The things kids say...

~ Trying to memorize the scout law Man of the woods said, "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, hideous... Wait what does hideous mean?"

~ On my first day of work Laughter took my pursue and filled it to overflowing because, "You pack us snack bags on long car rides so I want to pack you snacks for your first day of work."

~ Parenthood is when your boy comes whimpering into your room the night before a job interview because he had, "Not just a bad dream, it was worse! It was a nightmare about giant frogs!" He snuggles in close almost clinging to you as you offer him his own pillow so you don't wake him when you move but he says, "That's okay Mom I don't mind. I'll just move when you move." You spend the rest of the night feeling as though you have a giant, boy sized, leach stuck to you.

~ If you were to walk into the kitchen right now you would see a Nerf bullet drying in my dish rack on the counter. Why is it there you would ask. Well, only because it got shot into the raw chicken I was preparing for dinner.

~ You never know what you're going to get when a little boy offers to carry the hand basket for you at the grocery store. Turns out if your just the right size you can wear it like a backpack without letting the items inside fall out.

~ Laughter's journal entry for school was this: I threw grapes at my teacher. She will throw grapes too.

~ When your son loses a tree frog in a log cabin furnished completely in wood...

~ Laughter: I wish I could use these pipe cleaners to hang from the railing above the stairs.

MOW: Pipe cleaners wouldn't hold you, you would need my rope.

Me: (From the other room) Yeah, that's not ever going to be a good idea.

~ My six year old was trying to read my handwriting and said to me, "Maybe you should get a hand writing book."...Believe me deary my teachers already tried that.

~ Is it a bad thing when the boys tell me they want to make a surprise for me, just like Christmas and that they need me to stay in my room? Or how about when I over hear Man of the Woods saying, "We don't want to hurt her just surprise her."

~ Laughter had just used my lotion when I looked over to find him rubbing his arms and wrists all over the furniture. I asked him why he was doing that and he said, "I'm marking my territory with my new sent glands, Mom!"... Of course what else would you be doing?

~ A day in the life of a Momma... When your boys say they are not that hungry but you are so you decide to make extra muffins. When they are done you leave them to cool while you finish your morning chores only to walk back into the kitchen to find them completely gone... Then you find a dead frog in your upstairs hallway be it because the frog escaped or it was hunted by a house cat it doesn't change the fact that a dead frog is in your upstairs hallway... Then when little brother wants to know if big brother really can push him over and like the good big brother that he is he flips him over a laundry basket... Even so it's been a good day.

~ That time Laughter threw something at the ducks and I asked him why he did that. His response? "Oh, I think I lost my mind for a moment. It's all coming back to me. I shouldn't have thrown that at the ducks. Sorry ducks I lost my mind there. I won't do that again."

The things they say...

~ Laughter, "Do you mind if we run off your bed so we can walk on air."

~ It was just Laughter and me sipping our chamomile tea when I asked what we should do together. His response, "We should talk about life. So Mom how was your day? What was your favorite part?"

~ After the Easter egg hunt was over Laughter grabbed some of the eggs and ran off to hide them. He came back and told us we needed to go find them. Then with a squeal of delight he ran off too. In seconds he was back saying, "I already found two eggs!"

~ Laughter with much giggling, "I just let one on your leg."

Me, with a sigh and a roll of the eyes, You just let one...rip? As in you farted?

Laughter now in hysterics, "Yes!"

~ Man of the woods, "Mom do your man parts ever hurt?"

Me, "I don't have man parts, Buddy."

Him, "Oooh, that explains a lot."

~ As Man of the woods and I were making flowers out of pipe cleaners I said, "I'm not sure this will work." Man of the woods responded with, "Mom, it's family day you're not supposed to be thinking about work."

~ Another conversation about work with the boys:

Me: It has been good to be with you guys all day long. I miss you when I'm at work.

Laughter: Well if you quite your job then you would never miss us again.

Man of the woods: I think you should keep your job, because you make so much money.

Laughter: Yeah, and if you left then it would be your store and it wouldn't stay the same because you weren't there to make sure it worked right. And we probably wouldn't ever eat there. When we did want to go out we would have to start going back to Broadway because it's closer to our house.

~ Every year I put a package of band aids in the boys stockings. This year I found some that had animal prints on them. Laughter came out one afternoon with a tiger band aid on his knee and a giraffe band aid on his elbow. He told me he didn't put them close to each other so the tiger couldn't eat the giraffe, because tigers really do eat giraffes.

Quotes from the kidlets.

~ Me to Laughter, "Can you stay small forever?" Him, "I have to grow big, but I'll stay small as long as God wants me to."

 

~ You know you're a Momma of boys when you say, "Don't get stuck under the couch." As if everybody hangs out underneath the couch...

~ The boys have a wooden cat puzzle, after Man of the woods put it together he took the cloth bag it goes in and said in a deep voice, "And I'm pretending this is an alligator that's going to eat the cat."...Boys.

~ Laughter, "Wow, that's how I do that." I asked him what he was talking about and he should me he had broken a nail. I went to fix it, but her said, "Oh no don't take it off. I want to show Si and Dad."...As I type he's trying to break another nail...

~ As Strong man and I were talking Laughter using his manners said, "Excuse me Shan"

~ Strong man to the boys, "Okay Shadrach, Meshach to bed you go." Laughter responded, "We're not those guys they were thrown in the fire."

~ As Laughter put on his super hero mask he said, "The cape is your responsibility to put on me."

~ At dinner he looked at me and said, "How are you beautiful?"

~ As I told Strong man I was going to take a bath Man of the woods said, "In the bath tub? Oh Momma you're going to love it!" Laughter said he would get it ready for me, but when I pointed out that he would get his clothes wet he said, "That's okay Mommy I'll just take them off and take a bath with you."...Umm I don't think so, but thanks anyway.

~ I suggested that we have chicken, rice, and beets for dinner. Laughter said, "NOOOO! Just beets nothing else. I love beets."...It's true he does.

~ I told Laughter he couldn't do something and he said, "Alright but what if..." I interrupted him and said, "No buts I don't want you to do that no matter what." He grabbed his butt and said, "Okay I wont use my butt, but what if I just..."

~ Warning potty talk about to happen: Laughter: Mommy do you want to see and smell my organized poop?...

~ Laugher climbed the wrong side of the stairs trying to reach a shelf that had ping pong balls on it but then realized he couldn't get back down so he began yelling, "Help me I'm going to die! Help me!" As I helped him down, "Thanks Momma you saved my LIFE I almost died!"

~ Strong man to Laughter; Where did you learn to hug like that?
Laughter: Sunday school.

~ A recent conversation I was told about:
MOW: Oh crap I forgot my wallet.
Laughter: Oh crap we forgot our wallets again!
Nana: Are you boys supposed to use that word?
MOW: Oh yes, when it is something important. Forgetting our wallets is important.
Laughter: Oh crap we forgot our wallets.

~ Laughter to me as the three guys were about to go into town: I changed my mind I'm going to stay here with you because girls need protecting. Oh wait it's winter and there's nothing out there in the winter except polar bears and they don't live in Maine so you will be safe. So I'm going to go with Daddy.

~ In the store Strong Man and Man of the woods went one way while Laughter and I went the other. Shortly there after I heard a four year old voice saying, "Shandy Warren Hodsdon, where are you?"...Funny kid.

~ Allowing a 3 and 4 year old to spend the evening in there underwear is like telling them they get to meet Batman...Crazy excitement that was only slightly deflated when I said they still had to put there dirty clothes in the hamper.

Words from my littles.

 

 ~ 3 year old Laughter looking out the window, "It's a really blustery day."

 

~ The morning of Laughter's birthday he was over joyed at the fact that he was 3. To which Man of the woods said, "You're not really 3 until your party." after the party Man of the woods turned his head to the side as he examined his brother and wondered out loud, "You don't look like you've grown. What happened? You're 3 but don't look like you've changed any."

 

~ In a craft store with Laughter today he saw a rack full of lace. In a high pitched excited voice he said, " Oh Mom it's toliet paper!"

~ While playing kitchen with Laughter I started singing just like I always do when I cook, but he said, "No singing while you cook it's dangerous. You might get burned."

~ Playing Pizza Hut Laughter said, "Take out your phone and call the police with me, we're all out of bread sticks and they'll know what to do!"

 ~ I came home from work to find Laughter shirtless when I asked why he said, "Because I'm the Hulk and Hulk doesn't wear a shirt."

~ I asked laughter to help pick up the markers after a few minutes he came to me with this, "Mom I can't pick up the markers and that's so unusual."

 

 

~ Laughter trying to get me to understand the word he was saying, "T, t, t, crayon"

 



 

~ The third time Laughter came out of his room after he was supposed to be in bed I greeted him with a stern, "What are you doing out of bed?" His response, "Nails didn't keep Jesus on the cross it was love."

 



~Laughter to me, “Mommy I love you. I think that when I’m a man you’ll be a
little boy.”

~Strong man had just explained the word scheme to Man of the woods using the example of Laughter and Man of the woods planning a way to take a cookie after they had already been told no. Laughter over hearing there conversation says, “Mommy scheming is like when you and Daddy make a plan to take a cookie after you already said no. That is what scheming is. And then do you know what would happen? You would get punished!”

~ Laughter, "One time I pooped so much I pooped a sandcastle."

Summer smiles

I know there little hands, little toes, and little minds will not stay little forever so here I will record a little of each.

Me: Are you a monkey?
Laughter: No, I not shape like a monkey.

~Leaving a store today I told Laughter that he could jump in one puddle and then he had to get in the car so of course like any little boy near water he jumped in. Looked at me, looked at the next puddle and before I could get the word no out another huge slash. Looked up at me and asked, "Are you going to punish me?"
Me: Yes I am.
Laughter: Grabs his bottom and and begins screaming, "That hurts it hurts!"...At this point I'm still 3 ft. away from him and have only told him that he will be punished. He comes over to me and as I pick him up to put him in the car seat his scream goes up a few notches....Proof that the moments before a punishment are always worse then the act itself.

Great Uncle Cousin David H.

 

~ I walked in the living room today and Man of the woods said, "Hey Momma!
Me: Hi, how are you?
MOW: I'm just lovely.

~ Laughter has a camo ball cap that says, "I hunt for hugs" when asked if he hunted for hugs he replied, "bugs not hugs".

~ In church tonight we sang a song that had this line: We cry holy, holy, holy. Laughter sang along with us, only the last time through he sang this: We cry Hooooooly moooooly, we cry Hooooly moooooly.

~ Laughter had a $.25 machine toy duck with the plastic little container. When I got him out of the car I realized he has poured some lemonade into the little container for the duck to swim in...Makes sense.

~ Laughter to me: Can I have some of yours?
Me: What I have is the same as yours so you eat your half and I'll eat my half, okay?
Laughter: No mine is too tasty to eat. I want to eat yours instead.

Swinging with Great grandma Flinner

~ As I got in the car I squealed slightly as i realized I was sitting on my phone. Laughter as his name suggests busted up laughing. Man of the woods on the other hand scolded him for laughing with, "Laughter it's not funny, but very serious. Momma's butt is the biggest muscle of her body and it could have broken her phone."

~ Man of the woods two newest sayings, "I'm as hungry as a beetle...I'm as cold as a bug...

~ Man of the woods: It's so heavy Daddy I don't know if I can carry it all the way up the stairs.
Strong man: Son it's only toilet paper, I know you can do it.

~ Laughter's new way of trying to escape the wonderful time of sleep comes out in two ways. 1-He'll jump out into the living room with a big "Peek-a-boo!" or 2-He'll come out with eyes big as if terrified and whisper "I can't go in my bed there are coyotes in my bed."

~ While at my Sister friend's house Laughter came out saying that her son had pushed him and bonked him on the head. Now knowing that he often starts such things I asked if he had done anything mean first and said, " I push him and use my sharp teeth to chomp him."...I kept it together for 1/2 a second until I heard the snort come from behind us and then I lost it.

Look Momma I found a shiny mineral!!

Words of Laughter, fall 2011

~Me: "No you can't go outside in just your underwear and shirt. It's November."

~ Laughter crawled into bed with me early one morning, snuggled close, gave me a big ol' smooch on the check and then said, "Wobe you" as he patted my face.

~ At super tonight Laughter decided he didn't want the seeds in his much loved pickles. Brother (who won't even look at a pickle) told him that, "Somebody had told him that pickle seeds are really good for your muscles."

~As I'm growing my hair out I've been using a barret, Laughter gets excited with, "Momma hair flap."

~ When I use the tone of, I am not even close to playing around. You better obey, Laughter uses and, "Oh!" with the tone of WOW that's a brand new concept maybe I should try it.

~ Any time something happens that wasn't in plan, Laughter says, "Oop, oop."

~ Can you guess Laughter's favorite book? As he plays through out the day this is what I hear, "Sam I am, Sam I am, I am Sam..."

~ For the first time ever Laughter was the finder in the game Hide and Seek. It went something like this, "One, three, four, ready not" Followed by squeals of glee as he ran looking for us.

~ When wanting applesauce Laughter asks for, "apple soup".

~ Laughter asking for more pancakes had piled his sausage links on the pancakes he already had on his plate. When we asked what he was doing he said, "Hide. More."

~ Laughter told me today that bubbles feel good on his head, but not fish.

~ "Laughter, bacon is not a weapon. It's something we eat. Stop using it as a sword."

~ Laughter was working hard to "safely" carry the eggs from the barn to the house. Every time I'd offer to help him he reply with, "No man, man."

Quotes from September 2011 to December 2011