John was invited to join the preschoolers of Mt. Zion for a magic show. I knew he would like this and was telling him all about magic shows. I wanted him to get excited so I reminded him of the Wiggles episode where Greg did a magic show. This got John excited, but for all the wrong reasons. When he got to the show he kept asking the magician where Anthony, Greg, Jeff and Murray were (the Wiggles guys). When John finally stopped asking and watched, he had a great time.
The kids waving hello with their belly buttons. To which John said, "I'm told I don't have a belly button."
Showing them they all have a magic wand...their finger. We'll see how far John's magic wand takes him.
John's favorite part was when the big magic wand kept falling apart.
All the kids loved when the big magic wand fell apart.
Yep, if two kids aren't bad enough, try getting 10 kids to look at the camera at the same time. This is as good as it gets folks.
The kids all had a great time. On the way home John just started laughing. When I asked him what he was laughing about, he told he was just thinking about the magic guy. So cute.
I haven't written a 'Tales of John' in quite a while. I should keep a running note on all the things he says and does, but sometimes I just forget. Here are a few things from the last couple of weeks.
A few weeks ago, we had some friends over for a BBQ. John was very excited to have all of his friends at his house. There were 12 kids all running around here. There was a lot of laughing, playing, screaming and crying. There is NO WAY I could handle having 12 kids. So here's to Hans' Uncle Rolf and Aunt Dort who have 12 kids and have managed to keep their sanity. Okay, back to John. Earlier in the day I bought cookies for the kids to have after dinner. John was very excited to break out the cookies and quickly reminded me that they were ready. Most of the kids were playing downstairs so I told him to tell them the cookies were on the table when the kids were ready. But then John said, "I want to take them downstairs Mom. I want to pass them out. I want to be the guy that everybody likes." Oh, John. Where do you learn these things?
John went with me to Gus's one year doctors appointment. Gus needed shots, of course. I knew Gus would be none the wiser, but John sure knew what was going on. During the administration of the shots John kept shouting at the nurses to "Stop hurting my brother!". Then after the nurses were done and leaving, John ran over to Gus, gave him a big hug and kiss and then said, "Shame on you for hurting my brother." As cute as that was, we had to have a little talk about how shots hurt, but are helpful and, most importantly, you don't talk to adults that way.
Yesterday, Hans discovered that M&M's came out with a new combination: Dark chocolate with peanuts. So he bought a big bag of them...of course. John discovered the M&M's this morning and asked if he could have a couple. I said that was fine. When I came out to help him get a couple this is what I found.
He had helped himself to a whole bowl. He seemed genuinely confused when I took them away. I told him he could have two and took the rest out of the bowl. While John was crying to me that two just wasn't enough, Gus came up to him and took the two M&M's out of his bowl and ate them. I had to laugh a little. John will learn not to complain until after eating the M&M's from now on.
We had a rather warm day last week and I decided to get out a sprinkler that a lady in our church gave John for his birthday. We had been working out in the yard all day, and some sprinkler time seemed to be just what the boys needed.
John was very hesitant about the water. I find this funny because he loved the sprinklers at my parent's house last summer.
While John held back, August walked right up in the line of fire.
Then he got really upset with the sprinkler sprayed him. He just stood there screaming, all while he kept getting wet.
We finally rescued him, but it was pretty funny.
Then John decided to be brave...
and take advantage of his new found courage.
But Hans got his revenge.
Overall John had a good time. The jury is still out on Gus.
