Dinosaur battle

Matthew likes "set-ups." His usual method of play is lining things up in a particular order and then staring at them. This applies to cars, airplanes, train tracks, even his blankets and stuffed animals on his bed. Recently we had the dinosaurs out. He created a set up of different dinosaur "teams," then they had an epic battle.

 Setting up the teams.

 Team one.

 Team two.

 The battle begins.

 There was lots of roaring.

 And falling on the ground.

 Deciding his next move.

 Tiger shark gets thrown into battle.

 Regrouping the teams.

 Team one took the high ground. But team two quickly took over.

 They were left like this...ominously staring at us for the rest of the day.

You know you're getting old when...

At dinner I was helping Daniel understand how to say years, like "2012", "2013", "1995" and so forth. He was having a hard time understanding why you said "nineteen ninety-five" versus "one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-five".

Trying to give him more examples I said, "For example, Daniel, Daddy was born in 1981. Can you say 1981 and one thousand nine hundred and eighty one?"

Daniel: "Oh!!! 1981! The year they discovered Dinosaur bones!......no wait, that was 1986."

Dad, 1981

Picture Source: http://www.printactivities.com/ColoringPages/Dinosaur_Coloring_Pages/Cartoon_Dinosaurs/Old_Dinosaur.gif

Frustrated

Matthew's vocabulary is growing.

The other day he got frustrated with Michele for scolding him, but didn't quite know how to express himself until he proclaimed...

"Mommy...........you...are...Dinosaur!"  

Ahh...what every mother loves to hear.

Image source: http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Dinosaur.htm