Update on the Boys

Kristin has requested an update on my two sons and so, to show I am responsive to reader comments, here are a few notable things:

We were discussing the difference between what a man and what a boy was as well as the female equivalents and Avi seemed to be getting it pretty well. "Colin is a boy," he said, "and Daddy is a man." So far so good. "Gracie is a girl and Mommy is a woman." Yup. And of course, the requisite question - "And what about you, Avi?"

"I'm going to be a penguin when I grow up."

My son. The penguin.

Avi is currently into story play. What I mean by that is he reenacts, re-imagines and amalgamates different stories he's heard or seen. Certain elements are currently recurring - it's snowing, we're in an igloo (a "blanket-fort" either on his bed or with chairs) and Veggie Tales characters appear. I'm currently Larry or Archibald. I suppose that's better than Bazooka Ears.

Ah, yes, Bazooka Ears. For a while Avi would greet me with "Hey you big bazooka ears" when I came home. It's not that I have enormous ears or that they make intermittent loud booming noises - it's just something one of the grape children called the other in a Veggie Tales book we got from the library. I'm glad that one didn't stick.

As for Theo, he's friggin' heavy, but oh-so-cute. He sleeps a lot, pukes a lot and generally does baby things. He thinks his brother is pretty entertaining and he's right. It's hard to tell what he'll be like as he becomes his own person, but we'll do our best to squeeze any normalcy out of him. I'm going for mad-scientist. It should compliment musical buffoon nicely, I think. (And lest you think I am maligning Avi, I'm not. Humor and music just seem to be his interests/intelligences and I suspect he will continue to use them for good and not evil.)