What My Kids Said-August 2010

-I was a bit frustrated with the way the day was going...and Jack sensed it. He knew when approaching me, he'd better choose his words wisely to get what he wanted. He said, "Mom, can I ever so kindly watch a t.v. show?"

-James was looking at Jason's eyebrows as Jason was putting him to bed. He said, "why don't I have eye brows?" (I guess he never noticed them because they're blond). Jason said, "you do!" and guided his fingers to James' eyebrows so he could feel them. James, surprised by the realization, asked, "can I go see my eyebrows in the mirror?" Jason brought him to the mirror... he proudly admired his eyebrows. A while later he was out of his bed again. Jason asked what he was doing out of bed. He said, "just looking at my eyebrows."

-James asked, "when I get married can I get a ring?" Jason said, "yep, and you can pick the color too...so, if you want a purple ring, you can have a purple ring." James, "I want a Garfield ring!"

-Jack said his tummy hurt. He came out of his room, walked up to Jason, and said, "when you're in my room WITH me, I feel two inches better."

-James started stacking pillows in the living room and said very excitedly, "I'm building a PUBLIX!" (you think he knows how excited Mommy is that they're building a Publix down the road!?)

-James informed me when I came in from my run, "Jacks still sleeping. He's growing. But that's OKAY Mom." (he recalls me "not wanting" them to grow up).

-As James rounds the corner very fast, with a large upside down bin in his hands, and a kitty running from him, I asked, "what are you doing?" He said, "oh, just tryin' to catch a kitty!"

-As we're all in the same room in Covington, lights out, about to fall asleep, the boys start saying goodnight to everyone. James said, "goodnight Mom, goodnight Jack, goodnight dad, goodnight Jamesy...that's me, I'm Jamsey!"

-James asked when I picked him up from his 1st day of school, "did you have a good day when you dropped me off at school?"

A COLORFUL Craft

With a bucket full of broken crayons, I took advantage of those scraggly pieces and turned it into a craft for the boys. I saw how to make your own crayons with old crayons in a magazine somewhere. Jack helped peel all the paper off and separate the broken crayons by color. Then we preheated the oven to 275 degrees. We lined the mini muffin pan with muffin liners then placed the broken crayons in the muffin pan. We plopped them in the oven for 10 minutes, and wha-la! Peanut butter cup crayons! Jack's very quote as we took them out of the wrappers, "Oh, they turned into to peanut butter cups!" Fun project! We even did a second batch of swirl colors! :)

James Is A PRESCHOOLER!

The day has finally come that James gets to be a preschooler. For two years he's begged to be able to stay at preschool when I dropped Jack off. You would have thought he would have been a bit more excited. But, my little James was cautiously excited and bit reserved about being at school without Mom, Dad, or brother Jack. He begged for Jason and I to stay with him as we dropped him off in his classroom. But he didn't cry as we separated his clenched arms around our legs. And when I picked him up he was ALL smiles! He talked ALL about his day and his teachers gave him a great report for his first day! I'm so proud of you James!