We also had a near binkie reclaiming disaster. Last night James put Evan and Drew to bed while I went to Mom's Night Out. While he was putting Evan to bed, out of the blue Evan says that his binkies are in the dresser. We kept them in the top drawer of his tall dresser. He hasn't mentioned that they lived there for ages. Since he gave it up, 2 mos ago or so now. James said that there weren't any binkies up there but Evan kept insisting they were there. So James picks Evan up to show him without looking first to see if there were binkies in there. And there were! I had just forgotten to throw them out after I knew that Evan was over the binkie. So of course James has to give Evan a binkie. So Evan falls asleep with it, etc.
I come home and he tells me all this so I start brain storming about how we can possibly get rid of the binkies again. Worse because he now knows there are more than one.
James suggests that all of them should become broken. I said, no way, there is no way that will fool him, we need to come up with better than that.
So I thought of a friend's binkie fairy tactic. I went to Evan's Christmas stash and pulled out a Thomas the Train and immediately went to his room. I took the binkie out of his mouth while he slept and all the binkies out of his drawer and left the train.
He woke later with a terrible cough from his cold and started fussing. I went in and gave him some cough medicine and he asked me where the binkie was. I said that binkie fairy came and took all his binkies and left him a TRAIN!!!!! He asked again where it was and I pulled "binkeyland" out of the blue. That seemed to satisfy him and he asked me to open the train while he excitedly exclaimed that "trains go CHOO CHOO!" while pulling his hand down in that trucker motion. Then he rolled it around his pillow and went back to sleep after I left.
The next morning the first thing he said to me when I came in was "binkey train!" Hopefully it will be okay tonight, but I am sure we will have to remind him of the binkey fairy and his new train quite a bit in the coming weeks and show him the drawer several times and its new lack of binkies.
There was a lot going on this week. We went to the NC State Fair during James' lunch "hour" in the middle of the week then Grandma E came this weekend for a visit.
Evan and the foot long hot dog. I think he would have enjoyed it more if he could have sat down and eaten it. But there wasn't anywhere for us to squeeze our double stroller so we stood. Drew actually reached over at one point and grabbed a HUGE chunk of ketchup covered bun and started chowing down on it.
"I wish I had some hot dog."
James and Evan rode quite a few rides and I rode the tea cups with Evan. Evan really loved riding all of them! We still have to accompany him on a lot of them due to some height restrictions, but I think he likes us to come along. He definitely needed me on the tea cups, because once those started up he was flung around the tea cup! So I grabbed him and held him on my lap.
Look at Evan's face on the swings. He actually liked riding them a lot, though his face doesn't betray that.
A tentative smile.
"I wish I was big enough to ride those fun rides." Soon enough.
So, a long long time ago, the Ballard family gave us this Little Tykes Mail Cart and Evan used it as a baby and then we eventually put it up in the attic. I brought it down a few weeks ago since Drew likes to pull up so much, I thought he could start using it. Evan very quickly claimed it as his own toy and likes to push it around and deliver "mail" to us. The mail consists of 3 plastic red, blue and yellow envelopes. Evan calls them "letters" Drew likes to play with the mail cart mostly because he sees Evan playing with it and he wants to know what the deal is. Evan is very protective of the mail cart and will yell at Drew if he touches it and snatch the "letters" out of Drew's hands if he sees Drew dare touch them. The mail cart is frequently in its own time out because of Evan's possessiveness. The other day, Evan was still napping and Drew got a hold of the blue letter and was pretty happy that he had free reign over this coveted artifact.
Our frogs had babies.
Drew is a little dare devil and will throw himself backwards when James is holding him. He flails out his arms and dives backwards wanting to be spun.
We enjoyed a nice visit with Grandma this weekend and went to the park. It was a low key and relaxing weekend.
Drew: I want that train. Evan: He better not be thinking about touching my train.
Yet another little girl infatuated with Evan. Oh boy.
