Wednesday, October 27, 2010

One Tooth Less


He's missing a tooth!

Guillermo lost his first tooth! He lost it Saturday, after it had been really loose for a few days.

As he was wiggling it earlier in the day, he had started talking about the tooth fairy, or, rather, that he didn't think the tooth fairy existed. Here's his theory:

"Maybe an activation device in your tooth goes off when you lose it, and it triggers a dollar."

Either way, he woke up the next day at 5:30 a.m. to check to see if the activation device had gone off or if the tooth fairy had visited. I'm not sure what he thinks happened, but he was pleased to find money under his pillow.


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Weekend Wedding


Before the ceremony.

He hands off the ring.

Maya was playing with a friend here today and I was sitting on the couch, reading the paper, zoning out. I could hear them playing but I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing until I got up and saw Maya but saw that Guillermo's room was closed.

"Maya, where is your friend?" I asked as I moved toward Guillermo's door.
"He's in Guillermo's room. We are getting married and I told him to go in there and practice dancing for the wedding."

I listened at the door, smiling, and heard the sound of Legos.
"Are you sure he's practicing?" I asked, nearly laughing.
"I told him to. Let's check."
Her friend wasn't dancing, but instead filling a play tea pot with Legos.

"I'm making coffee," he said.
"We're getting married. You are supposed to practicing dancing," Maya told him.
"OK," he answered happily. "I need a costume, too," he added, checking out the golden yellow satin dress Maya had on.

I searched Guillermo's room and found his old angel costume. In retrospect, it would have been cooler to give him the Batman costume, but he was pretty pleased with what I came up with.

Maya made me pretend to drive them to the wedding outside. On our way the door, Maya's friend said "this is the sweetest thing I've ever done."

I did the ceremony quickly, awkwardly, because I don't want Maya to start playing wedding with every neighborhood boy, or any neighborhood boy, and when they finished, they asked what next?

"The bouncy house!"

And they jumped for in the bouncy house for the next 20 minutes.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Abracadabra


Guillermo has signed up for the Principal's Challenge again this year. We left it completely up to him, but I'm glad he decided to do it.

Last year, I thought we had convinced him that this year's topic should be food. It would have been so easy to come up with 25 activities related to food. I had it all mapped out.

This year, he couldn't remember that we had even discussed having food as a topic. He asked me to give him some ideas so I did: North Carolina, Spanish, Space, I think I named a few countries, including the United States of America.

"How about magic?" he asked. "I want to do it on magic."

So it is settled. Today, for our first activity, we had a brainstorming session where we talked about what we know about magic, some magicians we know (real and fiction) and what their magic powers are.

We're also finishing up a book from one of his favorite series, "Secrets of Droon," and are going to make a magician's cloak together.

I think this is going to be a great topic.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Texas Fighting


Maya gets all of my neice's hand-me-downs and boy are we lucky. Maya is the best-dressed kid around, if I do say so myself. She always has been (Thanks Julie!).

The latest box of hand-me-downs came yesterday. A big box full of 4T clothes. Maya helped me unload the box, until she found a pair of cowboy boots that fit her perfectly. Then, she was done helping. She was ready to play.

We went outside so she could show off her "Texas" cowboy boots to Will. Then, she picked up the noodles that we use for light saber battles, and wanted to fight, "Texas style."

"Let's pretend that you don't know me and you want to fight me and you see that I am really good at Texas fighting," Maya says to me. I agree and get into character and we battle.

"Wow, you are good," I tell her. "Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"My whole family is good at Texas fighting. My papa, my brother, my mama. We're really good at Texas fighting," she told me as the battle ensued. She later won and declared herself the champion of Texas fighting.

Today, she asked me to help her put her boots on again. "Now I'm ready to go to Texas with papa one day. We could all go as a family vacation. Does everyone in Texas wear boots like this?"

"Not everyone wears boots," I answer.

"Only the really good people do, right?" she responds.

I think it's time we get Guillermo a pair now.