Kiddo update:
Joelle has really started talking up a storm. I can understand a lot of what she says, although I doubt anyone outside our family could tell what she's saying yet.
A couple of days after my parents left it finally dawned on her that they were gone. We were in the parking lot at Target and she started looking around and then she raised her arms up and looked at me and said "Uh oh! Where Papa?" She calls the marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal "Pretties". I just loved it the other day when she said "More pretties Mama! More pretties please!" How could I resist that? She's a darling little girl! Her one flaw? Her high pitched ear splitting scream. Dane always says "Mom! Make her stop, I can't even think about ANYTHING when she does that!"
Dane has been Mr. "Full of Questions" lately . Some of today's questions where "What if bombs were made out of gummy bears?" "Why does the dentist have those mouth suckers?" and on a more serious note "How many kids were killed in Haiti and how many lived?" and "Why does the earth have earth quakes? Are there earth quakes in Texas?" He also asked the other night "What if a girl married a girl Mom...wouldn't that be silly?" ......Oh geez! Let's just tackle the gummy bear question tonight!!! I can handle that one! :> He also told me that he wishes that all his teeth would start falling out so that the tooth fairy will come and leave him some money under his pillow. I wish someone would leave money under my pillow too! Tonight at bed time when I asked him our customary "What are three good things that happened to you today?" one of his things was "I gave you hugs and kisses." That was one of my three best things too. Definitely!!!
Now on to Mr. Cody...we have taken to calling him Contrary Cody, Cody the Contrarian, or Mr. Contrary. He loves to say "No" especially when he means yes. It's his new game. The only way to get him to say yes, or if he likes something, is if you ask him if he likes chocolate milk. He has a very keen and sarcastic sense of humor. I wonder where he gets THAT from......(Tyler)....? Ha ha! When I ask him if he just peed his pants he'll say..."Yes, but just a little bit." and hold up two finders with just a little space between them. When he sneezes he says "Bless me!" It's so cute. Cute and frustrating...that's our Cody. He loves doing puzzles and is always counting and asking "How you say that number?" if he sees a number written on anything...we are hoping this will translate into him being a future math whiz. He blows kisses at my belly every night to help our baby grow bigger...how cute is that?
I picked up Dane from school the other day in Tyler's car, so there was a Rick Springfield CD playing, I cranked it up and Dane started playing air guitar in the back seat, and then he said "This is just what I always dreamed about...being a Rock Star!"
Another time, on our way to school, we were listening to a kid's music CD and the song "The wheels on the bus" was playing. I told Dane that this used to be his favorite song when he was little and then I asked him what his favorite song was now. He said "Well, I like the Star Wars song and Bon Jovi. All Bon Jovi songs are cool." That's my boy!!! :> We were listening to a Bon Jovi CD on the way home from the hospital when he was born...do you think that has anything to do with it? :>
When Tyler asked Dane "If you were in a band would you rather play the drums or the guitar?" He said, "The guitar...DEFINITELY the guitar!" Then he preceded to jump around the room playing air guitar like a crazy man.
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I was sitting on the couch in the family room and noticed Cody and Joelle playing in our formal front room. So I yell "Get out of the front room you guys!" I looked back to see Cody standing up on the arm of the couch with his hands on my glass doll case (hutch). I'm just about to tell him to get down when I hear a sound that doesn't sound good and he says "Mom, what happened to the glass?" Noooooooooooooo!!!! (He didn't mean to do it, he was just swinging his foot the way little kids do). Oh, well! As my niece Emily once said, and I have always found it to be very profound......"It can be fixed!" And besides...it was just a matter of time!
My sweet little daughters newest thing to do is to fake burp and then say "Burp-burp...excuse me!" She also says "Toot toot!" after she passes gas.......she is learning such wonderful things from her older brothers!
While sitting in church listening to the speaker, Dane, who is leaning against me, asks me in a not very quiet voice, "Mom, why do you have boobs?" My response..."Dane! SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" I keep meaning to get back to him on that. LOL!
So I come out from the office tonight after working on my blog, thinking the kids are quietly watching the new DVD they got for Christmas, to find them all jumping on the couch.....completely NAKED! (Well, except for Dane who was still wearing his socks!) Never a dull moment!
