink in as far as Georgie is concerned, however. Yesterday before joy school, Tommy was worried that one of the girls wouldn't be nice to him, and I said, "Well, I guess you can practice being a peacemaker to her!" He thought about that for a minute and then replied, "I will just tell _her_ to be God's peacemaker!" That works, I guess!

Tommy often says "I wish to be Baby Georgie!" I think this happens when G is getting lots of attention, so I try to focus on him and ask him about it. One time, I said, "Would you really want to be Baby George? Then we wouldn't have a Tommy in our house!" So now he says, "I would be Baby Tommy, and George would be Big Georgie." We spent some time together watching home videos of him when he was G's age, and I think that helped. He loved every minute of it, and I loved watching the happy look on his face. He just needs lots of love and attention, and James and I try our best! Sometimes I don't do that great though, and he will always remind me of it! One day, after I lost control a bit, he said, "Mommy, do you love Baby George?" "Yes!" "Do you love me?" "Yes, I do!" "Then why did you get ang...I mean, fwustwated at me?"
Aw, man, I sure wish I didn't!

The other day while I was trying to get George to bed, O and T came up to the room, scared. When I came down, I asked what was the matter. T said he heard a scary ghost noise. When I asked him where it was, he lay down in the middle of the family room and put his ear to the floor. "There, did you hear that wooo-ing sound?" he asked.

Tommy is probably my biggest challenge at this point in time, but he is soooo adorable too. I Yuv you Tommy!