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I don’t know if today is just more interesting than other days or if I’m just closer to a computer.  Here’s my second post of the day:

Isaac cut his finger today and it bled. We washed it off and bandaged with a little antibiotic ointment and as I cared for his injury he asked me questions about his finger and what would happen.  He soon became very excited about the prospect of getting a scab.  When I told him we’d take the bandage off when it has a scab, he eagerly asked if everyone would be able to see his scab.  Within 10 minutes he started wanting to see if the scab was there yet.  He had to call his grandma Bunny to tell her about the impending scab and asked me if I would take pictures of it to send to her.  He also suggested that I send pictures of his scab to his Great-grandma in Seattle.  I told him that it might take a day for his scab to come.  He said that he thought he should rest until the scab appeared.  I’m a little worried now that he won’t get the scab that he’s hoping for.

It’s days like these I think how glad I am that I have a boy.

This movie is once again Isaac’s favorite movie.  He watches it endlessly and if you ask  him what he wants for Christmas he’ll say "PolarExpress" (yes, it’s one word on purpose, that’s the way he says it).

Last year his favorite part was when the caboose becomes "uncoupled and drives all by itself."  This scene remained his favorite the first few times he watched it this year.  Now his favorite part of the movie is "the stupid underware part" in which a know-it-all complains that the only gift he can find for himself in Santa’s sack is full of stupid underware.  Only Isaac misinterprets this scene and thinks that the kid actually wants "stupid underware" for Christmas.

The other day as he watched he pretended that he was both of the boy characters and encouraged Charlotte to be the girl.  He tried his best to repeat each line with the movie.

He’s watched the movie so many times that he can tell you the entire path the ticket takes when it flies out of the boy’s hand, which is somewhat amusing to hear.

We’re wondering if he’d like the 3-D version with the fun red and blue glasses.  Has anyone seen it?  Can you watch it without the glasses ok or does it look bad without?

I hope I don’t forget all of the little things about my kids as they get older.  The other day Nicole was very tired and she stared singing herself to sleep.  It reminded me of how Isaac used to do that all the time.  Obviously at this age they’re not actually singing, but they make sleepy vocalizations continuously which sounds like "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and it fades out then starts again.  When Isaac was a baby he would do that regularly and sometimes he was very loud.  You could hear him "singing himself to sleep" in other rooms of the house.  The other thing he did to put himself to sleep was rub my thumb.  As he got older he would actually rub so hard that sometimes my thumb would hurt by the time he fell asleep.  He did this by rubbing his finger across the top of my thumb towards the nail.  He eventually learned how to rub his own thumb to fall asleep.  I think he has finally retired this habit, but I also don’t see him fall asleep anymore so I can’t say for sure.

Recently he decided that his new favorite color is green.  Yesterday I wore a white shirt with green writing.  He told me that my shirt was saying "I like you" to him because it was his favorite color.  Then he said "I want to wear a green shirt to say I like you to myself."

One day I told him the neighbor (Makenna) would come over.  Shortly after I told him that he changed his clothes and as he put on his Incredibles underwear he asked "Will Makenna want to watch Incredibles all day because of my underwear?" (I found it funny that he would think his underwear had any control over what someone else would want to do).

Today he said "you don’t want me to die before you because you love me?" to which I  responded that I would be sad if he died before me because I would miss him.  He said "so we all want to die at the same time?" 

Last night he woke up crying which was extremely rare for him.  When I came in he said worms were all over his bed.  I convinced him to say a prayer and he prayed that all the worms would die.  He woke up crying a second time and said that "grabbing things" were in his bed this time.  He then prayed that all the grabbing things would die.  I brought him into my bed after that.  Tonight he was afraid that worms would come in through the door and prayed in his nighttime prayer that all the worms would die.  I’m wondering if worms will be his next big fear.  (recent fears:  Tigers, seals, babies, Ocean animals, and bugs, the Abominable Snowman)