Kevin was putting some cat toy balls away in the clear tube they came in. Bobby said, “You put them in the wrong order, dude! The blue goes on top!”
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Rusty – What number starts with K?
Billy – Kezgoogleplex
Rusty – You made that up
Billy – Well, there’s soooo many numbers …
Rusty – So that’s why you had to make one up??
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While out geocaching, Bobby held up an ordinary rock, “I found it!”
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While out driving together, Bobby says, “That yellow car over there? I go blew up by die-my-nite!! Big die-my-nite!!”
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After Kevin was released as Elder’s Quorum President, he teased that we should call the new president (a friend of ours), President Farnsworth now. To which Billy said, “Wait!! We should have been calling you President Poppy??”
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Bobby spelled his name, “B O B B Y”
Billy, in a low, amazed voice said, “You can spell your own name?”
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At dinner, Bobby suddenly realized that Kevin doesn’t have hair on top of his head. After a few unsettled moments, he seemed to understand something and then declared, “Your hair moved from your head to your arms.”
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We played Apples to Apples with all the boys and Bobby won! He danced around singing “I am a champion” for the next 10 minutes.
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Bobby was playing with our Little People Christmas toys and had a snowman driving a train. I asked why Frosty was driving the train and he told me, “It’s not Frosty! He doesn’t have a hammer in his mouth!”
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Bobby informed his new Primary teachers that we don’t teach about Jesus at our house. Nice.
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Billy put a few coins in the Salvation Army can outside Walmart. He said to me afterwards, “Doing that little thing made my heart feel warm!”
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Kevin told Bobby that he (Kevin) was Batman’s dad. Bobby responded, “You’re not Alfred!”
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Billy got a small drone from Santa for Christmas. On its very first flight, he pushed the return home button. Instead of coming back to the remote, it took off at full speed out of our neighborhood! Thankfully they found it a few houses away on another road. Billy informed me, “That button does NOT work!”
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I showed the boys “The Muppet Family Christmas” which was one of my favorite Christmas movies in the 90s. The boys couldn’t figure out why Elmo didn’t have a speaking role and was just clumped with the other monsters. I had to explain that he wasn’t a solo character back then, just one of the many monsters. Their exact words at that point were, “Elmo is a monster??”
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As per tradition, we took out neighbor gifts for Family Home Evening in December. We walk door to door and sing a song and ring bells as we drop off the treat. After a second home with no one answering, Kevin said, “It’s like they all went to a party without us!” I busted up laughing! They HAD!
Our neighborhood does a party where people bring treats and money give to some family in need. We don’t support the party because they do this in lieu of neighbor gifts and I’d rather give gifts to each of our neighbors. I also don’t like giving money to an unknown charity that gets to be chosen by this one family – I like to know where my donations are going. Anyway, it was the same night we were out caroling!
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During the sacrament one Sunday, Bobby held his not fully empty cup in his teeth and was attempting to put it back in the tray without his hands. My hands were full of the tray and my own cup! I could just see his water going into all those cups! Thankfully Kevin was fast enough to catch it before that happened.
However, that night I got a text from a number I didn’t know…”Wanted to thank you for the quick reflexes in preventing your son’s Sacrament cup from being dropped into the tray from his mouth. Those of us receiving the Sacrament after you guys held our collective breaths for a short moment!”
Oh boy.
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After picking up Bobby from his friend Lilly’s house, I caught a whiff of car freshening in our van. I didn’t remember smelling it before but figured Kevin must have put one of those smelly things in.
A little while later at home, when Bobby came and sat by me, I smelled it again. I don’t think it was car freshener. I texted Lilly’s mom and, yep, Lilly had played perfume counter with Bobby!
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A week after watching our Hooper Santa parade, Bobby informed me that “Santa on a tractor DID come but Santa on a sleigh didn’t come. He need to change vehicles.”
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Billy had been having a hard time with his stomach. I’d have to pick him up from school every couple of days for “throwing up.” I do think there was some stomach physical problems (maybe a parasite), but I decided their was an emotional aspect. He wasn’t being challenged enough at school, so if he felt remotely icky, he’d rather come home because he LIKED the challenge the next day to get all caught up!
I talked to his teacher and she could see that that might be true too. She started working on some enrichment activities for the advanced students after that.
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At an orthodontist appointment, Ricky suddenly had to start wearing rubber bands. He wasn’t prepped for that. He was traumatized! Not by having to wear them but by having to put them in and out. He was disgusted almost to tears! This is the anti-mouth instrument playing kid! It only took a couple days to get over it, but it was intense drama that first day!
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The boys used their earnings from our Spook Alley to buy a used trampoline. We got it set up and Kevin cracked me up. Bobby was jumping and running around in circles close to the edge. Kevin was running around on the ground with his arms out ready to catch Bobby. The whole time he was mumbling, “Bobby slow down. Bobby jump in the middle. Somebody stop that kid!”
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While doing an assignment for school, Ricky asked me for a song that has confusion and discovery in it. I told him, “Shave and a Hair Cut, 2 bits.” He played it on YouTube and then gave me a look that said, “Clearly, you are not normal.”
A bit later he asked for a song “full of mystery, yet warm and inviting.” I told him the Indiana Jones theme song.
I crack myself up!
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