Tommy, lately

So he's just full of crazy stuff. He's been watching "The Incredibles" every weekend morning (he doesn't watch television during the week, but makes up for it when Daddy stays home), and recently while scooting alongside Eli to the store, he said loudly, "You're a lousy father!!" Mr. Incredible tells his family that he's a lousy father, which is where Tommy learned the word lousy.

He asked recently, "what does it look like inside electricity?"

I went into Tommy's room while he was playing legos. I asked what he was doing, and he said, "I'm making a meeting about building a tower." I told Eli that his honesty about what he does at work (go to meetings about building things) has destroyed Tommy's creative play. But that's probably extreme.

"Mommy, your hair is a fright!" (Eli says that to Lizzie on a fairly regular basis, so that's where Tommy learned it, but still.)

Before their trip here, Tommy called Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Bob on Skype all by himself.

Grandpa Bob took Tommy out for a burger on Friday and Tommy finished the whole thing, plus fries, etc. He told the waitress that he was very impressed with himself.

To me: "Mommy, I've got a new rule for you and it's very mysterious." (I can't remember the rule, but it wasn't mysterious at all.)

And finally, about a week ago, we told Tommy he could have a lolly if he had a dry diaper in the morning, and apparently it was incentive enough, because except for one accident, he has been dry all night. Yay!