Spelling Woes

Poor Ryan is having trouble with one of his spelling words this week. He keeps getting the letters mixed up. I wonder if his teacher has noticed...

Word - Hero
Ryan's word - Hore

The Daily Tattler

As I was changing Luke's diaper, he asked, "You got poopy on you hands?"

I said I didn't think so but that I would wash my hands when I was done just in case.

He replied, "If you got poopy on you hands, I will tell you friends!"

Peanut Butter Poetry

Cleaning out some old papers today and found Ryan's 1st grade journal. Found an entry near the back that I had missed before... I am going to write it just as he did. Let me know if you need help with the translation!! :)

"My frend the penet buter and jely sandwich liks to run arounded every sengle day. He plays and plays and play till the sun gose downe. He lives in the jugle. He ets himself!

When he jumps stuff fall off. He is scerd of children.

He so silly.

I ate my frend."

Love it!!!

The Mathlete

Ryan - "Know what my favorite math problem is? 5 times 5. It's 25. I love that."

Lockup

Interesting question from Andrew on the way home from school today...

"What's juvie? Some sort of kid jail?"

I bet the teacher hears some interesting conversations throughout her entire day!!

It's a Short Menu

Here is another oldie but goodie... Seems like we've not had much funny happen recently or we are just too busy to notice!!!

A couple of years ago, the boys were learning about Moses in Sunday School.
Around the same time, Ryan was having a pity party about something he wanted but couldn't have.
I told him to be thankful for what he has and quit complaining - a lot of people have nothing.
Andrew piped in with, "Yeah. Think of those people that walked around the desert for a million years. They were hungry and all they ever got to eat was mayonnaise. Yuck!"
Mayo... Manna... Would probably get old either way!

That's a Great Partner!

I wish I had pictures to illustrate this one...

Yesterday in karate, the kids were told to line up in pairs, back to back, and do a chair squat. So basically a wall squat but using the other person's back instead of the wall.

Ryan and Andrew were partners.

I was only half watching at first because I was helping Luke with something on my phone.

I hear lots of people huffing and puffing because of course these are difficult.

I look over at Ryan and his face is beet red and he looks like he is about to fall.

No wonder why as I see that he is in a deep squat and bent over. He had to do that because Andrew is stretched back leisurely, basically laying over Ryan!

Andrew hadn't broken a sweat.

Gotta Think Big

Don offered to take the boys to Home Depot today to buy some scraps of wood for a project. He was thinking about helping them make a birdhouse, bat house, something small.

Andrew squealed and said, "Yes!! Let's make a treehouse!"

(Like a huge one for the 3 of them to play in). Not quite what Don had in mind...

Sympathetic Artwork

Poor Aunt Foof lost her best friend Mort yesterday. I told the boys about it and they were upset. Ryan immediately went to draw her a picture of Mort to help her not feel so sad. He spent a lot of time - redoing it more than once (something about how his ears shouldn't look like elephant ears). Here it is...

Andrew noticed what he was doing and said he wanted to make one too. He came back from the office right away with his picture. And as he showed it to me, he asked, "Is this ok? I'm kind of busy so will this work?"

Not to be Confused with Third World

There was an "illusionist" at school today and Ryan & Andrew talked non-stop about him on the way home. (I put illusionist in quotes because I was informed numerous times that he was not a magician but an illusionist. Someone tell me the difference!)

Andrew told me that the guy was not too famous, but he wanted to be.

Ryan agreed and said, "Yeah. He is Second-World-Famous-Ish."

Tough Love

Quote from Ryan...

"We should really love armadillos but it's just impossible."

He just walked up to me, stated this and walked away. I'm thinking this comes from the problem we are having with an armadillo that is rooting around our flowerbeds and making a mess...

How Many Years does it Take Gum to Digest Again??

As you know from previous posts, Luke has taken to enjoying small pieces of bubble gum.

Yesterday, he asked for one just a few moments after I had already given him a piece.

I asked if he had swallowed the other piece?

He replied, "No. It just went sshhhoom and it went in my tummy. I not swallow it."

(There were hand motions involved - he kept making the ssshhoom noise and drawing a line from his neck to his stomach.)

Armageddon

The moon looked really cool last night - lots of fog around it. So I went back in the house and told the boys to go outside and look at the moon.

Luke jumps up and says, "Why? Is there a bomb?"

I Never Liked it Either!

This afternoon we were in a parking lot and saw a van that looked just like our old one. I asked the boys if that was our old van. Ryan looked confused and said, "where?"
I pointed it out again and he said, "Really? That's what color our van was?? That's HORRIBLE!!"

Don't Think I'll Actually Put These on His List.

Conversation between Luke & I today...

Luke: I want orange snakes.

Me: What? Snakes?

Luke: Yes - 2 orange snakes for birthday.

Me: You mean like real live snakes?

Luke: Yep

Me: You're crazy!

Luke: Yep

Poop Truths

Today while Luke was having his diaper changed, he said "Poop is yucky."
While I tend to agree, we don't want him doing the weird toddler thing where they withhold it, so I started my "everyone poops" speech.
He joined in and said, "and Sammy poops and Harry poops and birdies poop."
I saw his stuffed animal laying next to him and said, "Even Squeakers poops."
He shook his head and said, "No him don't! Him don't have a bottom!"

Hello Dessert, My Name is Luke!

This dessert is aptly named "Mt. Peanut Butter."

Amber Alert

Andrew was organizing a search party for "Puppy" - his little black lab stuffed animal. She had been missing for a few days and he was starting to feel a little desperate.

I think the pressure got to him... I heard him heading down the hall yelling, "It's the treasure hunt of death!!"

FYI - she was found alive and well.

A Sad Milestone (at least for Mommy!)

Luke slept in his crib last night for the last time. Moving on to the big bed. Sniff. (I've already had my crying spell so I'm better now.)

I told him this morning that I was sad - I want him to be my baby, not my big guy.

He smiled and said, "I is you baby. You baby big guy."

Ye Olde Bait and Switch

This isn't an actual Stout Boyz Funny because it didn't happen to my fellas. But it made me laugh all the same.

We were at the zoo and a woman with at least 6 kids was trying to wrangle all of them out of the splash area and the kids were not cooperating to say the least. She finally had all but 1 of them out - a toddler probably around 18 months old.

I heard her saying something that resembled "Here, kitty, kitty" and she was holding a can out to the kid.

He saw what she had and came running. As soon as he was in range, she grabbed him and shoved him in the stroller. She laughed and put the can away and told him he couldn't have them. Turns out it was a can of Vienna sausages.

Poor kid!! I can honestly say I've never lured my kids with food and then not let them have it.

And if you are going to do that... Vienna sausages? Seriously??