(Three unrelated things first.
One, today I was reading a Cars 2 encyclopedia of characters to Brendan. Yes. Anyway, I'm reading about one car, Carla something, and Brendan got so excited and said, "What?! That car's my favorite car and she's a GIRL?! She's my favorite car and girls are my favorite persons!" He is adorable and has a huge crush on Liam's classmate Meghan, and seriously don't let him near an advertisment with scantily clad women or a swimsuit issue or something - yikes! As hard as I try I can't get the image out of my head of him wearing a shell necklace and shorts and Adidas flip flops hanging out with his rugby teammates. How many years will I have of three teenage boys? :o)
Two, Liam is consistently amazing me with his passion for science. He begs and pleads to watch movies about the Cern Center with the Large Hadron Collider. like this and this and it's just crazy. I wonder how much of this will relate to his adult life. I know that childhood tendancies don't always correlate to adult interests, but I'm am eager to watch how it progresses. I wish we could afford to send him to the science school, but at something like 17k a year it's probably not going to happen. Fortunately there's lots of other things he can do, including taking classes there in the summer. And like Eric says it's important to keep him well rounded. At the ages of six and four Liam seems to have a mind for science and Brendan is more people-oriented with a good sense of numbers and languages, and I could see him going down a business path. I'm trying to teach them that hard work is very important, no matter what the subject, which is something I didn't know as a child. An aside, at point it doesn't seem like basketball is Liam's sport, but then again he's only in kindergarten and it's suuuuper funny to watch their game. Suuuper funny.
Three, I might possibly eat Aidan, he is so soft and adorable.)
Ok, so since the boys continue to grow up with alarming speed, I'm going to try my best to accept it and look forward to the future. We had a big all-class birthday party for Liam last night, (and invited a few of Brendan's friends too because he actual birthday was pretty lousy since we had to cancel most of our plans when Liam got sick.) It was crazy, crazy, fun, and it turned out Liam thought he was now going to turn seven pretty soon, since this party was a month after he turned six. That made me happy because it shows he's still a kid, and sad because no Good Lord my baby is not turning seven any time soon! Ahh! Anyway, back to my earlier part, here are some movies I'm looking forward to watching with or recommending to, my boys when they get older:
Schindler's List
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghostbusters
The Godfather
The Blues Brothers
Indiana Jones
Star Wars, especially the original three
Braveheart
Life is Beautiful
Brokeback Mountain
It's a Wonderful Life
Reservoir Dogs
To Kill a Mockingbird
Miller's Crossing
Back to the Future
hmm...and what else...
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Oh, of course also Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Amadeus, Anne of a Thousand Days, Transylvania 6500, Clue, The Graduate, The Day the Earth Stood Still, All the Presidents Men, Dial M for Murder, Witness
The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
(They were not intentionally all Katherine Hepburn movies.)
Definitely Rae, except I never saw The Lion in Winter so I'll have to get that.
Liam is probably old enough for Back to the Future! and it's SCIENCE. they talk about PLUTONIUM.
I know firsthand that siblings are often very different people, and yet? I cannot stop feeling amazed by it in my old children. It is totally one of those things that I used to think was stupid in other people but I do constantly now that I have children. KARMA. or something.
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