I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted about the boys' sayings and doings. I keep a pad of paper in the kitchen and jot down clever or funny things the boys do before I forget them. I want to keep them for posterity's sake, and I'll post them here for you to enjoy too. :)
So here goes...from November on...
11/17/13
I was singing Edelweiss from The Sound of Music to Wyatt
tonight at bedtime, and after I finished he said, “I think Edelweiss must be a
device that catches Edels!”
Garrett and Wyatt have named their mini-tower fans. G’s is
Joe Joe. W’s is Pee Wee. J
12/5/13
Wade is so cute when I leave the room at nap or bedtime. He
is now copying me with cute kissing sounds and “Love you!”
When we sing before bed he has been asking for “Oh Darlin” –
“Oh my darling, Clementine.”
Tonight Jim and I shared with the boys about how we both
prayed for God’s provision of a husband or wife and wanted His best, even if
that meant that He didn’t want us to be married. Jim shared that he was 14 when
he first started praying for me. And God ANSWERED!! The boys were very
interested. Wyatt immediately said, “Well, when I get to be an adult I want to
marry a nice woman that God chooses for me.” And so we all stopped right there
and both Wyatt and Garrett earnestly prayed for God to provide them a good wife
when they got older.
12/10/13
Wade says “fingies” for fingers and sometimes says “Jesus….
God” and when I open up a book he has been saying “Bible.” So cute!
2/27/14
Wade, randomly during breakfast: He gives me a sly sideways
look and says quietly, “Doughnuts in fridge.” He asked me for doughnuts, suggesting
they were in the fridge, last week and apparently he still has his heart set on
that scenario!
11/18/13
Garrett: “Strawberries are hollow just like string
instruments!”
Wade is counting “one, two, three” correctly. He runs around
saying “cutie!” when doing something.
Wyatt: Seeing lights on next door: “Oh! People live over
there! I wish I could jump over the fence and say hello and then jump back
over.”
Garrett: “I love you with a steadfast love.”
Wade: “Dada, soon, back, drive.”
12/4/13:
Wade says “fingies” for fingers, gives me kissie noises and
“love you’s” when I go out of his room at nap or bedtime.
12/6/13: Wade has gotten it, it seems, on not being able to
eat certain nuts. I gave him chocolate bunnies for lunch and he immediately
held one up for me and said “no nuts” with his eyebrows furrowed and did it
with each one for a while!
He said his first sentence today: “the big one.” J
12/9/13
Wade said another sentence: “Turn on movie.”
1/9/14
Wade said his first question: “Where’s pup?” about his
favorite stuffed animal when he woke up from nap and saw pup wasn’t there.
Calls Jim “Jimbob” sometimes. J
About the music in the car: “Turn the music – off. Pause
it.”
1/20/14
Wade on a walk: “Wind-cold-ice cream.”
“Human baby.”
Sang to spotty dog and laid him down on his high chair.
Said, “Spotty dot tired, go upstairs…”
Sang “Jesus died for you…Jesus, Jesus.”
1/21/14:
Wade: “Beautiful cars.”
2/2/14:
Wade, looking at the ants in our ant farm: “Bugs – eating –
dirt.”
2/4/14:
Wade: “Dad! Dad! Jimbob help you!”
2/8/14:
Wade: “Granola bar has nuts in it!!”
“Ready to go soon.” (Has been bringing me his shoes lately
to see if we can go somewhere. One day he brought them to me and said, “Go to
the beach!”)
2/16/14:
Me: “Should we have dinner?”
Wade: “Go to McDonalds!”
2/20/14
Me: “What else would you like for breakfast?
Wade: “Krispy Cream’s.”
Wade wanted pickles for lunch and kept mentioning them even
though I couldn’t find them. Finally he said, “In the garage. Daddy bought
them.” He remembered they were in the car in the garage when they brought them
home from Costco. On looking further, he was right – they were in the fridge
after all!
2/21/14
Wyatt: “The paint wanted to stay on my hands forever, but
the soap tore it off.”
2/23/14
Garrett and Wyatt frequently talk about amazing inventions
they are going to make someday that will change the world.
2/24/14
Wyatt: “What’s the enemy of light? Shadows. What’s the enemy
of shadows? Light.”
3/9/14
Wyatt says he wants to “extrasize” for exercise, and things
are “wondraful” for wonderful.
3/12/14
Wade, drinking at the end of cup: “See a crawdad there. That
was crazy!” Later, looking out the window: “I see California out there…that’s
crazy!”
3/21/14
Wade, looking out the window at bedtime, stalling: “I see
Uncle Wiggly out there. I see a dog out there. I see a cat out there.”
About his rash: “Maybe it’s a little pink….put some medicine
on it.”
When he is upset he frequently says, “I’m just tired.”
“Nope.” “Yep.”
3/27/14
Wade, after going down a tall slide by himself, “That wasn’t
scary.”
3/29/14
Wyatt, putting heart stickers all over my shirt: “I’m
putting hearts all over your shirt so you know how much I love you. Even when
you’re alone you can remember how much you are loved.”
3/31
I asked Garrett to
get coconut oil out of the pantry for me. He couldn't find it but then Wade
trotted up and immediately found it. Garrett says, "Ha ha! I think Wade
could be my little employee!"
4/20/14
Wade, eating a Peep
at Easter, with a concerned look on his face: “I eating a baby bird.”
4/21/14
Wyatt: “Mom, our
mind jails things in our mind once they get there.”
4/23/14
Garrett, talking to
the neighbors over the fence: “My mom is very loving to everyone. She does get
cross sometimes, but she doesn’t really mean it.”
Wade to Garrett: “Guess
what? Guess what? It’s a secret.”
4/27/14
Picking Wade up at
the nursery, the teacher said, “Wade is such a great helper. REALLY. I was
wiping the table and he pointed to spots I had missed. And he put a LOT of toys
away!”
When Garrett got
hurt, Wade came up and said “Poor Garrett” and gave him a block.
5/1/14
Wyatt, at the store
to buy cake for Wade’s 2nd birthday: “I’m going to miss the cuteness
of Wade when he was a baby.”
5/2/14
Wade on his
birthday with upside down sunglasses on, pushing a trash truck around: “I a big
man!”
5/6/14
Wade loves to open
doors or do things for me, and says proudly, “I did it for you!” If I ask him
to do something he will usually say magnanimously, “Of COOUURSE!” and do it!
I’ve started
calling him Jim’s little butler because he runs and gets Jim’s shoes and socks
and opens the shower door for him, and if he needs a shirt in the morning he, "You need a shirt!" and runs into the closet and picks one out for Jim. So cute!
I picked my
homeschool book off the floor and he said, “You read that out on the lawn.”
Which.I.Did. a few days before (!)
5/9/14
While holding Wade,
he patted my back, cocked his head, and said, “I love you so much! I love you.”
Awww…and just in time for mother’s day coming up too. J
5/19/14
Wade looked at the
two yogurt makers on the counter and said, “That one’s not working very well.” One is new with a
dimmer light than the other.
5/20/14 Wade bonked
his head, put his hand up, and swiped it then said, “I ripped it off!” and was
fine.
5/23/14 Wade drew a
picture and ripped a piece off and said, “For Grandpa.” He then said, “Want to
write Wade Barnes” so we wrote his name together.
5/27/14 Wade,
asking for pepper, said, “Want some …. Green salt.”
6/16/14 Wade picked
up two pencils, held them next to each other, and said, “I made train tracks!”
6/22/14 Garrett’s
invention ideas: A sink that puts soap out with water when you want to wash
your hands, and a fishing line that doesn’t have to be threaded.
7/14 Wade calls
donut holes “donut balls” after commenting that they don’t have holes in them.
Wade loves his Kitty, calls him "Meow Meow," and takes care of him giving him sips of his drinks or food and changing his diaper by laying him on his back and making some motions in the right place then saying, "It's all fresh now."
7/10/14 I’ve been
having some pain and so Jim and the boys prayed for me at bedtime. Wade piped
up with his own prayer several times: “Dear Lord, please help Mama get better
IMMEDIATELY.”
