Something new everyday...

Me: [to Bryce] That is a big toe you have there.

Bryce: No it is not, that is a "sumb piggy"

Me: A what?

Bryce: [holding up his thumb] A "sumb piggy", it looks just like my "sumb"

You learn something new from a 4 year old everyday!

Decoded by Nana!

Today after church, as always we were deciding where we should eat lunch. Before the question could be met with the usual round of "I don't care, wherever you want to go"s, Bryce pipes up (shocker right?).

Bryce: I know where I want to eat!

Me: Where is that?

Bryce: That place that you go the other way, not to our house

Me: Where? Give us a little more help.

Bryce: You know, you go that way (his arm went straight out in front of him) and they have chips.

Me: What it it called?

Bryce: I don't know but they have chips and crackers that are orange.

Me: Okay, what do you like there?

Bryce: Not just bread (with his hands making a box around his face)

So, I was thoroughly confused. And Mom who was listening to all of this thought a minute and said, " I think I know what he is talking about"

Nana: Is it Subway buddy?

Bryce: That's it!

To clarify, you turn the opposite way out of the church parking lot to go to Subway than you to to go home, he likes chips...anywhere, we had cheddar Sun Chips the last time (they do resemble crackers), and he would rather eat chips and stuff and not "just bread" (his sandwich I guess)

Thanks for the interpretation Nana!

"Mystery Lunch"

Tuesday was a school day for Bryce and on school days, he functions best if I let him come home and watch TV for just a little while before dinner. He knows though that during dinner is family time to talk about his day at school and he has to answer questions about his day. I ask him usually the same questions, "who did you play with?", "what did you do that was fun?", "what was for snack?", and "what was for lunch?" Here is how it went on Tuesday...

Me: So, Bryce, what was for lunch today?

Bryce: Two things I did not like...green beans [this is true] and some kind of cereal stuff

Me: Cereal for lunch? [this is not normal at school]

Bryce: Yeah, some kind of cereal with stuff on it

At this point I was very confused and couldn't stand it, I got up from the table and went to the refrigerator to the lunch menu and snickered to myself when I read the lunch for the day...

Me: Could it have been Spaghettios?

That is right, it was. No wonder he didn't want to eat it, he thought it was Cheerios with red sauce...

I'm Back!

Okay, okay, I know it has been forever since I posted anything! Time gets away from me when I have these two guys to keep me busy. Let's see, what has been going on with us...

Well, Collin is growing like a weed! He is now at a whopping 26 pounds at just 8 months old! He is making it near impossible to carry him around for very long! But the little guy loves to eat! He takes right around 24 ounces of formula a day and then we go through about 5 jars of 2nd stage baby food a day too. I haven't found anything he won't eat. Then on top of that, he has started some finger foods snacks and we can't forget the Baby Mum Mums! They are rice cake like sticks that he can hold and eat and they dissolve almost immediately in his mouth! He loves them! He is sitting up very well on his own and I am sure any day now we will be in the mobile stage. He is not crawling but he would love to be! If for no other reason, just to get to Bryce's cars!

Bryce is still a reluctant preschooler! He likes it more than he will let on but he still is not pumped when Tuesday and Thursday mornings roll around! He is getting into video games since we got a Wii for Christmas. Mater Nationals and now Mario Kart pretty much consume his thoughts often!

I have to share a couple of Bryce stories though...

Bryce doesn't like change! If something is different or you want him to do something a different way he usually has a meltdown! So imagine the surprise of my husband when he walked into the bathroom to find Bryce on the stool with the sink plugged up and full of water and he was lapping the water out of the sink like a dog! And to top it all off, his response to "what are you doing?" was "there was no cup." We usually keep a small disposable cup in the bathroom and there wasn't one there! So, no matter how much he doesn't like change, he is still a little boy and will seize the opportunity to do something possibly messy and slightly outside the house rules. (He is really not supposed to use the drain stopper)

Bryce is also, as I mentioned, in love with Mario Kart for the Wii. After church on Sunday he wanted to play and we wanted him to eat first. His response was "I wish I had something to feed me while I played, like a machine" We started laughing because Bryce would be the one to invent something like that, he has tried to get out of feeding himself from day one! So we told him that he could be an inventor when he grew up. But I told him that God had really already "invented" something for that and it was called his arms and hands. He didn't go for that! (that would mean that he had to wait to play games while he fed himself) And he said he didn't want to wait until he grew up he wanted to invent it now. So we told him to go at it. And his reaction to that..."uh, hello, a little help here." Oh, what a fun boy he is!