"Your Mom Will Take Your Crayons Away"

Sutton and Cannon were wrestling with Uncle Brian. Sutton looks at him with a very serious face and says, "Your mom is going to take your crayons away". Confused we asked him why, looking at Uncle Brian's tattoo he says, "because he drawed on himself. We only draw on paper".

Lie

Cannon was finishing up some chores and putting stars on his chart when I noticed there was a star on "help with dishes". I mentioned that he had not helped with dishes today. He told me that he helped when I was away from the house. Since I has been home all day I thought he was lying. He assured me that he wasn't. I explained that lying was a sin and that there was no such thing a secret sin and that God knows everyhing we say and do. That was the end of the conversation. About 15 minutes later, he comes into my room and says, "Mommy, when I was in my room God spoke to me and told me to tell you I was sorry for lying. I didn't help with the dishes. God spoke to me because He lives in my heart". My heart melted. Thank you God for this precious boy and thank you for speaking to him.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Playhouse Lights

Two very blessed boys have a Daddy that decorated their playhouse just like they asked. :)

Laundry!

This is HALF of what my room looks like when I wait
17 days to do laundry.

Harper Turns 6

Harper is one of the boys favorite friends. Sutton considers him his friend even though he really is Cannon's. Harper and Cannon started school together at our church when they were both 18 months old and they have been friends since. Harper and his family just moved away. The boys are missing him like mad!

Hopscotch

This week Cannon drew his own hopscotch like many times before, but this time he didn't ask me to fill in the numbers. He did it all by himself and perfectly. Then he asked me how to spell START and wrote it by himself. For the longest time he had no interest in learning his letters. I was so worried that he wasn't smart enough because he didn't know all his letters at a young age like some of his friends. The things moms worry about! In a few weeks I have been able to stop writing things for him to copy and just tell him the letters and he can write anything.

Star Wars

There are very few things that are cuter than a two year old holding a light saber and yelling, "I am Darth Mater".

Happy Halloween

WE LOVE HOLIDAYS!!!! WE LOVE FALL! We love to celebrate!!! This year we decided that we would dress as the characters from the Wizard of Oz. Check out these amazing photos of our family in our costumes!

Grubby

Me: Sutton you need to take a bath. Sutton: Holding his hands up to his face and looking for dirty fingernails. "I am not grubby, Mom. He apparently only needs a bath when there is dirt under his nails.

 

Guess What?

Sutton says this at least once a day: Mommy, Guess what? Me: What? Sutton: Disney World! That's all he says. I think this is his way to saying he had a great time and cannot wait to go back!

Big

Walking out of Target on Friday. Sutton: "Oh man, Mommy, my penis is so big".

Thief

After soccer on Saturday. Cannon: "Mommy, I don't think I can steal the soccer ball. Criminals steal".

 

Mommy Forgets Too!

I just came across this link on a friend's blog. Maybe it will speak to you. I know that I expect to much from my babies sometimes. Remember they are still babies! Father Forgets by W. Livingston Larned -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside. There are things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a twoel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor. At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, "Goodbye, Daddy!" and I frowned, and said in reply, "Hold your shoulders back!" Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came Up the road, I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before you boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive - and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, form a father! Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. "What is it you want?" I snapped. You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding - this was my reward to your for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too muchof youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years. And there was so much that was good and fine and true in yourcharacter. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself overthe wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed! It is a feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you alugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: "He is nothing buy a boy - a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.

Playground

Tuesday morning, in the bathtub and we hear thunder outside our window. Cannon: "I really hope that no one at school heard that thunder. We won't be able to play at the playground".

Lost

Cannon and Sutton both attended school last year on Monday and Wednesday. This year Cannon is in school FOUR days a week!! Well, on our first day without Cannon, Sutton and I were out running errands and he asked where Cannon was several times. The final time we got back in the car and buckled up, I heard "OH NO! Mommy we forgot Cannon. He is lost". I looked back and Sutton had the most sad face ever.

Disney Memories

The boys have been saying a few funny things since we got home from Disney. Sutton: "Darth Mater" instead of Darth Vader Cannon: Calls the Yeti from the Everest ride a "Yak & Yeti".

Just a Girl

On our ride home we are discussing our favorites from the trip. Me: brett, who was your favorite disney character? Brett: Mrs. Incredible. Cannon: but daaaaaddy!!! She's just a girl!

Vagina

We are in line at Hollywood Studios, waiting to have our picture taken on some sort of Star Wars aircraft and Cannon says: "mommy has a bagina, mommy has a baaaagina (aka vagina)". Yep, that's my boy!

Nibbles

Sutton: "Mommy, I have nibbles (aka nipples). Daddy has nibbles. Cannon has nibbles. Cows have nibbles. Pigs have nibbles. Mommy, you have a nurse. You have two nurse."

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super heros

Another One

Cute Sutton Quotes: I want another one piece of cake. I want another one shoe. I want another one piece of candy. He uses "another one" anytime he wants more of something.

Milestones

My baby is growing up. I know that I am going to love this new stage in our lives, but it's bittersweet seeing my baby grow up. Sutton has stopped nursing completely, we are about two weeks into a completely weaned little boy. He is also potty trained now. He is amazing. He will just walk into the bathroom, pull his pants down, go potty and pull them back up. If he poops, you have you run in and wipe him. He thinks he is so big, he will attempt to wipe himself, and pull his pants back up. He is such an independent little boy.

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There are new posts as far back as December 4th.

Prayer

Tonight, Sutton said his first prayer. His first real prayer. He has been singing, "God our Father" for some time now but this was his first real prayer. Dear God, Thank you for making Mommy, Daddy, Cannon, Mimi and Uncle Sean. Amen. Do I have to tell you how much this warms my heart?

i am updating the blog gradually. there are lots of posts from the summer but you need to scroll down.

enjoy.

Poop!

this week sutton has finally pooped several times in the potty. i didn't think it would ever happen. today was the most amazing accomplishment when he was fully dressed in pajamas and a pull-up and went to the potty all by himself, pulled down his pants, went poop! and then came to get me to clean him. we were all so proud! don't you just love reading a mommy's blog! :)

BEAD CRAZY!

House Call

Sweet Tuesdie cut this babies hair at home.

Mrs. Tuesdie made a house call for our little surfer dude. He is so great about getting his hair cut now.

Sleepover

Cannon's friend Harper came over this week for his first sleepover away from home. The boys enjoyed s'mores and then I set up the tent in Cannon's room. I turned out the lights, opened the sky light in the top of the tent, turned his sound machine to outdoor sounds and set up the portable dvd player instead. The boys stayed up until 11:30. Cannon has had friends stay over before but this was the first time they actually went to sleep in the same bed. Normally, I haev to separate them. I think he enjoyed his first sleepover with Harper.
 
I was worried I would wake them up but I just had to sneak in and get a picture. :)