Chatterbox

Stian is a little chatterbox. He talks and sings all the time. I tried to get some of it recorded this evening, but of course he stopped talking quite as much when I pulled out the camera, but this gives a hint at it anyway. Imagine this only moreso - and less prompted. (don't mind the avocado all over his face)

Sunday Evening

Just some pictures from this evening.

Tractor

Just as we were going up the stairs this morning for Stian's nap we saw the tractor coming down the road to harvest the horse mix in the field across the street from our house. So we quick ran outside to watch. Unfortunately Stian was pretty pooped by that time and I think the tractor and the noise were a little overwelming as he seemed a little scared of it. But we watched for a few minutes before he said he wanted to go take a nap.

Accent

Stian woke up yesterday morning with an accent, and it's still here today. It's pretty goofy. He is suddently pronoucing things differently. I can't place it, but it sounds like a cross between a Canadian accent and a North East U.S. accent. I don't know those accents well - but perhaps Maine? Anyway, it's quite cute, so we got an example on video.



We have no idea where he has picked this up. As far as I know he doesn't talk with anyone with an accent like this.

Bike!

Stian is outgrowing his little bike. He has used it so much and loved it so much (thanks Grandma and Grandpa Loftus!). But he has started asking for a "full-sized bike" or a "bike with pedals." So we've started looking around. We want to get him a "tractor bike" like Klebo's, but he's too little for it now, and will still likely be too little for it next year. So what to do in the mean time? We've been looking around for a good, small bike that wasn't too expensive. We found some good candidates. In the mean time, Kris was talking with his co-worker about trikes, and as it happens he has a good, small trike that his daughter has outgrown! So lucky us - we can borrow it for awhile!

Kris brought it home from work today. We left it in the back of the car until after dinner as we knew it would be near impossible to pry him off of it to go eat. So after dinner Kris snuck outside and set it out on the driveway and took pictures of Stian coming out the door and seeing it. He was very excited. He hasn't figured out the pedals yet, but that's pretty advanced, I imagine that will take awhile. But so far so good. He played with it for over an hour this evening, and it was darn near impossible to pry him off of it when it was time to go to bed!

Oh - and after we were done taking pictures Kris had to move the bell from his old bike to this one because he was asking for it. Fortunately it was easy enough to do.

Pasta!

Now there's a kid who likes his penne.

Singing

I’m sitting here listening to Stian over the monitor. He’s supposed to be napping, but instead he is singing:

“Wheels on the bus, round and round
Wheels on the bus, round and round
Driver on the bus, move on back
People on the bus, bumpy bump
All through the town.”

It’s not quite right, but it’s darn close! He’s been doing this a lot recently. We went for a bike ride before his nap and he was in the trailer behind me singing:

“Bah, bah, black sheep have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
One for my master
One for my dame
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.”

He’s not quite on key, but then again, perhaps he takes after his mother on that front.

He also appears to have learned Happy Birthday at school recently as he’s been running around singing “Happy Birthday to Mommy! Happy Birthday to Mommy!” which is rather timely as Friday is my birthday!

Now, if he would just stop singing so he could take a nap that would be good!