Out of the mouths of babes--May

I have to apologize in advance. The kids have said some pretty cute things since Caroline has been home, but ya know, the whole giving birth thing was exhausting and I didn't have the energy to a) get up and write them in my handy dandy notebook or b) hop on the computer and save them in my monthly draft. So, in the haze of post-partum sleepiness, the cute sayings have mostly been forgotten. Boo on that!

Here are the things I caught BEFORE bringing home baby.

5/4-I have a CD of Sarah Brightman, an opera singer, that we were listening to on the way to church today. Some of her songs are in foreign languages. During one of them, Brandon said, "Hey, this is Italian. I want cheese pizza!"

5/5-While we were out in the backyard today, Andrew commented that he was getting attacked by mosquitos. (They love him!) Whitney said, "I don't want to get bit by Spaghettios!"

5/9-Completely random thought from W today: "I wish I could shoot a bow and arrow." Huh.

I wouldn't have pegged her as an archery lover.
Who knew?

5/9-We attended a BBQ with some friends from church tonight. Being the anti-meat girl that I am, we don't even own a grill, so BBQ's are kind of novel territory for my kids. Whit watched our friend, Greg, start up the charcoal briquettes and told me later, "That boy was roasting rocks!"

While sitting around the table that same evening, Whitney asked, "What's a carpool? Is it where you put a car in a pool?

5/13-Whitney and I love sitting out in the backyard and eating lunch together. The weather has been PERFECT for that lately. Sometimes at the end of our meal, we start playing "Name That Tune." She's pretty good at it. Today she was humming a tune and I just couldn't figure out what it was. I told her, "I give up. What song is it?" She said, "I don't know." Guess she's still learning the rules of that game.

5/15-W loves for us to read stories to her, but she also loves it when we just make up stories to tell her. Andrew is much better at this than me, but today she requested that I tell her one. After my lame attempt, I told her it was her turn. In her story, she used the words "suddenly" and "prime minister." Where does she get this vocabulary?

Future Scrabble champion?

5/18-Sometimes it's not what they say, but what they DO that cracks me up. I found this picture of B on my camera today:

He told me he took it himself.
What's up with the gang signs?

5/21-Brandon was digging in my friend's yard and got himself FILTHY. As we were leaving, I said, "B, I wish you wouldn't have gotten so dirty." He said, "Well, Mom. That's a man's job....working in the dirt." Where does he come up with this stuff?

And his other job--
wearing balloon hats.

5/25-Brandon was reading a book to me that had the word "perspiration" in it. I asked him if he knew what that meant. He said he didn't. I said, "It means sweat." He giggled and said, "My friends will need to call me Brandon Trey Perspiration now!"

5/25-The kids were being especially cooperative this afternoon and I said, "Thanks for being such good helpers!"
B: "We LOVE helping!"
W: "Yea. And we LOVE candy!"

Oh, and we love swimming in the hot tub!

5/29-Here's the one post-baby comment that sticks out to me. When the kids came to meet Caroline in the hospital, Brandon pushed on my belly and said, "Hey, you're skinny again! (pause) And kinda squishy." Yea, I'd forgotten exactly how squishy I'd still be.

Worth all the squishiness in the world.

And a bonus picture of Caroline:
3 days old