Moves in Curves

Some photos from our day on the Maine coast today:

C came up to me yesterday evening and said, “Mario and Luigi have a message for us. Where did all the cave people go? The Princess sent a letter and it says at dot com Mario and Luigi you can play a game with Valley of Bowser and lava dinosaurs. I want to play it all by myself on your computer, without you watching, okay? You know at Mario and Luigi dot com you can do it on some games on your computer right now. Right now, okay? That what you’re supposed to type. Right there *points to browser URL* Go all the way up there at the tippy top.”

I started laughing at him, and he gave me a look and said, “What’s so funny?”

I got up this morning to find the boys playing in their room, but one of the curtains in the living room was pulled all wonky. So I called them in to ask who did it.

Me: *curious* Who did this to the curtain?

C: *hands on hips, angry* Who did this to Mama’s curtain?

D: Not me.

Me: *fixing curtain* Well, it wasn’t me, so it must’ve been one of you two. Please don’t mess with the curtain, you’re going to pull it down off the wall and clonk your head with the curtain rod.

D: I didn’t do it.

C: Not me.

Me: I just want to know who did it.

C: Me. I was afraid there was a tyrannosaurus rex or a policeman outside.

Me: Okay. Thank you for telling me the truth. Next time don’t mess with the curtains.

C: *climbs on my lap and hugs me*

D: That take courage to tell somebody the truth. *looks me in the eye* I did not mess with you curtain.

Me: *rolls eyes* Thank you, D.

I wrote an article for Hippymom about CAS. Read it here.

Want to listen to my boys’ speech to hear what CAS sounds like? Our YouTube channel.

Our Apraxia Kids STARS page.

There was further proof today of the Midnight Monster (also called the Bednight Monster). The boys took me to their room and showed me how all their toys were on the floor, and a couple of pages had been torn out of a book. C showed me the torn edge and demonstrated how it could only have been caused by giant claws.

Apparently you can’t see the  Midnight Monster during the day, but in the dark, he turns red (with big claws) and comes out from the ground (with big claws) and messes with their toys (with big claws) and sometimes he even goes into the attic (with big claws).

Obviously, there’s no other possible explanation for their room always being trashed and their stuff torn up. Because two five-year old boys couldn’t do that kind of damage. Only a monster with big claws.