Funny Things

"A" was eating ham for dinner and I looked over at him and he had a piece of ham held up to his ear. He proceeded to inform me,

"Mom, I'm talking on my ham to Jor Jor" 

I remember having a banana phone as a child, but never a ham. :-) I guess he is a ham radio operator.

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Avery got a pre-record-able book from Grammy. The other day we were listening to Grammy read the story. All of a sudden, he got a big smile on his face and said "Bebe in there, Mom, Bebe in there!" For Christmas, he also got one from his Nana and he was excited to hear "Nana, in there."

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The other day, he conversationally said "Hi babe, yeah babe"... and proceeded to call me babe for a good part of the afternoon. 

Cooking Skills

Conversation between A & Dad...

Daddy: "Wow, "A", this food looks so yummy!"

"A" grinning

Daddy: Did you help cook this?"

A: "YEAH!"

Daddy: "What did you do?"

A: "EAT IT!"

He is SUCH A hard worker! :-)

A's Singing Skills

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Finkle finkle little star

Up aba ba ba so high

Like a dinosaur in the sky

"Jesus loves me"

She-lu fila

Je su luv fila too

Je su luv mommy

Je su luv mommy too

Je su daddy

Je su daddy too

A's Medley ( Jesus Loves Me & Old McDonald, Alphabet Song)

Je su luv mommy

E-I-E-I O oink oink

ABBBBDAHIEBCDBCDAP

"A" will start one song and then go completely into another one. I love to hear him sing. It's such a sweet blessing. 

He tries to give the different words different notes and the melody comes out to be very unique. I LOVE IT! :-)

October 7, 2014

So here's another cute "A" story. 

We were in the car on the way home from the doctors, when Avery said, "Daddy come home in a little bit?"

See, whenever we get home at night and daddy's not home, I always say that daddy will be home in a little bit. 

So then I started to explain to him that daddy was coming in Thursday. "Today is Tuesday and we have to go sleep-sleeps then when we wake up, we play all day and then go sleeps-sleeps again and then it will be Thursday. Daddy comes home. You could see the wheels turning and he looks at me says "Go sleep-sleeps now?"

This little guy who hates sleep time was willing to go to sleep just so he could see his daddy again soon.  

So hurry home Daddy. Little guy is waiting for you. :-)

Airplane NOW!

So the CUTEST thing happened. Daddy is on a short survey trip to the Bahamas and here is what happened...

I was giving a friend a violin lesson and "A" was playing with his toys downstairs. The next thing I know I heard him dragging something up the stairs. He pulls some luggage (that he found left out in the garage) all the way up to the main room.

I asked him. "Where are you going with that?" 

And he announces. "Go with daddy, airplane now." 

Avery figured that once he had a suitcase, I would take him to the airport so he could ride an airplane with daddy. 

He was pretty insistent until I told him I was in the middle of the lesson and couldn't drive him to the airport right then. He brought it up a couple times, but I was finally able to distract him and put the luggage away. He misses his daddy and was figuring a way to get to him. HOW SWEET!

Ank-oo for...

Big brother is super insistent about praying before eating, whether it be a a snack or a meal. "Pray first" he insists. It's super cute and I never want to damper his spirit of prayer. I also allow him to say what he is thankful for. It usually starts with him saying "Fad-der" (Father) then I remind him to say "Thank you" and he goes on to say what he is thankful for. It always includes food but usually includes daddy, baby, mommy, and so on. He adds random things like "the light" or "dodo." I let him thank away and then he closes with "Amen."

So I never know what to expect. We were in the car eating bite while daddy was in a store buying something for our teen room. Avery insisted we pray (even though it was a small snack).

Here is how it went...

"Fadder, ank-oo food, ...daddy (pointing to store) ...fart (pointing to his bottom)
"Avery, fart?"
"Yeah, fart, fart momma, fart."

Well, at least he has a grateful spirit. Definitely saving this story. :-)

August 17, 2014 - Sweet Boy

My sweet sweet boy. I just love this kid! So we are learning baby sign language and we were practicing different signs like play, daddy, mommy, ball and so on. When I got to hug, I said "can you sign hug" and instead he tackled me with a big hug and said "Hug mommy" Then he wanted to hug Baby T as well. He is just precious. 

Last Sunday we were walking through church and ran up to me and said "hold me" and slipped his hand through mine. Then at nap time, he wanted me to lay next to him and he took both hands and framed my face and planted a kiss on my lips. 

He is pure sugar, ALOT of spice (the crazy 2 yr old tantrum kind) and alot of love. I'm so grateful for my little gift named A.