♥Heart Breaker♥

Like I said yesterday, Colin is a bit behind in some areas. His emotions aren't always appropriate for certain situations. I've never tried explaining death to him because there's never been a reason to. Plus I'm not sure how to explain it to him so that he'll understand.


Tonight the boys were winding down and watching, "The Land Before Time". Towards the end of the movie, Colin gets a really sad look on his face and quietly starts to cry. Ron goes to his side to find out why he was so distraught. Colin said, "Chomper is gone!". The little dinosaur had not died-just moved back with his parents, but Colin understood the role and friendship of this little character, and that the other characters were sad to see him go. I was so surprised! This is huge for him!



While putting him to bed, Ron said Colin went into our bedroom and said, "Come on, Chomper. You can sleep in Colin's bed." Now we've added a third friend to our troop. Ü My cup runneth over.

Friends Anyone?

"WAIT MOM!" This is the phrase I'm constantly hearing from my five-year-old recently. He's a very sloooow mover, and apparently his new friends are as well.

I've come to realize that Colin is about two years behind in his not-really-milestone-milestones. His random comments have just started (the latest bedtime one, "Kids love birthday parties"), the MINE phase has yet to end, and now we've gained imaginary friends.

The other day I was in a rush to get out of the house. I had things to do and places to go. I had just locked the front door when Colin said his new phrase for the first time, "WAIT MOM!". I frantically unlocked the door hoping it was an unprompted potty break. The door opened and Colin stood still for a moment. Then he replied, "Come on R2D2. Come on C3PO. Let's go." He looked back as he walked away as if to check on their progress.

The next of several times was when we were leaving the parking lot of Las Brisas. I put the car into reverse, and again hear "WAIT MOM!". I slammed on my brakes. Colin opened his door and encouraged his friends to get into the car. This time he added machinery-type sound effects as if the robots were being loaded into the car.

Our new friends have enjoyed meals with us, shopped at Costco, bath time, and playing with the dogs. So far I think I'm the only one that has been made aware of their presence, and I'm happy to share this friendship with my little guy. (How could you not like friends that share, don't complain, don't yell, and always eat their food?!) Welcome to the family, boys!

I Drew A Blank...

Our new Ward here in Chino is really small. Hardly any kids in Primary or Nursery, and lots of retired people. They've all been so great, but our family has strange names, so people seem to be having a hard time remembering them let alone pronouncing them. Colin is now an icky body part (guess I should have spelled it with two L's), and I'm still Carissa or Teresa, and our last name is all kinds of different guesses. Ron and Blake really haven't had a problem...until recently.

The nursery is small so they have a few ladies that rotate out. The first couple of Sundays it was the same two ladies. Then I met another lady after a few weeks who's the Nursery leader. After Primary (I've already been called to be Second Counselor), I went to get Blake and the new lady greeted me saying, "Blank did a great job today!" I thought I probably had just heard her incorrectly, so I ignored it. Then I got his papers that he colored on and they all said, "BLANK". I couldn't stop laughing and I told the Leader, "His name is actually spelled with an E and no N, so it's Blake." She looked confused but said, "Oh-okay."

I'm not a celebrity-I could not name my child a stupid name like Blank!