Getting me lost in the corn maze, Version 2009

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Friday evening videos

Yesterday evening, Caleb spent 2 hours, I'm not even kidding, 2 FULL HOURS sitting like this in

the sandbox, babbling away to his trucks and other toys,

while I sat just on the other side of the open glass sliding door

with a mostly sleeping baby, keeping an eye on him

and also getting some work done.

Friday night in the sandbox

Then, afterwards we had a dinner of apples, black olives, garlic bread and cheese on the deck, which inspired the most intriguing conversations between bread ducks and zebras...

Conversation with his food

More conversation with his food, demonstration of "upside down"

We also had a surprise visit from a beautiful blue butterfly (which then brought back memories of Barbara holding a butterfly on her finger, as well as her screaming at bugs and bees and such). Which then led to a conversation about bees and how they sting, and necessitated the clarification of the term 'sting', that it is not the same as 'la-la' or 'sing' - though, I must say, after this week and the time we had at the park with bees chasing us, I am all for a world where BEES SING instead of STING.

Bees sting

I realize that this is entirely too much video for a single post (and I even refrained from showing you the butterfly one with Caleb screaming to show how Barbara did), but I have been meaning to take more videos of him to record his adorable 'Hunglish' and idiosyncracies before they are all POOF, GONE!

Exciting times

Day Three

Ariana at 3 days of age

ABCs and 123s

I've been remiss with video recording lately

(read: the past 4 months),

but tonight as Caleb and I sat eating our green beans and sweet potato,

singing the ABC song and others,

it occurred to me that maybe I should grab my video camera

to record a few minutes of what this child is now capable of

(and has been for approximately 4 months):

counting to 10 in both English and Hungarian

and singing the Alphabet Song -

though this is not his best performance of that song by far,

being that his mouth was full of green beans at the time.

(I should have waited until he finished eating.)

This one is a BONUS for you -

singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider song.