Sad to Happy

Philip came up to me today with a pouty look on his face.

I asked him what was wrong.

He said, "I am sad."

I said, "Well, then I should probably tickle you and make you happy."

So he came over to me and let me tickle him a little.

I asked him if he was happy now.

He said, "Yes."

Put the Candle Back!

We watched part of "Young Frankenstein" the other day.

Later, while I was making supper, Philip was playing with his "Penguins of Madagascar" beside me and he was making them talk.

One of the penguins would say, "Put the candle BACK!"

And the other would answer, "I will NOT put the candle BACK!"

You probably had to be there but I just love how he picks up lines here and there from movies.
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And "Toy Story III" comes out this summer!

Super Hero

It's kind of cool to see how the "baby" of the family learns and grows.

Usually, he just plays along with the other kids. When Hayden is around, they wrestle. When the girls play 'PowerPuff Girls', he gets to be Buttercup. (I even have to find a green shirt for him to wear so it's official.)

Last night though, my baby started the game. He came over to me with 3 blankets and requested that I tie them all on him so he could be a super hero. (I don't know why he needed 3, but he informed me he did.) Then the girls had to join in. And, finally, so did big brother.

For the past month or so, Philip has been doing this really cute thing. It started when Mom & Dad were here visiting. Philip was wearing a Darth Vader mask and, apparently, Mom & I did a really good job acting scared because he took off his mask and said, "It's me! Philip."

Now when he sees me after I've been gone for awhile, he'll run up to me saying, "Mommy! Mommy! It's me! Philip."

Just in case I had forgotten about him, I guess.

Then after he did that one night, he ran back into the living room. I was in the kitchen and Paula went out the door. He heard the door shut and didn't see me so he ran down the hall yelling, "Friend Tami, Friend Tami, where are you?"

Then when he found me, he jumped up and threw his arms around my neck and said, "You're my best friend!"

Giants

Last night while sitting on the couch with us, Philip looked at us and said,

"You both are giants."

The Naughty List

Meredith made some little decorations at Sunday School. They're just little white construction paper stars and have a long crepe paper "tail." I have them hanging on the refrigerator.

Every time Philip sees them, he says, "Look! It's the naughty list!"

It does kind of look like Santa's Naughty List Scroll that we see on "The Miser Brothers' Christmas." Which we've been watching about 40 times a day ever since Christmas.

I also gave the little boy a buzz cut the other day. He was starting to look like one of the Beatles and now he looks like a little boy again. If daddy doesn't get to Hayden's hair pretty soon, I'm going to do his too.

On Sunday night, John and I were getting ready to go to bed. About 11:30, we hear the baby screaming so I sent John in to quiet him down. (If I go in, Philip thinks it's time to get up.) John goes in and talks to Philip for a minute but the screaming doesn't stop, then John yells at me to hurry up and get in there quick!

He finally noticed that the baby had his leg wedged in-between the slats of his crib. Just his knee actually. We figured out to put the rest of his leg out too and then John pulled the slats apart just enough so I could pull Philip free.

Then we had to go out to the living room to calm him down. Philip said, "That was kind of scary."

My poor baby.
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Of course, if he'd just get out of the stupid crib and into his big boy bed, that wouldn't have happened! I don't know why he won't move over. As soon as Stephanie saw her big bed, she refused to even touch the crib again.

I hate to tell Philip this: but his New Year's Resolutions are to be sleeping in his big boy bed before the end of January and to be housebroken before his 3rd birthday.

I'll let you know how he does. ;)