Paul's version of U2s "Elevation" and other cute stuff

I'm way behind on my keeping track of cute things Paul has said. So that's what I'm doing today.

Ever since we bought "No Line on the Horizon," (U2s new album) Paul's been wanting to watch our DVD of the Vertigo tour. He plays his drums along with the music (and isn't too bad) and tells you who each band member is as they are shown on the screen. He's fascinated with the confetti and "cool lights" (pronounced "yites"). This morning he was singing "Elevation" for me:

(I was just informed that Adam has a green bass guitar)

Ya Mole
Diggin in a hole
Diggin in my soul
Jump around
Exclamation
My life in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high...
(and then nothing where "Elevation" would be because on the DVD Bono lets the audience sing that part)
Then he sings the "Ohs" really high.
Then Larry (Yarry) comes in on the drums and Paul "rocks out" on his drums.

Yesterday Paul said he wanted to watch the song where Bono plays guitar. So I was going to each track for him and he kept saying, "No, that's..." what ever the song was (often times I didn't know what the song was from the few seconds he heard). Finally he said, "It's One Love, Mommy." I want him to know that song, even if he has the name wrong.

Yesterday (St. Patrick's Day) I woke at 6:30 to him singing, "I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight" followed by "Uno, dos, tres, catorce" (sorry, I don't know how to spell in English, let alone Galic).

So whenever he wants to do something he says, "You know what we haven't done in a while? Watched a Thomas movie," (or whatever he wants at that moment, even if you just watched a Thomas Movie).

Paul was sitting on the couch while I was feeding Derek Sunday morning. We had a movie from the video store with a bunch of different stories on it, Thomas, Bob the Builder, Barney, etc. I told him he could pick one to watch while I fed Derek. I asked what he wanted and he cocks his head a little to the side and looks at me out of the corner of his eye and says, "You know what I'm gonna pick..." and plays the Thomas one of course.

Just a thought, if it is true that watching video with lots of blinking lights before you are 3 gives you ADHD, then Derek is screwed, because that's all this concert is...

Paul was helping me give Derek a bath last week (he's in charge of the soap). I was finishing up and Paul says, "don't forget about the part when he pees!" And then Derek did, guess he just needed that reminder.

It has been beautiful here, and when Paul and Scott go outside to push his bubble mower, they have to go "shopping" (the mower is his cart) in the front yard and buy the "ingredients" for chocolate cupcakes. Which are eerily similar to the ingredients for apple sauce bread, since we make that together about once a week and he has them memorized. But he does buy chocolate and pink frosting for his cupcakes.

This moring I put Derek in the outfit he wore to come home from the hospital. He was swimming in it that day. Now it fits. He's 8 weeks today. I can't believe it. (Slept 6 hours last night!!!)