More funny and sweet/heartbreaking things.

1. The other morning, Miah took Henry to the bathroom, and Henry pooped. Miah said the last little bit came out pretty runny (Henry said he had a tummy ache, poor guy). So when Henry saw the runny poop over the normal poop, he got all excited and said, "It *melted* Daddy! My poo poo MELTED!"

2. Two nights ago, when I was rocking him before bed, Henry asked, "When is Baby Charlie coming out?" and I told him when he gets bigger and stronger, then he'll come out. Henry settled back and said, "then I will hold him!" I thought that was sort of smart, and really sweet. He's looking forward to his new brother.

3. This isn't funny, it's heartbreaking. Yesterday, we were reading this book called "What's up, Duck?" about opposites. There are two ducks, and they are doing opposite things. So one page, one duck was happy, and one duck was sad. I did the emotions all exaggerated, and I guess I was too believeable, because I looked over to Henry, and his bottom lip was sticking out, and he had tears welling up in his eyes and he was breathing really heavily. He was *so* upset that the duck was sad. He said, "The duck? He misses his MAMA!" and then burst into tears. Oh, my sweet boy. I hugged and hugged him, and then we found a photo of that duck looking much happier and he felt better. When we read the book again afterward, he said, "Let's skip the sad page." He is *so* sensitive, you guys.

4. He wasn't listening to me very well the other day, and wasn't sitting on the potty like I asked him several times to do. All of a sudden, he got all huffy, and muttered, "FINE!" OMG, he sounded just like an 11-year-old girl.

Funny things Henry says

Henry loves making lists. Verbally, they're hysterical. He inflects just like we do. So he'll go over what we are planning on putting in the garden and say, "got some toMAAAAtoes, got some CAAAArrots, got some green BEEEEAAAAANNNS." So adorable.

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One really, really cold morning (it was like -20), the furnace wouldn't start. Miah was already at work, so Henry and I went down to try to fix it. I was pretty worried, and I guess it showed, because Henry's been talking about the whole thing for several weeks now. He's obsessed with the furnace. Anyway, one of the cutest, sweetest things he's ever done was to say to me, "It's OK, mama, don't worry." Where on earth did he get that?!

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This morning, he said that he wants to grow kitties in the garden. :)