Funny kids

I always say I'm going to go write down whatever funny thing the kids just said, but I fail most of the time. Here are a few I did remember to jot down.

Out of nowhere, Weston proudly announced, "Mom, I share my lips with my teeth!" 

???

While Little Mermaid was on I was loudly singing along with Ariel in Part of Your World. Weston was on the couch and he was NOT appreciating my vocal prowess. With eyebrows knit together and a voice of indignation he pointed at me and practically spit out, "YOU can't sing that!!! You NOT in that show!!!" 

My, my, Weston! A Mom is just not free to do as she pleases!

In a conversation with Travis, Collin wondered out loud, "I wonder what I'm going to name my kids when I grow up and have a wife. I wonder how many I'll have." Weston suggested, "3?" Collin replied, "No. More." So Weston said, "Um, maybe 4?" Collin finally settled on 16.

I'll make sure to warn his future wife.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the kids in the car with me as I drove to a very run down trailer park to deliver some cookies for a lady I visit teach. And when I say "run down", I mean, it's the saddest trailer park I've EVER seen. Truly awful. As I pulled in and we bumped along the broken up asphalt, Collin's eyes were big as he gushed in a depressed voice, "Mom. What IS this sad city??!" I decided it was a good opportunity to teach him about how lucky and blessed we are. I told him not everyone has a nice, big house to live in. I told him we were fortunate to have a Daddy that works hard and is able to earn enough money for us to live the way we do. I also explained to him about visiting teaching and why we were there. After I dropped off the cookies and we were pulling away, I could tell his mind was brainstorming. Finally he helpfully suggested, "Mom. Why don't they have a sign out here that says, 'We need some money. Can you give us money?'" He said it with so much simple hope. Like, why didn't they think of that? Then everything would be OK.

Bless his heart.

The other day, something was in Collin's eye. Rubbing fiercely at it, he asked me, "Are there any eye dentists around here?!"

Apparently, last week, Collin sternly admonished Travis, saying, "Dad, I think it's YOUR turn to make dinner! Cuz Mom makes it ALL THE TIME!"

Sometimes, what they say is so sweet. Collin's prayers have gotten fairly eloquent. Recently he said, "Thank you Heavenly Father for making a beautiful plan for making our earth and for Jesus that he could die for us."

On Valentine's Day, Collin came home with quite a lot of loot from his class. Josie was here and she'd pick up a Valentine and try to decipher the name on it, then ask Collin a question about that person. They had been doing that for a while, when she picked up Zoey's valentine. When asked about Zoey, Collin paused, then looked stumped and declared, "Zoey. Well, Zoey's complicated." Haha! He's already getting the idea about girls it seems.

I was reading to the boys the Little Critter book, Just Me and my Brother. 

After this particular page, Collin had one eyebrow up and and a skeptical face as he said quickly, "Wow. Sounds like they don't have a mother."

In a prayer, Collin said, "And thank you that Dad buys money at his work (Cuz that's what Collin thinks Travis's job is all about... buying money).... so that he can... so that Mom can buy things. 

Haha. Yup, it only takes a 4 year old to figure out that's how it works around here! :)

Collin came home with this paper from primary a couple weeks ago.
I don't think he knew what a nickname was, so he said his was "Nick." 
The last one made us laugh. He meant "soft tacos", but I guess he couldn't remember the correct word or else his teacher just misunderstood him. Yeah, he's not a fan of soft tacos. The whole, holding them while stuff falls out is stressfulllll!

Olive Bo Ballive

Banana Fanna Fo-Folive

Me My Mo-Molive

Olive.

Also known as Missy Moo.

This girl will be 6 months old this week and I really can't believe it. It's cliche, but it's true. Time just goes by so fast. I think my pregnancies go on double slow motion, so once they're born, it's hard to believe how fast they grow. And it's difficult to swallow that I'll never get her at this age again. I snarf on her on a regular basis. It's a wonder there's anything left of her! It could not be overstated, I LOVE having a girl! 

So her latest fetish is hair chewing. She knowingly and deliberately grabs for my hair and shoves it in her mouth. Then grabs again and shoves again. Oddest thing. When she's upset, she grabs for it with her left hand, then sticks that thumb in her mouth and seems to sigh in contentment. 

If I let her go for it, my hair looks like this in 5 minutes. And it's a B to unpick!

I love this one. Ha!

A few weeks ago, I finally got my new camera started and Megan showed me the beginning ropes. I'm very intimidated by it. 

These bath pictures are my first attempts with it! She's about 5 months here. She loves her baths in the sink!

How 'bout that fuzzy hair!

Olive stats at 5 1/2 months:

Height: 24 3/4 in.

Weight: 12 lbs 1oz

Head Circ. 16 7/16 in.

As of two weeks ago, she's in her own room! And as of a week ago she's in a crib! That, after being in my closet for about 3-4 weeks. I have to admit, it was a hard adjustment for me, but I'm so glad now. I love her little nursery. She went from the wooden cradle for 2 months, to the inclined sleeper for maybe 2-3 months. Then the pack 'n play in the closet for a month and finally a crib. It's been a progression for sure.

She is a good nurser, but likes bottles too. She usually has about 2 bottles a day.

She has completely slept through the night, twice now. But her usual is to wake up once around 5 to nurse, then go back to sleep until about 7am.

She loves Collin. He get the best giggles and happy shrieks out of her, being his crazy, goofy self.

Unfortunately, she's not the fondest of Weston. I'm afraid he's burned bridges with her after the many times of laying on top of her or hurting her legs with his squeezes and loves. 

She has no neck. Just recently I noticed I don't have to clean out her neck goo as much. But it used to stink. We just called it stink neck. And I would bathe her and clean it out good every day! Gross. Glad we're growing out of that!

She has finally gotten into somewhat of a schedule with a morning nap around 9:30 and an afternoon nap around 1 or 2. The length always varies, but they're around 1 1/2 to 2 hour naps. 

She loves her thumb. The second I put her into her crib, it's in her mouth to soothe her to sleep.

Her fussy time is around 6pm when she would probably like to sleep, but needs to stay up so she can go to bed at 7:30 or 8! 

She is actively rolling over now and does it every time we lay her down. She loves toys and gnawing on EVERYTHING! She doesn't sit up on her own yet though.

She's VERY observant and has her eye on everything. She is wary of strangers and likes to be with her momma best. 

Megan took her 6 month pictures last week. I cannot even tell you how in love I am with these!! Mmmmm! I want to eat her!!

 

This is my FAVORITE. 

The thumb suck with pointer finger curled over her nose and clutching a blankie. SO her. 

 

 

This is another favorite. So soft and sweet. Seriously, words don't do my love for this babe justice!

 

 

Weston is 3!

Oh sweet Westy boy. He had been looking forward to this birthday for weeks! (And coincidentally, Collin had been quite miffed about it for weeks. Still can't wrap his mind around the fact that Weston's birthday is "first", even though HE is older.)

Be careful when you start traditions.... your kids will hold you to them.

The day before, the boys started excitedly talking about how they would be eating donuts for breakfast on Weston's birthday. Oh yeah... donuts. Dang, now I gotta go get donuts! :)

Glenn's bakery wasn't so good when we tried their food a few weeks prior, but their donuts are worth buying!

I wanted Weston to feel special on his birthday, but wasn't really sure what I could do. Not much in Gallup to do for fun! So, I bit the bullet, and Weston got his first ever birthday party. He said he wanted a monkey cake, so I decided to make it an animal themed party. He was ecstatic, and told everyone he knew about it.

We had it at 12:30pm so Trav could join us for some of it over his lunch break.

Weston really has only one friend, Rubi. :) So when I asked who he wanted at his party, he said, "Uhhh, Rubi! And Collin. And Lilly. And Daddy. And Mommy. And Olive." 

Nice, Ok. Intimate party. Then I suggested, Creighton... the little boy his age that we spend a lot of time with because we're friends with his family and his dad works at the dental office. Weston's eyes went wide with dismay. "No, not Creighton! He HITS me!" Well, I felt bad talking him into it, but it made sense for Creighton to be there, so Weston finally came around to the idea. :)

When the kids came in, they went straight to the table to make their "safari binoculars". 

Megan was so sweet to take charge and grab my camera to take pictures. Love this one!

Yay! Daddy made it sooner than expected. 

Then we had some pizza.

Creighton's sister, Brielle, is home schooled, so she joined in on the fun.

They could not stop talking about the dang pinata! So that was next. The basement was perfect for it.

The next game was supposed to be an "Elephant Relay Race". Just carrying unshelled peanuts on a spoon from one bowl to the next. The teams were as follows: Team A: Collin, Weston and Rubi. Team B: Brielle, Lilly, and Creigton.

Team A kicked Team B's trash. I think Collin, Weston and Rubi only ran one or two peanuts each, across. 

Then, they decided this game was for the birds and directed their attention, instead, at their pinata candy. All the while, Brielle, Lilly and Creighton are energetically "winning". It was like a scene out of Little Giants.

Next was "Tiger, Tiger, Lion." in place of Duck, Duck, Goose. The "it" person had a lion tail clipped onto the back of their shirt that the other person was trying to grab.

Finally, cake and ice cream! The monkey cake was a sad affair. I don't know why I tried to make brown frosting with food coloring instead of just making chocolate frosting. I'm smart like that. Luckily, 3 year olds don't care much.

Love this sequence that Megan got!

                                             

Yup! A big 3 year old now!

He got a fun Fisher Price airplane, Spiderman and book from Lilly and Rubi and some puzzles from Creighton.

Mom and Dad got him a magnetic boy "doll" that you can change clothes on, a Boogie Board (drawing tablet), and for the big present.... a train set!

Aunt Rachel sent an electronic dinosaur that turns into a car and Grandma Dog sent clothes and some motorcycle toys.

We had also bought a basketball hoop that didn't show up for a couple weeks so that became a joint birthday present for the boys. 

Oh yeah, I also threw in a doll! :) Weston is such a nurturing soul, so I've wanted to buy a doll for ages for him! Well, he pulled that thing out, and with a sheepish (not wanting to be rude) sly, grin, said, "A doll?! I not want a doll!" Haha, his dad gave him a high five over that comment!

To finish up, the kids grabbed their safari binoculars and headed upstairs to go on an animal hunt! I had hidden animal crackers all over the toy room. The kid with the most animal crackers got a prize. I thought it was so cute when they actually used the binoculars to go find the animals.

What can I say about my sweet, sweet Weston boy?! He is a tender hearted kid. He is also quite emotional. The smallest bump and he is wailing. He is a lover, not a fighter, but when Collin has pushed him too far, he has been known to fight back with a bite or a hit. Then he's instantly contrite and upset because he knows he did something wrong. He loves to nuzzle on Olive. He is still a pretty good eater, but you'd never know it by how skinny he is! He loves his Pediasure a few times a week. He HAS to hold my hand every time we go up or down the stairs together. He loves watching Dora, Team Umi Zoomi, and Peppa Pig. He loves cars and trains. He really enjoys songs and singing and reading books with me. Right now, their favorite is Don't Push the Button! When we sing songs before bed he can join in and sing almost all the words to I'm a Child of God, and Families Can Be Together Forever. He still wears a diaper at night. If you give him a stuffed animal, he'll be your best friend. He is dang good at playing Temple Run on our phones. Not too proud of that one. :) When he finds out that I'm leaving somewhere, he's suddenly so sad and pulls a pouty lip and pitifully says, "But I'll miss you." Randomly throughout the day he'll say, "Mom." Pause. "I love you." If you ask him if he had good sleepers in the morning, he always says yes. Then we ask if he had any dreams and he always says, "Yes. About dinosaurs and lizards." He loves his brother and wants to be just like him.

For his birthday, I asked him what his favorite food was so I could make it for dinner. He said, "Pizza." I told him we were having that for lunch and what would be his next favorite. He paused for a second then said, "Um. Leftovers." Haha! I totally started giggling and he pulled that smirk/self conscious face that shows he realized he said something funny but has no idea why it's funny. After more prodding, he said his next favorite food was soup.

Weston is my easy going, love a bug. He is a principled child and has a strong sense of what is right or fair. I am so grateful for him and his personality. We really needed a Weston to come after our high strung/ high energy Collin! I can't imagine my life without him.