Andy & Jessica

This just in from Andy, “Abby just sat up by herself.”  I clarified with him that she did went from an army crawl to a sit up to sitting position all on her own.  Didn’t know until just now that our Abby has abs!

To me: “You’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen in my whole life.”

Me: “Jude, whose team are you on?”

Jude: “Yours, but don’t post it.”

“Mommy, I’m on Team Mommy.  Don’t tell Daddy.”

Today Jude and Levi spent a few hours at Sandburg at chess and game camp.  Since it is a public school setting, they offer a “free” breakfast and lunch before and after activities.  Andy picked the boys up and they headed to our kitchen table.  They had each grabbed a chocolate milk for Asher.  Suddenly, Andy saw a pile of mini corn dogs at the table.  He asked where the corn dogs had come from.  It turns out that the boys had gotten their lunch at camp and stuffed the mini corn dogs in their pockets since they were not served with ketchup.  They had decided to save them for home, where they could be paired with ketchup.  Only our boys!

“You’re the prettiest mom I’ve ever seen and the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen.”  (Not a bad thing to hear on this birthday day.)

Levi was crying about being bored and wanting iPad time.  I told him that we didn’t have iPads when I was a kid.  He replied, “But you didn’t even have electricity.”

To Jude:  “Treat me how I want to be treated.”

Tonight after dinner, Levi and Asher decided to have a food fight.  I tried unsuccessfully to talk them out of it altogether.  But, managed to talk them to at least going to the backyard.  They were smashing pieces of pizza in each other’s hair and throwing whole apples at each other. Jude videotaped their fun. No tears. No baths yet either. Yuck!

My 3 entrepreneurial boys opened a water misting station at the end of the driveway tonight. Business was slow so Levi (6) decided to go door to door to try to entice people to come out of their air-conditioned comfort so he could squirt them in the face in exchange for some cash. True story.