Plus

Andrew (now 8) "I did a toot plus...but it wasn't really a toot...so I guess it was just a plus."

Inside my kids' heads

IN the matter of 5 minutes today, Zachary shared the following thoughts with a friend who oicked him up from school:

1. "If you don't give me a snack today during rest time you'll be arrested."

2. "You have to be careful when you hold a rat because it's tail will wrap around your heart and suffocate you."

3. "I saw a train with people on it the other day. I saw a man pooping because there were no curtains."

None of these statements are even remotely true.

On my way home with Andrew I asked him what he was thinking about.

"A Patriot squishing a dolphin" (the Pats played the Dolphins last week and we kept saying "sqsuish the fish). But then he said:
"and before that I was thining about a whale eating a dolphin...wearing a helmet."

Forgiving our Parents

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2011/08/figuring-out-how-to-forgive-your-parents/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HolyExperience+%28Holy+Experience%29

Flamethrowers

So I was swinging in the hammock with Davis yesterday when out of nowhere he says, "Dad, maybe we could get a flamethrower?" In reply I said, "Maybe not, flamethrowers can be a bit dangerous." He didn't miss a beat, and replied, "So maybe when I'm 16?"

I think my kids read too much Calvin and Hobbes :) Still, one less gift idea I have to come up with.
Josh

Speed

Andrew: "Dad, I fell down on the floor in big room (the gym) the other day and smacked my ear real hard."
Me: "How did that happen?"
ANdrew: "I was running so fast I got lost in speed. You know, like lost in your thoughts, but I was lost in speed."

Marriage

Zachary: "When I turn 4 I am going to marry Lucy."
Andrew: "You know that means you have to kiss her."
Zachary: "Oh, I am going to kiss her."

Iron

Carrie has always struggled with low iron in her blood. The doctors cure...eat more red meat. When she starts to feel the weakness coming on she simply tells me to head out to the freezer and grab a steak. The other day Luke said, "I hope I have the same disease as mom when I grow up."

I crapped

Zachary: "Mama, I tooted and then I crapped."
Carrie: "What?"
Zachary: "I tooted and then I crapped."
Carrie: "Uh...what do you mean you...crapped?"
Zachary: "I tooted...then..you know...I crapped."
(showing her by CLAPPING his hands)


Phew...close one.

Science? Fiction?

Luke: "I need to tell you something important dad."
Me: "Ok, go ahead."
Luke: "If I poop outside, it could turn into a fossil someday."

"Sweet Summer Days"

Dennis Caraher wrote this poem called Sweet Summer Days. In the middle he writes these lines

We were once our children
Too soon they will be us
All they ask, a simple task:
"Remember how it was".

I hear if from my kids in their questions and in my lack of patience. In their efforts that go unnoticed. In their feeble attempts to do things themselves, learn for themselves, and just get it right, even once. I was like that once. So were you. And some day our kids will be us looking back at life through their own children. I want my kids to be comfortable in their own skin. I want their identity to be marked by sonship and not their bodies, their brains or their bank account. And for that to happen, it starts with me. "Too soon they will be us." Haunting

DAD LIFE Video

Sent to me by my pal Ryan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s&feature=player_embedded

Showers

Andrew: "I drew a picture of Daddy taking a shower."

speechless...just like the moment I walked in on him

Men and Underwear

Z-man has learned how to put his own underwear on...he is also learning how to perfect a wedgie. He has struck fear into his older brothers. They have to be thinking "if he can do that to himself..."

Blow Z...BLOW!

Zachary pushed a green pea so far up his nose today at lunch Carrie needed to head to the hospital. On the way to the hospital today,

LUKE: blow Z, blow like this
ZACHARY: (Blowing hard)
LUKE: Yeah, it came out...ohhhhhh, he ate it with all the stuff on it.

Raising Him Right

Gotta be proud when you find grilling utensils and high quality beer in your 3 year old's sand box.

I hate you...Kumbaya

Zachary, our soon to be 3 year old, woke us up this morning at 6:30 by singing "Lukey is a meany head...kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya " at the top of his lungs. Not sure what he was dreaming about, but you gotta love a kid who can tease his older brothers through old african american spiritual tunes.

Wake Up Call

Andrew: "Mom...you forgot to kiss me goodnight."

The clock: 4 a.m.

Dead Rabbit

We bought 3 rabbits this past weekend. On the first night our neighbor's dog snatched one. In the morning I heard Luke get into the hall closet to take down his air-soft gun. After swiftly loading it in the kitchen I watched him patrol our property with tears in his eyes.

Me: "Luke, what are you doing?"
Luke: "I am going to go kill Freckles."

Freckles is our neighbor's dog and, apparently, a ruthless killer who needed to be taken down.

Fast Food

The boys experienced a couple of "firsts" when mom was sick last week.

1. Taco Bell
Me: "Luke how did like your first trip to Taco Bell, how is that treating you?"
Luke: "It was ok, but it made my stomach feel like it wanted to come out and get some air."

2. Subway
Luke: (After his first bite of a cold-cut-trio) "Oh Dad, we are in heaven."
Andrew: "Dad, we really are in heaven (pointing to a 3 foot high photo of cold-cuts behind Luke).