Conversations with Joseph

In the last half an hour I had two conversations with Joseph that I just have to share...
1.
(I was hanging clothes in our closet)
"These are mine." Joseph points to a pile of hangers.
"Actually, they're mine." I said.
"Actually, they're my clothes." He replied.
"We don't wear hangers." I said, laughing.
He looked up at me and said "I do." (with kind of a "sheesh, mom, don't be silly" look)

2.
I was talking to Joseph who was sitting on the side of the bed. I looked away for a second, and then he wasn't there anymore.
"Joseph, did you just fall off the bed?"
Silence. The top of a head appears just over the edge of the bed.
"Yup."

I know these aren't really important conversations, but this is just a small smackeral (yes, we've been watching Winnie the Pooh a lot lately) of what I am around every day. It's kind of funny.

really quick...

As I was putting sunscreen on Caleb the other day (by the way, hurrah it's warm enough for sunscreen!) Joseph was singing "Jesus wants me for a sunburn..."

In the last couple weeks I've said two more things as a mother that I never thought I would need to say:
No shovels in the tree!
We don't put our elbows in our glasses of milk.

April catch-up

I haven't really written what we've been up to lately, so I'm going to play catch-up today, starting with April Fool's Day...

Farris loves to play jokes on people, there's some pretty good stories I could tell. This year he decided to get the kids, so he told them we had a big suprise for them as soon as they got their pj's on (which was good, they got ready for bed faster than usual). So they gathered back in the living room, all excited and Farris brought out a brown paper bag. He told them that they were going to have to take care of the suprise all by themselves, Felicity lit up, "Oh!! We're getting a pet!!!". Farris opended up the bags and pulled out three ziploc bags filled with water and...a couple swedish fish. They were so excited, they didn't even notice the fish weren't moving, so Farris took it up a notch. He asked for Felicity's bag, looked at it a sec, opened it up, reached in, and popped on of the candies into his mouth. Farris was laughing so hard he could hardly swallow.Felicity was...well, look at the picture, she was completely shocked and a little upset that her new pet was gone. Caleb's jaw dropped, but Joseph, that funny little kid, only thought about it for a sec, then opened his bag, reached in and ate his, too. It took a little longer for Felicity and Caleb to realize that the fish were just candy and then they thought it was funny. Felicity kept telling Farris that she was going to get him back. I might have to help her out one of these days. Any suggestions? And I think we owe the kids some real fish now. We'll just have to keep Joseph from eating them.

We had a good Easter, my sister Nicki came up to help decorate and hide the eggs on saturday. My mother-in-law sent us a dye kit, and we actually got through it with only one mishap when Joseph decided to race his toy tractor right through the middle of the table. Luckily, we'd just put down newspaper, so he only got a little bit of the dye on the table when his tractor collided with the dye pot. Seth slept through the dyeing and the hunt, so I took pictures of him on Monday...

He loved the daffodils, and I had to stop him from eating them a couple times. I think he thought I was a little wierd for plopping him in a basket in the middle of all these flowers and then telling him to smile over and over again, but I got some cute ones, so it's all worth it. At least for me, and he won't remember it anyway, so it's all good.

generation gaps

Today I was reminded how different my generation is from my kids. Felicity finished talking on the phone to a friend, turned to me and asked "How do I log off this thing?"

Seth smiling!

Our happy baby Seth Gavid turned six months on the fifth. He's now 16 lbs, 5 oz and 26 in long (that's the same length he was at his last appointment, we're pretty sure the nurse measured him wrong at one of his appointments, he's definatly grown since he was four months old, so however long he is, he's outgrowing clothes like crazy) . He loves watching people and will just stare at someone for a minute until he decides it's ok and then he gives his big grin. He especially loves to be around his sister and brothers, they can make him laugh so hard! And when Farris walks in the door every night he can't contain his happiness and wiggles all over. I'm not jealous, though, because he gives me the best hugs!