Snippets

OK, just some little moments of interest from recent days:

While driving to the mall, Gabe noticed one corner of an intersection that had been cleared for development. It looks like a huge mountain of dirt and rock and felled trees. He said, "Mom, I wish I could play in that dirt." This was funny for a few reasons. First, I was struck by the irony of this very all-boy comment coupled with the fact that he was holding his beloved mermaid toy at the time he made it. Also, his tone was one of resigned longing; he knew there was no chance he was actually going to get to play in the dirt, but he just had to express the desire anyway.

Just out of the blue in the kitchen the other day, Gabe started singing, "But you gotta have friends...", which he immediately followed by yelling, "Stop singing!" Up to this point, most of his movie quotations have been Star Wars-related. This particular gem was from Shrek. Yesterday, he said, "It's not about you, Bob." The Incredibles. He's also gotten pretty good at singing a lot of the words to his favorite songs, among them: "You've Got a Friend in Me", "I'm a Believer", "All-Star", "Magic Bus", "What is my Life?", "Where are we Running?", and of course, "Rosanna". Oh, and the dancing that accompanies the singing is quite amusing in itself.

Sam and Gabe have a new form of communication these days -- squealing. It's quite shockingly loud, startling, and hilarious at the same time. They just squeal back and forth at each other, and it gets louder and louder as they each get more and more excited.

Sam has started putting his hands together, almost like he's clapping. Today I started doing "Pat-a-Cake" with him, and he was putting his hands together and sort of singing along with me. He's got two bottom teeth now and is sitting up really well. Still no signs of crawling, but that kid can do some serious locomoting just by rolling and pivoting.