Friday, January 23, 2009

Conversations with Toddlers

Toddlers say the funniest things. Sometimes I wish I had the video camera at my fingertips to document them. Here are a few of the funny conversations that I can remember from the last few weeks:

We were driving home from story hour and were stuck behind a school bus,
I say, "This bus is stinky!"
Collin says, "Bus poo-poo, Mommy?"

Brendan picks up his rolling Handy Manny backpack and says, "bye, bye Mommy." I said, "where are you going?" He says "chicken and dip." Which is their word for Mc Donalds! Nice, that makes me feel so good, considering I had just made them cheese tortellini and they didn't eat any of it!

I was getting ready to go out to dinner with some girlfriends, so I said "Mommy's going to put some make-up on." Collin says, "me make-up too." And he and Brenny follow me to the bathroom. I give Collin a powder brush and Brendan my eyelash curler. Brendan picks up the eyelash curler and says, "Camel walking", as he imitates it walking, and "Camel sleeping", etc. He has such a good imagination.

We were reading a book and one of the pages was torn. I said "Who tore the book?" Collin says, "Collin tore it, sorry Mommy." Too cute. (Although most of our books that aren't hard pages have a page ripped.) Ugh.

And since a post wouldn't be complete without a few pictures. Here are a couple of pictures of the boys washing their red wagon. They helped Mike wash our SUV and they wanted to keep washing, so we put them to work!


And for more fun, a video of the process:

Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas Cheer

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and has started a great New Year! We had the best Christmas. The boys are at such a fun age, the pure joy that they had was infectious. :)

We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house, with them and my sisters. We stayed the night and had a great time! That morning before we left we let the boys opening their stockings at home (I know, before Santa even came :))


We opened the family presents that night- here are a few pictures from that:
More stockings from Grandma:

Teamwork:

Collin:

Brendan:

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Oh the trouble they can get into with these stools Aunt Mandy gave them!

Aunt Shelley gave them a double-sized easel which is perfect for my aspiring artists:

Happy Faces

And then there was Christmas morning-Santa's gift. The boys left cookies and milk for Santa, but he didn't finish them so they did that morning - it was the first thing they spotted! Then the presents...


Christmas Day we headed over to Mike's aunt's house for his family celebration. As always, it was a full house! We had a blast and filled the car up (again) with way too many toys.




We had a very nice New Year's as well, but I didn't take any pictures! We are sad as our 2-week vacation with Mike home is coming to an end - now back to reality. :)