Okay, you can stop now.

One of Landon's latest repeat offenses is to tell me as I scold him "ok, you can stop now." Tonight as I was washing his face, he was of course, resisting; and I told him to be good, etc. and he told me "ok, you can stop now". As a result, he was scolded and discplined. A few moments later David walked in to the bathroom and commented on how white Landon's face was, perturbed, Landon began to say "ok you.." and he stopped himself but continued on "you can do what I told Mom to do."

Found this scribbled on something in a desk from waaaaay back, probably from the 1900's. heehee. Like 1999. Adam had hurt himself on the truck door and Gord asked him where he got hurt (meaning body part) and Adam said "I got hurt on the Mummy part of the truck" as in the passenger side. He was such a cute and fun little guy. I remember enjoying him so much as a little guy. He was always so talkative and great company. Now he makes friends really easily, seems like there are no age brackets for him, and as a result, I have to share him more than I get to keep him. He had Landon in the men's room at the Gospel Hall and came out laughing like crazy because Landon called the urinal the "pee fountain". Remember David calling the porta-potty the "poop fridge"?

I am adding these stories here as I find them, because I want this to be a record for myself as well. I find that after a year and a half of writing here, I come back and read things from a year ago that surprise me, and that I had totally forgotten about. So even if they don't make sense to you, just bear with me, because they make sense to us :)

There was a situation in October of 1997, I had taken my wedding rings off my hand and left them on the table as I was going to pull up the last of the annuals I had planted around the deck. When I finished with that and it was time to clean up to go off to Adam's little Art class, there were no rings to be found. Adam, who was 1.75 years old at the time, was able to acknowledge that he had them earlier, but that was about all the info I was getting out of him. After searching all over the 400 sq ft downstairs, I knew he hadn't been upstairs, I assumed he had worn the rings outside and lost them. It was at this point, 27 years old and apparently not aware that there were real problems in the world, I began to cry. I remember Adam coming over to me so concerned and caring and he bent way over so that his face was looking back up into mine and he said "Do you want your Daddy?" It was so precious and I thought of my Dad and how he would do anything to never see me cry! I don't know what I said or what happened after that, except that I went to Art class with no rings. When we came back home, I asked Adam one last ditch time to help me, play rings with me...and he headed right over to the little heater on the baseboard and pointed. I reached in and felt along the top of the coils and found my rings. All the world' s problems were solved :)

Then a quick David Dialogue I found:
June 04...age 6

David: Mom, do you like pit viper? Did you know pit vipers and Black Mambas are the most topsic snakes? (toxic)
Me: "what does toxic mean?"
David: "it means venom, deadly means topsic"