Cleanliness: an important value.

Caleb: "Mom, I need a boob on."
Me: "What?"
Caleb: "A boob. I need a boob on."
Me: "A....bib?"
Caleb: "Yeah, a bib. I need a bib on."

Don't worry, Dad. It's funny.

Chad was hunched down putting groceries away in some of our lower cabinets. He felt someone rubbing his back with a towel and turned around to find that it was Caleb. Caleb's pants and underwear were down around his ankles. Chad was quite alarmed (I would be too!).


"What are you doing?" Chad asked.

"I'm wiping pee off your back, Dad" says Caleb, in a matter of fact tone.

"What!?" exclaims Chad.

"Don't worry, dad. It's funny." replies Caleb.

Anderson and I laughed so hard that we almost peed our pants.



As I was lying down with Anderson the other night he said, "Mom, did you hear that noise?"

  "What noise?" I asked.

"I think it is the Valentine Bunny coming to give us something."

"It's the Easter Bunny," I told him, "no one comes for Valentines Day."

"They do too, mom. Maybe he just hasn't come for you because you haven't been good enough."

Nocturnal

Neither of my boys nap. Every once in a while, when one of them is having a meltdown, I will encourage them to go take a nap. A recent conversation with Anderson went like this:

Mom: "I need you to go lie down and rest."
Anderson (rubbing his red-rimmed eyes): "I'm not tired."
Mom: "That's okay... just go and lie down."
Anderson: "I can't sleep during the day, Mom. I am not nocturnal. You are just trying to make me nocturnal!"

Yes. Because I want him awake all night. Right.

Our hamsters, delivered by Santa, are nocturnal. They run on that little wheel of theirs All. Night. Long. They are now transferred from the boys room to the kitchen every night. Their names are Spike and Butch. These were originally some nicknames I gave the boys. I teased them that Spike and Butch were the names we really gave them when they were born. I am flattered that they transferred these names to the hamsters.

Spike the Nocturnal Hamster

A side note: I have embraced my true nature and now wear my hair curly. Behold me in my 'naturally curly' glory!: