Christmas entertainment for 2-year-olds

Last week I hosted a party for our preschool group. Since I was hosting, I was all flustered and didn't really know how it all went down, but my friend Andrea emailed me these pictures yesterday, affirming the fact that Grant and Collin must have had F-U-N!

Exhibit A:

Grant covers his face in frosting, then gets picture taken. Heaven.

Exhibit B:

Collin with a knife in one hand and his trusty firetruck in the other. Zach believes this firetruck will go to college with Collin, and the knife fetish, well I can only hope he grows out of it by then.

Thanks Andrea. Your journalistic photography skills are impressive!

Hey. Teacher. Leave these boys alone.

Four months ago, I got together with some friends to organize a pre-school for our toddlers. We are way ahead of the curve here, my boys won't start Kindergarten for over three more years. I was excited to sculpt my boys minds and turn them into toddler geniuses.

Sadly, my dreams of raising boy wonders has been slightly hampered. When I say hampered I mean completely dashed to pieces by the fact that the boys REFUSE to cooperate. When I picked them up one week, my friend reported that Collin crawled on her dining table and tried to swing from the chandelier.

"Really?" I responded. "He never does that at my house" I said, with my fingers crossed behind my back.

 The next week they both developed bad hearing and their feet got stuck to the floor where the toy box was. Once when it was my week to teach, Grant ignored my energetic lesson on animals that live in the ocean and showed his friend how to climb in our fireplace instead.

I am sad to say that at the end of the boys first semester of school, their report card will have a giant W.

That stands for WILD!

P.S. I give the teachers an A for effort! School was awesome, and I am glad I could help turn your children into toddler geniuses.

McDonald's is our kind of place

Now he can eat all the dirt he wants.

Today, the boys got their final flu shot. To celebrate their awesome new powers of immunity, we went to the germiest place in town-McDonald's play place. The lady who took my order must have had some gender confusion issues. She called me "sir". Twice. And she gave my boys Strawberry Shortcake toys in their happy meals.

Double it

My dad says that kids are supposed to be half their adult height on their second birthday. Grant and Collin had their two-year check-up today. They are going to be 5'8". We'll check on that in 18 years.

Holy molar

I found out today my boys are growing giant molars in the backs of their mouths. Holy cow those suckers are big! I think there's a reason we sprout those before our memory works too good.