Fire Alarm!

Today we managed to set off the smoke alarm in our house for the first time since moving in. We were having a calzone party when the alarm went off. Since we had a dozen people in the house, it was a little noisey so not everybody noticed when Sven started ordering people to go outside. Sven was climbing up the stairs yelling, "you have to go outside now!" and then, "you have to go out on the deck in your bare feet!" Finally we figured out that he thought the smoke alarm was the fire alarm, similar to the fire alarm that went off in our hotel in London - which caused everybody to evacuate the building. A few of the guests got a good chuckle out of that one - they couldn't figure out why he was so insistent about going outside in bare feet in the freezing cold rain.

Calling Granma

Yesterday we received a very nice painting of a volcano by Granma. When we opened it up, Sven said "I want to call Granma." Then when he got on the phone he told Granma "I got a picture of a volcano that you made."

This is the first time that I remember Sven wanting to make a phone call. We'll have to get him a phone soon :)

And then I had a bad idea ...

On Saturday, Sven told me about an incident at Day Care that apparently disturbed him. Another kid was pulling on part of a tree in the playground. Sven decided that this was not good for the tree, so he threw woodchips at the kids jacket. When Sven told me about this, I said it was good that he was concerned about the tree, but throwing woodchips at another kid was not a good idea.

Later that evening, we had some dinner guests over. At the dinner table Sven said "Guys - I have something important to say. At school, Camaron was pulling on part of the tree. And then I had a bad idea. I threw woodchips on Camaron's jacket."