The bus and the bike

Tonight on the way home from daycare we saw a city bus stopped at a red light. The bus had a bike on tied to the front of it. Nolan saw it and started laughing.

N: Mom, there's a bike on that city bus!
M: I know - isn't that funny?
N: That's pretty funny.
M: You'll have to tell Dad when he gets home.
N: Okay

When Adam got home Nolan was still in the bathtub. The first thing he said was "I saw a bike on a city bus!" We all got a good laugh out of that.

We reached another milestone with Nolan tonight. He has known his ABC's for quite a while, but he has refused to sing them at home. In the tub tonight he randomly started singing them, and finished the whole thing without any mistakes. After Adam heard about the bike on the bus I asked Nolan if he wanted to sing dad a song. He said sure and sang the whole thing again. As little as that sounds we were so proud of him! His preschool screening is in a month, and I'm feel more and more like he's ready for it. He undresses himself at night and gets himself to the potty. He needs help getting his shirt on, but he can get his underpants and pants on (if we have time). He likes to try and get himself in to his carseat, but it's quite a long process, so we don't always have the time to wait. We try and slow down a little on the weekends so he can learn some of this stuff!

Kale is copying Nolan more and more each day. He likes to shoot the basketball from the same place as Nolan, sit on the potty like Nolan, and buckle his booster "seatbelt", just like Nolan. He's also talking a lot more - love you, excuse me, thank you, please, Nolan, strawberry, potty, water, books. Night time prayers are getting more and more fun. After we say our group prayer we ask the boys who they want to pray for. Each night they take turns (Nolan loves talking about who goes first and who goes second). When we ask Kale he starts naming off a whole bunch of names. We can usually make out dad and Nolan, sometimes we hear Jane and we usually have to remind him to say mama. The best part of it is when Nolan and Kale give each other a kiss goodnight and say love you. It's a great way to end the day.

We've noticed in the last month or so that every once in a while Nolan calls Kale "Kaley", which we think comes from the girls at daycare. We're trying to correct it, but it's actually kind of cute. I wonder what kind of nickname Kale will have for Nolan someday!