Lesson Learned

The other day Ash and I were out for a bike ride. On our ride Ash asked if we could stop at the park for a minute, I obliged. While at the park I noticed some empty soda cans on the ground. I thought to myself that this would be a good opportunity to teach Ash about civic pride and picking up litter. I asked Ash to grab a can while I grabbed the other. We walked both cans to the garbage and tossed them away. While at the garbage can I noticed two signs hanging on a post. I thought to myself, taking the civic pride one step further, that I would take down the signs. Geese I am such a good mother teaching my kid a valuable life lesson. Well, one of the signs happened to be a lost dog poster and Ash protested by saying mom that is someone's dog how could you throw their poster away. I came up with the lame excuse that there are plenty other signs around the neighborhood for others to see. We rode on and I didn't think of that incident again. Until two days later when we were driving home from Glama's house and Ash say's out of the blue, "Mom how would you like it if Mazie was lost and we hung up posters and someone took them down? I can't believe you did that to someone else's dog!" Zing that hurt, I suck! Naphs was confused so I told him the story from a couple day's earlier, to which Naphs say's " I would have just told Ash that the family had found the dog and it is ok to take down the sign." Instantly I turned around and told Ash just that. And that was the end of it.

The things kids say...

Just the other night we were watching America's Funniest Home Videos as a family. One of the clips that came on was a family getting ready for trick or treating. The movie starts with a little boy around 4 yrs old dressed as a Power Ranger. The camera then pans onto his older sister who is dressed like a scary vampire. As she enters the room the little brother starts screaming and running away from his sister. Of course she had to chase him. I was laughing at the clip and Ash looked at me in all seriousness and said "mom that is not funny," I replied sure it is. To which Ash replied "he is just a little boy." Sweet Ash had empathy for this little boy. Must be an older brother thing as Coach was laughing at the clip with me.

The other day Coach was with us as we pulled up to St. Marks Hospital for a doctors appointment I had. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot Coach pipped up in the back in true hope fullness saying "mom do you have another baby in your belly." He was disappointed with my no answer. Coach sure does love having a baby in the house. He certainly is a good big and little brother.

Guess who is rolling over?

This guy!

At his 4 month check-up (at which he was actually 5 months) Scooby weighed in @ 16 lbs making him the light weight of the family. Scoobs is 50% in weight and 90th in height. We got ourselves another tall skinny guy in this family.

Who is Who?

This post is for all those people who tell me Scooby looks just like Coach. Can you tell them apart? I can. I thought this was a pretty easy test, but when I asked Naphs to identify his boys he got it wrong. I would love to hear from you, can you tell who is who? Remember it is between Coach and Scooby.

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Hoppy Easter

This year I put the boys in matching outfits because I can. Plus don't you think they look so stinking adorable!

I love this face!

My Coach

While putting Coach to bed the other day he was talking to me about the movie Tron. He told me that he did not like Tron. I asked him why not? He put his hand on his chest and started thumping it and said "it makes my heart feel like this when the girls arm gets cut off". So cute he couldn't tell me the emotion he was feeling, but could tell me how it made him feel. We then talked about our feelings for a minute.

On the drive home from St. George we stopped at McDonalds and got the kids Happy Meals. As soon as Coach was done with his meal he promptly ripped the box apart according to the directions to make a hat. Only thing is Coach can't read. Either my boy is super smart and figured the box out on his own or he goes to McDonalds a lot and knew what to do from past experiences. Only Glama Tuzie can answer this as she is Coaches Mickey D's supplier.

Seriously I love my boys!