Christmas

Just before Christmas I asked Liam what he thought Daddy would like for Christmas - he replied, a train, of course. I thought it would be fun to actually follow through on this idea and let Liam pick out a train for Geoff. I know - not my brightest idea but Liam actually did a great job at the store picking out one train (the biggest he could find) and identifying that it was for Daddy. When we got home he, of course, wanted to get it out of the box and play with it. After much discussion I was able to put the train away and out of reach.

A couple days past and Liam asked me where Daddy's train was. I explained we had wrapped it so Daddy could open it for Christmas. That night, at dinner....

L: "Daddy, I got you something!"
G: "You did?"
L: "A train!"
me: "Doh!"
L (undaunted): "Daddy, you share with me??"

Hypothesis

Liam loves the PBS show Dinosaur Train. (Don't you wish you were the genius that thought to combine trains and dinosaurs into one show for preschoolers?!?) The show is designed - as best a cartoon can - to help kids learn about...well, dinosaurs and science. One of the characters on the show has a favorite saying, "I have a hypothesis!"

Recently, Liam and I were playing and he looked up at me and said, "Mommy, I have a hypothesis!" I was laughing so hard I didn't even have a chance to ask him what his actually hypothesis was!