Here goes.... kid sayings & moments from the last 5 months.
* Another Nathanism for the day. Faith was messing with an alarm clock and it went off on her - full blast. Scared her to pieces! I overheard Nathan console her while I turned it off, "you no be scared Faith, big brother's here" Awww!
* Noticing the cloud cover, Nathan just had a moment of panic: "oh no! The plants used up all the sun!"
* Tomato and chocolate
apple pie soup. It's whats for dinner. You know you're drooling :)
* My kids are weird. It's
82 degrees outside and faith went out with her heavy winter coat on. After 2
minutes, she came inside to trade it for a poncho. 2 min later, Nathan comes in
for his poncho, because "it's hot outside". Um, kids, this is Texas.
We're in a drought. And it's may be unseasonably "cool", but not cool
enough for wearing plastic! Gotta be their fathers genes.... (mom reminded me that I use to keep my bedroom at 85... so maybe they do get this from me after all...)
* Ruth thoroughly enjoyed
her lunch today - from the top of her head to the tips of her toes! Thank you,
Autumn Hokenson and Stephen Hokenson for a great luncheon!
* Laughing that this is
what my kids think they need to wear to play outside this afternoon. It's May.
In south Texas. And it's a blistering 61 right now. Suppose to hit all time
record lows tonight. Woo hoo!
* Day 2 of Nathan and the sprinkler. he may be gullible, but he's stink'
adorable in the process. One day he'll learn.... and retaliate. Ha ha :)
* "Tootie Fruities
toot in the bag. They just tooted in my bowl! Thbbbbbbttttt. Nathan they're
going to toot in your bowl too. Watch out!" ~ Faith Such an interesting
one way conversation at breakfast this morning. Hahahahahahahahahaha
* Hehehehehe. I love this
kid :)
* Nathan, while watching basketball with Daddy, "go lellow
team!" Faith adds, "what's the yellow team made of? Mac and cheese?"
* Faith just told me I'm
not allowed to say the word WOW. She said it's because that's the name of our
doggie. We don't have a doggie. But now she's walking around shouting "wow
wow, where are you? Oh there you are! Good wow." She's playing fetch with
him now. I wonder if our new invisible doggie will eat the mess under the high
chair.
* Someone learned a
valuable lesson today. Anyone want to guess what the lesson was or who learned
it??
PS - he learned that stealing chocolate bunnies from Target by hiding them under his underwear elastic is not a good idea...... We got to the car, nathan pulled up his shirt and went "oh no" And i thought the same as I worried it was something other than chocolate.... then he told me what he did. And we spent the next 15 minutes trying to find an intimidating store manager to put a little fear into nathan about shoplifting. Only Target apparently only employees teenage girls.... ha I think having to ride hom with a mess under his shirt was punishment enough for our little clean freak who can't stand to be dirty ;)
* Nathan's self portrait. I love how he gave
himself eye brows but no torso or arms. And one side burn. But he does have a
pretty great smile :)
* Apparently we have another poop artist in our family... Yay. I can barely contain my excitement... (Ruth)
* My highlight of the
morning? While walking thru Jacob's office building at lunch time, Faith is
carrying her almost empty milkshake, slurping as she walks. Her voice echos
thru the quiet building, "My straw is tooting! haha Daddy, My straw
toots!!" hehehehehe
* I overslept this morning... since we were running late I challenged
the kids to a race to see who could be ready to get out the door first. Nathan
won. Faith & I were putting on our shoes, Faith was eager to "win me".
Oddly, she was not in her normal "the world will end if I don't get my
way" mood. She just calmly turned to her brother and said, "Oh,
nay-nay will you cheer for me?" hahahaha What a cutie!
* Nathan told Jacob that
his favorite animal is a pokasaurus. During bedtime prayers, thanked God for
them.
PS - ever since then, when Daddy puts the kids to bed they play a little game. The kids climb under their covers and ask Jacob "What's your favorite animal?" the kids each ask Daddy. Then he pokes & tickles as he replies "the pokeasaurus!" Then the kids remind Daddy, "Daddy ask me what my favorite animal" He does and they make us something just as silly. It's a sweet little game. I'm sure it's intended to put off bedtime, but it's still cute.
* Celebrating national
pancake day with pancakes! First (and possibly last?) time I'vel ever taken 3
little kids to a restaurant alone. But everyone had fun and you can't beat free
pancakes :)
* Some things my 4 year old has said to me today:
- "haha, you can't find me, I behind the bed and you cant find me!"
- between bouts of laughter, he struggles to find breathe to say, "I not ticklish!"
- After I said, "Your momma is so awesome!", Nathan replied, "I know my momma awesome". All the greater, it was the tone he used. It was an "that's old news" voice ;) I love that little boy!
- "haha, you can't find me, I behind the bed and you cant find me!"
- between bouts of laughter, he struggles to find breathe to say, "I not ticklish!"
- After I said, "Your momma is so awesome!", Nathan replied, "I know my momma awesome". All the greater, it was the tone he used. It was an "that's old news" voice ;) I love that little boy!
* Every mother dreams of
the day their child will come crying to them, at bedtime, to share that they
can't get a raisin out of their nose... Thankful that God allowed me to get it
out without needing a trip to the ER with 3 kids in PJs.... Oh, what my kids
will apparently do to extend bedtime...
* FYI - babies crawl extra
fast when you give them cotton candy :)
* New vocabulary word of
the day... Discombobulated. Now our kids are laughing hysterically and calling
everyone/everything they see, "you bobolated, daddy!"
* Ruth's one year appointment was today. And for the first time we have a child NOT in the 99th percentile for height. She's "short", in only the 75th!!
* I think it's hysterical that when my 4 year old gets mad that I won't let him have what he wants, he literally says, "boo hoo hoo" and then pouts
* Spent the last 3 hours trying to reorganize, purge and find room for all the Christmas gifts in our playroom. With the kids awake.... Why do I even try?!? I may as well go brush my teeth while eating Oreos.
* You know those first 15
min of takeoff when the whole plane is anxiously quiet?? Know what my kids were
doing then? Blowing up their whoopee cushions, squeezing them, giggling a lot
and shouting "haha, I tooted!!" Then doing it all over agai, and
again. Thank you, Sara J Clark for the laughter you gave to a plane full of
strangers today. Haha
