Sunsets and Story Time anecdotes!

Today was gloomy and rainy off and on. Then right around 3:20 pm when we went to pick up the boys the sun came out along with big gusts of wind! I was glad I was wearing appropriate clothing. After school I needed to go to the post office so everyone came and on the way there we saw the most beautiful sky! Big dark smokey clouds next to bright beautiful peaches and pink and my favorite color of blue, (think our wedding color blues;) There were also tons of crows flying around together but in all different directions. Maybe because of the wind?

Michael got some pretty good pictures through the car windshield . They show almost all the colors.

Lee noticed the sky but didn't see the rippled effect until we were almost to the post office. He exclaimed, "WOW look at those pretty waves in the sky! They are kind of peach colored!" I am always amazed at his interest in the beauty of nature around him. I can pull Rylan in sometimes and get him to talk about all the beautiful fall colors of the leaves ect...he doesn't usually notice/remark on it himself though. One of the reasons I love walking to school so much is because it really seems to start Lee's day off right to be outside and talking about it. We talk about the colors of the grass each day depending on the color of sky and how the ground sparkles like crystals when everything is frosty. He is very interested (in a scientific way) why things happen but also very artistic in the way he sees things and the colors and shapes. Being the conversationalist he is Lee has no trouble talking all the way to school (20 mins) about all these things.

In the car on the way back from the post office Lee was a little grumpy. We were proud of him because he nicely asked Rylan if he could just relax instead of talk for a bit. Rylan didn't like that so he asked him "but why though?" Lee replied with a long -winded explanation, "We have been argumenting. You didn't want me to fart at the same time as you and then I didn't want to pull your finger so we arumented so we should have play alone time".

Later on at story time I read the last chapter of a Mario chapter book (we finished) again! Then Rylan wanted to read a story and even though it was short without chapters he decided he wanted to have pretend chapters. It's exciting because he has been actually trying to read from the real chapter book lately and not getting discouraged! (Obviously because it is a book about the mario brothers!)

Randomly after Rylan read ANOTHER book (yes 2 in a night) Lee asked Rylan if on monday he would like to ride on his back on the floor! Haha this question is adorable for 2 reasons! Because he loves keeping track of what is going on each day of the week and figured Monday would work well for this. AND because he was asking Rylan to do something kind of rowdy that could cause someone to get hurt which is usually not something he likes to do with rylan at all.Then while I was waiting for Rylan to finish going to the bathroom so I could read a book Lee said he had a special slug that does haircuts. He asked if I wanted a hair cut and of course I said yes. He pretended to cut my hair with this magic slug and then exlaimed, "It looks even prettier than before!" Awww