Good News - Bad News

Ivo's taken to sorting things into good and bad. Yesterday, he told me a couple pretty long lists of "This is the bad news" and "This is the good news." Come to think of it the bad-news list was longer, featuring such things as "We can't jump on the bed" and "We can't run in the house." The good news required a little priming, along the lines of we-get-to-read-books and we-get-to-play. Ivo wasn't upset at all about the bad-news, he was rather matter-of-factly listing these things that he knows.

Today at breakfast Ivo started listing things on each hand, "This is the good hand" and "This is the bad hand." He didn't get too far cuz of the excitement all around us, including Grampie Doug disconnecting and removing the broken dishwasher. One of the bad-hand-things concerned the dishwasher, "We don't like it broken. We don't like it when it unfixed."

Also, today Ivo went to the dr for the first time in Canada. The dr pronounced, "He checks out perfectly." Yay! We are going to have some bloodtests and another urine test done due to his stomach stuff earlier this month and his having recently moved from Taiwan. Even though lotsa stuff is metric in Canada, so far, personal weights and heights seem to favor the imperial system, and why not? The money still features the queen. A fully clothed Ivo is just under 35lbs (15.8 kg) and 37in (93.98cm). This puts Ivo exactly in the middle of the growth chart for his age - YAY!

A little more Ivo Overheard:

• It hard to remember what you say yourself."


• "People don't remember when they're babies."


• "Babies don't know what they're doing."


• "Babies usually make a mess. Some babies don't." Yesterday at his friend's house when he learned that her 2 Basenji sighthounds don't bark, he observed that "Dogs usually bark. Some dogs don't." I don't know where he got this construction - it's apt though and he sure knows when to use it!
  
• While listening to Ryan trying out a few hilarious slogans for his company-in-the-works, Ivo asked, "Is is time to laugh?"
  

Today Ivo, Burl and I saw a huge buck in the back of a truck, stopped at a light. Ivo was horrified and disturbed and riddled with questions. Lotsa whys and "I don't want that hunter to eat that dear. I will stop him." I told him that hunters kill different animals at different times of year, that some kill deer, moose, rabbits, foxes, wolves-maybe-not-wolves - to which Ivo replied, "They hunt the wolves because they dowl all night. I was living in Taiwan, I heard the wolves dowling and dowling like this..." which is when he began howling - quite realistically. I don't remember any wolves howling in Taichung but maybe...

A tiny little Burly BabelOn:

• "(S)quash"


• "Juice" - and boy was he excited to have his own juicebox today. It was the first one he ever liked and embraced. Up until now Burl's been a water bottle guy. He also likes what we call banana juice but is really a smoothie.


• "Up" - for standing up, usually applied to his toy animals. Shake-head "up" - for animals which fell or won't stand.


• Doug and Ryan are making wine, one vat has visible bubbles percolating and the other doesn't. Burl regards them saying, "Bubble" and "Bubble-No."