"What are we going to do with you?"

Colin's answer, "You aren't suppose to do anything with me." Ah, rhetorical questions.

Grandma's visit

So Bob had a trip to Hungary for a week. I'm frantic, I will kill the kids if I have to do a whole week with them with no help! I'm not super mom and I know my limitations. So what can I do? Brainstorm -- I fly my mom down to Georgia from Nebraska to spend the week with me! It's genius and works! The week was so much fun. Well, Grandma and I didn't go out or anything, but she got to spend a lot of time with the kids and I didn't kill them!

So one morning when I am taking Colin to school -- which is so great because I don't have to load up both kids because Grandma is here! -- anyway, I'm taking Colin to school and Colin asks where is Grandma's car? I explain that she flew on a plane. And he says, "Did she walk from the airport?" So I explained that while he was sleeping, Lynn came over to babysit while I picked up Grandma at the airport.

Also Nathan has added another sign to his sign language list. His new sign is 'eat'. He just started signing 'eat' when my mom came to visit, and now he is doing it all the time. I don't know if he is just doing it because it's a new sign and likes to use it or if he is actually hungry and going through a growth spurt or something. I mean he is eating all the time. I told my mom that he usually doesn't eat this much. But then when my mom found out that he just learned the sign, she said that maybe I was starving him before!

Reading??

Sunday, February 11, (I remember the exact date of this one!) Colin, Nathan and I are in the kitchen just after breakfast. Colin is playing with his legos and Nathan is in the high chair. I am trying to clean Nathan up so he can crawl around and play in the playroom. Colin is looking at the lego container and saying "full, full, full" or maybe it's "fill"; I'm really not paying too much attention. Then Colin asks me, "What does this say?" I go over and look and he is pointing to the word, F-U-N. Was he sounding out the letters "F" and "U"?? I got so excited -- Colin is reading his first word, not correctly but still!

For the poop

This happened last week, early February. Construction has just started on the lot next to us. A new house is going up, and I am very excited about it. Lots of entertainment for Colin; not to mention, I am curious about the whole process. Anyway, they have the basement dug, the walls of the foundation poured, and there are some PVC pipes laying around.

Bob is taking Colin to school, and Colin points to the pipes and asks, "What are those for?" Bob says that they are going to put the pipes in the new house. To which Colin says, "For the poop?" Well, yes Colin, some of them are probably for the poop!

Hammers fix everything

I was reading a friends blog, where she described her son using a screwdriver and it reminded me of this story. This happened back when I was pregnant with Nathan and had my sister-in-law Roxanne coming over to help with Colin so I could take naps and relax a little bit.

Roxanne liked to carry Colin around on her back sometimes, and Colin loved it when Roxanne did this too. But somedays she wasn't able to carry him around because her back hurt. So one night, Colin grabs his little toy hammer and said that he was going to fix Roxanne's back ... with the hammer!

More funny sayings

Some are old, some are new:

"heli-hopter" or "keli-hopter" = helicopter (current)
"stick bread" = bread sticks (old, when we lived at the old house, actually before Nathan was born)
"ginky biper"=stinky diaper (old, when Colin was 1.5 or 2 years old)

Another recent one, Bob asked Colin was he was doing and the response was "I'm tear upping". Translation, he was tearing up a piece of paper.

Colin & Grace's Wedding

Colin's best friend is a little girl Grace, (not Gracie -- Grace) who is a couple months older than Colin and cuter than a bug. Colin and Grace are so funny to watch together. One time at Grace's house, I was spying on them playing in the basement, things were just a little too quiet and that usually means trouble. But in this case, Grace and Colin were playing real nice, they were getting married! First, Colin was driving the car and Grace was hanging on in the back. I missed the actual wedding part (I was laughing too hard!), but when I looked back, Colin and Grace were dancing because according to Grace, "that's what you do after you get married!" Too bad I didn't have a video camera going!

Super Bowl Sunday

This past Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday, and Colin's best friend Grace and her family came over for the game. Colin is such the host too! Before they got here, Bob was putting up a pack-n-play for Grace's little brother, Tyge (Nathan's age), and Colin said that Tyge needed a pillow, so he put one of his pillows into the pack-n-play for Tyge!

During the game, I was in Colin's room with Colin and Grace, and Colin was telling Grace about the trip to Chattanooga that he took with Bob and Nathan. Bob, Nathan and Colin all stayed in a hotel room together which is really exciting for Colin. So he says to Grace, "Do you want to stay in a hotel room with me?" Oh boy! But it gets better ...

The game was on really late, way past the kids bedtime, and they were getting pretty tired. So after the hotel question, Colin says, "I want Grace to go to bed with me." He just meant that he wanted Grace to spend the night, but kids have a way of wording things, you know! Let's hope that Grace's Dad never hears Colin say these things!