"Ga-Noying"

Brandon

Brandon and Brian

Tyler

Tyler

Ethan "shopping with Mom"

Brandon doesn't love when I take pictures of him can you tell?

Ethan

In his FAVORITE red shorts

This is what Brandon has done to his part of the wall in his room.

So Brandon is constantly telling us what "ga-noys" him or who is "ga-noying". I think I am going to wet my pants everytime he says it. I love it so much that I don't want to correct him.

Others that I love right now are Ethan's "munch box" and his "school practice". He takes a lunch with him wherever we go each moring because he hardly eats anything for Breakfast and he is hungry. He takes his "cold munch" or his "munch box". He hears us talk about whether or not Tyler is going to be taking hot or cold lunch at school. His "school practice" is whatever he did that day because the other boys are at school and so why shouldn't he be? The older boys have both school and baseball practice so....last night he told us ALL about his baseball game. The other day we were at Brian's parent's house and they all went up to the golf course to play a little golf. They came back down for dinner and Ethan could not stop talking about his golf game. I mean it's hard to describe what it is like when this kid won't shut up. He talks constantly and demands your full attention so that you CANNOT have any other converstaions or even thoughts to yourself. He is so busy. He is however almost totally potty trained which is so nice! He is doing fairly well! The older boys have been really excited to help him and they have been a lot of help. They ask him all the time if he wants to go potty with them.

He now changes his clothes ALL day long into 20 different outfits which I hate. Brandon went through this stage as well and they both insist on basketball shorts and short sleeve T-shrits every day of the week rain, snow or shine. It's a fight always to get pants and coats on them. This use to frustrate me so much with Brandon so now that Ethan is doing it, I am more realxed but it is still annoying.

My neighbor wants to be a hairdresser and so has gotten a professional chair in her garage and she has all the stuff to cut the boys hair. I usually just use it and do it myself. So this morning I told Tyler and Brandon that we were going to go to the neighbors and use her proffessional chair this time to cut their hair. He looked at me and said, "But you aren't a proffessional hair dresser mom." Wow, is he already 13? I laughed so hard and he didn't understand why I thought he was so funny. After about 10 seconds he realized how clever that was and started to laugh with me. He is getting old and wise! He is doing really well at baseball and he loves it. Brandon is still waiting for the warm weather to arrive and stick around so he isn't so cold in T-ball. Me too. I watch from the car lately it has been so cold and windy.

Something the boys remembered the other day that I will share for the sake of not forgetting a funny story. I made Campbells regular old chicken noodle soup one time for Tyler when he was like 4. I set it in front of him and he started crying. I asked him what was the matter and he looked up at me and said, "it smells like a toot! I can't eat it." I thought I was going to die laughing, he just got mad at me.