Baby Signs

With Wesley we taught him just a few baby signs which came in very handy for communicating with us. We Figured we would teach the same ones to Paxton. We started using them when appropriate but were not really pushing it. Wesley thought it was great and really started showing them to him a lot. Almost every meal I would hear him encouraging Pax to sign "please" or "more" or "all done". He would smile and watch but had never even tried to imitate. Yesterday I had left the room to get something while the boys were eating and when I walked back in Pax was smiling at me and started doing the "all done" sign! He did it again this morning at breakfast too! Wesley was especially excited to see him do it.

Fire House

So when I used to Nanny every once in a while I would take the kiddos to the fire station. Well it dawned on me the other day that I had not done that with my own children! We had to run out to get some groceries and passed the fire station on out way and the trucks were parked out front so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to stop. Wesley was all excited about it until a fireman came out and then he went running back to the car. With a little convincing (and an awesome fireman who obviously had kids of his own with how great he was with Wes) we toured around the trucks and the firehouse. By the end of it Wesley was asking question and even wanted to "drive" the fire truck. Paxton just sat on my hip taking everything in and watching every move that anyone made. Wesley got to show off his muscles and held a fire hose as well as some equipment for breaking into houses. They gave both boys some play fire helmets! When we got home Wesley said he wanted to play fireman and that I could be the driver and that he would be the "computer guy"... he had been in the passengers seat and shown how the computer works! I think we will be making many more trips to the fire house!

when you grow up...

This conversation took place in the car yesterday
Wes-"Dad see them building all that stuff"
D-"Yes I see all the machinery, they are building a metro"
Wes-"But there are no worker guys"
D-"Not today they are having a break today. Do you want to build a metro?"
Wes- "No dad I am not a worker guy"
D- "You could be one when you get bigger"
Wes- "I could?"
D- "Yes you can be anything when you get bigger. You can be a firefighter, a worker guy, a musician... what do you want to be?"
Wes- "I want to drive a rocket ship!"
D- "You can do that, but you have to learn really hard in school and pay attention to what people are teaching you"
Wes- "Yeah like numbers so I can 5 4 3 2 1 BLAST OFF!!"