So this past week or so I remembered to take note of a bunch of the little amusing things the boys do that I wanted to post about. Here are 8 short stories, in no apparent order :)
#1 - Last weekend we got new tires for the van at Sam's club. We went in past the huge aisles of tires and dropped off our key, before wandering around Sam's for an hour and a half. Well, as we're walking, Scott starts telling me that we need our tires. He was very concerned that the new tires were not in the shopping cart. I explained they were going to put them on the van for us... he was not convinced. So we wandered back to the tire section to watch them put them on the van. Of course, in order to put the new tires on they had to take the old ones off- and the child freaked out! He was terrified they were taking his tires and ruining his car (he's still into the whole ownership thing.) He did calm down when I explained what was happening and agreed to stand there and watch the whole process. Thank goodness there's a window at the Sam's Club tire center :)
#2 - Last Saturday we went out and played a good old game of wiffle ball with some church friends! It was great fun. And for the record, even at 36 weeks pregnant, a softball player is a softball player. I think I bruised the inside of my pelvic bone- but it was fun. Scott did well for his first "real" game of baseball and Blaise even hit once or twice (off a T.)
#3 - For some reason my children get the following two phrases confused "Take off your shoes." and "Take off your pants." Not every time, thankfully, but frequently enough to warrant mentioning :)
#4 - The boys have also taken to backseat driving, sort of. If there are any other cars on the road, in their view they yell, "Get out of our way car!" In fact, Cullen and Scott were following Blaise and I to drop off the van for some other service (it's been an expensive week!) and Scott told us to get out the way.
#5 - Blaise has a new obsession with airplanes. He points them out from the stroller, the car, and even gets out of the pool to point them out when the fly overhead (which is frequent, since we're in the landing pattern.)
#6 - Scott can kill me for posting this when he's older, but he noticed earlier this week the opening in his underwear. He looked at me and informed me that his underwear had a pocket and it's for batteries.
#7 - Both the boys do what they call a "monkey walk" in the pool... not the same as the monkey walk I used to teach (which is where little people hold onto the side of the pool and walk themselves around where the water is too deep.) Their version is to walk on their hands and feet around their baby pool. It's entertaining.
#8 - Another new hobby they've discovered this week is mattress jumping. There's a spare twin mattresss under the bottom bunk bed and they figured out how to pull it out. First they push their chairs across the room and turn them up-side-down in the process. Then they pull the spare mattress about 2/3 of the way out. Then they jump off the bottom bunk onto the mattress and into the back of the up-side-down chairs... it's a make your own bounce house. No injuries yet, and don't worry too much, we don't let them do this everyday or anything.
