successful excavation

A few days back, I was telling Uncle Denny a story (in Dennis' hearing) I'd heard about Dennis' cousin Caedmon wherein Caedmon was pretending to be a very specific stinging insect (and I'm afraid I don't remember which one). He was walking up to his parents and 'stinging' them by putting his butt up against them. I mentioned that in prelude to this: at dinner tonight, Dennis put both his hands straight up in the air, close together, and announced "it's noon!". David said that it was actually eight, and Dennis replied "but my hands are pointing to twelve" and we had to agree that he was right. He suddenly said "hey, Daddy, want to see what my bottom can do?". He jumped up from his seat, backed up close to David, wiggled said bottom vigorously and said "briing, briing!". We were puzzled and he said he was being an alarm and acting like Caedmon. I had to laugh. And I had to tell him "no, Caedmon was acting like a BEE and saying 'sting sting'." But we did agree he was being a very good alarm! I also had to explain why Caedmon was using his butt to sting, telling Dennis that a bee's or wasp's stinger is on its bottom. He immediately began stinging us.

We finished a three day project tonight. His room has been excavated and reorganized to make cleanup easy. He is THRILLED! He ran circles around his clean room, telling us how wonderful it was, and then he remembered that I told him over a week ago that he could play with his nativity set if he cleaned his room. He reminded me of that fact, so I got the Fisher Price Little People nativity set box down from the top shelf of his closet and let him set it all out. He couldn't understand why we'd removed the batteries, and I told him it was usually a Christmas set. He told me we learn about Jesus all the time. The set stayed out. I put the box on a low shelf and offered him the option of putting it away whenever he decided he wanted his table emptied for other projects.