Quotes

Ben: Mom! (Calling from upstairs)
Katie: What?
Ben: I need help building the coolest robot ever!!

Ben: (while walking towards the bathroom) Here I come bathroom.

(While I was writing down something funny that he had said on a pad of paper)
Sam: What are you doing? Wasting all the things so I can't draw anymore?

(I had told the boys we couldn't go out and play until all the toys in the hallway were cleaned up. A few minutes later Sam showed me what he had done. There were several "foot steps" carved out of the toys)
Sam: Mom, I'm ready to go and I have a plan. The place where toys are you step in the place where no toys are!

Ben: With the power to do nothing I could do nothing. But with the power to shoot, I can shoot! Boom! Boom! Boom!

a little bedtime reading

I went into the boys room the other night to check on them and found Sam like this:






He just loves learning about the human body. According to Zach, he was trying to get Sam to put the book away before bed, but Sam said, "but Dad, how will I learn which bones are in my hand?" Apparently that logic was just too much for Zach to overcome.

A Halloween Review

Greetings All! Back in September we were rooting around one of our local stores that already had Halloween costumes on display. Days before they had both planned on going as characters from Star Wars (Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett). Then Ben saw a skeleton costume and Sam saw a bee costume. And that was that.


Ben jumping on the couch with wax Dracula teeth in. (Thanks, Mom!)

A few days before Halloween we made ghost shaped cupcakes for a Halloween party the boys wanted to throw. In reality two of my friends just asked me to babysit their kids on the same day, but we seized the opportunity to have a two-part Halloween party. So, we made the cupcakes at part one (which I don't have pictures of).


Ghost shaped (really, I promise) cupcakes with chocolate frosting and Halloween sprinkles.


Above mentioned cupcakes being devoured.

At part two of the event we made a scientist laboratory (which is one of Ben and Sam's favorite games). They were making a potion that would kill people. Pretty horrible, really, but all in the name of science.


Ben, Sam and Lucy working hard on their potion.
(on a side note, Sam says he loves Lucy and wants to marry her. Sadly, she has promised her heart to another boy in the neighborhood. Sam is taking the news like a gentleman and a scholar, by weeping openly when asked about it.)


They had a blast. And then Sam and Lucy dumped their potion all over their little kid plastic chairs. I was really glad about that.

On Halloween we carved our pumpkins. The boys didn't really like the feel of the pumpkin guts (I guess they take after me in that), so I let them use my dish-washing gloves. Zach thought it was silly, but the boys did kinda help after that.


All of them kept pulling out the guts and talking about "their braains!" Sometimes it feels like my life is a perpetual boys scout camp.

We didn't get a picture of the finished pumpkins. Sorry. They were cool.

We got some long, black, thermal underwear for the boys costumes and I sewed felt shapes onto them for the bee stripes and the skeleton bones. Very, very simple. I hope they boys always pick costumes this easy.


Buzzy Buzz and Skelley Skel
Those are the names they gave their costumes. They are so awesome.

We went to a ward chili event (where the boys had corn bread and pumpkin pie) and then had "Trunk or Treating" afterwards. It was completely awesome.

Then we went home and ate candy for several consecutive meals.


The End.

Super Important Items

I haven't had much energy to speak of of late. And I have quite a bit I'd like to get ready before this little girl makes her grand debut. And because of that, I've been using a large portion of my limited brain power to think about what I want my future house to look like. And when I say future I mean, way, way in the future.

Here is a drawing I did the other night of what I think would be a lovely living room. I drew it while Zach and I were watching Dr. Who: The End of Time Part 1 & 2. I had already read the overview on wikipedia, so only a portion of my attention was needed.



Zach says that he likes it, but wonders if he would need to acquire a smoking jacket and a safari hat before he could live there. I say, they would certainly be accepted as long as they weren't being worn at the same time.

As you can see, this was definitely time well managed.

Up next: Project Girlification - Turning Boy clothes into Girl Clothes.

Quotable Quotes

Ben: Dad! I was trying to make my water float in the air and I spilt my water.
Zach: That only works in space, big guy.
Ben: Oh man! I thought it would work on Earth, too!

The boys were playing and Sam came into our room to give my arm a kiss.
Ben: (from the other room) Sam, come on!
Sam: But I just love Mom!
Ben: You have to love all kinds of things! Come on!

Ben: My butt hurts.
Sam: Why did you say butt?
Ben: I don't know.

Ben: Dad, I have a secret I can only tell to boys.
Zach: Oh, okay.
Ben: (in a very loud whisper) Sam ate a candy cane. But don't tell Mom!
Zach: Oh, okay, I won't tell Mom Sam ate a candy cane.
Ben: You promise!?
Zach: Ya, I promise.

Katie: Boys! Get ready. We're gonna go to a music class in a little while.
Sam: But I already know how to sing!

Ben: Mom, are we ever going to Asher's (his cousin in Washington) house again?
Katie: Yes, we're going to go back someday. I don't know when though.
Ben: I think on Thursday.
Katie: Thursday?
Ben: Can you tell me when it's Thursday and we're going to Asher's.

Sam: Mom, I forgot how many babies are in your tummy.
Katie: Just one. Is that a good number of babies?
Sam: Yes. If we had two babies it would drive me crazy!

So....

You may be wondering where we've been all summer. We've been here. But we've been busy. The boys have been busy running around and terrorizing each other. And Zach has been busy studying and running. And I've been busy being sick, tired and scheduling doctor's appointments. And in February, when we add a new little baby girl to this crazy family, we'll all be even busier. It's all pretty exciting and exhausting.

So, there hasn't been much going on really, because I've been too tired to even get up off the couch, let alone take pictures, let alone do anything worth taking pictures of. I still have those old posts from June that I'm really, genuinely planning on putting on here. I just haven't really gotten to it yet.

And that's pretty much it.

Alive - and conversations

Ben: (in bed) Sam, are you asleep? Because I was talking and saying things to you and you didn't answer, so are you asleep? (pause) You're asleep!!

In the midst of some elaborate imaginative play Sam knelt down and said
Sam: Heavenly Father - Can you please help me so the world won't explode? Please!? Jesus? Please!? (and then after a few more minutes playing) Can you please help me so I don't die neither? - Or my brother?

While playing together
Ben: I need to use the bathroom! (runs to the bathroom)
Sam: Do you need to poop or pee?
Ben: Pee, so it won't take very long.

Ben: Mom, I thought I was gonna grow brown hair.
Me: Oh, really? What color hair do you have?
Ben: Golden. I didn't want golden hair, I wanted brown hair!

Zach recorded the following conversation and sent it to me
I heard Sam crying and saw Ben glowering. Sam said, "Ben slammed my eye." It looked red and a little puffy. Ben said, "Sam hit me first." I said, "Time out for both of you." After trying to explain to Ben that hurting people who hurt us first isn't good, I asked Sam if he hurt Ben first. Sam said, through his tears, "We were trying to see who was the toughest." I left the room before laughing.