Is it just me, or is this kid handsome?! Suddenly I'm seeing flashes of a 16-yr-old Denis asking for the keys to the car so he can take his date to the movies. Ay yi yi.
Let's get back to the 3-yr-old version of Denis where he's still singing about fruit salad and spotting koalas in the clouds. Yes, let's stay there a while longer...a long while longer. I mentioned earlier (ahem, a month ago!) how much Denis loves his BBP class. What I forgot to mention is how much we love watching him change and grow into this more fascinating - and fascinated - little person that he's becoming. Each day he comes home with a new song, a new skill, and a new curiosity or two. The other day he asked us, "What do you think is in that wall to make it stand up?"
And then there's the little light bulb that's always going off in his head. "Oh, I have a good idea..." he's forever saying. Mind you, some ideas of his are better than others! But the other day he really did have a good idea. He was helping me make dinner and his job was to prepare the green beans. Since he was having a hard time snapping off the ends, I showed him - very carefully, I might add, and with a dull knife! - how to trim the ends with his knife. He got the hang of it quite quickly, but sighed oh so audibly when he saw the big mound of beans in front of him. A few beans later, he said, "Oh, I have a good idea." "You do? What's that?" "I could pile some beans together and cut them all at the same time." And sure enough, he made a small pile of beans and cut off several stems in one go. I was impressed.
I could go on and on, and I probably should. There are so many things I want to remember about this age. It's a great age and he's a great kid. Oh, I have a good idea. Why don't I blog a bit more often?
