Mark and Sean quotes

Me: "Sean, it's time to nap."
Sean: "No, Mama, me no want sweep."
Me: "Sean, when Mama says it's time to sleep, it is time to sleep."
Sean: "You have bad att'tude, Mama."


Mark: "Momma, what is a straight jacket?"
Me: "It's kind of like a shirt with really long sleeves that get tied around you so you don't hurt yourself."
Mark: "Have you ever had to wear one?"
Me: "Uhm, it's for crazy people, Mark."
Mark: "So, have you ever had to wear one?"

Some new pics of the boys

I've been so busy there hasn't been much time to take pictures of the boys lately... but I did take a few!

...a bit late... but more Halloween pics.

Here are a few more pictures from before and after our church's NEEWOLLAH celebration on October 31st. Some of you might recognize these 2 costumes as cousin Autumn and Brandon's! Can you believe they fit our boys? (Sean's sleeves and legs were rolled up a little).

Funny quotes

I have several sets of pictures I still need to upload... but in the meantime, I wanted to share some funny (or at least smile-worthy) little boy quotes:

After lunch, while sucking a ring-pop he got in Sunday school: "Hey Momma, this ring pop looks kind of like one of those weird things some parents put in their baby's mouth to trick them into thinking they have a boob in their mouth."
I almost choked from laughing. My very eloquent 6-year-old doesn't know the word "pacifier." Then again, we never used one. 

The other morning while I was getting everyone ready to take Mark to school, Mark pulled me aside, and quietly said: "Momma, I've noticed something the last few days. Whenever you tell Sean to do something, he does EXACTLY the opposite. Did you know?" Yes, my dear boy, I noticed. Hence, the hair standing up on end and multiple back-to-back time-outs doled out...

This morning, Sean asked Ben: "Bwink peese, Dada?" (drink please), to which Ben replied that he would bring him a drink as soon as he was done making the toast. To this Sean answered with his longest sentence so far: "No Dada, me need bwink NOW peese."

It was pouring rain (truly POURING). Sean wanted to go outside, and approached me, shoes on the wrong feet, holding a large-ish toy digger. "Me go owside, Momma. Go outside, dig big hole." I told him we would go outside if the rain stopped. Sean plopped down on the floor, and said in a very sad voice: "Eh-vader sad, Momma. Need dig big hole." ('eh-vader' is his word for excavator. He corrects me when I call it a digger) I asked him if the excavator would be happy if it could dig in the bean bucket for a bit. This was deemed acceptable, and the morning was rescued!

Sean counts now. He says "two, fwee, fow, five" and then JUMPS off of whatever he is standing on. He only counts when he is about to jump. Counting = bad when your little boy is in the top bunk!

Sean also is starting to recognize letters. We were at the store, and suddenly he yelled: "Big bee!" to which I answered, "Oh, do you see a bug, Sean?" Sean shook his head very adamantly, and replied: "No, Momma, big letter B. Big, big B." - Sure enough, there on the shelf was a very large cut-out of a letter B. 

Carving pumpkins