Ebola and Malaria

Eden's back to wanting to learn all about diseases and parasites.

A few weeks ago she learned about the Ebola virus and loved it.

The week after we started reading about malaria and it scared her to death.

Ebola: Eats all your internal organs, through your skin, makes you bleed out your mouth and eyeballs, eats through your brain until you can't remember anything and go crazy, you need to be put into solitary confinement because it is highly contagious and kills you after 2 weeks.

Malaria: You get it from mosquitoes. That's as far as we got through that book before she was too scared to read further.

Sleeping Naked

For the past week or so, Leila will kindly go to bed at night.

Then when I leave the room, she'll take off her pajamas and sleep in only a diaper.

Last night she decided that even her diaper was too much to sleep it.

She woke up in the middle of the night with a naked bummie and wet blankets and sheets.

Leila's Song

Leila started singing a song....It went like this....

"Dad! Dad! Dad! *kiss*"

Eden's Valentine

I was teaching preschool for Valentines.

Me: "Who knows what today is?"

Eden: "Valentines Day!"

Me: "Right! Why do we celebrate Valentines Day?"

(Blank stares from kids)

Me: "Its a day to remember to show people that we love them."

Me: "Who are some people we love?"

Roman: "Our family!"

Eden: "Roman!"

Me: "Our family and friends. Exactly."

Me: "So, how do we show that we love them?"

(Quiet)

Me: "We can do nice things for them....give hugs and kisses."

(Eden runs over and kisses Roman)

Later that day....

Me: "Eden. Do you like Roman?"

Eden: "Yeah. He's a good boyfriend."

But in her defense I do think she meant "a boy that's a friend". She also named others boys that were friends.

Love Letters

Eden was "writing letters" on Nana's iPhone.

(pushing random keys)

"Dear Nana,

I love you.

I know because I feel it

deep within my heart.

I also love mermaids.

Love, Eden"

Leila's Colors

Leila doesn't know how to say many words yet. But there is one color that she can recognize and say.

"PURPLE!"

Classical Music

Eden and I listened to some classical music the other day and I was talking to her about the different instruments and composers. A few days later we drew some pictures of instruments (we looked them up online). She was really into learning the few instruments we talked about.

A week or so later Eden and I went to a neighbor's house to return something. I talked while she played with toys.

Eden: "Mom! Look what I found?!"

(I look over and she's holding a recorder)

Eden: "Its an OBOE!"

She was thrilled.