may the force be with you

In my defense, the blog posts have been sparse because I'm living in the moment instead of writing about it.  At least that's what I'll tell myself when I look back at the blog and wished I'd written more!

This particular post is about Josh's recent obsession with Star Wars.  He's done with Ninjago and Minecraft is sort of in the backburner.  It's all about Star Wars these days.  I was pleased to discover his favourites are episodes IV, V and VI!  He's watched all episodes BUT episode II.  Ironically enough, it's the only episode I haven't seen either.

Of course, the highlight of Star Wars for Josh is the lightsaber.  And, I guess, being a Jedi.  I have caught him several times trying to use the force (and, according to him, being successful!).  Although I did like Star Wars as a kid, I don't ever remember pretending to be a Jedi and trying to use the force.  Must be a boy thing...

During our recent trip to NY, my sister bought Josh his first 2 lightsabers.  It was love at first sight.  He is truly obsessed and quite skilled at handling them!  He has since gotten another lightsaber from the PNE (that lights up and makes noises!).  And in an afternoon of father-son bonding, Bri and Josh went to Rona and then built Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber.  I'm still not sure who exactly was being indulged with that endeavour.  Ha.

But in the end, it is Josh's conversations about Star Wars that has been most entertaining for me.  There have been so many quips, questions and stories, I can't begin to remember them all.  Here are a couple that have stuck out in my mind:

Josh on saber-play:

J (as he crisscrosses 2 light sabers against my neck; in a very serious voice): Mommy, what are your last words?
Y: Uhhh…I love you.
Josh makes a slicing action with his 2 lightsabers like he’s slicing my head off.  Ha.

J (doing the same to Aves; same serious voice): Ave, what are your last words?
A: Say it in french!

Hahaha.  That could very well be the most famous last words EVER!  Fwiw, he sliced her head of anyway!

THEN, he came back to me and did the same crisscross against my neck:

J: Mommy, what are your last words…in french!
Y: Uhhh…Je t’aime!

And then he sliced my head off.  Again.

Sigh.

Josh on pod-racing:

J: Mommy, did you know that Darth Vader knows how to race pod racers?
Y: Really?!  Darth Vader knows how to race pod racers?! (I never recalled an episode where I saw Darth Vader racing pod racers.)
J (in an exasperated tone with his hands in the air): Maw-uh-om!  Darth Vader IS Anakin.  And Anakin knows how to race pod racers.  So, of course, Darth Vader knows how to race pod racers too!

Mommy can be so uncool sometimes.

S and Josh when I told them to do their best ninja pose (I wish I'd said "best Jedi pose")

motherhood moments

As a family with 2 working parents, part of our "routine" is that we do our chores and errands on Saturday morning to get them over and done for the weekend.  The kids also like to have pancake breakfasts on the weekends.  We dawdled our way through our pancake breakfast this past Saturday and before we knew it, it was 10:30 am.  We hurriedly cleaned up so we could get out the door and through a jam-packed few hours of errands.

I decide that to make things faster (and because this moment to myself would only last for so long), I needed to brush my teeth AND go to the bathroom at the same time.  Ha.  As I sat on the toilet, brushing away, I thought of this post - talking about these motherhood moments where we end up doing things we never imagined we would do before we became moms.

At that exact moment, Aves walked into the bathroom, looked at me on the toilet and without even the slightest hesitation, she came over, sat on my lap and reminded me for the 57th time that morning that she wanted to go to the barbershop to get her hair cut.  We must have been quite the sight.  Motherhood moment, indeed.

complex

Someone please explain to me what is going on in my son's head...

A couple of weeks ago, we were headed out of town.  After crazily getting packed and everything and everyone piled into the car, we started off on our way.  Josh was in the back and I was kitty corner to him in the front, passenger seat.  We hadn't even left the neighbourhood and I was JUST settling into my seat when Josh said to me, "Mommy, flatten your hair.  It's getting pretty crazy."  Seriously?!

Then yesterday, after a fair bit of time in the water the past couple of weeks, we had this conversation:

J: Mommy, do you have a bathing suit where there is a top part that covers here (pointing to his chest) and a bottom part that covers your privates?

Y: You mean a bikini?

J: Yeah, do you have a bikini?  Next time we go swimming, can you wear a bikini?

WTF?!  Seriously, someone please explain what my son is thinking because I'm starting to get a complex...

cotton candy

Out of the blue this morning:

A: Mommy, we had cotton candy when we went to the PNE yast time.  Can we go to the PNE again and have cotton candy?
Y: Of course we can!
A: (jumping up and down) Yay!  I yove cotton candy!  Do you yove cotton candy too?
Y: Yes, I do.  Do you know why they call it cotton candy?
A: (still jumping up and down) Because it tastes yike candy!
Y: And what does it look like?
A: (stops and thinks long and hard) ...Fyuff!

SO funny.  In her defense, I asked her if she knew what cotton was and she didn't.  When I gave her a cotton ball, she said, "Mommy! It feels yike cotton candy!".  Ha.

just because

sneezy

Out of the blue, coming home from swimming tonight:

J: How come people, like Daddy, try to not sneeze?
Y: What do you mean?
J: When they need to sneeze, they go like this (puts his arm up in front of his nose/mouth area and stifles a sneeze into his arm).
Y: Wow.  Good question, Josh.  I don't know.  I never try to hold back a sneeze (it's true) because sneezes feel good.  If my nose is itchy and I sneeze, I feel better after I sneeze.  Don't you think so?
J: Yeah.
(pregnant pause)
J: I tried to hold back a sneeze today.  In the playground at recess.  I put my arm up and went like this (does the same action as before).  It hurt my nose to hold back my sneeze.  That's why I want to know why people do it.

Funny how asking a question with a seemingly obvious answer makes the answer seem less obvious once the question is asked!

april showers bring...

...lots of photos, apparently!

I've recently learned that Aves loves flowers.  She is constantly pointing them out everywhere!  She can easily identify tulips; every pink tree is a cherry blossom and every white tree is a dogwood.

Everytime we are out and about and she sees colourful flowers, she asks me to take a picture.  I don't know why, but I haven't been indulging her.  It just feels like if I started down that path, I will have an iPhone full of photos of flowers!

Today, her and I went out for a stroll to the Skytrain station.  I knew she would likely ask me to take pictures of flowers, so I decided to bring her V-Tech camera along.  As we started out, I handed her the camera and told her that she could now take her own pictures.

She was very excited by this and told me she was going to take pictures of pretty flowers AND pretty leaves.  So here is Aves' very first photo journal (unedited) of her walk to the Skytrain station.