I LOVE being a Mom!

Jenn's face says it all: "I LOVE being a Mom!"

The Boss Revisited

Quincy and Alyce were talking the other day. Quincy said, "I want to be a teacher when I grow up...Wait, no." He thinks for a minute, then, "Mom, what's that thing that you said before that tells people what to do and has servants?"
"The president of a company?" I asked.
"Yeah! That's what I want to be."

Xander Learns the Word "Cheese"

You can guess who this child belongs to. He doesn't know "please," he doesn't know "thank you," but he does know "cheese." If you tell him to say cheese, this is what he does:

Claire Gets It Right

Claire was playing with the Fisher Price Little People the other day. She had all the fences put together forming a circle, and inside the circle was another circle made up of Little People. I asked her what she was playing. She said they were blessing a baby. Sure enough, there was the baby, right in front of the Dad. Interestingly enough, all the women were included in the circle.

Derek Tries to Multi-task

Derek and I went out on a date on Friday night. We pulled into the parking lot of Pei Wei and noticed there were not a lot of parking spaces. Derek found one and was apparently concentrating a little too hard on pulling into the space, because he said, "Boy, it is crowwwDED! With a capital D!" He didn't even notice what he had said until I repeated it back to him while laughing my head off. We both agreed that had Justin been in the car with us, he would have been crying.

Toilet Tally

Here is a list of some of the things that have gone in the toilet since I last posted: Legos, a squid toy (which Alyce urinated on because she didn't see it when she sat down. I don't know how she missed it; it took up the entire pot and stuck out of the water so much I'm surprised it didn't poke her!), a crayon, a book, a pad of paper (which Xander was sucking on after dunking it--hope he doesn't get sick!), and irony of ironies, the toilet tongs themselves made it into the toilet!

Toilet Tongs

Xander has entered the stage where everything gets put in the toilet. We have a designated pair of tongs that we use to fish things out, affectionately called The Toilet Tongs. Most of the things that get put in the toilet are thrown away. If you look in all the bathroom trash cans, you will find odd things like a slinky, a pirate ball, an entire Fisher Price radio toy (quite large, but already broken and now water-logged), a tube of toothpaste, a rubber duck, two gold coins. It's actually a great way to purge ourselves of some toys. If he starts putting my paper in the toilet, that's a different story. You'll see a Xander in the trash can.