Dinosaur Train

So PBS has a new show on called Dinosaur Train.  This is Brayden's new favorite show, and I have loved it too!  He will run in and tell me what dinosaurs he learned about and if they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores, what time period they lived in,  and many other things they went over that day.  Yesterday, I sat down to watch it with him.  Jackson was sick, so I held him while we watched.  The subject for the day was-POO!  I'm not even kidding!  One of the main dinosaurs was having trouble going potty.  She was embarassed by it.  So they talked about what poo is and why we poo.  They even had a part where they were playing hide and seek and found out they weren't hiding behind rocks, they were actually giant dinosaur stools, feces, or poo. (whatever you want to call it.  Now Brayden knows all three names and is using them in turn when he goes #2)  Then to finish it, they showed the bottom part of a giant dinosaur dropping poo, and as a grand finale they had a poo song!  I about died laughing!  Brayden walked around after singing, "All kinds of species have to make their own feces, the more you eat the more you poop!"  I had to think about the show for a while.  I wasn't sure I liked them teaching my son about poop.  At the end of the show, a paleontologist came on and told the kids how they use fossilized dino poop to determine what the dinos ate and what kind of surroundings they were in.  All in all, I decided I liked it.  It was an educational light hearted way of teaching the kids that pooping is normal.  Maybe my son, being a boy, won't have to go through that phase where poop is funny and they use it as a bad word.  Maybe he will understand it in a different way now and won't think it is that funny.  He did laugh in some spots, but mostly he thought the new words he had learned were cool and he thought it was awesome that they can use poo to discover things about dinosaurs.  So thank you PBS for teaching my son about POO!

Halloween!

I love Halloween!  I think that holidays just get better as your kids get older and enjoy them more!  This year was a blast!  Jackson was so excited that when he knowcked on doors and smiled at people, they gave him candy!  He would look at us and yell, "I got a nodder cannie!" and "Dis Awesom!".  Brayden was a hoot too!  MY favorite though, Kirt!  My dad, Kirt, and I took the kids out this year and half way around the block Brayden told us his feet were exhausted and he needed to go home!  Well Kirt figures that half that candy is his and there was no way he was letting Brayden go home with half a block of candy!  So He pumped up Brayden and would yell with him about every piece.  He would race him to the doors and freak out over every candy he got.  Brayden was so excited and finished the rest of the block!  Last year Kirt convinced Brayden that the orange candy, (recess peanut butter cups) were the best thing to choose.  (they also happen to be Kirt's favorite!)  Brayden came home with 50 recess cups!  Kirt was thrilled!  Also, half way around Kirt started with his mathematics.  He figured that candy probably costs $4.50 a pound.  He figured that after 2 hours, each kid would probably have 2 pounds of candy.  With 5 kids that totaled $40 in candy.  We were making $20 bucks an hour!  He is so funny!  Here are some pics of my kids in costume!