Throw Back Thursday - A Year Ago This Week

Today was the last day of school, and well, I am tired. So today we are revisiting a post I wrote this week last year.


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Overheard (June 16, 2011)

"Mommy. Jason needs to go sit on the naughty chair." - Shawn when he thinks Jason is getting away with something he shouldn't.

This one is still being used today only now they both say it. They can be so "helpful" at times.

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Mommy: "Jason look! A police car!"

Jason: Gasps while looking in the direction I pointed. "Cool!"

Jason about 20 seconds later: "But I missed it."

Said on the way to Target this weekend.


We still do Target a lot, and we still have similar conversations. The difference now is that I am the one who doesn't see whatever we're talking about. :-)

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"Daddy! I had a BIG dream...of a thunderstorm and a garbage truck." - Jason this morning right after he woke up.

Jason still has pretty vivid dreams. If you wake him from a deep sleep in the mornings, he's likely to tell you some of the wildest tales.

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Jason: "Go to sleep, Shawnie."
Shawn: "No!"
Jason: "Go to SLEEP."
Shawn: "No. I don't want TOOOOO!"

Scene played out just about every morning because Shawn is up for the day but Jason still wants to sleep.

Yep. This is the same!

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Shawn: "Can I stick my hand in the water?"
Mommy: "No! Shawn, quit playing with the cat's water dish!"

Thankfully, this conversation has died. (For the time being at least. I am sure it will start up again once Jack finds the water dish.)

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"Can I watch Light-ning Ma-the-clean?" - said by Shawn approximately 473 times a day, every day, 7 days a week.

Now the requests are for Bubble Guppies and/or Team Umi Zoomi. We haven't seen poor Lightning for a while now.

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Lots of laughter..."I made stinky ducks!" followed by lots more laughter. - said by both boys to tell me they just passed gas--because we must announce these things for all to enjoy, you know.

Sigh.

OMG. This is exactly the same!!! Who would have thought that gas would be that funny?

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"I wanna 'nuggle." - said by Shawn every night before bed. :-)

This is the same, too. :-)

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"Can we go to Target and get some cars?" - said by Jason. I created a monster!

He still wants to go to Target...he's not after the cars, though. Yea! Progress!

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"Ahhhhh-ohhhhh" - said by Jack after he eats.

Yep. Still the same, only now he likes to add in some screams for good measure (just in case I didn't hear him the first time).

Raising a Vampire or Something!

So Jack now officially has all of his teeth. So what does he do with them?

He bites, of course. And hard, too!

Here's my souvenir from tonight. He left me a love chomp on the shoulder. This picture was about two minutes after he did it. (It looks every prettier now--red, purple, and a bit raised.)

I would say that he learned his lesson from the stern no he received, but he went after my foot a few minutes later. I managed to escape his clutches before he connected.

Bite me once, shame on you. Bite me twice and I'm just stupid. Ahem.

On the bright side, it is good to see that his teeth are effective at their job. They should work just fine when he starts tearing into tri tip and chicken legs in the future!
By the way, this is one stage I'd like to fast forward through, thank you very much!

Jack with a Fork :-)

He Came. He Saw. He Conquered!

Shawn had a LOT of fun on the slide this weekend. The slide has been something that he was a little lot leary about in the past, but not this time.

1st time going down.

Watchful daddy's making sure all is well

"I've so got this, daddy! I'm outta here!"

He came. He saw. He conquered! We are so proud of him!

Sunday Six

It was exciting to see that Shawn has overcome his fear of the slide. He loves that thing now. He is definitely the daredevil of the two big boys.

The boys rhyme everything. We say something; they say it back using words that rhyme rather than the original words. It makes them laugh, so we all play along. I giggle to myself every time I say we need to go to the kitchen. They can only figure out one word to rhyme with "kitchen." lol

Shawn is in this phase of saying excuse me all. the. time. so much so that I hear, "Excuse me, momma," about fifty million times a day. No joke. He says my name a LOT. I think I am ready for said phase to be over now.

Jack was learning how to eat his dinner with a fork tonight. I helped him stab his food and then let him do the rest. Too cute! I got it on video, so you get to see the cuteness in action.

You also get to see Jack's pickiness in action. Sigh. If I could feed him waffles for every meal, we'd be all set. Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot of nutritional value in a continuous cycle of waffles, so that plan is out. Feeding a picky boy when you don't particularly like to cook can be challenging, especially when he nixes several of your specialties!

The boys do exercises every night as part of our nightly routine. The reward for their exercises is to play with my phone. It is amazing how motivating this phone is for the boys! Good grief. If only they found me as motivating as Siri. (I also love hearing Shawn grunt like a tennis player who has just hit a ball BEFORE he does the movement of the exercise. I have no idea where he learned that people grunt when they exercise, but he has to do it, too!)

Cute Big Boy Saturday - Slurberts

The days was filled with going down the slide, planting a blueberry bush, and playing outside.

And ended like this...

Laughing together...

Having fun.

A perfect end to a pretty lovely day.

Flashback Friday - A Year Ago Today

This was our Mr. Jack a year ago today.

Boy has he grown!