Bits and Bites

• Liam has his first black eye. Pics will be forthcoming. He was walking along, thought he was close enough to grab on to our bed, but was not. And went crashing into the bed and whacked his eye.
• Xander truly is his father's child. At 4 years old, he has watched his first episode of Star Trek. Original series, mind you. And he LOVED it. He wonders what an energy blast is though.
• Liam has discovered the garbage can and the toilet in the past 48 hours. He took his diaper and confidently put it in the garbage can the other night. Today he was banging around upstairs and I bolted up there, because it was plain that he was playing with the toilet lid. Turns out he had also put a washcloth in there. That kid is going to be the end of me!
• Xander is really drawing and starting to write now. His drawings resemble what he says they are. For example, he drew Daddy yesterday and it looked like a person (even though drawing legs and feet came before the body and they were originally right out of Ray's chin).
  
• Liam was being changed tonight and he reached in and grabbed a wipe, pulled it up to his nose, and blew. I laughed my butt off. When I told Ray, he said, "Gee, do you think we've had a few too many colds lately?" Uh, yeah...that. Still cute though.