Questions about Mom

Answers to the questions are word for word what Jordan and Colin said. I have added a little of my own commentary in ().

1. What is something mom always says to you?
Jordan: Hi
Colin: Listen

2. What makes mom happy?
Jordan: I love you
Colin: a... listen

3. What makes mom sad?
Jordan: go to time out
Colin: do mean stuff

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Jordan: by telling me jokes
Colin: you be funny

5. What did your mom like as a child?
Jordan: being happy
Colin: Colin

6. How old is your mom?
Jordan: 31 (He is right on.)
Colin: Mommy, how old are you? Are you 24 or 25 or 26 or 27 or 28, 29

7. How tall is your mom?
Jordan: 6 inches of a folder (Earlier I had used a manila envelope to try and estimate his height. He was about 4 envelopes tall.)
Colin: I want to count you, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. You're 8 tall.

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Jordan: go out with me
Colin: Have gum (Yes, I was chewing gum when asking these questions.)

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Jordan: oh ummm...I'm the man of the house. (I asked again.) Wash dishes
Colin: You throw away toys (I don't think I have ever done this.)

10. If your mom becomes famous what will it be for?
Jordan: money
Colin: me (Apparently Colin is going to be famous. ;-))

11. What is your mom really good at?
Jordan: helping me with my homework
Colin: working

12. What is your mom not very good at?
Jordan: doing baths (He likes the way daddy does baths better because I usually get water in his eyes.)
Colin: playing

13. What does your mom do for a job?
Jordan: ummm...fix telephones. because I see you have a lot of telephones. (He is right, I test voicemail software.)
Colin: baby

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Jordan: chicken
Colin: chicken (I was a little suprised when they both said this. I think I prefer fish/seafood over chicken.)

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Jordan: being strong...I mean helps people
Colin: bones

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Joran: Mario
Colin: Momma

17. What do you and your mom do together?
Jordan: Eat dinner
Colin: go downstairs

18. How are you and your mom the same?
Jordan: with hair. Yours is kind of turning lighter. Mine is kinda turning darker.
Colin: I have orange hair and you have red hair. Your hair looks brownish.

19. How are you and your mom different?
Jordan: with skin
Colin: cause I have orange hair and you have brown hair. (I asked the previous question again, "So how are we the same?") We are not the same.

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Jordan: Because mommy loves children
Colin: cause you're six years old (???I don't understand this answer. I think he was starting to get silly.)

21. What does your mom like about your dad?
Jordan: He helps me
Colin: likes

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
Jordan: everywhere with me
Colin: store

Easter Eggs

On Saturday April 11, we colored Easter eggs and then had an Easter egg hunt in the front yard. (Based on my count, we are still missing one egg. Oh well, maybe we will find it when the weather gets warmer or maybe I miscounted.) After the egg hunt, the kids enjoyed the goldfish from the eggs and a few pieces of candy that were mixed in.

Spring Break - Mukilteo Beach

Over Spring Break we went on a driving scavenger hunt and ended up at Mukilteo Beach. It ended up being a beautiful day. The kids enjoyed throwing rocks in the water and playing at the playground. (Here is a subset of the pictures from our driving scavenger hunt.)

Lauren is learning to walk...finally!

We are finally walking...at 14 1/2 months old. Although Lauren doesn't walk far, her balance is getting a little better each day. She is choosing to walk more then crawl to get around the house, but her preferred method of movement is still to be carried.

New diet?

This weekend we went to Moses Lake for Jonny's baptism. We had a nice trip and beautiful weather. On Saturday we went to watch both Abby and Jonny play soccer. While we were at Jonny's game, Colin started eating grass. He tried multiple varieties...brown dried out grass and green grass. He liked both. I just hope it didn't have fertilizer on it. ) What would make a child like grass? Later, he asked for a piece of gum and within seconds he returned the barely chewed gum to me, but my mom later told me she found him chewing the wrapper. I have also found him eating kleenex and paper. The strange thing is I can't get him to eat anything good like chicken, pasta, cheese, vegetables, etc. This morning when he was eating his cereal, he didn't want to finish it and he said he wanted grass. I told him his cereal was grass and he finished it. I have heard kids will eat what their bodies need...what in the world does grass, gum wrappers, and kleenex provide?

Jordan Makes a Sandwich

A couple things about Jordan and how he likes a sandwich:
*Whenever I make him a sandwich, I cut the crust off the bread because he doesn't like the crust.
*His sandwich is mayonnaise and ketchup and two pieces of bologna on wheat bread.

Tonight Jordan didn't like what I made for dinner so he decided he would take care of himself. He wanted a sandwich. Before I could even say anything he was at the fridge getting out everything he needed.
He opens the bread and pulls out the heel of the loaf..."This looks neat." (I guess he has never seen the heel.)
He gets out a butter knife and squirts ketchup on the first piece of bread.
He spreads the ketchup and then decides he needs more ketchup so he asks me to hold the knife while he squirts more ketchup.
He squirts more ketchup and when I turn around, he is using another knife to spread it. I make a comment about him using another knife and he said, "whoops".
Then while he is getting the bologna out the second ketchup knife falls off the cabinet on the floor which sprays ketchup all over the place. While I am cleaning that up, he decides to start on the mayonnaise and gets out another knife. (I suppose this is good since I don't want ketchup mixed in with the mayo.)
Anyway, he spreads the mayo, puts another layer of bologna and decides he wants another layer of ketchup so he gets out another knife. Then he puts the sandwich together and brings it to the table.
He goes to take his first bite and then realizes the crust is still on the bread so he says he needs another knife...by this time, he has used every butter knife that was in the drawer.
He finds a plastic knife and brings it to the table. His sandwich is heel side up and he starts to try and cut the bread about 1/2 from the edge since that is where the crust starts on the heel (???) Of course it wasn't cutting very well I didn't have the nerve to tell him that the heel is all crust because I was afraid he would decide he wouldn't want it.
I told him he wouldn't taste the crust with the amount of ketchup he put on his sandwich. Surprisingly, this satisfied him and he ate his sandwich all gone.
Afterwards, I pointed out the puddle of ketchup I found on the floor where he was making his sandwich and pointed out that next time he should try to keep ALL the ketchup on the bread.

Dress-Up Day