Evil!

Soen saying, "Mu-hu-hu-ah-ha-ha-ha-ha (cough cough cough)"

Soen has a new found love of superheroes. Not sure how this came about, but he loves Batman, Superman, and the Flash. Especially the Flash. His favorite is to run around the house (naked) and slam into me and knock me over, much to the delight of Sadie.

Anyway, wife found the Justice League on the Cartoon Network and we've been recording it for him. I started watching today and was surprised at how hilarious it is. At one point Lex Luther is leaving the men's room and one of his supervillain buddies says, "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" To which Lex replies, "No, because I'm evil." Well, that made me laugh out loud, so Soen decided that was pretty funny, too. So all night he would ask me to ask him if he was going to wash his hands so he could say, "No tubby I evil!" And then laugh menacingly.

Ed note: For some reason, the boy has been pronouncing "because" as "tubby" pretty much since he started speaking. We've been trying to correct him but then he just says, "No, because tubby I evil!" Eh, he'll figure it out one day. Until then it makes for almost-interesting fodder for the blog.

Goal!

Aunt Carol came down for a couple of days and we all had a rather nice time together. Being Aunt Carol, she had to spoil the kids rotten with scads of gifts, one of which you can see here in this video clip. Being Soen, his favorite gift was the soccer goal, since you A) get to kick things and B) it makes a fun sound when you do. Being me, I couldn't resist telling him that after he kicked a goal, he had to run around with his hands in the air, yelling "Yay," which he did with great enthusiasm, if not great technique. I thought it was hysterical, so I ran for the video camera and tried to get him to do it again.

I don't know why I ever think I'm going to capture something on the video camera, since the kids always stop doing whatever it was that sent me for the camera by the time I actually get it. This time was no exception, since Soen had lost the aforementioned enthusiasm for running around like a World Cup winner. However, this "outtakes" video is in some ways better. My favorite is when he misses from three feet away.

Oh, the P.S. to this is two days later he is still playing with this and still running around like an airplane after kicking a goal. (If I could only get it on film!)

Monsters

Soen looked at me rather seriously tonight as we were watching Schoolhouse Rock on YouTube. "Um... Daddy? Do vampires have bippies?" I told them they do. He nodded and went back to watching "My Hero Zero."

He's been on this monster kick lately. I gather his pre-school has been talking about Halloween. At first he was a little scared of vampires, but now he likes them. His favorite thing is to pretend to be a zombie and chase me around the house. Here, he is showing me how the dreaded Kitty Cat Monster walks. This monster, Soen told me, eats houses and fruit. I told him to put on some underwear so I could get it on film. Luckily, the flashlight scares the Kitty Cat Monster away.

Sadie turns one!

Sadie's birthday is today and to celebrate we went to the beach. I keep thinking we're taking our last trip to the beach but the weather continues to be nice. This morning it was close to 80 and so was the ocean. It's OK to hate us a little.

Sadie is walking about half the time now and I imagine that will be full-time in time for Halloween. This video was taken the other day after she opened her birthday present from my parents.

I was going to post a video of Soen singing the theme song from the Land of the Lost but unfortunately he was naked for that, so I thought it might be inappropriate. We need to get more clothes on him if only so we can show his videos online. That's his second favorite song. His favorite is the outro to the Land of the Lost, which he sings quite well. I'll catch him on film soon enough.