Dakota teasing

We were driving home together as a family from a night out to dinner. Dakota says, "Mom, do you know how much I love you?" Me: "How much?" Dakota: "A hundred-million airplanes in the sky!!" Me: "Wow that's a lot!" Dakota: "That's because I like you a lot, and I love you." Me: "I love you as big as the sky!" Pause.... Dakota: "Dad, do you know how tiny I love you?" Doug: (uh-oh) "How tiny?" Dakota: "3" Doug: "Three airplanes in the sky?" Dakota: "That's pretty much none." Doug: :( "Great...." Dakota: "Because I don't like you as much." (insult to injury) Me: "Dakota, that's not very nice, you love your Dad, don't you?" burst of giggling... Dakota: "Yeah, I was just TEASING!!" followed by continuous giggling. Doug and I were giggling pretty hard ourselves.

Oakley's prayer

Prayer 2 Another day at lunch, Oakley was blessing the food. He said "please bless monkey a fell down and bonk a head... and please bless Spencer and a water gun"... I was busting a gut by the time the prayer was over. Such a funny and sweet kid! Prayer 1 Oak loves to say the prayer at meal time. The other day at lunch he volunteered. We were having turkey sandwiches for lunch. "Dear Heavenly Father, thank for mom and dad. Thank you for Koda and Ryden. Thank you for cheese and turkey say gobble-gobble. Please bless the food. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Such a sweet prayer. I was so touched that he named off every member of our family and then I couldn't help but chuckle when he said gobble-gobble. LOL. Good little boy. And a pretty darn good prayer if you ask me!

I do want Kindle

Oakley is obsessed with the iPad and my Kindle Fire. He knows how to navigate them and play all the games. He asks to play with them constantly. The other morning he asked me about 20 times in a row if he could play with the Kindle. It sounds like... "Mom, I do want to pway candle..." My response: "Okay Oak, just a minute, I need to get Ryden dressed and then I will get you the Kindle." He continued to make the same statement over and over as I was changing Ryden. I was getting sick of hearing it and frustrated. I finally said, "Oak, I heard you. I will get the Kindle as soon as I'm done getting Ryden dressed. Now say, 'Okay mom, I will be patient.'" Oakley replies, "Okay mom... I do want Kindle." Just when I thought he was getting it.... Oh well. He tried.

Toothpaste

Oakley came in while I was cleaning the bathroom and found his toothbrush. He asked to "bruff a teef". So I quickly ran the toothbrush under some water and handed it to him so I could get back to what I was doing. A second later, after putting the brush in his mouth, he says, "Hey! Mooooom(disappointed tone).... I meed a soap!" I then taught him it's called 'toothpaste'. :)

Slurpians and Insects

This is a conversation I had with Dakota the other day: Dakota: "MOOOOM!!! There's an insect in your room!" Me: "An insect? What kind of insect?" Dakota: "A SLURP-ian." Me: "Hmmm... LOL. Ok, let me go check." I walked into my room to find an earwig... but I believe she was trying to say scorpion. I am sure glad it wasn't a slurpian! :)

Halloween 2012

Halloween was great this year... the weather was fantastic, the kids looked adorable in their costumes and they had so much fun Trick-or-Treating and never complained. They were happy all day and even Ryden was a trooper. I just wanted to remember some of the funny things they said: At one door, someone handed out big gum balls... Dakota has no idea what they are. She looked at them, cocked her head and asked the guy at the door with much scrutiny, "Are these treats?" (Like, are you sure????) Oakley would have a different greeting for each door. Once, he simply said, "Hell-ooo!" He told one person, "I need one mow Trick-eh-treat." But our favorite was when the lady opened her door and he said in a sing-song voice "Trick-or-Treat" 3 times in a row and bobbed his head side to side like he was singing along with a song. At the first place we went to, when someone would offer him the bowl to pick his own treat, he'd stick is hand in, spread his fingers and shuffle them around but never actually take anything. I'm not sure if he couldn't decide what he wanted b/c there were too many choice, or if he just liked the feeling of having his hand in there but it took a couple of hours of TOT-ing before he would just take a piece of candy and put it in his bucket. The kids made quite a haul. When their buckets got full, they'd dump it in the bottom of the stroller and keep going. Oakley dropped and spilled his bucket of candy about 10 times. But that never stopped him! We went 3 different places and TOT'd for almost 4 hours total. They loved every minute.

Dakota in Disney World

She was lucky enough to get to go with her aunt again, except this time to Disneyworld. She is having a blast but I wanted to keep track of some of the cute things she is saying to me in our phone conversations.

"Mom!!! I saw Crush (from Nemo) and we get to aks him a question. And they say, 'No eating, no drinking, no flash photography (perfectly pronounced) and NO-OOO smoke-in!!'"

"We got Oakley some Tiggy ears and then I said to Melissa, 'How about we put Oaker-man on it' and so we did!!"

"Was Oakley walking around the house saying, 'Where's Dakota?' Awwwwee... he was lookin' for me."

"Dad, you know what's in my snack drawer? There's some in the bottom drawer, some in the middle drawer, and on top. And I can have some whenever I's hungry."

They had lunch with Pooh Bear:
Me "What did you eat for breakfast today? Did you eat with Pooh bear?"
D "NOPE! I just had cereal."
Me "Oh, did you have LUNCH with Pooh Bear?"
D "Yeeeeep."

And last night pretty much every time I started a sentence, she cut me off with "MOM!!!! And we did _______________" I couldn't get a word in to our conversation at all. She's sounding so grown up and boy she can talk your ear off!