James' plans

James: "that's it I'm running away!"
Abbie: "but James
You're my big brother and if you run away you will get too sweaty."
James: "well then I will
Invent a machine that turns my sweat into water I can drink."

Bye bye Daniel

Abbie says "Mommy I don't like Daniel Tiger anymore.. He has bad hair cause his hair is all gone."

French fry?

James asked me what is the world record for the longest French fry... Turns out it is 34 inches!

Love

Eric went to target tonight with Bruno and Kathy. He knew my running armband was broken and saw one on sale so he bought it for me with his own money. That means were doing something right, right?

Meanies

James 

"Mom.. You don't know how lucky you are... When you were a kid you had two nice parents.  I have two mean parents."

Back to school haircut

James has maintained for a couple years now that he's never getting married. Tonight getting his back-to-school haircut Andrew said to him "All your girlfriends in first grade will love your haircut." James said "I don't have any girl friends." Daddy "Well someday you will." James "No I won't dad.. They'll never catch me!"

This is boring Mom

Abbie: Mama..let's go pick up someone." Mommy: sorry everyone is already home we don't need to go anywhere Can you tell she's in the car lot?

Dangerous Jobs

James in the car today (age 6) "Mom.. Isn't mining a dangerous job?" Me: "Um yes.. I think it can be dangerous..." James: "Like if there was an earthquake in the rock started falling." Me: "Yep.. That would be dangerous.." James: "And if a herd of bison ran by while you were in the mine?" Me: "Well I think that would be a little unusual." James: "Why?"

Big Girl Someday

At the Callahan today with Abbie while Eric was playing soccer. I said "do you like the big kid school Abbie? You can come here When you are a big girl." Abbie said "Then Abbie get a backpack?" "A purple one. Maybe red." Aww.. Not quite 2 1/2!

Eric

"Mom sometimes the reality of it just hits me."

"What reality?"

"That Abbie is actually a real person now."

I know exactly what he means.

Abbie's words

At almost 2 Abbie is amazing with her language! Here is some of her best words:

S(h)it   Sit down next to her

Chair   Sit down next to her

Ekay    Eric

Eddie   Ellie

Jasuh   James

Mickey   The mouse

Elmee    Elmo

Cuuuu    Color

Purple    Every color

Counts. 1-2-3-9-10

Dead???

James "I didn't get to meet my coach, he wasn't at the first practice."

Mommy "I know.. He didn't make it."

James "You mean he's dead !!!?!?!?!?!?"

Mommy " No no no no no no no no I mean he couldn't make it!"

My Lines

James has a Thanksgiving play coming up and his teacher printed out his "lines" to practice at home.

I said "James I think it's time to start practicing your lines for Mrs. Wilson." He hopped down from the chair "Where are you going?" "To get a ruler so I can make really good lines."

Fist Bumps

Abbie loves giving fist bumps.. To say hi, good night, bye..the first things she does when she sees someone. She calls it boom.  The even tried to boom herself in the mirror.

Beep in'

James "mommy.. I want to feel your heart beep. Which side does it beep on."

Rainbow Dreams

James told me he couldn't wait to look for the pot of gold after we saw an amazing double rainbow tonight.  I felt bad because first I told him there probably wasn't a pot of gold, but then I said there could be I just never saw one before so we agreed to go on a walk tomorrow and look for it.  If we find it we'll use the money for a $400 lego Death Star.

The Graduate

James and Mikey graduated from Mrs. Perry's on June 14.  They were so cute in the show. James loved singing good bless America and has been noticing the "grand old flag" everywhere.  I still can't believe my baby boy is heading to kindergarten in a couple months.

Poor James

Just two weeks after getting adenoids out and ear tubes James ran into the fence tach and needed one staple to close his cut :( Took it like a champ. The nurse checked his oxygen level on his finger and he asked "what.. Do u really need to know how much my finger weighs?"

James for president

"I really wanna be president someday but I just don't wanna make all those speeches."

Abbie turns 1

Abbie started walking at 10 months. At 1 she can cross the room and get whatever she wants. Her words are dadee, mama,
Uh uh, uh oh, eeeee(Ellie), gugee (cookie)

She turned one last week. She had fun eating cake but didn't like being sung
To, she had no clue what was going on!