Are you okay Daniel? 

Uh huh. I was just getting boogers off my nails.

James: maybe cupid can bring me the Lego police set that I'm wanting. 

Me there. (pointing at the picture of Mike and I on our wedding day)

He also pushed our stroller through the mall while strutting his stuff in the choo-choo pajama shirt that he's insisted on wearing all week. 

What's your favorite vegetable? Watermelon because we can make a shark out of it. 

Today's lesson, to be sung to the tune of "when she comes around the mountain":

If you ask if it's funny, then it's not. If you ask if it's funny, then it's not. If you ask if it's funny, if you ask if it's funny, if you ask if it's funny, then it's not."

Sunsets

How is it that I've lived in this house for 8 years now and I'm just now appreciating the beautiful sunsets that we have almost daily?

I used to look out the window and just see the approaching night. I'd even think to myself: "bummer, it's already getting dark." I didn't even see the beautiful colors. All I saw was the dark part of the mountains. 

I wonder what else I'm missing out on.

James fhe lesson: Puzzle pieces: scattered vs close knit family by being nice and helpful to each other.

". Moo. Eat. "

“As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

During a conversation in the car today: 

James: "Daniel like animals too."  

Daniel: "No I don't. I like bugs!"

If we see a big rock it might smell like a dinosaur. Stinky. 

Mom, did you do yoda (yoga)?

The pumpkin smoosh tractor at Cornbelly's

Does the baby have sharp claws like Andrew?

"Dad, I did the puzzle all by myself. But mommy helped me"

Rolando the fire truck

Ramoni: Moroni 

Charities should begin at home, but should not stay there -Philip Brooks

Derek's been awake, constipated and uncomfortable at night...

And the boys have been waking up as early as 4:30 am...

Plus, James is having nightmares that his school turns alive and eats everyone. 

It has eyes. You just can't see them. 

Teenager Minja turtle. "I'm not super Daniel I'm ninja Daniel"

Words can't sufficiently explain the extent I took to disinfect this child-- including but not limited to taking all of his clothes off with gloves, scrubbing hands with soap & hot water for five minutes straight, followed by a generous dose of Lysol wipes, and periodically accompanied by squeals of a grossed out mom!

As soon as Daniel came home from school, the first thing he said before even saying hi was "I just saw a fly on the ground and I stepped on it so it wouldn't come in the house."