Dude

I know that Duder is a smart little man, but some of the things that come out of his mouth are incredible!  The way he reasons and thinks as a 3 year old is impressive.

Since Gaetan's new semester has started he's been a lot busier than we anticipated.  And coming off almost an entire month home, Tristan was taking his absence the hardest (outwardly).  I missed Gaetan, don't get me wrong, but I wasn't about to start throwing fits and such because of it...

One of the things that he was doing was being very difficult to put to bed.  Normally, he is the easier of the two to go to sleep... but he's been crying and saying that he just wants Papa and that he wants him to snug him... it's nice right? To want to be wanted that much... but not in the way he was showing it.  So at first Gaetan would stay with him for a little while but as soon as he would leave he would be right back at it, being unhappy.  We didn't know what the deal was and he would always come up with a different excuse, but we finally got to the bottom of his misbehaving.  He said that he missed Papa and that's why he wanted all this time with him... he was used to having more time with him and now that he's gone at work more it makes him sad.  Heart breaking right?  Oh our sweet Duder.

Also, one of the times Lucy was upset about something so he started freaking out after she was already calm.  We went up to check on them and we asked him why he was crying and was upset... he said it was because he was being upset on Lucy's behalf.  Then he said it was for C-half... and D-Half... what a silly guy!

At the library he likes to play Reader Rabbit.  He is currently killing the 1st grader grade on it.  He can read all the words no problem that they are throwing at him, and he understands all the games that they want to play to learn these words.  The library also go fancy new screens that are touch screen, so even though he's really good at the mouse, now he doesn't even need it!  Lucy was pretty thrilled that it was touch screen... :)

Dude reading to Lucy

Something he said the other day was hilarious.  We had been telling Lucy to stop doing something and she seemed fairly unhappy about not being able to do it... so what does Dude say?  "Whomp whomp whomp..."  I thought it was really really funny... and he knew he was being funny about it too!  :)

The competitive nature these kids have in them already is astounding.  It's nice because I can use it to my advantage.  Especially when it comes to picking up toys!  Lucy is so fast about learning things and just is fast in general, but Dude has the size on her so he can bump her out of the way if necessary  :)

They really do love each other... 

Can't wait to see how they are with another one running around.

JVG