Lego Seismograph and Underpants

James built a seismograph out of his Legos today.

Hal wore his Thomas underwear for the first time yesterday.  He lasted about an hour.

And then...

Hal told a story tonight at dinner that went, approximately, "They dinosaurs.  They dinosaurs in the house, mama.  They right here.  They playing.  They eating dinner.  Dinosaurs go to Tinys and eat all the hotdogs.  They pay money.  Go to Dianes.  Dinosaurs read books.  Go downstairs and play."  That's as close as I could make out.  He doesn't have "l" yet and he doesn't really have middle syllables so it's a bit hard to decipher.

James announced that he thought that bears should have a bear stand where they sold salmon.  They could come here and set it up by the coop and sell the salmon they caught.  George pointed out that they'd need to work on their cold chain.

The Golden Monkey Turns Five

James turned five today.  Hal vacillated between wild excitement and confusion.  At one point he turned to George and said, "I five Daddy."  James finished up the day talking about a "dramatic earthquake."  This after explaining to Tom and Gaelyn that tsunamis are caused by underwater volcanoes and earthquakes.  Hal began saying, "I not Hal, I Henry" last week.  He's also started telling stories, every eighth word of which we understand -- "One day dfkj alsdfkj dslfk ldskjf, and then dslkfja asdofjlk asldkf  diesel vrmmmmmmm.  Thomas and Henry alskdj asdflkj laskdj ldkasj and then aldj adlkfj  adklj ldkj."  James is getting more interested in numbers, "What's 4 more than 10?"  He's also able to tell you if a number is more or less than another number.  Hal continues to live in a binary world.  He has two or he has more than two.  At least it's a binary world with an increasing number of colors.  For a while there, everything was "pink."