Ty's Guldkorn

I love when kids get to the stage where they start making up songs. I guess Ty hit that stage yesterday when we went for a walk while Laney was at Joy School. We walked down to the little canal where there is always a ton of ducks and geese. When we got there the first thing we saw was a dead goose laying in the shallow water. Ty was mesmerized by the "died goose" and we looked at it for about 5 minutes before I could convince him to walk to the other side of the road where all the living ducks and geese where. After about 5 minutes of chasing the ducks and laughing at them flying away in horror, he wanted to go back to the other side with the "died goose". So we meandered back over there and spent another 10 minutes discussing if it was a mother goose or a baby goose and if it was dead or just sleeping. Finally he made up this little song that he sang to me:
"We are looding at a died goose.
When we are done looding at the died goose,
we are doing home."

Then today I finally took the kids to get haircuts after Laney's dance. Ty was starting to look like a young blond Beatle and Laney needed a trim. While we were driving from dance to the haircut place Ty made up this little song: (It was an upbeat happy song. Feel free to sing along...)
"We are getting hairduts,
we are getting hairduts.
We are doing to the hairdut place,
We are doing to the hairdut place."

Finally my last story for the day. When we got out of the car at Laney's dance class it was bright because the sun was shinning so lovely down on us. When Ty stepped out of the car he immediately started sneezing like crazy. Then he said, "When it's bright, it makes me bless you."
I laughed for a while over that one.

Oh and one more thing....Ben was sick a couple of weeks before Christmas and so he didn't go to work and was just in bed most of the time. I don't know where Ty got the impression that he dies but somehow he did. (obviously he doesn't understand it...)Anyway, when Ben was sick Laney made a card for him and attached one of the Christmas candies in a little plastic bag for him. He didn't eat it and I finally threw it out. As luck would have it, Ty came up to me a couple of days later and said, "Where that dard and dandy that Laney made for Daddy when Daddy died?" I really don't know where he got that from but I remember he asked me a couple of times when Ben was sick if he died. I kept telling him no, that he was just sick but obviously he had made up his mind otherwise.