Memories...

Felix is such an old soul sometimes. Today he said, "Noah (friend from school) and I like to talk about our memories." Of course, the memory he was telling us about that he says they talk about frequently is when Rex took his clothes off revealing his undie clad body at Felix's birthday party. I guess he is still a kid at heart.

Funny Boys

I never imagined my boys would enjoy The Lawrence Welk Show, but discovered tonight that they do. I walked in on them beating each other up the the sound of a crooner singing "Chicago". It turns out, they decided to play "Tom and Jerry" to the music. When the music stops, the violence stops, when the music starts, they start whacking each other with imaginary frying pans. Try it out...

In other news, Rex was playing outside in the rain and came in with wet hair. I spiked it up with my fingers and told him he looked awesome. He acted like he didn't appreciate what I did, but disappeared upstairs for a while. He came down with his hair full of hair product and proudly showed me he had fixed his hair. He told me not to worry because he didn't use big "glumps" of hair goop...he spread it around. He also demonstrated how he closed his eyes while using the spray. He looked great. Shortly thereafter, Felix needed a bang trim, so I took him out to do that. He said he didn't want short hair, just a little off the front. He said, " I like the way I look now." Rex said, "I like my hair short so that I can feel the breeze. Can you feel the breeze with long hair, Felix?"

Flu Vaccinations

I took the boys to get their flu "mist" which most of you know is a spray in the nose instead of a poke with a needle. The nurse and I were both surprised when Felix requested the shot instead of the mist. We asked him over and over if he was sure, and he said he was so, Felix got the shot instead. When the nurse was about to poke him he said, "Why did I ask for this?!" Later he told me he chose it because he wanted it to hurt. Should I be concerned about that??

Soccer Boy!

Rex is finally old enough for team sports. He is playing soccer and likes it after one week. I think he's more interested in the footwear than the actual game because he often wears the shoes and socks around the house and on his bike. This concerns me after his first game today because he was paying more attention to kissing his teammates than the actual game.

Waiting for the Bus

Felix decided to try the bus coming home from school. I have driven him each day for a few reasons. 1.) We live so close it's just quicker. 2.) They don't separate the elementary kids from the middle school kids lending to some undesirable learned behavior. 3.) His day is so long to begin with I don't want to add an extra hour to it on the bus.

So, in the end, he rides the bus home 3 days a week and the rest of the time I pick him up and take him. Each day he comes home with a language log for the day. He lets me know how many bad words the big kids said. Now, let it be known, his idea of bad words are the words you hear on SpongeBob Squarepants. I don't think he'd know a really really bad word if he heard one...except the "F" word, which he learned in kindergarten last year. (Funny side note on that...I was in line at Wal-Mart with Rex last week and he randomly asked me very loudly, "What is the 'F' word, Mom?" I said "You don't need that word in your head, and I will not tell you...plus, it's too bad for me to ever say." This was not acceptable and he continued pleading to know the 'F' word and threw quite a loud tantrum about it. He thought he came up with a good compromise and asked me to just tell him the 1st 2 letters in the word...definitely not appropriate, either.)

We walked down to his bus stop on the 1st day to wait.

Rex is bored

Daphne is not bored

Here comes Felix

Chef Felix

Felix has taken to making pancakes all by himself. He asked me to show him how to do it one day and after that, he became the pancake chef. In fact, this morning I woke up to find pancakes cooking on the griddle. These pictures are from last weekend when he made breakfast for the whole family. Best pancakes around!

Felix has the spatula and Rex the towel...Felix put him on clean up crew

The final product

Felix enjoying his hard work

Daphne enjoying her share

Clean up crew comes with risks...in Rex's case, a burnt finger

California

The kids and I took a trip to California for my brother, Andy's, wedding. Scott wasn't able to come due to work, so it was just the 4 of us. It's amazing how therapeutic the beach is. I was a very nice mommy when I was near the water :) I love the ocean.

On the plane. Felt more like down in the barracks.

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Aunt Amy came to spend a couple of days with us. Awesome!

The boys always look forward to seeing cousins Drew and Matt.

See? Happy on the beach!

I'd love to share a picture of Andy and his lovely bride, Sara, but between wrangling kids and losing my mind, the camera didn't find it's way out for the wedding festivities. Believe me, though, the bride and groom were smokin'.