Andy & Jessica

I was telling Jude this morning how much I dislike mosquitos.  He told me, “You know why I’m happy there are mosquitos?  Because if an elephant sucked up blood, they would suck up a lot — like 2 people’s blood.  At least mosquitos are small.”

This morning Jude and I got up early so he could run in a kids fun run for kids up to 9 years old organized by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics.  The race started at 8 a.m. and it is a drive up there so Jude and I left at 6:45 a.m.  We arrived in plenty of time and Jude grew bored waiting for his first foot race.  I was loaded up with cameras, my phone and a water bottle so I decided to lighten the load and lock the keys in the car and just take a single key.  But, I took the single key for our other vehicle that was parked at home in the garage.  So, before Jude started his race, I called our rescue crew (Andy, Levi and Asher) to come unlock our car.  Jude out of the gate had a good lead on everyone and he enjoyed being in first place for quite awhile.  But, in the end, 6 kids passed him and he got 7th place out of the 50-100 kids.  He was happy with that since had run his fastest and got a medal for his participation.  I felt so proud watching him run that I got choked up a bit.  About 20 minutes after the race ended, our rescue crew arrived and unlocked our car so we were able to head home and get ready for church.

As I wrote about earlier, Asher has the habit of crying out in his sleep, “Levi taking my Angry Bird!” Well, last night it was Levi who yelled out in his dream, “Asher not sharing!” Welcome to our world.

This morning Jude found 5 of the boys’ Angry Birds that he had stashed away. Levi started screaming because he didn’t have one. I asked Jude to share with Levi and he was pretty disgusted and said, “You are sounding like a government person.” When he compares sharing to forced socialism, I’m left speechless.

Asher, who is not quite 2, is very chatty, even in the night. Last night, in his sleep he cried out on separate occasions, “Levi taking my Angry Bird” and “Levi taking my water.” Then at some point in the night he woke up, realized he didn’t have an Angry Bird in his hands and sent me on a mission to find him one if I wanted to get any more sleep.

I was reviewing some of Jude’s recent medical records tonight. One recent written report said, “Jude was very energetic and rocking his chair back and forth as he said it felt good to put the legs of his chair on his feet.”

Yesterday Kim and Robyn came to babysit the boys and Jude’s new good friend from t-ball while Andy and I went to Les Mis.  The 2 new neighbor kids, who the kids love, were also over playing in the sandbox and playset.  As Andy and I were getting ready to go, I went to send the 2 neighbor kids home to cut down on the chaos.  The little neighbor girl, who is 5, said to me, “I don’t want to go home.  I don’t even have a play set.”  I felt like a real Scrooge sending that cute girl home.

Jude takes after Andy in that he will never be satisfied with the amount of stuff he has.  There is always something he wants.  Jude wrote me the following wish list tonight, mostly wanting to add to his Angry Birds collection:

• Pink bird
• Orange bird
• Green bird
• White bird
• Hex bug (because he only has 4 or so and some are missing legs or have bent antennae or are in need of new batteries)
• Nerf gun (because he only has 3 nerf guns already and there is probably a cooler, more powerful one on the market by now)
• Lego set (because he only has 20 sets or so and wants to scatter more pieces all over the floors for us to step on and howl)

Jude, speaking about him and his little brothers who were playing ninjas: “Mom, do you think we’ll go to Japan and be ninjas when we grow up?”

Asher (aka Bobo) was running around tonight yelling out, “Super Bobo to [the] rescue!”