since it has been raining a lot lately, i have given in a few times and let thomas play outside for a change of pace. he discovered it is fun to walk through leaf piles! for a good 10 minutes, all he did was walk back and forth, all different directions, through these leaves in our neighbor's front yard. this awesome little bemused look on his face. the pics don't show how exaggerated his steps were but i had to regroup the leaves several times to keep the pile together.on the same outing, a neighbor's yellow tabby walked over and sat to watch thomas. when thomas saw him, he started walking towards him. the cat nonchalantly started walking away. he actually allowed thomas to follow him... and finally plopped down to say "ok, i give in. now pet me!" thomas got practically on top of him and was delighted. scsi never let's him do that :) this neighbor's kitty was one cool cat. definitely used to being around young kids.
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a few weeks ago, william was trying to change his diaper and thomas was really squirmy. so william said "thomas! why don't you count from 1 to 10 and by the time you count to 10, i will be done changing your diaper."
this little rascal... he starts "won, twooo, treee..." and said the rest so fast he didn't even really say the numbers!! just ended "eh,na, te te tennnn!!!" and started squirming madly. william "why you little, why you little!" and they both collapsed into
a calvin & hobbes pile of arms and legs and giggles. he totally knew that william wouldn't be able to finish that fast. toddlers are so smart sometimes it is scary!------------scolding------------
thomas observed me scolding scsi a couple times around thanksgiving and immediately started following scsi around yelling "no!! no scsi no!" and he even tried to spank him. yikes! brought us face to face with the reason parenting magazines all say to try your best not to yell at one kid in front of the other. they watch, learn and then they treat each other that way. ever since then, we
do not yell at scsi in front of thomas.my dad was visiting today, and at one point, scsi almost escaped outside. all my dad said was "oh no! scsi come back!" once we were all back in the house, thomas lost no time looking for scsi. "No. no no!! scsi!" even tried to get at poor scsi hiding under the piano to yell at him more. my dad was surprised at how persistent thomas was about scolding scsi. even though we stopped scolding scsi, thomas still remembers months later. Ugh!
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I'm confused. Are all those pictures of scsi? or of the neighbor cat?
sorry, that is the neighbor's cat. but he looks just like scsi! scsi is an indoor cat. actually, we just got home today from a 3 day vacation and for some reason, when thomas walked by scsi, scsi swiped him. i hadn't clipped his claws in a while and thomas got a pretty bad scratch right under his eye. we are sooo thankful he missed the eye!!
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