Car Conversations With Camryn

"Hey Mommy?"
"Yes?"
"I need to go to JCPenney's."
"JCPenney's? For What"
"I need to get Dad a Christmas present."
"From JCPenney's? What are you wanting to get him?"
"A Christmas Shirt."

I can just see Luke wearing a Christmas shirt with little snowmen on the front of it, can't you?

"Mommy, how old is God?"
"Ummmm....well, He's always been. He's always existed. I guess you could say He doesn't have a birthday."
"MOMMY! God has a birthday, it's Christmas!!!"
"OH! You're right"

How do you explain this to a 4 year old?

For the past couple of weeks, when I've pick Camryn up from school she's been complaining of these kids that have been calling her a baby. After a couple of days of this I told her that she just needs to ask them nicely not to call her a baby anymore. The next day she came home and said that she talked to the little girl who had been calling her a baby and asked her not do it. The girl agreed and said they could be friends. Her exact words were "Mommy, I trained her not to call me a baby anymore, now I just have to train those 2 boys!" Yesterday she told me that one of the little boys she has now trained not to call her a baby. She now has one more left to train!

Grant's 1st Haircut

We finally gave our little Grant a haircut. I felt sad cutting that baby hair away, but it had to be done. It was starting to look like he had a little rat tail in the back. It looks a lot better. He did so good. I put in a Baby Einstein video and sat him up in his chair and snipped away. He sat so still. I was so glad because I had a lollipop to give him as a last resort. I didn't want to have to go down the lollipop road with him yet...he's still a little young for that. Some of these pictures Camryn took for me. She does quite well with the camera. : )

What A Day!

Camryn and Grant went to a friend's birthday party this afternoon at Pump It Up. We had never been before and had heard from our Dooley friends about it. What a cool place. Both of them had so much fun. Since Grant is so little I had to do everything with him so after an hour and a half of climbing and jumping I was pretty pooped. Grant and I sat down to put on his shoes and go into the party room for cake and popcorn. Next thing I know he is puking all over my arms and legs. I think he drank too much and then with all the playing it just came back up. So I smelt like puke the rest of the party and immediately came home and cleaned up. After dinner, I gave our sweet kids a bath. Our son decided to puke again in the bathtub with his sister in it. I quickly got her out and was getting her situated when I turned around and saw him taking a poop in the bathtub. Oh so gross!!! What is with this boy? Seriously!! I got him out, cleaned him up and then I had the lovely job of disinfecting all the toys and of course the bathtub too! I told Camryn that when she was little she pooped in the tub too. She laughed and said, "Yeah, when I was 4 I used to pee in the bathtub!" Umm...wait, you are 4! She said she doesn't do it anymore though!