See That Kid, He's Mine- 1st Day of Soccer

Sincere started soccer practice today. Now he is youngest one by far. Most of them are a year or year and half older then he is but I know he doesn't have problems getting along with older kids and he needs a physical outlet for some of that pint up energy.

Today he spent half the day as a spider but by the time he got to the field he was a dragon. And the dragon wasn't to happy about his shin guards. But besides that everything was going good until we got out of the car and he saw the cool playground in front of the soccer field. Sigh. So in true Sincere fashion he spent the whole time fixated on the park. He would kick the ball once and say "I am done can we go to the playground now." And then plop on the ground. He did this 40 times in the course of a 30 minute practice.

He also spent a lot of time using his hands to line up the ball perfectly before he kicked it which caused him to be way behind all the other kids during the warm up drills. But he made it down to the end even though it took a while for him to get there.

During the game we had a lot of Sincere shine through. He made the first goal (Go Sincere) but then proceeded to have a melt down, run off the field and plop down in the grass because the ball they were using was the one he had during the warm ups. With his bottom lip out he said "I am sad." I asked him why he said "That's my ball they have." So I tired to explain that's how soccer works and put him back out there. He spent the rest of the game having his own game on one side of the field after the kids got another ball. Every couple kicks he told me he was done and wanted to go the playground.

After we finished and I got him strapped in the car he looks up and says "I had a good time playing Soccer mommy." THIS KID!

Mustard and Fireworks

This video is of Sincere on the 4th of July. We didn't do much but go to the park (Sincere ate a random unknown berry and stuck his hand in a flying ants nest). And we watched the neighborhood fireworks but Sincere loved it. He was actually on his way to bed (hence the underwear) but they were so loud that he had to go see them. He was so excited.

The second video is of Sincere making a mess with mustard about 2 weeks ago. I had brought the mustard upstairs real quick and forgot about it. I didn't remember it was upstairs until Sincere walked into the office smelling like a hot dog. Anyone know how to get mustard stain out of wood Thomas tracks?

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. :)

Mothers Day Storm

We went out to eat at an Indian restraunt for Mothers Day dinner on Saturday night. Sincere was all over the place because he was excited that 3 people were giving him undived attention at the same time. LOL! But he was talking to other patrons, eating sugar and salt and trying to escape. By the time they set the plates down in anticpiation for the food that was coming Sincere was sorely in need of something to play with. He chooose his plate.

The video of Sincere is about 20 minutes after he starting playing with the empty plate and silverwear. By the time the rice got there he was well into the story. The story involved a huge storm that made its way to land and hurt the spoons. I didn't think of recording until people around us started laughing. So this is just a small snippet of a long story of a storm and the clouds causing trouble on his plate. I didn't mind because the story was funny early on but then "the rain" started falling on the floor and table and it then stopped being funny. :)

Celebrating Earth Day

Sincere is all about Earth Day. He has been running around all day screaming "Its Earth's Birthday!!!" This morning I let him play with the dirt in the windowsill and thought I would just post some video of his earthy side. So you can all enjoy Earth Day with him. :)

At one point in the video he tells me that "Ladybugs come from the dirt.Its science" and when I apologize for not knowing it he assures me its okay that I didn't. This kid I tell you.

The second video is Sincere talking about his mini compost pile which he loves to check on and add too. Its a really fun and easy project and I am glad we did it.

So in the words of Sincere "Happy Earth's Birthday!!!"