Love is a many splendored thing

Putting Maceo to bed one night, Kate leaned in close and said, "I love you , Maceo." Maceo looked at her closely and said, "I like your nose. Whatchu like?"

Blizzard of 2014

We just got about 4 inches of snow yesterday, which is really the most snow the boys have ever seen, and it's probably the only real snow Maceo remembers seeing. We went out several times to sled, and I tried two different ways of doing slo-mo of the action.

Various Christmas Videos

In the following video, you will see where Maceo demonstrates his fear of Santa, some of the presents he received, and Cash eating a toy.

Why?

Maceo is getting a lot of mileage out of questions. One set of questions is to look at a variety of things (Christmas lights, trucks, donuts in a book someone gave him (cough*McMurrers*)) and ask, "Which one you like?" He isn't really even that interested in your answer, but merely in posing the question and telling you his choice. "Maybe I like the yellow one," he'll say. He will also ask Cash which one he likes. Those responses generally involve clumsy grabbing and stuffing of the closest thing into Cash's mouth. He also has begun the ever-exciting "Why?" game. One day, on the drive home, it went something like this: M: "Papa, where's Mama?" P: "Downtown." M: "Why?" P: "Because that's where her office is." M: "Why?" P: "Because that's near where the other people she works with also work." M: "Why?" P: "Because it's better that way." M: "Why?" P: "Because it's more efficient." M: "Why?" P: "Because if people are closer, than they can spend more time working and getting things done. M: "Oh, ok." Sigh.

Lies My Grandson Told Me

Maceo goes to Grandpa's house nearly every Saturday for a several hour visit. Upon his return to our house, we are regaled (often by Grandpa) with accounts of the places they visited and the foods they ate. Often, Grandpa tells us stories like these: They went through a car wash one weekend. Grandpa told us that Maceo was anxious about it while they were going through, which surprised him as Maceo had told him that he had been though one before. Grandpa is often surprised by Maceo's confident assent when posed the question, "Do you know X?". When pressed, Maceo immediately caves and says, "I dunno." Maceo will tell Grandpa which way to go in the car. Surprisingly, he is often correct, especially when going to places he goes regularly, like Grandpa's house or Mami's or school. However, one Saturday, Grandpa took Maceo's advice on how to get to the zoo, which ended with a suddenly not so confident Maceo saying, "I dunno" and an unsure Grandpa wondering how to actually get to the zoo. One Saturday, about 20 minutes after dropping Maceo off at Grandpa's, we received a voice mail: "Nick. I have a question about diapers. It's no emergency, but call me back." When Nick called back a little while later, Grandpa asked, "Does Maceo ever go around the house with no diapers on?" Nick said no. "Well, he told me he does and that it was ok. I told him to make sure to tell me when he had to pee. About 4 minutes later, he peed on the floor." Eventually, we think Grandpa will catch on to Maceo's shenanigans.

Give me some!

Last weekend, we had friends Jon and Siri over with their two sons Wesley and Theo to make cookies. Wesley and Theo are basically the same age as Mace and Cash--off by only a few weeks in both instance. We had invited Julian and Eben and Erin over, too, but Julian was sick and so we rescheduled their cookie making visit to one of the two snow days we had at the beginning of the week. Nick messed around a little with the camera and came up with this footage. Most of the filming is of Mace and Julian; Wesley is the kid eating all the pineapple.

Grand Premier!

Just messing around with iMovie. Maceo and Cash and Nick dropped Kate off at aerobics and then continued on to the Soft Playroom at a nearby rec center. It's always good times, and Maceo really likes it. Plus, Cash just looks around the whole time and then conks out on the way home from all the stimulation. Win-win!