Noel, age four

Noel and I just compiled a list of his favorite things at age four. I typed them in the order we did them, and you can see how he came up with his own categorites toward the end. Here they are:

Food: Pizza and hamburgergers

Drink: Milk and orange juice

Toy: Pillows

Game: Castle Crashers

TV show: Max and Ruby

Movie: Wall-E

Fruit: Grapes

Vegetable: Carrots

Color: Red and blue

Restaurant: Cici's and McDonald's and Wendy's

Friends: Everybody

Book: Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Song: "Day Tripper", "A Hard Day's Night"

Number: 100 billion

Animal: Horse

Candy: Every candy

Cereal: Honey Crunch and Oats

Place: Tillis Park exercise trail with 14 exercises

Holiday: Everything

Color (again): Orange

Crackers: Graham crackers and Cheez-Its

Dominick's art exhibit

Our living room has become an art gallery filled with drawings inspired by the boys' favorite video game, Plants vs. Zombies. Dominick says he likes our house better now that it's a PvZ house and not to call it a gallery because the drawings are not for sale. I love them so much.

Barnyard Moosical

Since we're still getting caught up here in blogland, I would now like to share a video of Dominick's kindergarten musical, held on May 4. His participation in a kindergarten-wide program (five classes, a total of about 100 kids) in front of a gymnasium packed full of parents, siblings and other family members was nothing short of miraculous. Consider that this is the same child who, a few short years ago, freaked out at parties when "Happy Birthday" was sung. My eyes were more than a bit misty when I realized that Dom was not about to run out of the gym screaming that night. He filed in with the others, wore his goat hat, sang and did the hand movements. The next day, he told me liked it so much he wanted to do it again. Dominick has come so far, and I couldn't be prouder.

The video below shows the part of the musical that featured the goats, a song called "Gourmet Pizza Pie."

Noel's turn

Fire eraser
Cameloupe
Pick-ups (hiccups)
Guh-skito (mosquito)
Guh-poose (caboose)
Guh-Queen (Lightning McQueen)
Cow goat
Winch (witch)

I love you, but I don't like you on Sunday. (12/9/09)

That was mypyramid dot gov. (ca. 12/13/09)

I will stop Daddy's hands. I'll use hitting.
I need to sit on your face.
Do you like naked running?
My pootie hurts. Please kiss it. (12/16/09)

We didn't went to McJoklin. (12/20/09)

[Holds up a piece of turkey]: That's shaped like California! (1/8/10)

What a heck? (1/12/10)

Beam me up, Spidey! (ca. 1/14/10)

[Eating a cracker]: Hey, this looks like Tennessee! [takes bite] Now it's North Dakota! (2/6/10)

Do you have mommy milk in your pooties? (2/13/10)

My body made a very funny noise. (4/5/10)

It's a beautiful poopy day. (4/26/10)

I hate numbers. (4/27/10)

I'm going to pee on you and kill you. (6/4/10)