Webkinz

You know how kids generalize at the toddler developmental stage - all animals are "dogs" or every beverage is "wine"?

Well, anytime Silas wants to play on the computer he says he wants to play "webkinz" - that is what he calls all computer games and the internet. Apparently he's heard Ella ask to play with her (real) Webkinz games enough that it sank in.

It amazes me how good he is with the computer/mouse and Wii already. He showed me how to use the Wii controller the other day (I had never even picked one up until then).

In other news regarding Silas, he's been driving us NUTS because he will not wear long sleeve shirts. Even when it's Zero degrees outside. Well, I think I might have just figured out why... He's been watching a lot of Scooby Doo cartoons lately - and he just said to me "but Shaggy has short sleeves on". How do I explain that Shaggy is a cartoon character and therefore has no real threat of getting frostbite or pneumonia??

Silas news continued...(do I even have other kids?) - he is doing a fantastic job on the potty. He's wearing his new big-boy underwear with no issues but we are still doing a pull-up at night. Some mornings he wakes up dry, sometimes not. He has learned to use this potty thing to his benefit at night - he'll get out of bed to tell us he has to go potty...whether he really does or not...

Silas has been going around saying that he "lost a tooth" and then points to the gap between his teeth.

Mason is going to a school dance tonight. Lord help my burning eyes and nostrils as I drive him in a windows-rolled-up vehicle on the way to the dance. He's a little heavy-handed with his cologne these days.