Core Memories

Waiting for Netflix to load ~ a sign we may have watched Inside Out too much...
J: D, it has no core memories!

D: Mom, what color is peanut butter?
Me: It's peanut butter-colored.
D: Mom, peanut butter is the color of peanut butter, and that color is called brown.

Me: D, what do you want for breakfast?
D: Uhm, a sammich of eggs.
Me: J, what are you going to have?
J: Uhm, ice cream.

Me: Good morning!

D: Mom, I just need to go to sleep.

Sweetest hubby ever!

J brought his stuffed kitty to share at preschool ~ 

J: I put my kitty in my pocket! Well, just his head.

D holds up C's skull and cross bone pic ~
I think this is for pirate day too!

Me: Why are you crying? 

D: Because I miss my dad. 

J: You didn't miss Mom. D, your mom is here.

D: Mom, I wanna go camping.

Me: Me too!

D: We have a new piece of honey! It came from the garden.

D: We have BLUE Gatorade, Mom!
Me: Yeah? What does blue taste like?
J: Ice cream, and chocolate, and the DS.
D: And we LOVE Chuckie Cheese, Mom!
J: And there's cheese in the Gatorade.
Me: Ew.
J: It's not stinky cheese, Mom.
Me: Cheese in the Gatorade sounds ew-ie.

(2/25) Work day for me, and Dad had the kiddos.  C was supposed to have hockey this evening, but his stomach was bugging him, so they stayed home.  I got home late and got to give out kisses, and that was about all I saw of the boys today.


(2/26) Work day from home for me, and Dad had the boys.  We went out for dinner when I got done, and midway through the meal, we looked over and C had turned green.  Uh-oh.  Poor guy revisited dinner alllll over the restaurant.  I made a comment about us not being welcomed back, and C was mortified.  Sorry, bud, I so did not mean it that way!  JJ would not go to bed this evening until I had taped up his "body" (outline of himself created at preschool), and had a complete meltdown when one corner came un-taped in the night.


(2/27) J excitedly demanded that I come upstairs first thing today, so that I could admire his body on the wall.  C and Dad stayed home, since C was still not feeling 100%, while the littles and I hit the gym, and then went to hockey. I got to go see Constellations with my mom at the Seattle Rep this evening.  What an awesome play!  It's all about the choices you have ever and never made, and how just one word or reaction changes the whole outcome.  Very powerful! Mom and I got to ding around Seattle for the afternoon too.  Fun to spend time with her!

(2/28) Lazy bum day for the boys and me.  J spiked a fever today and the rest of us have been feeling on & off not so great, so we stayed in. C was really ticked at me today because I had the nerve to ask him to do his chores, and to keep doing them until they were done correctly.  He made lots of signs to express his anger, and stomped around all full of huff. Although irritating, I couldn't help but laugh at the drama. Even asking him to get dressed was cause for lots of fluster.  I got to send him off to a hockey game with his dad and a friend this afternoon.  He came home in a much better mood and finished the chores with Dad in about a quarter of the time he spent stomping around for me.  Seriously, child.  Do you not know from who you got your stubborn streak?

(2/29) Work day for Dad & me, and school for the boys. D was full of NOs today.  He had something to say to his teacher and to all the parent helpers.  He even told me to go away so he could go back to sleep this morning.  Someone definitely woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

(3/1) D got sick in the night last night, so we stayed home today.  Sure wish this bug would vacate the premises entirely.  C started a Lego engineering class after school.  He is going to love it!

(3/2) Tough commute for Dad today.  He worked remote from home.  I worked in the twins' classroom at preschool and discovered today that JJ is pretty good at the Memory game.  We retrieved D's "body" from school and put it up.  The boys are so proud of their "bodies," it's really adorable.

(3/3) Work day for me, Dad has the boys, and C has hockey after school. Ready, GO!