we be studly: Long Days are Okay

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Long Days are Okay

I find myself really tired around 5pm. But that's when the "Great Mental Push" is enacted! I have to feed people, take them to activities, and make sure homework is done.

Sometimes it's successful. Sometimes it's not.

Tonight it was a successful night, even if it didn't look picturesque: table covered in homework, easy pancake dinner, and silly boys with antlers. But the homework was DONE, the dinner was HOMEMADE, and the boys were HAPPY!

Plus, plastic raccoon plates. Staying classy. Always.

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The Kids and Their Stories

Titus, "It's floggy outside, I can't even see my schoowah." ::translation:: It's foggy outside, I can't even see my school.

December 2014

Eli gets in the car from school, with another crafted hat on. He says, "Mrs. Roberts has to make mine really bigger."

November 2014

Since August 2013, when Eli ran full speed into a mirror in a hotel room thinking it was a hallway, the boys reenact almost everyday. Their favorite thing is to run into walls. Over and over and over again.

Winter 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2014

Titus will randomly stream sounds together, saying he's speaking Spanish. "Allahkala la mal shi mum."

November 2014

When Isaac finds something exceptionally funny, he has the best belly laugh!

November 2014

Eli gets in the car with a fox hat on. I ask, "Did you go over the letter F, today?"

Eli, "Yeah, we did all the 'F' words."

November 2014

Titus, "A catfish will bite you and drag you down and eat you!…. Wait. That's a shark."

November 2014

Eli, "My head is 3D. It's a sphere!"

November 2014

Eli and Isaac are playing the Wii. Isaac's getting frustrated at Eli. "Eli!" says Isaac, "You're making me loose my conscience!'

Me, "Isaac, I think you mean 'concentration'."

October 2014

Titus, "We don't have to wear church clothes to church."

Matt, "Yes we do."

Titus, "No we don't."

Matt, "Yes we do."

Titus, "No we don't."

Matt, "Yes we do."

Titus, "Dad, I'm trying to trick you!"

October 2014

Titus is drawing a picture of each person in the family. When he gets to Nana (who is visiting us) he says, "I'm drawing Nana with her sad eyes."

September 2014

Eli's happily eating his breakfast when all of the sudden he hunches his shoulders and sadly says, "I don't like dreams… They don't let me sleep."

September 2014

Isaac opens up the MineCraft game and sighs, "Titus, what in the world did you build? It doesn't even have a door!"

September 2014

Eli, "Something is wrong with tooth today at school. I ate popcorn and it got wiggly."

September 2014

Isaac, "I'm just so excited about Saturday."

Me, "Why?"

Isaac, "Because I'm getting baptized, and I want to want to learn what's it's like, and I'm only getting baptized once!"

September 2014

Eli looks at a paige in the book, grunts and shrugs, and says, "That's 2D."

September 2014

Titus loves to draw "maps", roll them up, and leave them all over the house. We have no idea where they lead to, but he's positive it's essential to our survival.

September 2014

Matt and Isaac are talking while Matt is unpacking some of his military gear. Isaac asks, "What are these?"

Matt says, "My earplugs. I wore those on the C-17 airplane to West Point and the plane gets loud."

Isaac, "Wow. How much equipment and people did you go with?"

Matt gives him a rough estimate.

Isaac, "What about the C-5 Galazy? That holds 272 passengers and 6 Apache Helicopters."

Matt's blown away by Isaac's knowledge and asks Isaac where he learned it. Isaac says, "My book. I learned a lot of cool stuff."

September 2014

I pick Eli up from car rider line, and he starts asking when he'll be able to go to book fair.

Eli, "Will I go when I'm in what Isaac is in?"

Me, "What's that?"

Eli, "What Isaac is in… college? No… That's not it… "

Me, "Second grade?"

Eli, "Yeah. That's it. Book fair in second grade?"

Me, "Actually, you'll go next week."

Eli, "WHAT?! NEXT WEEK! TITUS, I GO NEXT WEEK!"

September 2014

Titus gets in the car from preschool, and says, "I made a new friend, Jaylee. She's a girl. She likes to play Ninja Turtles… She learned how to talk so she could play with me."

August 2014

Boys are making Halloween costume plans. It's Spider-Man themed.

Eli, "I wanna be Spider-Man!"

Isaac, "I want to be Rhino."

Titus, "I wanna be Electro," and, "Dad is gonna be the Green Goblin."

I ask, "So who am I going to be?"

Blank stares from all. They have no idea.

August 2014

It's 4:40am and Titus walks into our room.

He whispers to me, "I want my brothers awake…. "

Me, "Get. Back. In. Bed. Do. Not. Wake. Your. Brothers."

August 2014

I ask Eli to pick up some toys, and he starts to whine.

"There is no need to whine, Eli," I say, "I'm not asking you to do something hard."

"Yeah," pipes in Isaac, "It's not 1982, or something!"

July 2014

Titus spells his name to Grammie, "T - U - S - I - T!"

Grammie and Isaac exchange shocked/funny faces.

Summer 2014

Eli is singing "Popcorn Popping" to us.

After the first rendition, I ask Eli to sing the part, "spring has brought me such a nice surprise" once more.

Eli sings, "Spring has broccoli such a nice surprise!"

July 2014

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Long Days are Okay

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