My Facebook Year in Review

I just noticed that on Facebook they have added on the sidebar my "Year in Review" so I clicked and started looking.  Most of it was conversations with the boys that I had completely forgotten about, already!  They got me tickled and I thought I would post them here for you to enjoy and so when I do forget I can look back and read them!


Feb. 19, 2013
Conversations with Bryson....
Bryson woke up at 6am and I could hear him whining in his bed. Stephen went to go check on him. He brought him into our room and set him on the edge of the bed. When Bryson said he was gonna throw up, Stephen grabbed him ran him to the toilet just in time. Bryson turns around and looks at me.....

"I love you mommy."

It's no secret who is his favorite parent  I don't even have to do anything. hahaha!


March 11, 2013
Conversations with Bryson.....
Bryson has learned that it annoys his dad when he calls him by his first name. So what does he do? Calls him by his first name.

Yesterday afternoon.....Stephen walks in from the backyard....
Bryson: "How's the weather outside....Steve?" 
Looks at me, covers his mouth and giggles.....
Stephen: "It's good....Bryce." 
Bryson: "What???"

Tonight....bathtub filling with water but Bryson is in his room....
Stephen: "Bryson! Get.in.the.tub.now!!!"
Bryson: "I'm getting my underwear....STEVE!!!"

Cracks me up every time.

March 15, 2013
Conversations with Blaine.....at Brayden's baseball game.....

Blaine: "Mom.....I have 2 balls stuck in my pants."
Me: "Are you kidding me????? We are in public, Blaine. Quit being gross."
Blaine: "No, seriously. I have baseballs stuck in my back pockets and I can't get them out." 

He turns around and sticks his rear end out at me, and yes, there is a baseball stuck in each back pocket of his SLIM jeans. Meaning SLIM pockets. I look back and all the parents and other family members behind us are dying laughing. Apparently he was sitting with them when he did this and they had all been trying to get them out.
So he goes to the bathroom to pull his pants down so he will have some slack in the fabric....

Blaine: "I think the man in the bathroom thought something was wrong in there. I was grunting and pushing and came out with a baseball!"

Me rolling my eyes: "Just get in the car."

August 16, 2013
Conversations with Bryson...

Bryson: "You will never ground me mom, will you?"
Me: "I'm sure I will at some point in your life. Just look at Blaine."
Bryson: "Oh...YEAH! He is like the most groundedest person in our family!!!"
Me: "Yes, Bryson, yes he is."


August 24, 2013
Conversations with Bryson...
Bryson wanted us to take him junkin' this morning...

Bryson: "Mom, can I go outside and play while you finish getting ready?"
Me: "Are you ready to go?"
Bryson: "Yes!"
Me: "Did you brush your teeth?"
Bryson: Huffs and rolls eyes...."No, but can I just use mouth wash? I'm not planning on smiling much today."
Me: "You might want to smile next week but you're gonna look funny when you do it because you won't have teeth."

Sara

Conversations With Bryson

Conversations with Bryson...

Bryson: "You will never ground me mom, will you?"
Me: "I'm sure I will at some point in your life. Just look at Blaine."
Bryson: "Oh...YEAH! He is like the most groundedest person in our family!!!"
Me: "Yes, Bryson, yes he is."

Conversations With Bryson

Conversations with Bryson.....

Me: "Bryson, would you like a bowl of tomato bisque soup?"

Bryson: "YES! YES! YES!"

Bryson hates tomatoes and he has no idea this has tomatoes in it, so let's keep this between us, okay?

Conversations With Bryson...

Conversations with Bryson:

Bryson comes into the kitchen one morning before school....

Me: "Bryson, that doesn't match very well."
Bryson: "I don't care."
Me: "Well....it looks pretty stupid."
Bryson: "Matching is stupid."
Me: "Well alrighty then." 

So next time you see Bryson and he doesn't match (because he won't) please remember this conversation. I am choosing my battles here!!!!

Conversations....

Conversations....
Yesterday morning getting ready for school....

At the kitchen table and at the top of his lungs, Bryson: "Ohhhhhh yeaaaaahhhh!"

In the bathroom and at the top of his lungs, Blaine: "Ohhh yeeaaaaahhhh!"

In his room getting dressed and at the top of his lungs,

Brayden: "Oh yeah! Oh yeah! OHHH YEAAAHHHHH!"

(It's like some sort of animal call they do back and forth to each other. Proof they should be living in the wild.)

Me, shaking my head, choosing my battles and thinking to myself, "At least they are in different rooms, not fighting, and actually doing what they are supposed to be doing. And no one is bleeding."

Have a great weekend everyone!
Sara

Conversations with Blaine

Conversations with Blaine...

Blaine: "You know how they say that if you listen to classical music when you are a baby it will make you smarter?"

Me: "Are you asking me if I listened to rap when I was pregnant with you?" (snicker snicker)

Blaine: "Mom. Seriously. I listened to classical when I was going to sleep last night and I felt smarter in school today."

Me: "Really."

Baine: "Yes! We had to write poems and everyone was talking about how hard it was and I just jotted mine right down!"

Me: "That's awesome."

Blaine: "I know!"


Sara

Weird Eaters

There is never a dull moment at my house. During dinner, I looked over and saw that Brayden had eaten part of his tomato and had already started eating his beef stroganoff. Everybody that has ever eaten with him knows that he eats one thing at a time until it's gone. When I noticed this, I pointed it out to him. Everybody at the table stopped and looked at him. He tossed his fork down on the table like he was mad and said, "Great! Now I don't know which one to eat now!!!" I almost choked on my food.

Does anyone else have weird kids like this?

Sara

Conversations

Here are a few conversations that I had posted on my facebook page over the last few weeks.  I am copying and pasting here for all you not on facebook :)

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Bryson: "MOM! Why did you burn my bacon?!? It is SO good like this! Can you burn my bacon everyday?"

Me: "Sure. I could probably do that for you everyday. I'm glad you like it."

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While reading tonight from the Magic Treehouse Books, where Jack and Annie are in Africa....
Me: "Laughing Hyenas are known to be thieves and cowards."
Bryson: "OH! So they smell good!"
Me: "Um....no."

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Conversations with Bryson....on the way home from dropping off Blaine to spend the night with a friend....
Bryson: "Why don't I ever get to spend the night with someone?"
Me: "Because you have a class full of girls."
Bryson: "Can I spend the night with Brayden?"
Me: "I guess so. If it's okay with Brayden."
Bryson: " YES! I need to go pack my suitcase!!!!"
Me: "You're going across the hall."
Bryson: "I know! I am so excited!"

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Earlier today when I was getting ready, the TV in my bedroom was on and it was on TLC. A Baby Story was on and the lady was pregnant with triplets.
Conversation with Bryson....
Me: "She is going to have 3 babies at once! Do you know what that is called?"
Bryson: "A double?"
Me: "No. Triplets."
Bryson: "Oh, like in baseball, when Brayden hit a triplet!"
Me: "Ummmm.......yeah. Kinda like that. Maybe."
Bryson: "I.am.a.genius."
Me: "Yes, you are."
Pauses to think about this......
Bryson: "Are we triplets?"
Me: "No. If you all were triplets, you would all be the same age."
Then he starts getting slightly irritated....
Bryson: "But I want to be triplets!!!!"
Me: "Too bad."

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Have a great week!

Sara

Conversations With Bryson

Earlier today when I was getting ready, the TV in my bedroom was on and it was on TLC. A Baby Story was on and the lady was pregnant with triplets. 

Conversation with Bryson....

Me: "She is going to have 3 babies at once! Do you know what that is called?"
Bryson: "A double?"
Me: "No. Triplets."
Bryson: "Oh, like in baseball, when Brayden hit a triplet!"
Me: "Ummmm.......yeah. Kinda like that. Maybe."
Bryson: "I.am.a.genius."
Me: "Yes, you are."

Pauses to think about this......

Bryson: "Are we triplets?"
Me: "No. If you all were triplets, you would all be the same age."
Then he starts getting slightly irritated....
Bryson: "But I want to be triplets!!!!"
Me: "Too bad."

Conversations

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Conversations....
Blaine: "MOM! Will you make him leave me ALONE?!? He keeps turning off the TV!"
Me: "Bryson, would you like Blaine to turn off the TV and spend some time with you before he goes to his dad's tomorrow? Maybe he can read you a book."
Bryson: "NO! I don't want him to read to me! I just want to pants him!"
Me: "Alright. Everybody go to bed. NOW."

Sara

Conversations with Bryson

We were driving home the other day and Bryson tells me from the back seat....

Bryson:  "Hey mom!  Look!  It's an Orange Jay!"
Me:  "A what?"
Bryson:  "An Orange Jay."
Me:  "What in the world is an Orange Jay?!?"
Bryson:  "You know....it's the bird with the orange breast?"
Me:  "Oh!  Do you mean a Robin?"
Bryson:  "Yeah, but I just call them Orange Jays."

Well alrighty then......

Sara

Conversations

When only 2 of the boys are together they get along really well. When you throw the 3rd one in, it doesn't go so well. I love to listen in on the way they interact with each other. Most of the time. I overheard this conversation this morning while Brayden and Bryson were eating their oatmeal.

Bryson: "Brayden! Look how much you ate at mine!" (That would mean "look how much you ate compared to mine")
Brayden: "I know. I'm almost done."
Bryson: "How do you DO dat?"
Brayden: "Cause I'm beast."
Bryson: "You ARE beast!"

Conversations With Bryson

Saturday afternoon we stopped by Publix for a few items. Bryson wanted doughnuts. They were the stale Krispy Kreme's. Don't get me wrong, I love Krispy Kreme Doughnuts! But they looked like they had been there awhile so I told him later that night we would go into town, watch them make them and get a doughnut. He didn't quite like that idea and Stephen ended up having to take him out of the store kicking and screaming while I got into line. By this point I was acting like didn't know him as I watched them head to the car with Bryson thrown over Stephen's shoulder. I noticed people looking and I think they were trying to decide if he was being abducted.

Sunday afternoon Stephen was to lead singing at the church service at the nursing home where his Grandmother lives. I told Bryson if he could sit still and be quiet like in our regular church service he would get a treat.

"Krispy Kreme doughnuts?!?" He asked.

I told him that would be fine but he had to earn it. So we went, and of course, they weren't making any, but he didn't care. He seemed very surprised that the place smelt like doughnuts. I'm not sure exactly what he was thinking it would smell like. We went home and he started eating his doughnut he picked out. It was a little much for him so he told me he was finished but told me NOT to throw it away.

Me: "I won't. Just put it back in the box."

Bryson: "Can you say please?!?"

Me: "Bryson, can you put your doughnut back in the box and save it for later....please?

Bryson: "Now was that so hard?"

He cracks me up.

Sara

Conversations With Bryson

This week we have started getting the kids to bed earlier to try to get them on their school schedule. Especially Bryson, who starts pre-k Monday and is a night owl. The first couple of days went well. Then we got home last night from church a little later than I wanted to. So, of course, he needed a snack. He didn't eat supper very well because he had eaten a later lunch. I got him a granola bar and he was piddling around eating it. I reminded him he had to get to bed so when he gets up for school next week he will be nice and have lots of fun.

He looks at me and says, "Ya know, I AM pretty cute."

I had to agree that he is pretty cute. But I also told him when he is tired, grumpy and whines like a baby, he isn't as cute, so he needed to go to bed. He agreed and headed that way! He is very excited about school! I hope he is still excited after the first week of getting up early.

Conversations

This is the conversation I overheard this morning between Brayden and Bryson. Brayden was in the bathroom shaving and Bryson was keeping him company. You just never know when a big brother might need your help!

Brayden: "Oh man. I hate when I do that."

Bryson: "What, Brayden?"

Brayden: "I hate it when I get too much shaving cream."

Bryson: "I use A LOT more shaving cream than you Brayden. Cause I have A LOT more "hear" than you do!"

Conversations With Bryson

This morning I was getting ready for work and Bryson looked at me as serious as can be and said, "Mom, do you wear the Genie Bra?"

Yes. That is what my 4 year old asked me.

Me: "What is that?"

Bryson: "It's a bra!" (duh)

Me: "Where in the world have you heard about the Genie Bra?!?"

Bryson: "TV!"

I guess he has been watching infomercials?

Sara

Friday Fun

Today the boys went outside to make water balloons. They had been waiting for the masons to finish the brick work and not long after they had their trucks loaded up and gone, the boys were outside. As soon as they got a bucket full filled with water balloons, someone else came to work for awhile on the addition. He had a saw and was cutting metal pieces of trim so they didn't need to be out there. So I decided to look up online how to make homemade play dough! It was a hit! There were several different recipes to choose from so I went with what I knew I had ingredients to make. After I finished cooking it (don't worry, it doesn't take long!) I set it aside to cool. Then I went outside in the driveway and set up the folding table. I covered it with waxed paper and taped it down. Then I went to get plastic gloves for them to wear so the food coloring wouldn't stain their hands. Oops. We didn't have any so I made them wear sandwich baggies on their hands! I thought that was very creative but they had a lot of stupid comments to share. But they lived. Every time a car went by they would hide their hands.

After the play dough was cool enough to handle I took it outside and added the food coloring. The boys squished and squeezed but the color wasn't mixing to well. I showed them how to knead the play dough like you would knead bread. That worked the best! Brayden didn't play for very long but he helped color the dough. I think he just came out to see how we were going to get that blob of "mashed potatoes" turned into play dough. After Bryson finished adding his color he made a few things and then was done. Blaine played until he got sent to his room for his attitude. But all in all they had fun while it lasted. And now we can put them in a plastic container to play with later! I made green (of course), Blaine made red, Bryson made blue and so did Brayden. When I noticed Brayden was making the same as Bryson I had him add red to make purple. We didn't need two of the same but for some reason I couldn't get anyone else to understand that!



Here is some of the conversations that went on while we were playing:

Me: "Bryson! That Stegosaurus looks awesome! Is it laying down asleep?"

Bryson: "Ummmm.......that's not a Stegosaurus. It's a Mohawk."
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This was when Blaine was adding color to his. We made a divot in the middle so the color wouldn't run down the sides.

Blaine: "Look! I picked a scab!"

Me: "Blaine. Your nasty."

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Brayden: "Don't take my picture."

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Brayden: "Can I eat this?"

Me: "You sure can! But it won't taste good."

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Brayden: "Mom, did I tell you I tasted the play dough?"

Me: "No."

Brayden: "Yeah. It was nasty."

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I hope everyone has a fun and safe long weekend!

Sara

Conversations With Bryson

We were getting ready today to go run errands. I asked Bryson to get dressed, brush his teeth and fix his crazy hair. He took off and got everything done without being asked again. (Maybe I should let the big brothers read this.) He came back to show me his teeth and how good he brushed.

Bryson: "See my teeth?"

Me: "They look good!"

Bryson: "I washed my hands too! Smell!"

This always scares me because I am scared of where they have been. It's a boy thing.

Me: "Mmmmm. They smell good."

I did notice they didn't quite smell like the Bath and Body Works soap in his bathroom, though. He must have noticed by the look on my face. Before I could ask he started to explain.

Bryson: "I washed them with mouth soap."

Me: "You washed your hands with toothpaste?!?"

Bryson: "No. Mouth soap."

Me: "You washed your hands with mouth wash?!? How did you get it open? Did you drink any?!? Where did you find it?!?"

Panic starts setting in. There for awhile the Poison Control Center was getting to know us a little too well.

Bryson: "No. With mouth. soap."

Me: "Do you mean the white bar soap that I wash your mouth out with when you say ugly words?"

Bryson: "Yes!"

I get it now. The Ivory soap that I leave next to the sink as a reminder to all the boys that came in a pack of 3. One for each of them.

Sara

Conversations With Blaine

I repeat myself a lot around here. Waaaay too much, in fact. One thing I am always telling the boys is, "Don't put your cleats on in the house!" Blaine was getting ready for practice tonight and I look over at him. He is sitting in the living room putting on his cleats.

I said, "Don't put your cleats on in the house!"

Blaine says back to me, "Why? I always put my cleats on in the house."

I begin explaining to him (again), "I know you do! And I always tell you not to!"

Blaine proceeds to explain his reasoning to me and the argument starts, "They aren't dirty."

I take the bait, "They aren't dirty."

Blaine says, "No."

I tell him, "Okay then. Lick them."

Blaine gasps and says, "Lick them?!? That is gross! Why would I lick the bottom of my shoes?!?"

I proceed to explain MY reasoning with him, "Because they aren't dirty, remember? If they are clean, lick them. From the heel aaallll the way to the toe. On the sole. Go."

I guess he decided they were a "little" dirty because he waited until he got outside to put them on.

Sara

Conversations With Bryson

Bryson: "Who IS my sister?

Me: "You don't have a sister.

Bryson: "What?"

Me: "Did you want a sister?"

Bryson: "Yeah. And a gwillfriend!"

Me: "What would you do with a sister anyway?"

Bryson: "I would hug her!"

Sara