Kai had the hiccups.

Kai (to Keegan): Don't sing, Keegan. I have the hiccups and the hiccups hate that. If you sing, I will have hiccuping all day.

I tried to call my mother the other day and it was just Keegan and I in the car.
Me (leaving a message for my mother): Hello? Helloooooo? (like on City Slickers) Is anybody home?
Keegan: Yes.

Last night, I was putting the boys to bed. Keegan was yelling, "SEE! SEE! SEE!"

I wasn't absolutely sure what he meant (although, I had turned out the lights and I was thinking he wanted them back on so he could see his books that he slept with) so I asked Kai (because Kai usually knows what Keegan is trying to say.)

Me: Kai, what is your brother saying?
Kai: Mommy, Keegan talks "Baby English" so that is why you cannot hear him.
Me: Well, what is he saying then?
Kai: I don't know, Mommy. Keegan is talking "Baby English."

I was typing (probably on FB) this morning and Kai was sitting next to me.

Kai: Mommy, when you do that, it looks like your fingers are dancing.

Last week, I invited Steve, my running partner, in for some hot chocolate after his run. I had already run on the treadmill and I couldn't meet him outside to run down the parkway because there were no other adults home to watch the kids... and I wasn't taking them with me on my run.

Anyway, I told Kai that Steve was coming for a hot chocolate.
Me: Do you remember Steve? He ran the race with me on Thanksgiving morning.
Kai: Yes... Steve! (long pause) Mommy, when you run that race, you didn't get a trophy.
Me: No. No, Mommy didn't get a trophy... and she won't get one for her next race either.

Yesterday (Christmas Eve), the kids were messing around with the presents under the tree. Chris' mom yelled, "Everyone out! Out! No children allowed in the living room! Everyone out!"

Kai: Grandma, the Elf just heard you yell at me.
(long pause)
Kai: I'm gonna rip your face off.

Me: Kai, stop running, please.
Kai: (stops on the steps) Want me to press the "slow down" button?
Me: Yes.
Kai: K. Mommy, when I go in here (the kitchen), you say 'Why is it taking Kai so long?', okay? You say that.

Kai looked at me during dinner tonight and he said, "Mommy, I love sugar."
Me: You do?
Kai: Yes. I love food and sugar. Sugar is candy.

Kai: I love food and candy.

At dinner, I had some Christmas music on and Jingle Bell Rock was on.

Kai: I know this song! This is "Jingle Bell Rock!"
Me: How'd you know that?
Kai: Because I can hear it!

Kai's prayer at dinner tonight: Dear God, thank you for the family. Thank you for the food. I love my mommy and daddy and Keegan. Merry Christmas. Santa is coming to town. I love Mommy, Daddy, Keegan, Grandpa, Grandma and KJ. Amen.

We (Chris, his dad, me, Keely and Kai) were driving home from my first 5K race (yay!) this morning. Chris and his dad were in the front, I was in the seat behind Chris and Keely and Kai were in the back seat of my van.

Kai: Mommy, I have germs in me.

I turned around to see what he meant and he was looking very intently at his fingernails.

Kai: I have germs in me.
Me: You mean, under your fingernails?
Kai: Yes.

Yesterday, we were all preparing for today's holiday, Thanksgiving. Keely came into the kitchen where her grandmother and I were.

Keely: (excited) We're GOING to have a horn-'o-plenty, aren't we? We HAVE to have a horn-'o-plenty.
Grandmother: A what?
Me: A what?
Keely: A HORN-'O-PLENTY, you know, it has fruit or whatever in it.
Grandmother: You mean the centerpiece basket shaped like a horn? I think we have one of those in the basement.

Grandpa brought up a basket shaped like a horn, which Keegan put on his head and kept saying, "Hat. Hat. Hat. My hat. My hat."

On our way home from picking up Kai from preschool yesterday, he said in an excited voice, "Mommy, my teacher said it was Nomember! It's Nomember aaaaaaaallll day."

Turtle had a friend over tonight and let me tell ya... they are quite the pair. Loud, obnoxious and did I say loud? Because I meant LOUD. We were eating pizza for dinner tonight and her friend says (LOUDLY), "You have 3 seconds to stare at my biceps (as she flexes.) One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three!"

Did I look? I glanced but I was more annoyed at how loud the two of them were being at the dinner table.

I was getting Kai ready to take him over to his friends' house for a play date. He was pretty excited.

Kai: Mommy, you can pick any number to come and pick me up.
Me: Any number on the clock?
Kai: Yeah, you can pick any  number for when you come and get me.

Keely and I had a lot of fun and we laughed a lot today. While we were waiting to get our eyebrows waxed, she asked me if she could get her nails painted.
Me: No, I'm not paying for that because you chew your nails.
Keely: I'll stop biting them if I get them painted.
Me: No you won't. You're like me.
Keely: Okay, I promise to stop biting my nails for half an hour if you let me get them painted.

We laughed for a minute and I said something about biting her toenails, too.

Keely: I don't bite my toenails! That's gross!
I gave her a funny look.
Keely: What?! Okaaaaay... I do. I do bite my toenails.

Today was a mommy/daughter day. Keely went with me to buy some new running shoes, go to Dollar General and then to get waxed. On our way, out of the blue, Keely said, "Mommy, I have a make up tip for you."

Me: Okay.
Keely: Don't use paint for make up.
Me: Why? Did you?
Keely: Me and Anaise did and it didn't turn out so good.

On our way home from Kai's preschool I was singing "Rock with You" by Michael Jackson.
Kai: Stop singing, Mommy, or you will hurt my feelings and I will be mad for a week.

Kai: Mommy, Keegan has a blue butt.
Me: (thinking OMG, WHAT did those boys do???) What???
Kai: Keegan has a blue butt. A blue pajama butt.
Me: Oh... hehe... yes, he does

I had picked up Kai from preschool today and I ran thru a Taco Bell to grab a taco. When I got up to the window to pay, I asked the lady for jalapenos, which I LOVE with my tacos.

Kai: Mommy, why you just say 'penis'?
Me: What?
Kai: You just say 'penis' to that lady.
Me: Noooooooo, no, no, no... I said 'JALA-PENOS'

Keegan is talking A LOT. And you can pretty much understand everything he says. I find it funny that some of his words he end in "t." Here are some examples:

poop = poot
help = helt
book = boot (sounds like book but with a "t")
egg = et
wipe = white
walk = wat
cape = cate

It reminds me of some of the ways Kai pronounced things:

soda = sowa
popcorn = coporn

And Keely:

bottom = bothum
white = wipe

Keely and I were running this morning around 6 am down the parkway and her grandmother drove by on her way to work and honked (which scared the crap outta me!)

Keely: That was Grandma! I wonder if she knew who we were.

We were eating dinner tonight... Friday's are pizza night... and Keely said, "Does God read our mind?"

Grandmother: Yes, God hears everything.
Keely: Dang it!

I was getting dressed to take Kai to preschool this morning. I had black sweats on and a black bra.

Kai: You are all black! You need to put on a black shirt.
Me: I don't have one that is clean. I have to do laundry today. I wish you could do the laundry for me.
Kai: I would do it for you... if  you went to school for me.

Keely and I started a running program and we have been getting up MWF at 5:30 to run at 6 am these days. This morning as we were on the 2nd half of the run, Keely said, "Mommy, I'm really glad to be doing this. I get to see a lot of new things in the morning now like Ms. Falls (her bus driver who honked at us while we were stretching) driving a car."

I was driving back home from picking up Kai at preschool on Thursday afternoon.

Kai: Mommy, can I have a lollipop when we get home?
Me: No.
Kai: Why not?
Me: You need to poop in the potty first and then you can have a lollipop.
Kai: (angry now) Mommy! Lollipops aren't for pooping!

He's actually kind of right... I usually give him M&Ms.

Kai went poop on the potty today (he's getting pretty good and it's been a while since he's had an accident - knock on wood) and I came in to wipe him.

Kai: Mommy! "F" is for pooping!
Me: No... "pooping" has the sound "puh - puh - puh." What is that letter?
Kai: "T"?
Me: No... like "puh" popcorn.
Kai: "P"!

I was getting the boys ready for bed tonight. Kai had a hold of himself which is a sure sign he needs to pee.

Me: Do you need to go pee pee?
Kai: No. I'm just picking it.
Me: Oh.

We were eating dinner tonight and just talking (the kids and I.)

Kai: KJ (what he calls Keely), my best friend is Aaron.
Keely: I have 2 best friends.
Kai: I have more but I don't know them names.
Keely: Well, they can't be your best friend if you don't even know their names.

I was practicing letters with Keegan and Kai... Keegan was HILARIOUS. Just awesome. Really.

Keegan and the letter F.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5YLumFgpuQ

Keegan and the letter W.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SepBm9l8E8

This morning, I was driving Kai to preschool and we were playing a rhyming game. I started with "tree" and coaxed Kai into saying "see."

Me: What else rhymes with "tree?" When you go to the bathroom, what do you do?
Kai (very seriously): Hold my weenus.

Keegan, of course, wanted in on the game. I had started with "moat."

Me: What rhymes with "moat?"
Keegan: Cookie!

The other night, I dropped Keely off at her friend's house. Kai asked why he couldn't go.

Me: There are just a bunch of girls there. Do you want to play with a bunch of girls?
Keegan raised both hands and said: I do!

Kai asked me if I wanted him to sing a song before he went to sleep. I told him, "Sure!" He stood on his bed and sang and sang (something about "I know what to do... I KNOW what to do... I knoooooooow....") and when he was done, he jumped down and came over to me. He put his hand out to shake.

Kai: It was great to meet you.
Me: It was great to meet you, too. Do you give kisses to people you just met?
Kai: Yes.
(He gave me a kiss.)
Kai: I give kisses all week.

Keegan was playing with Kai's DS.

Kai: Mommy, will you time Keegan up?
Me: Time him up?
Kai: Yes, will you time Keegan  up?
Me: What is that?
Kai: Mommy, say, 'time'
Me: time
Kai: 'him'
Me: him
Kai: 'up', time him up. When I play KJ's DS she always time me up so her can play.
Me: Okay, I'll time Keegan up.

Yeah, so I'm still not sure what he means.

PSU/Alabama was on tonight.

Kai: Mommy, I saw number one! Did you see number one? I saw it! (talking about the QB for PSU who wears the number one jersey)
Me: What's number one?
Kai. One. It's one, Mommy.

We were watching the Penn State vs. Alabama football game tonight (yikes! PSU was thumped!) and the Alabama mascot was on the tv screen. Keegan ran up to the tv and said, "Daddy! Daddy!"

Me: That's an elephant, Keegan.
Kai: Mommy, that's a soup. There's a man in that soup. It's a soup. It's not real, Mommy.

Kai got up this morning and went to the Farmer's Market with his Grandpa and Grandmother. As I was taking a shower, Kai came in to tell me about it.

Kai: Mommy, I went with Grandma and we got cookies. Grandma picked out KJ's cookie and I picked out a bus cookie for Keegan and I picked out a bus cookie for me. Grandma said there were kids on the bus.
Me: Did you eat the cookie?
Kai: Yes.
Me: Did the kids taste good?
Kai: No! (pause)   Actually, them did.

Kai: (looking into my eyes) Can I have cereal? Ha! Ha! Your eyes are green!
Me: What color are your eyes?
Kai: Hmmmm... green.
Me: No they aren't.
Kai: Yes dem are. Can I go check?
Me: Sure.
Kai runs upstairs and looks in the bathroom mirror.
Kai: My eyes are white and yours are green.
Me: Your eyes aren't white!
Kai runs back into the bathroom.
Kai: My eyes are black!

Kai: Mommy, I have a surprise for you.
Me: Okay, I'm coming...
Kai shows me his lunch plate where he'd eaten all of his cheeseburger and mashed potatoes.
Kai: Tomorrow, I will eat you all up... I'm dust joking, Mommy!

Kai: Mommy? Tomorrow, you have to stop taking pictures of me.
Me: Okay.
Kai: But Wednesday (which is tomorrow) you can take pictures of me if you want to. Is that a great idea?

We went to the library yesterday, all 5 of us. The boys wanted to take their backpacks filled with cars and random other stuff. Kai got a peak into Keegan's Elmo backpack and saw that there was a pair of his underwear in there. When we got home, Keegan's backpack fell on the sidewalk and Kai's underwear fell out.

Kai: There's my underwear. It's dirty now. Mommy, will you wash my underwear?
Me: Yes, I will wash it.
Kai: Nevermind, if you put it right here (pointing to the floor of the garage), the squirrels will come and pick up my underwear and clean dem and put dem back. You don't have to clean dem, Mommy.

As I sit here, Kai is playing behind me with his construction toy (I think it's a bulldozer?). He is saying, "Bye-bye, stickers! Bye-Bye, stickers!" I'm pretty sure he means, "Bye-bye, suckers!" Then he said, "Hey wait! You forgot your wallet!"

I saw Kai smelling his hand. Oh no, I thought to myself. He's picking up my "smelling" habit.

Kai: Smell my hand, Mommy.
I sniffed his hand.
Me: What is it?
Kai continued to smell his hand and watch tv. A few minutes later, he said: It smells like feet.
Me: Who's feet?
Kai smiled and pointed to Keegan: Keegan's!

WHICH reminds me.... the other day, Kai says to me just out of the blue in a sweet voice, "Mommy? I don't like you when you are mad." I'm sure he was thinking about it for a minute before he said it. It just sounded out of the blue!

I said to myself, "I don't much like myself when I am mad either."

This afternoon, Grandmother came home from work. All of the kids run to see who has walked in because the alarm beeps (So don't try to find where I live and break in cuz we have an alarm. I'm just sayin'.) I hear Kai say to his grandmother, "Hi Grandma! I like you."

Grandmother responds, "Well, I like you, too, Kai!"

Keely's grandmother came home and went upstairs to change out of her work clothes. She stopped and stared into Keely's room who was on her computer in her own world. She finally looked up at Grandmother.
Grandmother: You and I need to talk.
Keely: About what?
Grandmother: You left a pair of dirty underwear on my dresser.
Chris chimmed in: In some cultures, that's a sign that she wants to fight.
Grandmother: Well, we ARE gonna fight if she does that again!

I was installing a wizard program for Keely onto her laptop and while it was installling, I told her, "Keely, that's a really good idea that you have this composition book to keep all of your usernames and passwords written down in."
Keely: Weeeeeell, I'm into so many things and even though my brain is so big, I can't remember all of the names and passwords so I just write them down and I try to look them up when I need them.

So, I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this but Keely makes Kai run her errands. You know, do her dirty work... get her stuff from the kitchen, ask Mommy or Daddy things or make him sneak out of his room to the bathroom to get her drinks of water.

Well, tonight, I was here on my laptop in the living room and Kai comes running to the top of the stairs and he says, "Mommy? Can I have a chicken leg?"

I answered, "No, it's time to go to bed..." and before I could get "bed" out of my mouth, he was already back in my room (where he and Keely were watching tv) telling Keely, "Her said, 'no.'" He didn't even HEAR me finish by saying, "You need to go brush your teeth."

I could just see it...

Keely: Kai, I'm hungry.
Kai: Me, too.
Keely: Go ask Mommy if you can have a chicken leg so we can eat.
Kai: Okay!

Poor kid... He'll figure it out sooner or later.

Me: Kai, did you have fun with Aaron yesterday at your party?
Kai: Yes!
Me: Maybe we can have a playdate with him soon.
Kai: Can I have a playdate with Aaron tomorrow?
Me: Maybe. We will call him and maybe he can come over here. You can play wii...
Kai: ...or Xbox...
Me: ...or play with cars...
Kai: ...or jump on my bed...

Me: Kai! Guess who's coming to your birthday party on Saturday!
Kai: Who?
Me: Guess!
Kai: Aunt Lana?
Me: No.
Kai: Uhmmmm....(pause).... Aunt Lana?
Me: Nooooo. You already said that.
Kai: I don't know.
Me: It's your best friend.
Kai: Guess!
Me: Noooo! YOU are the one who is supposed to guess. I already know!
Kai: Who's my best friend?
Me: You tell me! Who IS  your best friend from school?
Kai: (gasp) AARON!!
Big smile from Mommy and I nodded my head.

So, I've been trying to post old baby stuff online... craigslist mostly. Kai was standing behind me ROOOOOAAAARING so loud, I had to say, "Kai!"

Kai: What?
Me: That's too loud.
Kai: That's my motorcycle.
Me: Well, go be a motorcycle in the other room.
Kai (very calmly and quietly): I'M not the motorcycle. I'm ON a motorcycle.

Keely LOVES Butterfinger candy bars. She asked her dad 3 times if she could have one. On the 3rd time, Daddy told her, "Nevermind, you don't get a Butterfinger. You've asked me THREE times."

Kai started in.
Kai: Daddy, can I have a Butterfinger?
Daddy: What's a Butterfinger?
Kai: What KJ wants.
Daddy: What's a Butterfinger?
Kai: What KJ wants.
(Keely whispered into Kai's ear.)
Kai: A chocolate and peanut butter bar.
Daddy: It's not peanut butter.
(Keely whispers into Kai's ear again.)
Kai: A chocolate and carmel bar.
Daddy: It has little kids fingers in it. They melt them down with butter and make candy bars. You want a candy bar with little kids fingers in it?




As I was typing the above conversation, I heard Kai in the kitchen: Keegan, do you have a squirrel in your butt?

Kai: Mommy, do you want me to show you my trick?
Me: Yes.
Kai: It's gonna be really hard for you to do. And Keegan. And Daddy. And KJ. And Grandpa. And Grandma.
(Kai backs up behind a box and peeks out.)
Kai: It's gonna be really cool.
(Kai throws himself on the floor face first and extends his legs.)
Me: Yeah, I don't think I could ever do that.
Kai: Well, when you turn into a little boy, you could do it.

I got the kids in bed by 9 tonight but the 2 youngest filtered downstairs.
Me: UPSTAIRS. NOW.
Kai: I died.
Me: Well, die upstairs.
Kai: I already died.
Me: So do I need to scrape you up off the floor and take you upstairs?
Kai: Yes.

So I found in my iPhone where I had typed out some of the things that were said on our way home from Indiana on Tuesday, August 10th.

On our way  home from Indiana, I was listening to Keegan giggling at what Kai was saying and doing to make him laugh. Then I heard, "Keegan, you want to smell my stinky foot?"


I was in the passenger side of the van since Chris flew in the night before to drive us home.
Me: Kai, do you want a juice?
Kai nods.
Kai: I'n gonna kill the bad guy with my rocket.

Kai: Daddy, I'n not gonna say "peace out" anymore.
Daddy: You're not?
Kai: No, I'n just tired of saying "peace out."

Keely: Are we in Virginia?
Daddy: Yep!
Kai: It looks like Ginia to me.

Kai to Keegan: You want my hawky-talkie?
Me: What's a hawky-talkie?
Kai: It's so you can talk together.

After I give Keegan and Kai a bath, Kai seems to want to always parade around the house naked. Every few minutes I hear an adult say, "Kai, go get some clothes on" or "Kai, where are  your pajamas?"

This night was no exception. What was different was that Kai was saying to everyone, "Do you want a naked bottom? I have a naked bottom for you" as he backs toward someone. I was at the computer and he came up to me, still naked, and said, "Mommy? You want a naked bottom?"
Me: No, thank you.
Kai: (making a ripping sound) Here's your naked bottom. (He acts like he sets something on the table next to me.)
Kai: You want a weenus? (making a ripping sound) Here's your weenus! (He again acts like he sets something down.)
Kai went into the kitchen looking for Daddy and I hear Grandmother say, "Kai, you need to get your clothes on."
He seems to have some kind of self awareness around strangers, just not in the house full of family.

Most nights after dinner I give bathes. Tonight I said, "Okay, time for bathes!"
Keely, who was in the kitchen, yelled, "Nooooo! I had that planned for next week!"

This morning around 10 am, Kai was still in his jammies. He was in our room on the floor and I was putting clothes away from our trip. Without looking at him, I said, "Kai, go get your clothes on."
Kai said, "I died."

Kai said the prayer at dinner tonight.

Dear God. Thank you for da family. Keegan is silly. (He looks around the table to find something else to say but Daddy butts in to help him.)

Daddy: Thank you for another birthday.
Kai: Thank you for another birthday.
Daddy: Thank you for the food.
Kai: Thank you for da food.
Daddy: Help Grandpa make it home safe.
Kai: Help Grandpa make it home safe.
Daddy: Amen.
Kai: (big smile) Amen!




Tonight we had a birthday dinner for Kai... hamsteaks with pineapple, baked sweet potatoes with butter sprinkled with brown sugar and cesar salad. Kai pushed his plate away after I put some sweet potatoes on it and said, "I don't like that. I don't want that."
Me: Just leave it on your plate.

After a few minutes, we saw Kai eating the sweet potatoes.

Daddy: I thought you didn't like that and didn't want it.
Keely: Like what? If you are talking about the salad, I love it!
Kai: If you are talking about racecars, I love them!
Keely: No one is talking about racecars, Kai.

This morning, Kai got up and went downstairs with his dad. We've been buying these treats from Costco called Hello Panda. Here's a pic:

They are basically cookies with pockets of chocolate cream in the middle. We all really like them and they go quickly. Anyway, I was upstairs and overheard Kai say to his dad, "Daddy, can I have a Hello Panda?"
Daddy: No, you didn't even eat your breakfast.
Kai: Aaaaaaaaaaw... (in an angry voice) FINE! I'n gonna ask Mommy and her gonna say YES.

I hear Kai come up the stairs.

Kai (in a sweet voice): Mommy? Can I have a Hello Panda?
Me: Yes you may.... after lunch.

I'm sorry it's been awhile since the last post... We are in Columbus visiting my friends. I've had a lot of things I could've posted but time gets away from me and I forget what the kids have said.

While at a friend's house, we were looking through old yearbooks. I found a picture of myself from my senior year and I called Kai over to see it.
Me: Kai, look at this picture of Mommy.
Kai: Why are you wearing that wig?

This post didn't come from my kids but was ABOUT my kids so I thought I'd share. Plus, it's hilarious.

We are staying at a friend's house who have 3 rambunctious boys. When we got there Friday night (because it took AAAAAAAAAAAAALL day to get to Columbus), their middle son asked his mom, "Are they spending the night?"
His mom said, "Who?"
The middle son said, "Those kids from Mexico."

Soooo, we took a road trip to my hometown, Columbus, Indiana and we left on Friday. We stopped to get something to eat just before we hit the Indiana border from Ohio at a place called The Iron Skillet. On the entrance door, Keely read out loud, "No shoes, no shirt, no service." Then she said, "It doesn't say anything about pants. I'll just take my pants off."

Keely came into our bedroom this morning after getting up. I was excited that my mother will be in town tomorrow and I was telling Keely. She said, "I can't believe your mom is still alive."



Keely does not have our phone numbers memorized. Yesterday, she called her friend, Anaise, and she picked up the phone and dialed. She knew Anaise's phone number but not her home number or our cell phone numbers! Keely asked for a playdate for today and I said, "You may not have another play date until you memorize at least MY cell phone number." She stomped away with a frown.

This morning I was helping her practice my number. She said, "Why can't I have a different punishment?!"

Keely came down the stairs tonight.
Keely: Mommy, Kai just closed the door on Keegan in their room and the lights were out.
Me: Kai, don't close anymore doors upstairs.
Kai: I was just seeing if he liked it.

I was driving Keely and Kai to camp yesterday and I put on some Chapstick Medicated (LOVE the stuff.) Keegan saw me and he wanted some, too. Finally, Kai asked for some. He said, "Mommy, I need lick stick. Can I have some lick stick?"

Kai also says "coporn" for "popcorn."

As I was on my way to Frying Pan Park to take Keely and Kai to their day camps (approx 30 min drive), Keely said, "Mommy, do you know what I do when I'm bored in the car and don't have anything to do?"
Me: Read a book?
Keely: Noooo, I said when I'm bored and don't have ANYTHING to do!
Me: Uhmmm, I give up.
Keely: I look at the people driving in their cars and I try to figure out where they are driving. Maybe they are going to work or the store...
Kai: Or go at Wal-Mart!

Kai was on a roll tonight....
He came downstairs naked so I could help him put on his pajamas (after he stood at the top of the stairs to talk to me.)
Kai asked for Chris' "weenus" (penis)
Chris: No.
Kai: You have a weenus.
Chris: No I don't.
Kai: You have a big weenus.
Chris: No I don't.
Kai: Then you are a girl
Chris: Mommy took my weenus and put it in her purse.
Kai: Now her gonna put it on. And now her gonna be a boy.

We have a mouse in the house. He hangs around mostly in the kitchen but we've found remnants of him in the tv room. Kai is very concerned about the mouse and has been talking about him a lot tonight. He stood at the top of the stairs with his pajamas to talk to me.
Kai: Mommy, I wish the mouse is not in my butt. And when I go to sleep, the mouse will get on me. And when I am in bed and I yell for you, you need to come, okay?

I showed Kai a picture of my mother and siblings from the late 70s. I asked him if he knew who the people in the picture were.
Kai: I don't know them names.
Me: (pointing to my mother) That's Nana.
Kai: Nana
Me: (pointing to my sister) That's Aunt Lana.
Kai: Aunt Lana
Me: (pointing to my brother) That's Uncle DJ.
Kai: Uncle DJ
Me: (pointing to my sister) That's Aunt Lis.
Kai: Aunt Lis
Me: (pointing to me) And that's MOMMY!
Kai: But you are a kid. And those are kids.
Me: Well, I was a kid one time.
Kai: But I don't WANT you to be a kid, Mommy!

What is it with boys and guns??

I was trying to corral Kai and Keegan into the TV room and I said, "C'mon, let's go in the other room. KJ will be home soon."
Kai said, "And when her come in, I will shot her."

MAJOR breakthrough today... Kai went to a day camp at Frying Pan Park called "All About Animals" and he didn't cry AT ALL when we left. I picked him up 4 hours later and he said he even WANTED to go back tomorrow!! I'm just blown away... seriously. I asked him what he did and he said, "We saw a pig and a cow and sheeps and a long, long, loooong bird."
Me: A peacock?
Kai: Yes. And it had LOTS of eyes.

While getting out of the car at Costco, I stumbled over my flip flop.
Kai: Are you okay, Mommy?
Me: Yes, I'm okay.
Kai: Mommy, when I was your age I was gonna do that.

While on our way back from GA last week, we found some Big Red, Big Blue, Big Peach, Big Orange and some Big Pineapple. I LOVE Big Red so this was an awesome find! Today we opened the Big Blue, which to me, tastes like Big Red only colored blue. Kai came into my room and said, with a big, goofy smile, "Mommy, Big Blue tastes like bugs and pee and poop. And when you drink it, it makes you want to scream."

I said, "Who told you to say that?"
Kai answered, "Daddy. And KJ (Keely)."

This morning, the kids and I went to the Lorton "Pirate's Cove" waterpark with some friends of ours. When we got home (around 3 pm), Kai had fallen asleep and I was able to carry him upstairs and lay him down. While he was knocked out, Keegan (who I had HOPED would fall asleep on the way home) stayed up and watched some tv with Turtle. He came into the living room where I was and began looking at a book about trucks that was in the chair next to me. A few minutes went by and I heard a horrific tooting, almost explosion sound come from his rear end. Keegan looked at me and I looked at him. He put his right hand around on his bottom and still looking at me, he said, "Uh oh."

So, "Uh oh" seemed to be somewhat of an understatement to me.

Here is some of the number 8 Blue Song... although, it does seem to end badly.

Kai: Mommy? You want me to sing to you?
Me: Yes!
Kai: What do you want me to sing? The red song, the pink song, the blue song, the green song..
Me: The blue song
Kai: Which one?
Me: Uh, how many are there?
Kai: (counting on his fingers) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Me: 8
All of Kai's songs start with "I knoooooow what to do..." and this number 8 blue song was no different.

Keegan LOVES hats. When Grandmother got home this afternoon, he was quick to grab the hat she had on and put it on his head. When he wants a hat on, he says "hat" while patting the top of his head.

We are packing for our road trip to GA today and I asked Keely 4 billion times to clean her room. Chris kept giving her things to "put in her bag" (ie: DS stylus', workbooks, car charger) and I said to Chris in a whisper, "Please stop giving her stuff... she needs to clean her room." Keely was standing right there and she said, "Mommy, I can HEAR you... I have ears like a hawk... I think."

 

Keegan LOVES to pull around Keely's suitcase. This morning, it was sitting at the top of the stairs and Keegan brought it down to pull it around the house!

Keely's grandmother has been under the weather these past couple of days. When she came  home from work today, Keely said, "How are you feeling, Grandma?"
Grandmother: I'm feeling a little bit better.
Keely: Oh good. I didn't want you to get really sick and die. Then I would have to go into  your room and get that book (Hannah Montana book in the "surprise" bin when the kids get rewarded.) I didn't want to have to do that.

Unless I lock the bathroom door, I don't expect to have any privacy using the toilet with 3 kids in the house. Usually, it's Kai who is the curious one. This morning, he came into the bathroom where I was and said, "Mommy, what are you doing?"
I said, "I'm going poo-poo."
Kai asked, "Pee-pee and poo-poo?"
I answered, "Yes."
Kai's eyes got super big and he said, "Pee-pee AND poo-poo? Mommy! That's just what I do!!"

For the 5th of July we had a big dinner and had Grandpa's brother, Uncle Junior, over to eat. Out of the blue, Keely yells from the tv room, "Oh my gosh! I just realized that Mommy is the only white person here!"

Chris took the kids to VBS tonight because I was out-o-commission for the day (no more babies for me.) When they got home, Kai's grandmother asked Kai, "Were you a good boy tonight?"
Kai said, "Yes."
Grandmother asked, "Did you cry at church tonight?"
Kai answered, "Did you hear me cry?"
She said, "No."
Kai said, "Well, that's because I didn't cry."

On the way to VBS at church, Keely told a knock-knock joke:
Keely: Knock-Knock
Me: Who's there?
Keely: Ken
Me: Ken who?
Keely: Ken I come in?

Kai wanted in on the jokes so he said:
Kai: KJ, knock-knock
Keely: Who's there?
Kai: Kai
Keely: Kai who?
Kai: It's Kai.

Chris and I started laughing and Keely said, "That didn't make any sense, Kai. That's not funny."

Kai said: KJ, knock-knock
Keely: Who's there?
Kai: Kai
Keely: Kai who?
Kai: Kai on a horse.

We busted out laughing again and Keely said, "I don't understand why you are laughing? That wasn't funny and I'm not laughing, so why are you laughing?"

Ooooh, how I forgot about kid knock-knock jokes...

This afternoon, Kai came to me with a brush and asked, "Mommy? Will you brush my hair?" I brushed a part on his left side and he said, "I want to go look at it in the mirror (the full length mirror in his grandmother's room)." He came back downstairs and said, "Mommy, this hair is boring. Will you brush the top hair up and the sides down?" I wish I would've taken a picture of his wavy doo!

The kids needed help with the Wii so I went downstairs to see what was wrong. They wanted to play Wii Sing It and the error message said something about hooking up the microphones. I called Chris and he told me how to fix the error for the kids (just by plugging in the 2 mics into the dongle on the back of the Wii box.) I got off the phone and Keely said, "Mommy? Who were you talking so politely to?" I smiled and said, "That was Daddy." She said, "I've never heard you talk to so politely to him... I didn't know that was Daddy!"

Late last night, my stomach was growling. Keely and Kai were in the bed with me and I said, "I'm hungry." Kai said, "I have super powers that will make you not want to eat." He made this 'magical' noise and flapped his hand over my stomach. I was still hungry but I didn't say anything to him.

The kids and I were driving to a water fountain to play in today and it was also Keely's last day of school. She had her school yearbook in the car because I had picked her up from school to head to Fairfax. Our neighbor, Wendy, and her son, Kaden, were in the car with us. Keely was looking at her yearbook and said, "Mommy, this picture looks like you when you were a kid, see?" I told her I was driving and that I would look at it later. Not giving up on showing SOMEBODY, she asked Wendy to look at it. Wendy said, "I didn't know your mom then so I don't know if that looks like her as a child." Keely said, "Well, she looked like THAT!" and she pointed to the picture in her book.

Kai has been saying to Keegan, "Keegan, say 'cool'." Keegan says cool and Kai yells, "Stop it copying me!"

While eating lunch with his brother, Keegan, Kai looked at me and said, "Listen to this, Mommy..." And in a sing-songy voice, Kai says, "Bird, don't poop on Mommy's car. Bee, don't bother us. Fly, go away." I said, "What a great song!"

We have been to an 80th birthday celebration today in Mebane, NC for a member of Chris' side of the family (black.) Close to the end of the party, a few guys showed up to take down the tents. There were 2 black guys included, one had dreads and the other had corn rows with beads. Within earshot of the 2 guys, Keely (practically yelling) says, "Who invited the gangsters to the party?"

Last night, I went out to eat with a few friends from Indiana who came out to VA for a few days. Keely had asked Chris where I was. Chris said, "She went out to dinner with some college friends." Keely said, "I thought they were all dead."

I'm not sure about any other moms, but all 3 of my kids love eating shredded cheese from a cup. "Cheese" and "Peese" are 2 words that Keegan can say very well.

Kai asked me this morning, "Mommy? I am thirsty. Can I have a drink?" I said yes and he said, "I don't want juice. Juice make me sick. Can I have sowa (soda)? Sowa don't make me sick."