Trains, Empathy, and Full Frontal Snow Belly Floppers!

This week as I was getting ready for work, I heard Sebastian playing in the hall with his trains. He was singing as he played and, unsurprisingly, his song of choice was "The Wheels on the Bus." However, he made some changes... This is what I heard:

"The wheels on the... TRAIN go round and round..." Complete with the pause for effect!



Then, on our way to work we were having a chat about why he needed to go to Grammy & Grandpa's house (Tim's parents). He is big into the "whys" lately, so here is how that one went:

Me: You are going to hang out with Grammy today!
Sebastian: But why-y? (He makes the why a two syllable word every time!)
Me: Because Mama has to go to work.
Sebastian: But why-y?
Me: Because I have to make money.
Sebastian: But why-y?
Me: So I can pay the bills.
Sebastian: But why-y? (You are probably wondering why I've let this go on so long but I always swore I would try really hard to encourage my child's curiosity, so there ya go!)
Me: Because if I didn't pay the bills the companies would not have enough money to pay their employees and people would lose their jobs and that would be sad.
Sebastian: Oh no.

Today, we had a snow day. We, like much of the US were blanketed in the beautiful, though somewhat annoying, white stuff. Sebastian and I decided to spend a bit of our morning out in the fluff. He really wanted to make a snowman, but sadly, the snow was not of snowman-making quality. He was a little upset, so I taught him how to make snow angels instead. He quite liked that and informed me that the angel, "has wings!" with great amazement! However, what he really enjoyed was standing up in a fresh patch of snow, then falling forward, face first into a drift! He thought that was the greatest part of the day! When we went inside he was really bummed, in fact he was so not going to go in at all... So, I told him he could have some snow in a bowl with his lunch! He loved it!

Here are a couple more pics!