Its been a year and a few days since I wrote a post called “Snapshots” which you can read here. A year later, M is 6yrs and Z is 2yrs. So here goes another snapshotWhat they are saying:

• M: “Daaaadddy… can you come here?” calling from the bunk bed that Anne got her, to ask me to pass up pencils/ beads/ paper etc so she does not have to climb down to get them
• Z: “what’s that?” and pointing at almost anything and everything

What they love doing:

• M: drawing; watching dvds; us reading to her; playing on sesamestreet.com; having “adventures”; playing at friends houses; playing with her imaginary friends; doing craft and woodwork; climbing trees; “practicing her karate moves” with her little brother (more like dancing); jumping on the trampoline; and climbing through the whole in our living room wall.
• Z: talking about fire trucks; playing with toy fire trucks; playing with Lulu our dog (crawling under her); watching dvds in M’s room; playing chasey with Lulu & Maya; climbing on anything; driving a scooter around the kitchen; sitting in water (baths, puddles, anything); and covering every inch of the kitchen with water while playing with boats in the sink.

What I am loving about them:

• M: how she challenges us from pointing out our inconsistencies (”but yesterday you said…”) to getting us out of our rut by regularly declaring, “today I want to do something totally new!”
• Z: how he loves to do jobs with us from taking out the compost to cooking dinner; and how he’s so very small yet so incredibly opinionated and fiesty

Some of their quirks:

• M: how she talks to three imaginary friends: Ginger the cat, Lavender the fairy and Forest the dog who show her how to do karate, make magic and do new dance moves… and how she likes her toast cut in fours, with the crust off, then ‘lightly stabbed on top’ to make it bumpy (sometimes i just give her the knife if Im not up for getting it just right)
• Z: how he loves putting things on his head. His favourite is a plastic sieve which he calls his “fire hat”, but if we give him a plate with rice we have to clear the table as soon as he has finished otherwise it too will likely be turned into a hat and we will be picking rice out of his hair and our bed for the next week (the picture above is Z with a flower pot on his head playing with Lulu… and yes the flower pot did have dirt in it before he found it)

What I want to remember from today:

• M&Z: how during our walk M danced the whole way home and Z tried to copy her moves; how they helped me make banana icecream for the first time (why didnt we do that before!?); and the way M, Z and Anne all played chasey with Lulu until Anne collapsed in a heap

Please add your own – grab the same headings and share your own snapshot in the comments below or if you have one on your blog…

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