Elmo Soup?

Well, let me start at the begining but try not to make this too long. Cade, since about the age of 6 months old or so, started sucking on his index and middle finger of his right hand and putting his fingers from his left hand in his belly button while doing it. Some kids hold a blanket and smell it or rub it while they suck their fingers or thumb...no, our son puts his fingers in his belly button!?! So, about a year ago one morning he came in my room and was doing that and I just asked him what he was doing. He said "tirin' it" (translated stirring it). Of course I was a bit confused so I said "stirring what?" He said "my Elmo soup!" with a big grin on his face. Of course by now I'm going to play along so I say "MMM! Can I have some?" He says "no, Elmo soup all gone, you have poop soup!" and just laughed and lauged at my reaction!!! I laughed on and on too of course because I could believe he was just makin' this up off the cuff. So stinkin' cute! So the other day when he was layin' on the couch I decided I needed some picks of this so I'll never forget it!!! Have I mentioned that I LOVE this kid!!?!!

I Love Garage Sales!!!

Along with the beautiful weather in the springtime come's lots of garage sales! Of course, we've all been couped up in our houses all winter long, going through stuff and making piles in our garage that we are ready to get rid of. It makes sense. I'm not even going to try and convince anyone that they should or shouldn't love a good garage sale. You either love them or you don't! One of the main reasons I love them though is clearly seen in the picture below...you can find GREAT, almost new and brand new stuff for an even GREATER price!!! Just in case you are wondering what I spent on ALL that stuff....drum role please...$21.25!!! You know what they say, "One man's junk is another man's treasher"! I truly believe it! Happy Garage Sale shopping!

Welcome Flip Flop Seasons!!!

So as you can see from the first picture, I don't do well with all of thousands of socks...well I'm sure that is a bit of an exageration in numbers but it sure feels like that when looking for matches, folding them and then trying to get them in the correct person's drawer! Go ahead, chuckle, I know it's funny, even to me! :-) So, here in lies just one reason, but a BIG one, that I am extremely thankful we have officially moved into flip flop season again! We LOVE flip flops and you don't have to wear socks with them...or can I say you shouldn't! :-) Of course, just to give you one more good laugh, I thought I would throw in a picture of our flip flop basket that is in our entry way...and that's just half of our flip flops so you can imagine the hunt that sometimes occurs when we can't find matching ones! Still, even then, that doesn't even hold a candle to the ongoing mountain of socks we have all winter long!

Kids say/do the darndest things!

So just to put a smile on your face I thought I would tell y'all just a few funny/sweet things the boys have said in the past couple of weeks. One small piece of advice I would give to all you mom's of little ones out there who may read this (I wish someone had have told me to do this when Corbin was born but I didn't lose that much time and some of it I was able to think back and remember...with the help of family of course!), buy a journal specifically to write sweet and funny things your children say in. We all know how precious they can be and how fast they grow up, if you write things down then you know you'll be able to remember it forever! Don't worry, I'm planning on getting future use out of my journal (which I started only a little over a year ago and already have over 15 pages!)...I may not be able to plan any weddings, but you better believe those rehearsal dinners are going to be the funnest and funniest (due to the top ten list that will be pulled from this journal and read aloud!) ones you've ever been to!!! I love you Boys!! :-) Please don't kill me for recording this stuff! :-)

Callen...was laying on our bed playing with and talking to Chris and I last night and decides there are aliens up on the planet (our light) on our ceiling and began shooting them of course. Chris joined in and then Callen made all these crazy funny boy blow up noises and said "I just bombed you up, Daddy"! We just laughed as he continued to shoot the other aliens.

Corbin...was watching me as I bleached some new shirts for them today and at one point walked away and came back and said "are they cleared yet Mom?". I wasn't sure at first what he meant but then I realized, bleached, he doesn't know that word. :-)

Cade...so you need to scrunch your shoulders up like you don't know something, cock your head to one side, scwint your eyes and face up and pooch your lips out and say "oh maih dooodnessss". Yes, that is exactly what he does and he loves to tell Chris and I that we don't do it right...or actually he says "you can't do it, I do it". I could just eat him up!!!

Callen...I noticed the other day that he had been particularly facinated by his muscles that day. That evening before going to bed he came in and had some goggles (which by the way last summer when I bought them for them and Nanna-D called them goggles, he said "Nanna-D, their gobbles!") on which were making his hair stick up. I told him to go look at his hair in the mirror. I followed of course and when he got in their he made a funny face and stared at himself for a minute and then promptly turned to the side, makine a GQ face and flexing those muscles with all of his might, all the while watching and admiring himself! Couldn't help but laugh and then give him big hugs and kisses!

Corbin...was playing Wii with me the other day and was loosing each game (so was I of course...this 30 game deal is hard but don't worry, we will conquer eventually!). He turned to me after about the 4th game and said "Mom, it's not about winning it's about playing the game and doing your best!". I pray he believes that but also wonder how much of his mom's extreme competitiveness he got and if he was also just trying to convince himself that it's ok to loose. He's such a sweet heart!!!

Cade...Chris holds up a tomatoe from his salad that he does not want and Cade says "Tan I have that maytoe?! I like maytoes!"

Texas Blue Bonnets

I was driving home from my parents' the other day and passed the largest field of Blue Bonnets I've ever seen!!! Pluss...they were not on the side of the highway where you know I can't get the kids out to take pics because at least one or more of them would get run over for sure. So, I made my mind up then and there that we were coming back the next day to take pics. They really didn't want to go and take pics and had let me know that but being the sweet mom I am I had let them know that if they didn't take pics for mommy I would not be a happy mommy! :-) What's funny though, when they got there, they all had SOOOO much fun, and they told me that too on the way home! Sorry there are so many, they really did so well I had a hard time deciding which ones to put up...so here are my favorites of all of them, grouped and individually! Just one of the many reasons I LOVE Texas...Blue Bonnets!
Hand in Hand! I love this!
From meditating...
to cracking up! Such a fun kid!!!
It just doesn't get much sweeter than this!
First attempt to get all four...mind you I was by myself....
Second attempt to get all four...Third attempt to get all four...I thought we might try not looking at them camera since it is so hard to get them all to look at the same time...Cade picked two and started playing drums on the rest of them...why do I even try all four, someone remind me?! :-)
Getting so big!
GQ Boy! All I did was tell him not to smile or look at me. :-)
Inseperable, so cute...
and so crazy all at the same time!
He picked so many of those flowers, I think trying to figure out what the point to them was!
Cade had fun giving Cohen hugs!!! Not sure from the look on Cohen's face how much he really liked it though! :-)
They love each other SOOOOOO much!
What are these things my mommy sat me in?
Laughing at his brothers so mommy can get a smiling pic.!
When I first sat him down it was like...'truly, what is all this and why do I have to sit in the big fat middle of it?

Thanks Nanna-D & G-Daddy!!!

Nanna-D and G-Daddy sent the boys an Easter box today. I hid it for a while until everyone was up from nap and they had had their bath. I told them to go in their room and I put it out on the porch and rang the doorbell, quietly shutting the door really fast. They all came RUNNING around the corner saying "who is that?" I just smiled and said "I don't know, why don't you see!" They opened the door to find the box and were so very excited asking who put that there. I couldn't help but just say it must have been the UPS guy since he really did leave it there earler...the pictures below tell the rest!!!
So yes, this is blury, but it's because they COULD'T get into the box fast enough! :-)
Cade's face says it all, I tried to get one of Corbin and Callen's reaction when they saw the Leapster games but I missed 'em.
Callen is very excited about the new games!
Cohen wasn't sure about all the comotion and was trying to figure out what all that stuff was! Don't worry though, when he figured out there were goldfish in those packeges...he ate a whole pack all by himself in about 3 minutes...we could put him into a baby eating contest if there was one! :-)
Corbin was SOOOOO excited about the movie...just yesterday they were begging me in Target to buy it when I accidently said out loud "only $6.99, Wow!" Also, Corbin told me it is so sweet how Nanna-D always sends them a Valentine and Easter box and stuff. He said they have to like what she sends them or they might not like Nanna-D (I think he was saying that wouldn't be very nice to Nanna-D, and sweet Corbin wants to be nice to and LOVE everyone!). I just thought it was too precious!
Sweet Cade must have been starving because he went straight for the gold fish to cut them open! :-) He truly ate 2-3 packs in a matter of minutes. That boy can eat when he wants too!

Peek-A-Boo!!!

So one of Cohen's favorite things to do right now is playing Peek-A-Boo! One night I was going into the boys bathroom to brush all or their teeth and below is what I found/said."Hey! I see some little feet by the bathtub!? Where's Cohen?" (anxious giggling coming from behing the curtain!)
"Hey, somebody's peekin' at me!" (now there's more giggling)
"Peek-A-Boo!" (laughter breaks out!)
Off to chase Mommy so she'll pick me up and give me sugars!