Conversation with Kaleb...

Background info: I have a friend named Natalie that is pregnant with her third child due in a month. Her youngest child just turned a year so they are very close together. Last night at dinner here was the conversation with Kaleb.

Lucas: Mom, did Natalie have her baby yet?
Kaleb: Yes Lucas she had it a month or so ago.
Me: No she didn't have it yet she's due in a few weeks to have it.
Kaleb: Natalie, is pregnant again! She must be eating lots of food. She already just had a baby and now she's having another one!
Me: What did you say Kaleb? as I'm laughing.
Kaleb: Well she must be eating lots of food if she's pregnant again that's what you do that's how that baby got there and now it has to grow and grow bigger so it can come out. ( he says this all so matter of fact I wish you could've heard his tone of voice it was classic)
Kaleb: how are they going to get that baby out of Natalie's belly? Do the cut her stomach open?
Me: Yes honey they will cut her stomach open and take the baby out. ( she does have C-sections so this was at least truthful in her case)
Lucas is laughing and I almost spit my food out I was debating about weather or not to tell him how most babies come out. Then he asked if they cut her stomach open I thought perfect since it's really in her case what will happen. So what I learned from the conversation is that apparently Kaleb thinks when you eat a lot you get pregnant and babies come out from a cut in your stomach. He keeps praying for a baby sister and again asked me if I was pregnant and going to have another baby. He really wants that baby sister I guess. I must be watching how much food I eat in front of him lest I give him any false hopes :)

Roman's hand problems...

Here is my little Roman all full of smiles and such..not so when he's been waking up this week. It seems as he's napping he sleeps on his hand the exact same way. He wakes up screaming and crying because his hand hurts. I quickly realized he keeps waking up and his hand is asleep it's really quite funny actually. I know my poor baby. His mama has so much sympathy I did the first two days by today I was almost laughing. He cracks me up here's what he says.

Roman: "mommy, I need a band aide my hand hurts".
Me: " your hand hurts"?
Roman: "yes it's pickly"...hahaha love it.

more pool pic's

Lucas and Roman lounging...

This is a picture of Roman and his cousin who is also three. These two were so cute the entire time they acted like twins. They got along really well all week. Here they were making soup by the pool. They were inseperable it really was adorable. I just had to share this conversation with Roman on the way home from church on Sunday when we were in Florida. Acutally Roman was talking to himself and I was butting in:) His cousin shown here in the pic was in another van with her parents right in front of us.

Roman: "I'n(I'm) a working man"

Roman: "And my working girl is in the other ban(van)" "yup, I'n(I'm) a working man".

Ben and I were laughing so hard it was just so cute. Roman would go around the condo with pretend tools and "fix" things while his cousin would follow him around with her barbie backpack. She must've been his sidekick. He called her his working girl the whole week it was just priceless.

Kaleb's talk

I had just taken off my sweater after lunch today and just had on my tank top and here is what Kaleb said.

Kaleb: Mom, you have a baby in your tummy.
Me: I don't have a baby in my tummy.
Kaleb: Well it looks like it. You might have a seed at least.
Me: What, because I have a small little bump.
Kaleb: yes,
Lucas: If mom had a baby in her tummy she would have hot flashes.
So I had just taken off my sweater because I was hot doesn't mean it's a hot flash! And for the record I'm not pregnant and I will be doing some extra ab work outs next week:)

Kaleb sayings..

This morning in my devotions with Kaleb we had read the story of Abraham and Isaac. When God told Abraham to offer up his son Isaac unto the Lord. I'm thinking when we get to the part where Abraham raised the knife and stopped mid air that Kaleb will say something. I'm explaining how much his dad and I love him and how hard as a parent it would be to sacrifice your child like that. He just looks at me and says:"mom, instead of the son what did they usually use"? Ahem,..So I tell him they used a lamb and at this his face just fell. He looks at me and says "Aw, that poor lamb you mean they took a baby and killed it"? So from then on in our devotions he kept coming back to this lamb and how bad he felt for this poor lamb. I used it as a teaching moment and we talked about how they sacrificed a lamb but that Jesus was our lamb and died for us. In a way it really helped relate to him what Jesus did for us.

Conversation with Roman..

Here is the conversation with Roman yesterday in the bathroom at Panera Bread.

Roman: Mama go poo poo?

mom: Shhhh

Roman: Mama go poo poo? Yeah mama good boy!

Course now I just admitted what I did in the bathroom:) ah well we all do right!

Being sick..

Yesterday and today Lucas has been sick with the flu he started feeling better around 4:00 this afternoon. He requested pizza for dinner and said he was starving so I figured his stomach must be feeling better. I bring him his pizza and give him a hug and say "I'm glad your feeling better". He says to me "mom, thank you for taking care of me today and yesterday". Ahhhh I almost started crying and have tears in my eyes now it was just so sweet and so good to hear.

roman sayings..

While doing school with the boys yesterday here is what Roman was doing. He was so quiet for so long I thought for sure he was up to no good. I caught him laying under this blanket talking to himself it was so cute. In other Roman news while at Target yesterday buying feminine products Roman all of a sudden says very loudly "mommy band-aides". Of course he doesn't stop saying this very loudly until I acknowlege it and high tail it out of that section. And one more cute saying from Roman while leaving the grocery store yesterday afternoon he looks at me and says "I want to say bless me". I looked at him funny not knowing what he meant then he sneezed all over me ..yup I got why he wanted to say bless me:)

A few people asked for the website for the reading test I gave my kids here it is:
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/articles/060899.htm

The recipe for the cake I will post it's a long recipe and will take a bit to type up. I'll try and do it tomorrow or later today.

Cute things kids say

Apparently we have two animal lovers in our home. As I'm painting trim in Romans room he excitedly brings me a bug and says "look mom what I pound". Upon further inspection I see it's an earwig..yuck and double YUCK!! I tell him quick run to the bathroom and flush the bug down the toilet. He looks at me like "what would I do that for". I tell him again quick run to the bathroom and flush it meanwhile he's pinching the thing so hard in his hand examining it that he's probably already killed it. Anyway he wanders to the bathroom with it and in the hallway I hear him say to the earwig. " I'm sorry I have to plush you down the toilet":) I was smiling all the way to china it was just so cute to hear him apologize to an earwig. He also says the "P" sound for F so that just made it all the more cute. He came back in his room and told me "I plushed it down the toilet". Hopefully I didn't scar him for life by making him flush it...heehee

Kids questions..

Alright what do you do when your kid out of no where asks you what herpes are? Yeah I was a little taken back since being homeschooled those words are pretty foreign to my kids. Here's what happened I was getting read to go out for dinner with Ben. Lucas walks in the bathroom and say "mom, what are herpes?" I was a little speechless at first I mean where did he hear that so I said "oh, it's a disease". He says "oh, what are geneial herpes?" (yes, that's exactly how he pronounced it) I respond with it's a disease by your privates. He walks away and I think that satisfied his curiosity he comes walking back with the dictionary which I should've know he would and reads to be the dictionary definition of herpes. Now by this time I'm almost laughing because he's just so innocent and he is my most inquisitive kid by far so it's just like him to haul out the dictionary or encyclopedia if he doesn't know what something means. All of a sudden I realize he's been watching tv for a little bit and I knew he was watching something on discovery channel. So I asked him what exactly he was watching and he said something on discovery channel about machines and how they work. I asked him where did you here about herpes then "oh", he says "it was a commercial for Levitra" or whatever drug is for herpes. My oh my I can't even let him watch an educational show on tv without him getting an unwanted education on sex ed. Bottom line is he now knows what herpes are but not sex maybe it's about time we had that talk...GASP!! Not quite ready for that yet!

Cute things kids say...frogs and moths

Kaleb is my animal lover! Last night as he's getting ready for bed he shows me this small moth flying around the house. I proceed to slap my hands together and kill it..I missed for all who wanted to know. Kaleb looks at me and says, "Aw Mom, leave the poor thing alone". I started laughing so hard because what kid is that concerned about a moth. I did leave it alone who wouldn't after your child says that to you. Lucas found the moth this morning on the floor in the kitchen clinging to life so I had him dispose of it.

The picture here of Kaleb was taken two years ago when we were out boating for the day. We were having a fun day at the beach. Kaleb found these two frogs and carried them around and played with them all day long. He made them a house out of sticks and everything it was so cute. He ended up killing them by carrying them around all day as you can see from the picture he would squeeze them together which killed them. We never did tell him that:) Well this moth and frogs made me think we haven't been to the zoo in awhile so I think we'll head over there this morning. It's hot but cloudy so I think it won't be to bad.

Thursday...

Seems like I just posted but I guess it's been awhile. On Monday night the boys had their choir concert and plays. It was so so cute! In Kaleb's play he had one line and he said it so loud it was great. His line was "love your enemies" he said it "love your eminies" we all got a good chuckle it was just so cute. Even at seven he still says words wrong not to many at just enough to make it cute. He'll say "ba-sghetti" for spaghetti and such. Anyway Lucas did good as well and both plays turned out good. Their choir was really cute as well one little girl in the front had her shirt completely buttoned wrong and it was so obvious it was so darn cute she was around six I think. Some of the kids had to change after their play into their choir clothes so she probably was in a hurry. Anyway we all thought it was cute. Kaleb who doesn't normally sing loud because he gets to embarrassed for people to hear him....bless his little heart he sang so loud you could only hear him at some parts in the singing. He was just so cute that night! My father in law taped it and I'm so glad he did..thank you again.. So other than the kids concert and drama play we haven't been up to a whole lot. We did go to the zoo yesterday major mistake. It was so busy it was utter mad chaos. I think there was probably 35 buses of school groups maybe more and every mom in the city it was crazy. So we won't be going until school gets out again. I think I will plant my flowers today in my front yard it's suppose to be 88 and sunny....yipee!!