Oh I love my kids... :)
The best words that my kids say:
Connor counts and says: twelve, thirteen, fourteen, FIVEteen, sixteen :)
When Vale wakes up in the middle of the night to go potty he always yells: 'moooommy, I has to go peeee pee!'
When Vale wants something he puts his hands together and says, "Pwweeeeaaaase!!!' It's great!!
I was out in the living room with Connor and heard a terrified cry from my room where baby schafer was sleeping. I go in there to see Vale with a flashlight terrified, guarding baby Schafer. He was freaking out! I told him to calm down and asked him what was wrong. He said, 'Get baby schafer out!! Get him out!' There is a monster in the bathroom!!!' He was shining the flashlight into the bathroom and he thought the shadow was a monster but instead of running away he was gonna stay there and make sure that baby schafer got out and was ok! :)
I was explaining to Connor and Vale why we pray before we eat and I asked them, "Do you know why we pray?" Not waiting for a reply I just delved into the reasons (so we are grateful for the Lord's provision etc..) after I was done, Connor piped up and said, 'No mommy that's why YOU pray, I pray to make sure that my food cools down enough so it doesn't burn my mouth.'... oh... well at least he knows why he does what he does... :)
I was walking in an underground pedestrian tunnel with all three boys and it was very empty and very quiet. Down the escalator comes a man of middle eastern decent with two women dressed in burkas. As we are walking towards each other, Connor all of a sudden gets VERY excited and starts saying, VERY loudly and VERY clearly, 'Those are Jesus' disciples!!! Those are the women who found Jesus' empty tomb when he rose from the grave! Look mom!' With this declaration came pointing and jumping up and down... I'm not sure I've ever felt that awkward before in my life! They were definitely not amused, the women were glaring at me... sigh... oh well!
Connor just said,"Mommy, Vale and I are closed on Friday so if you need us to do anything you'd better ask now." Where does he get these things!??
Jimmy was praying for our group at a restaurant for breakfast one morning and Vale was eating eggs while Jimmy was praying. After we were finished praying, Jimmy's cousin asked Vale why he was eating eggs while Jimmy was praying. Vale looked at him for a moment, thought a minute and looked at Jimmy and said, "Daddy, why were you praying while I was eating?"
We were on a road trip and Connor asked how long until we get there and I told him it depended on the traffic. He then asked what 'traffic' was. I told him it's when your stuck in the car and can't move. Connor looked at his car seat then looked at Vale in his carseat and exclaimed loudly, 'Then Vale and I are ALWAYS in traffic!!!!!!' :) Yup...
Vale was just trying to get Shay to hold a sward and it was taking him a long time to get a grip on it and Vale stepped back and shook his head and said 'How am I gonna make a man out of you??' :) hahahaha
We were driving in the car and Connor was making up a senario in order to capture the green eyed man (the evil guy from the movie Bolt). He suddenly asked me, "Mom is it ok to lie to evil people if they are going to do something bad?"... I mean really what parent is ready to answer that question when their kid is 4!???! ugh... I told him to ask his father. Jimmy was excited to answer.
We were out at dinner after church the other day and Connor was playing with his little friends, running all around causing a ruckus... we were about to leave and all of a sudden we look over and one of the little girls is planting a big ol' kiss right on Connor's lips. When she pulled away Connors eyes were about the size of quarters and his eyebrows were in the middle of his forehead with his jaw dropped and mouth gaping open... His arms were stretched out and plastered against the door she'd pinned him to... sigh... welcome to life with women Connor.
Vale slept in one morning and when he woke up instead of getting up he just sat up in bed and started calling for me. I came into his room and ran at him, jumped and tackled him. We both fell back onto his pillow and I started giving him kisses. He got real serious and looked at me and asked 'Mommy, is this how it will be when I have a honey someday?' hahahaha I just busted up laughing, I couldn't even answer... he's too cute!
In June Connor asked me, "When I'm a man, I'll be called Connor Jimmy." I asked him why and he said, "Cause when you're a REAL man you get called Jimmy!!!" :) Cute. So the boys watched The Man From Snowy River for the first time in October and the main character's name is Jim. At the end the other characters are saying how Jim was a real man now and he'd earned respect and is the MAN from Snowy River. Connor looks at me and said, "I TOLD you when you become a real man they call you Jim!" :)
Vale's version of the classic kids song, "Who built the ark? No one, no
one." (Instead of Noah). I'm not sure he really gets the theme of the
song...
Connor and Vale were talking outside my room and they started to argue over something and this is what I heard:
Connor: I was going to do that first!
Vale: no you wasn't!
Connor: WEREN'T, you weren't. But YES I was.
My four year old is a grammar Nazi!
Connor asked the pizza delivery person who came to our door why he talks like a man but has a ponytail like a woman... I just awkwardly laughed, paid the guy and shut the door... I really do love my children.
Connor LOVES to play this game called 'who would win'. In this game, someone picks two animals and everyone picks who they think they would win in a fight between the two, giving their reasons for this choice. We often have matches like a hippo and a crocodile or a female dragon and a lion (not sure why 'female' is pertinent but he likes to be specific). Well my brother was playing with him and the match-up between a salmon and a falcon came up. They established that the fight would not be in the water but would be in the air (as the salmon jumps out of the water). Trevor then asked if it was an adult or baby salmon and Connor looked at him and started to laugh uncontrollably saying, as if EVERYONE knows this, "HA Baby salmon can't FIGHT!!!! HAHAHA" Totally condescending and in disbelief that Trevor didn't already know this. Oh it was funny!
