Feelings on Fathers Day

Sunday was Fathers Day 09'. Sincere and I treated dear old dad to a pancake brunch at Toast. I brought Sincere's trusty microphone to sing the song that he had create for him but he wasn't feeling it. Of course he sang it the days leading up to Fathers Day but the day of he wasn't in the mood. Tempermental artists are so hard to work with!

I got a couple videos from the day. The first one I will post is of Sincere showcasing his "LET ME DO IT MYSELF" stage. He is deep into that stage now and tries to refuse everything you do for him. Well everything expect cleaning up his mess. He wants to open the door with the key and put the money into the meter but he doesn't want to clean up his own mess. Where is all the independence when its clean up time?

Notice how big the pancakes are. He squealed with delight when he saw them. Took like 5 bites and was done. We took enough pancakes for the next two weeks.


The second video is of Sincere doing funny faces at the table. I thought his take on "sad face" was so funny. I was cracking up in the middle of the place and had to pull out the camera. Such a dramatic little guy.

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library books

Sincere loves the library. I actually use it as an incentive to get him to do stuff. "If you get in the car tomorrow we will go to the library." He does a lot of running around at the library but he also picks out books that he wants to take home to read. I let him pick out what he wants from the kid area and we take them home to read through them. Every week we do this and he has gotten through a lot of books this way. In fact I am signing him up for the summer reading program at the library. I don't know what that will be like for the younger kids but I am sure it will be a challenge. :)

Here is some video from yesterday morning of him reading two of his library books from this week. As always its a challenge to get Sincere to focus enough to sit through the books without getting distracted. He gets distracted really easy but that's just who he is. In between the two books I had to let him play but he agreed to sit down for just one more before he was over it. LOL!

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Living with a HIGHLY sensitive kid

Ever sit around and think about how it would feel to live with a highly sensitive/spirited kid? If the answer is "yes" then your in luck. I have documented one of the thousands of ways your daily life might change if you had a highly sensitive kid living with you. In this rare video you can see the sensitive kid being "bothered" by the tags in his shirt. This happens all the time. He is also "bothered" by the sun on his leg if he is sitting at the table and the sun is shinning in the window, a tiny drop of water if one lands on his arm, threads in his pants, a noise so far away that I can barely hear it, if he feels me smell him and a piece of dust in his mouth. Watch the video and imagine how many fun times we have. :)

The second video is one I captured the day after we went to see "UP" at the movies. I was in the office and I heard-

"Ladies and Gentleman. Ladies and Gentleman. Ladies and Gentleman. I present to you....Thomas." So I snuck in there and asked him what he was doing. He had piled all of his trains in one corner and told me they were watching a movie. I asked him what the movie was about and he said "Slides." Then he took out a car ramp and had Thomas slide down in front of the other trains. Now this has nothing to do with the movie Up but its funny because he gets the concept of sitting in an audience and watching someone else doing something. He even had Percy and Hector sit close because "Percy is shy."

So I ran to get the camera and I lucked out because I guess there was more then one showing that day. :)