big day

Kai woke up wednesday and decided to poop on the potty all by himself, no prodding from me. We considered it a bday gift to Nana. This meant of course the promised trip to ToysRUs - it's all over now - for a toy. We entered the parking lot and Kai said, "Wow! A lot of people pooped on the potty today!" He pretty quickly picked out a cheapie little Cars toy, even after I offered to buy him a trampoline. The trip to TRU was followed by Wee Wednesday, an art class for kids at the Crocker Art Museaum. Kai wasn't in the mood for it, and he let me know by running in the hall, touching the paintings, smearing hands all over the glass even though the curator had just told him to "look with your eyes, not with your hands." Oy vey. A little 3yo was helping me police him. After looking at a few paintings we went downstairs and did an art project with oil crayons and gold paint - a really sweet, beautiful project that unfortunately was not really up Kai's alley. After a few minutes of pounding on the paper and slapping paint all over he said, "It's complete! It's complete! I'm ready to go."
Poor kid just wanted to go home and play with his new toy.
School was great; Kai told me on the way there "Don't drop me off! Don't drop me off!" But when I did he just took off exploring. When I got there after an hour to pick him up he was trying on roller skates and had paint all over his clothes.
Nina loves to go outside, it's one of many of her words.
She chose what she wanted to wear today - shook her head no to something I got out of the drawer and pointed to what she wanted - her blue/floral one-piece H.A. outfit from nana and dup. She's got good taste.
She just put Kai's underwear on her head and paraded around as if it was a hat.
We went to the park today during Kai's hour at preschool; she loves to climb, swing is OK but she prefers to climb and threw a little fit when I didn't let her go down the big slide by herself.
Kai still gets a hot tummy when he doesn't feel well. Day four of school and he already has a green-snot cold. Nina's next I'm sure.
Now it's Friday - one more moon! Yesterday was another hour at school - he didn't want to leave - followed by a trip downtown to the library, a bit of downtime at home, then a swim lesson followed by a trip to the soccer store to buy some shin guards. You'll see in the picture how much he likes his new shin guards. The video is a bit of the kids on the lanai last night, we had just seen a flock of birds fly by and Nina was quite excited about it. Kai was spinning around with a very large broom, pretending he was...I'm not quite sure.
There was a moment yesterday when I was writing this, and it was absolutely quiet. I tiptoed around the house to see what my babies were doing. Nina was on the lanai, sitting very still, just staring at the trees. Kai was laying on his bedroom floor, reading.
Right now it's 7:30 in the morning and Kai and Nina and Nate are all reading on the couch. Sweet way to start the day.