Finn

Finn and I had a surprisingly enjoyable trip to Target yesterday morning. He kept so busy stacking and scanning items that there was nary a mention of going to the toy “sectionary.”

Last night while Ezra was working on his math, Finn was writing a book. Here’s page one.

Here’s page two.

You get the idea. He really is quite fond of Teacher Sahar.

Finn has been very interested of late in anything that Bruce is doing in the garage. And, he always wants a project of his own.

On Friday, Bruce mentioned to him that he’d been thinking about making him a workbench all his own with his tools and everything. Needless to say, Finn was quite enthusiastic about the idea and wouldn’t really let it go until Bruce followed through. So, voila.

Last Wednesday while I was chatting with Teacher Angie at Cottage pickup, Finn called a secret meeting with Teacher Sahar. They hunkered down on the pillows in the reading area.

Sahar later told me that Finn said his secret was that he wants her to buy him a double lightsaber for his birthday. And, he told her that she had to say that her secret was that she loves him. (I think she really does. And the feeling is definitely mutual.)

We’ve been clearing out the guest room, which had doubled as a storage locker for all the kitchen stuff (and was generally just a repository for a bunch of other stuff we hadn’t put away). Among the things that needed to go down to the basement was Bruce’s old bag of hockey equipment. Finn saw the helmet and couldn’t resist.

The crazy thing is, it’s not that much too big for him.

Finn was playing with his lightsaber yesterday and asked me to take some pictures. I used Instagram and he liked picking the filter to make the shot look different. He also liked naming the pictures.

“Jedi moves”

“Jedi master”

I was at Cottage a little longer than usual this morning because I had a parent-teacher conference with Finn’s beloved Teacher Sahar until about 9:30. Good luck for me since it turned out it was fire truck day!

The kids loved seeing the firemen and, of course, their giant truck. They had one of the firemen put on the fire-fighting gear and then encouraged the kids to come closer for a better look.

At one point, the guy’s alarm went off — a safety mechanism I didn’t know about that alerts fellow fire fighters when one of them hasn’t moved in some amount of time.

It was kind of a loud alarm.

Finn spoke up during the question and answer period. The fireman had said earlier that in the event of the fire it’s best to be on the floor but not go under the bed. Finn pointed out that in an earthquake you are supposed to go under the bed — “Do you know …?” The fireman was impressed by his brilliance (“that’s a smart boy!”) and Sahar and I wanted to go squeeze him. But we didn’t.

I was parent-teacher in Finn’s class today for the first time in a long time (Bruce has taken the last two shifts) so I took the opportunity to take some pictures. Being the first day back after the long Thanksgiving weekend, it was a high-energy, big emotion day. We had lots of fun and, as usual, I’m completely worn out. Here’s some of what we did.

We brought a box of Bernie’s old woodworking stuff (wheels and decorative items) for the kids to use in their creations. They really enjoyed it!

We played in the sand.

Here’s our little sandcastle with Finn’s treasure poked in the top.

During group time with Teacher Sahar (with whom Finn is head-over-heels in love), we built with little marshmallows and toothpicks.

And we had story time.

Here are Finn’s creations of the day.

Just a couple of pictures of my littlest Moision. First, as a “police” as he calls it.

And now just his feet. Still cute.

Finn was showing off his ninja moves this weekend. Here’s the video he asked me to take.

And here he is, all geared-up, after taking a spill on his bike. Since he fell on his knee, he requested that we find Ezra’s knee pads so he could use them. And then he put on the safety goggles for good measure.

He also had a cute moment in the front yard with the palm tree. He was “climbing” it and when I told him that I needed him and Ezra to come inside, he said, “It’s OK, Mommy, I’ll keep an eye on Ezra.” What a responsible little chap.

Last night I had a Board meeting so Bruce was on bedtime duty. At some point in the evening, Finn was in the bathroom and wanted Bruce to come in and “chat.” “Let’s talk about penises, Papa,” he said.

Finn has noticed recently that his looks a little different than his circumcised pals. (It’s interesting to me that Ezra has yet to make the same observation; I imagine he hasn’t noticed.)

Anyway, there was apparently a lot of chatting going on, but this part is my favorite:

Bruce: When they cut off the tip of your penis, it’s called a circumcision.

Finn: That’s too hard for me to say… I’m going to call it, “Cut off piece of penis.”