Titus is frustrated about not getting a ball that his cousin Luke posses. We say to Titus, "Go get that ball!" (Which is a larger, bluer one.) He tucks his head, hunches his shoulders, smiles, and slyly goes to the new find.
December 2011
Isaac says to his Grammie and Gramps (my parents), "I don't like it when people are mean to me. I will beat the crap out of them."
December 2011
Eli is in the middle of an on going potty-training. He yells, "Pee-potty!" I pick him up, and on the way to the bathroom he passes gas on me.
He says, "I burp!"
I say, "No, you tooted."
He replies, "No, I burp."
December 2011
Me and Isaac are practicing if/then sentences. I say, "If the car is small then the bus is___." Isaac replies, "BIG!"
He says, "If the smaller tree is small, then the bigger tree is___." I say, "Well, that'd be 'big.'" He says, "Wow, you're right, Mom!"
December 2011
Isaac isn't feeling well and is in our bed watching shows on the iPad. I hear him start to scream, and I run into the room.
Me, "What happened?! Are you sick?"
Isaac, through sobs, "I was chewing on my finger and I bit myself!"
December 2011
Titus has complete trust in me and Matt. He loves to randomly fling himself at us, in the most heart retching times, and believes that he'll be scooped up before certain death. Like on the stair, or off the table.
Winter 2011
I'm ready to go on a run, decked out in black/grey running gear, and even have a grey water-bottle belt on. Eli looks at me quizzically, and asks, "Mom, you Batman?"
November 2011
Titus loves to take a bath. His favorite thing to do during the bath is to climb the side of the tube. He holds the railing, steps up onto the soap ledge, looks down behind him, then jumps belly first into the bathwater.
November 2011
Me, "Eli, come get your shoes."
Eli, "No, Op-mus Prime!" (Optimus Prime)
Me, "Okay, Optimus Prime come get your shoes."
Eli, "Okay Megatron."
November 2011
Me, "Isaac, did you go to the bathroom?"
Isaac, "Yeah, I did. It was a quick and slobbery poop... I didn't touch it though."
November 2011
When Titus is happy and excited he loves to run in circles, dance little jigs, and "jump" in the air. Falling down often happens, but he gets back with with undeterred enthusiasm and continues his running, dancing, and "jumping."
Fall 2011
It's been a long day. The boys are sitting at the table, yelling happily at each-other, while I'm making dinner. I just can't take the noise and I start to patiently "hush" them: "Shhh... shhh... shhhh..." They get very quiet, and then are silent. Isaac looks at me with big eyes and says, "Mom, I can hear the sound of the house!"
November 2011
Isaac to me: "It was really nice of the builders to make the toilet in my room quiet. But they made the one downstairs too loud, and it's scary."
November 2011
Eli calls a big pile of raked leaves a "tram-ene!" (trampoline)
November 2011
Eli can pick out Jeeps and Toyota 4Runners with 95% accuracy. When seen, he loves to yell: "MOMMY! JEEP!" or "Pour-nunner!"
Fall 2011
Me and the boys are driving through a park. Eli spots a huge statue of a sitting Abraham Lincoln and yells: "JESUS CHRIST!"
October 2011
Isaac's favorite way to address Titus in a loving manner is to say, in a southern/cowboy accent, "Hey 'lil Ty-dah!"
October 2011
Titus likes to shoot guns, and makes noises when bullets leave the gun; i.e. play rocket, long LEGO, plastic spoon. His bullet noise is made with a "Thbbs! Thbbs! Thbbs!" with his tongue, often sounding like passing gas than a round leaving a chamber. Oh, and spit goes everywhere too!
October 2011
Isaac often tells me after I raise my voice, "Mom, you scared my feelings."
October 2011
Isaac is watching the football game between Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns. He says, "We want the orange team with the cow to win."
October 2011
Eli calls all things the color blue "Optimus Prime," all things yellow "Bumble-Bee," and all things red "Lightening McQueen."
October 2011
The 3 boys are taking a bath together. I step out for moment to change the laundry, and a few seconds later I hear horrible screaming from Eli and Isaac. Thinking that Titus went under, I rush into the bathroom. There I see Titus upright and happy holding the shower pull valve up so that a full shower was on, and Isaac and Eli afraid and crying in the far corner.
October 2011
Titus is running around the living room, naked, with a small plastic sheep in his hand. He puts it in my face, goes "Ahhhhh!" (for 'bah'), puts it up to his ear and says, "E-wow?" (for 'hello'), then runs around the living room saying "E-wow? E-wow?"
October 2011
Eli is learning body parts. His favorite thing to point out are shoulders. He even prays for them, saying, "Beh shou-ers." (Bless shoulders.)
September 2011
We are all riding in the van. Isaac yells from the back seat, "My ear hurts."
Matt asks, "What?"
Isaac, "MY EAR HURTS!!"
Matt, "Oh, your ear hurts? I'm sorry dude."
Isaac, "Well, I'm not dead yet."
September 2011
