Just a couple cute quotes/conversations from the last couple days . . .
This weekend I took the boys to see the family matinee "Hoot". I would say the movie was probably meant for kids a little older, but we had the tickets already and the prospect of getting movie candy had the boys sold. First they showed a preview for Happy Feet. Then 5 minutes into the real movie, at a point when the theater is deathly silent so everyone can hear, Payton says, "Mom, I don't want this movie. I want to watch the penguin movie." It was so cute -- he said it with his sad little munchkin voice and the people behind us were laughing.
Payton's favorite phrase right now is, "Are you serious?"
Whenever I casually ask Payton the question, "What are you doing?" he responds, "fine." "No, what are you doing?" "Fine." with that mischevious grin. I don't know when or how it started, but I cannot get a straight answer out of this kid!
Lately Conner has become more and more helpful around the house -- doing the dishes, sweeping the kitchen floor, cleaning his bathroom. And to my surprise, all this is mostly done at his request -- he just wants to help out. So he also helps out by setting out plates for lunch (again, all on his own) and all the stuff I'll need to make sandwiches, the bag of chips, etc,. etc. The other day I had begun making lunch and I asked him to get the mayonnaise out for me. Done. Then I asked him to get an apple and wash it off. He grabbed the apple and as he makes his way to the sink he says,
"{sigh} Mom, are you helping me learn how to be a grown-up?" I'm telling myself, please just hold in the laughter -- Yes. I'm standing there thinking -- pay attention to this conversation, you're going to need to write this one down. "Why?!" I explain because everyone has to grow up someday and you have to learn how to do things on your own. "Ugh." A moment later I ask, "Do you like it when I teach you how to be a grown-up?" His priceless answer: "Sometimes. But sometimes I just want to act like a kid."
One evening the kids were out of control -- running & screaming through the house. We herded them all in and said that it was time to calm down and have some quiet time watching The Small One. The 25 minute movie ended and wouldn't you know it, within a few minutes we were back in the zoo. While running laps through the round-and-round Conner stopped and said to me, "Watching Small One didn't work. We're still laughing & running!" Thank you so much for the observation Conner. Now do you think you could do something about that?!
btw -- Small One is the sweetest Disney animated movie - I highly recommend it. I had never heard of it until I married Scott -- apparently he watched it as a child and now we have it on DVD. It's a story of a little boy outside of Nazareth who has to go into town to sell his best friend, a donkey named Small One. After running away from the tanner and trying the market (where nobody wanted him) he eventually comes across a man who needs a donkey to take his wife to Bethlehem. It's just a really sweet, simple movie and the boys love watching it over and over again each year.
