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‘Worn Slap Out’

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Today’s captions brought to you by the letters K-E-V-I-N. 🙂

#1: His get-up-and-go done got up and went.

#2: What IS that behind my eyelids?

#3: Aha! You can’t see me!

#4: I’m not tired.

And one from Mr. Atticus himself:

#5: I see Puppy’s head.

Spell What You Can

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fridge magnetic letters

Way to go, Attie! He made what he could and then made do with the rest. Ha! A couple more sets of these magnets, and we’ll be in vocabusiness. 😉

Notice the first two words: UP and DOWN.

Atticus spelled them after I recorded him (at his request) singing an old Jimmy Reed song called, “Baby, What Do You Want Me to Do” in front of the fridge. (You can hear Kevin’s version — better than the original, IMO — at number 11 on the 2/5/2010 Kitchen Concert.)

Here’s the video of Attie:

As If I Had a Choice :P

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First thing this morning, Lucas had a comic to share with me.

“Look, Mommy, I drew you when I was in your belly. You were thinking about if I would have a square head or a round head.”

Very interesting! And perplexing!

You know this doesn’t really happen this way, right? Yeah, he knows.

Attie wanted to know why the guy has arms where his ears should be. Those are thought bubbles, Lucas said, not arms.

The picture didn’t make it long before Atticus had stripped it clean. This is actually the second version of it, since the first was gone before I’d taken a picture.

Later, we told Kevin about it. “I see she picked square,” he quipped.

And then ensued a lengthy discussion on whether or not Lucas favors the dentist from “Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer,” Shermy, complete with Google search. (A little bit, though not in head shape. :P)

I <3 my boys!

Atticus Sings the Gloria :)

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This is one of the songs we sing in church every week, except during Lent and Advent, the “Gloria.”

Four-year-old Attie’s been singing it for a while now, but it wasn’t until about the first week in March that he could get through the whole thing without any prompting. Since way before then, we’ve been hearing it at least 5-10 times a day, easy. When he’s building something or playing with his cars or superheroes, you can usually find him singing it. <3

Glory to God in the highest
and peace to his people on earth.
Lord God, heavenly King,
Almighty God and Father,
we worship you, we give you thanks,
we praise you for your glory.
Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father,
Lord God, Lamb of God,
you take away the sin of the world:
have mercy on us;
You are seated at the right hand of the Father:
receive our prayer.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father. Amen.