SWEETHEART

Joshua is a sweetheart! After I picked him up from school we went to run a couple of errands. Our second stop was Borders. While there he said, "Mom, Caroline was beautiful today." My eyes popped out of my head and my mouth dropped when I said, "Oh yeah! That is very sweet of you to say Joshua. Why do you say Caroline was beautiful?" He then replies as he is casually looking at the neat craft kits at Borders, "She looked pretty because her nails were painted...I mean polished. She had polished nails." I was at a loss for words. I mean seriously. Where does this kid learn these things? My nails are rarely polished or painted. I wonder if he thinks I am beautiful.
I have to say, Caroline is a very cute little girl and the sweetest little chatter box at that. I don't think he has heard me say that though. Jeff is going to have to have the "talk" with Joshua much earlier than I ever thought.

NO OFFICER IT WASN'T ME...

...that dialed 9-1-1. We were at Grampie's and Mimi's house last night for dinner. While there Andrew grabbed the phone. No harm done until the phone started ringing. Dave answered the phone and it was a 9-1-1 operator. He said, "Oh I'm sorry, but it was my grandson. He had the phone and must have dialed 9-1-1." Well, we thought that was that until a police officer rang the doorbell. He gave both boys a police badge sticker and told Joshua, who was being shy, to always tell the truth. I am still laughing about it today.

IT'S DONE...

Well, either my friends don't like me, or mullets are really out of style. I am guessing that my friends like me enough to tell me mullets are out of style thus time to get Andrew's hair cut. Today Jeff and I took the boys to Snipits to get their hair cut. Joshua has been many times before, so it was not a big deal to him. However, it was a big deal for Andrew...it was a big deal for me as well.

Before...

He screamed and cryed with big crocodile tears as she was wetting his hair. Then he was able to calm down enough with a very sad look of disbelief as to what was going on.

End result...handsome little boy, even though he is only 16 months old.

A STORY AND A BOWL

The boys and I met Stephanie, Christopher, Lucy, Meghan, Drew, and Ty at Color Me Mine on Wednesday. Color Me Mine is a pottery place that you can paint pre-made pottery. We decided to check out their "Paint me a story" for kids. It was a neat thing to do with the kids. The story was The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The book was read and then the boys started painting their bowls. They painted the bowls with yellow first. After painting the bowl they wrote (Joshua got help from me) their name, age and/or the date on the bottom of the bowl. Then they took sponges and painted the body of the caterpillar. After the body they painted eyes, nose, antenae, and legs. The final touch to the bowl was to add food for the caterpillar to the bowl, one single leaf in the bowl...Very cute! I look forward to seeing the end result. Joshua did it all on his own...he and the other boys had an exciting time.
Thanks for the idea Stephanie.

AM I ON MY OWN?

Does anyone else experience a child that talks back, screams and yells when he does not get his way, or slams the door when sent to his room? Well we have one in our house. Thank goodness Jeff was home on Monday or Joshua and I would have spent most of the day in our rooms. I know there are triggers for him...we are working on understanding all of them and minimize those triggers. However, in the meantime it makes for a tough, rough, horrible day. Today I have a headache and the boys are just making it pound even more. Why oh why do they have to test me? I cannot do this on my own...I know the Lord is with me, but I need to become better at asking him for his help.
Just had to get that out there...a friend of mine said that she only seems to find good things on peoples blogs. She was thinking that it cannot be all roses all the time...it is not here and this is a little piece of our reality...I hope you are all enjoying your day!

TOILET FASCINATION

What is it with toddlers and toilets? Andrew is fascinated with the toilet. Oh no, not going potty in the toilet. He wants to stick his hands in it and play in the toilet. Absolutely disgusting! He sticks anything and everything he can in the toilet and will even try to get his hands in there if you are going potty yourself. Today I had to throw a toothbrush away. I guess he wanted to clean the toilet. It drives me batty. Why?

POLLING TIME

I have created a poll.
I think the ideal age to do the first cut is 2 years of age. No scientific reason, but it is just a time that the kids don't care about their hair and I can do whatever I want with it and all is well. However, a number of people have been teasing me about Andrew's hair. He has a mullet! I know this. He also has short hair on top and if I cut his hair now it not only goes against my ideal age of hair cutting, but he will look so much older. Why do I want him to grow up so fast?
With that said, vote and the decision will be made based on the poll results...Jeff you cannot vote more than once.