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."