inventions & plans

Dennis picked up his tiny trash can. It's like a small pedal can, only he'd removed the liner/bucket. The bottom of the outer can features 4 cutouts like squares. Gazing through it from the top, it would look like you were viewing someone with a target on them. He aimed it at me and said "this is my Face Dyganner--whatever face I look at through it turns into a robot face." I thought of Calvin from the comic books and inwardly cringed. It's not too big a step from "Face Dyganner" to 'transmogrifier'. Oh boy!

We were telling Dennis our schedule for the day, and he said "no, let's don't come back home for dinner after we go to the gym--we can go out to dinner at WHATABURGER! I'm so smart!". Once we explained that the price of a Whataburger dinner was equal to about 3 Transformers, he was all for coming home to eat. He FINALLY has memorized my phone number, and we rewarded him for such with whatever he wanted from the Dollar Tree. He chose a Transformer coloring book. I'm also extremely proud of the swimming he did today in the pool at the gym. He's getting better and better! But it was a bit embarrassing swimming with the older ladies when Dennis decided to ride on a white pool noodle and suddenly put his hand up to his mouth like a microphone to announce (loudly) "attention--this is my police car--I'm on the lookout for Daddy so I can take him to JAIL!".

Coming home tonight, Dennis negotiated with me for time to spend playing with Gran. I told him he could have 2 or 3 minutes. He said "how about 5 minutes?" and I agreed that was fine. Then he asked "how about 6-7-8-9 minutes? I know! I want TEN minutes--TEN! Because 10 comes after 9." I laughed and agreed and he replied "you knew I'd figure that out, didn't you?". He didn't get any time playing with Gran, though, because he fell asleep in the car. He'll be sad about it tomorrow.

He also told us today about his big plans for Chloe's soon-to-be-born baby brother. He said "will he play with us?" and I told him it'd be a year or so before he could walk, and maybe 2 years before he could talk. Dennis said "that's okay--we'll (meaning he and Chloe) teach him to walk and we'll teach him to talk. I'll even teach him to DANCE!". What a good quasi-big-brother he'll be!