My funny birthday boys!

I have to write this down so that I will always remember the cute, smart, funny stuff that Jack and Quent  have said about their upcoming birthday!

The boys' birthday is about 10 days away, and their party is a week from Saturday.  So, in all the preparations  - sending out invitations, planning the cake, etc. - we have been talking about their birthday  A LOT.  We made a countdown calendar, so that they knew when it was getting closer and cross out the days everyday.  Lately I have been asking them what they might want for their birthday and they minimally answer me, "I want Toy Story 3" (the movie comes out a week after their b-day and we do plan to see it), but they really don't have concrete ideas.  But with all this talk:

The boys have now just realized that they will be getting presents for their birthday. 

So, last night Jack was saying, "Fank you so much Momma for letting us have some presents on our birthday!" 

When I told him that most of his presents would be from other people (not me and Daddy) he gave me a {thumbs-up} and yelled, "That's Awesome, I will love that!" 

He is such a cute, little grateful boy!  


Tonight, after reading Toot and Puddle: A Present for Toot , we were all talking about the book and how silly the little pigs and the bird in the story were.  Then Quent gets an idea, "Momma I REALLY want to have a pet too, for my birthday! Like a big pet, like a big DOG!"
I say, "Well, that would be nice to have a big dog, but we can't have a dog at our house because Momma is allergic.  I am so sorry, but we can visit Bessie* and Laverne*."

Quent's face drops, then he brightens and says, "I know!  I want a Yak!  Wouldn't that be a great idea for my pet!"  (yes the child said YAK)
My eyes grow wide and I laugh a little, but then seriously say, "A yak is a very big animal and would not fit in our house.  Our yard is too small for a yak to be happy in our yard, they like to live in big open fields where they have lots of room.  Also, yak poop is huge- whew - can you imagine if a yak would go poop in our house!  Ewwww, what a stinky mess!"
{Jack and Quent are now laughing like crazy and talking about big, giant poops, no way do they want that!}


Quent gets up to go get his drink before he lays down and he stops at the door.  "Whoa, now this is a great pet for me - how about a dinosaur - a REAL dinosaur!  Wouldn't that be great?!"  
Now you have to imagine his little face, so happy and pleased with all these "great ideas" he has had.  He's so cute it just breaks your heart to have to tell him that he cannot have a real dinosaur.
"Oh, Quentie, real dinosaurs are not alive anymore for us to have as pets.  That would have been a cool pet though.  You know what, when you lay down you can think about and dream about all kinds of good ideas for a pet and we will talk some more about them tomorrow."  (like how I switch back to the 'go to bed' mode)

Tomorrow should be one exciting talk!

* Bess is my parents' dog and Laverne is my brother and his wife's dog

Do you love the '80s?

If you do, you will certainly appreciate this one!

One of my MOMs friends sent this to me in an email.

Tom and I laughed out loud!  It is freakin' hilarious!

This is a perfect example of the ridiculous stuff that was in '80s music videos.

Ridiculous and FABULOUS!

I vividly remember the era of the music video.  When MTV would schedule the 'World Premiere' of a new video we would make sure we watched to see what awesomeness would be on. Then talk to our friends about how cool it was. We watched MTV and sang and danced along at sleepovers.  That was how we knew the cool clothes to wear, how to do our makeup, how high to rat our hair!  Not everyone on MTV was beautiful back then, but that didn't seem to matter.  (Seriously, think about some of the hair bands, definitely not  the pretty boy band cuteness of today).
The music video was part of the culture of my youth.
Now that MTV rarely plays a music video at all, its kind of sad.

Then again, today it is not the same - videos today are at all  like the videos of the 80's were.  Makes me feel nostalgic for the old days of crazy lyrics, bad lighting, fugly band members, cheap visual effects, huge hair and silly outfits and seemingly random plot scenes!

Ahhh, those were the days!

Whatchya been up to?

Since Christmas the weather here has been ridiculously cold (no news to most of you out there), but unless we needed to go somewhere we did not brave that bitter cold just to get out. So , we had to come up with some creative things to do to keep us occupied.

Being ever the helpers, the boys thought us some of their own ways to keep from being bored!

Like helping Mom to shred some papers, or waiting til she steps away for a second to dump out the pile of shredded paper!
Fun for everyone!

By the way, shredded paper strips are not so easy to get up off of berber carpeting.


I did not take any pictures of the entire tissue box emptied and shredded in their room one day after they go up from nap. I was listening over the monitor, thinking, "listen to them playing so nicely, they are having so much fun together" Little did I knwo that the fun was ripped up all over their room. Again - big fun to get kleenex shreds up off of carpet.


In keeping with their apparent paper theme -
here's what Jack was busy doing while Daddy was changing Quent's stinky pants
(Daddy was also letting Momma sleep in this day, poor Dad)

Then there are the times where they let their little imaginations run wild and they find the most adorable things to do to keep us busy and keep us laughing!

Like - here they are lounging in their IKEA igloo (which they love!)with some couch pillows and their blankets playing and catching up on their reading. They played in the tent that day for something like 45 minutes! I was sure there was something up because they were so quiet that I kept looking in on them to make sure.

Speaking of a wild imagination:
(I dare you not to smile at these!)

"I am havin' some salad Momma!"
Jack made a 'salad' of his monkeys from the Barrel of Monkeys game!

"Look at my moustache"
Quent's moustache is actually the crust of bread from his sandwich!

And just this Friday I got to go visit with our newest little friend Natalie and her Mom and Dad. (thanks Gramma for watching the boys!)
She is quite the adorable little princess, and boy are her parents in love with her!
But just look at her, how could you not be!

This is the little miss Natalie in her swing. She had just eaten and she was having a little downtime. She was so alert, looking all around with those pretty brown eyes. At least that is what her Mom says the best guess for her eye color right now!

Boogie Patrol

Okay, my kids are freakin' hilarious!

We met my Mom for lunch today at Red Robin after a particularly tiring playtime at the mall playscape (Debi put the bug in my brain., thanks.)

So, we are done eating and the boys notice a baby girl sitting at the next table, maybe 6-8 months old. She is drinking a bottle, so we are talking about how Baby Tessa (their cousin) drinks milk from a bottle too, baby stuff, etc.

Quent decides as we are leaving that he wants to say hi to the baby. Now, we are telling him he can say hello, but not touch the baby. Both Quent and Jack go over and Quent starts talking in his high pitched "baby talk", what he does to babies and animals, you know that 'parentese' they talk about in all the parenting books - that's it.

All of a sudden, all the adults are laughing, and I didn't hear why.

Here's Why:

Quent had said, "OH, she has got a booger in her nose"

Of course he probably delivered it with the wrinkled nose, icky face. He was right. Her Dad said she did have a booger though, they didn't want her to scream in the restaurant so they just left it.

My boy speaks the truth.

Later, in the car, he could not stop talking about it and listening to it all Jack just says, quite matter of factly, "Ew, gross!"

Sometimes my face just hurts from laughing so hard.

Toads and vacuums, hmm?

Here is the little, actually kind of big, toad that we found under our sand table. It hopped out when i moved it from the deck onto the grass, and WHOA, did it scare the bejeezes out of me! The boys on the hand thought it was pretty cool and if it had sat still long enough they would have definitely caught him!

You can see the toad making his escape to the left off the deck while the boys are moving stuff to close in on him!





We also got out some golf sets that we had gotten a while ago. And while they were not quite sure how the whole golf club hitting the ball thing was supposed to work, Jack found a new and better way to use his golf cart -

He called it his VACUUM!

So he vacuumed the yard, the deck and all over the place!
Boy, have I taught him well or what?!

I laughed so hard...

I could barely catch my breath and nearly peed my pants when I read this listed on Stuff White People Like.

It is #99 - Grammar

I mean some of the other ones on here are pretty funny too, even the comments that people left are funny, but this grammar one is hilarious!
Tom says that I think its funny cuz its an awful lot like me - maybe, but its still friggin' hilarious!