A Makeover

My conversation with the boys this morning....

Mom: "Hey, boys, do you notice anything different about me?"
Q&C: "Uh.... no."
Mom: "Look hard. What's different about me?"
C: "You....uh.... bought us a present?"
M: "No."
Q: "You're squishing your face up, to look mean?"
M: "No." I just woke up! It's bright in here!!!
Q&C: "I don't know."
M: "Is my hair the same color as it was yesterday?"
Q&C: "Yes. No."
M: "What color was my hair yesterday?"
Q&C: "Black. Brown. No. Yellow." Unfortunately, all of the above.
M: "And what color is it today."
Q&C: "BROWN!"
M: "Yes. Brown. My hair is now brown."
C: "Weird, Mom. How'd you do that?"

Clairol, my friend.... Miss Clairol.

Christmas Part 2

Colby: "MOM! I didn't know we were so close to Santa!"
Mom: "What are you talking about?"
Colby: "It goes Chassell, then the North Pole! On the globe! We're so close!"

Yes. We're at the end of the world. Really.

Christmas

The boys have been having a hey-day with all the Christmas ads coming in the newspaper. They've been circling EVERY toy. Colby just asked me if he could just send the newspapers with the circled ads directly to Santa rather than having to write a letter. LAZINESS. Anyways, I was a little concerned that they were getting swept up in the hub-bub and missing the TRUE meaning of Christmas. So I asked them about it.

Mom: "Boys, do you remember what Christmas is all about?"
Q&C: "Santa! Presents!"
Mom: "No. What does Christmas celebrate?"
Q&C: "I don't remember". Uh oh. How soon they forget.
Mom: "Is it somebody's birthday?"
Q&C: "Oh! Jesus!" Yes.
Mom: "Jesus wants us to give to OTHERS in celebration of His birthday. It's not about the presents we get."
Colby: "But MOM! Jesus doesn't play with TOYS! He doesn't want these, I do!"
Great. Walmart has more influence over my kids than I do.

Sleep Study

We had a doctor come talk to us last month at our Mothers of Preschoolers group about sleep disorders in children. This doctor mentioned that it is NEVER normal for a small child to snore. Really? Colby has snored since an infant! He cited statistics describing children with poor quality sleep having issues with attention, focus, weight gain, and incontinence at night. HMMMM. Sound like anyone I know?? Anways, I figured it was worth checking out, to see if Colby was suffering from childhood sleep apnea. His sleep study was last night, and I have to say, he hasn't had a WORSE night's sleep in a long time. Colby was such a good boy - it took almost an hour to hook him up, and he sat there patiently, not freaking out in the least when they were strapping sensors all over his body (head, face, ears, finger, chest, legs....). Wires everywhere (probably at least 30!), and every time he turned over once asleep (which was frequent), one or another of them came off. Necessitating the sleep tech to come in, wake him up, and put it back on. Four to five times an HOUR. And, just because we were there in a sleep lab supposedly monitoring for such things... Colby didn't snore. Well, once for a few minutes, but that was it. And I assure you, I was awake most of the night listening for it. These people are probably thinking "What a hypochondriac that mother is"! We'll get official results in a few weeks. I sure hope we didn't waste everyone's time. Not that I hope he HAS sleep apnea. But if he DID, it'd sure be an easy fix by taking out his tonsils.

Semantics

Dad: (while rough housing with Colby) "I smell pee. What stinks?"
Mom: "Colby, did you wet your pants?"
Colby: "No. They WERE wet, but I've worn them long enough so they're dry again now."
Mom: "Go change your pants. Now."

UGH.

Literacy

My boys can READ! It is so exciting. It's just the coolest thing ever. Both boys spent dinner reading to Rob and I from different books. Simple books, but there was actual READING, and sounding out, and all that good stuff. I can't tell you how cool I think that is. Another milestone tonight, when I read the boys Pippi Longstocking at bedtime. There were no PICTURES. They were confused by that at first, but I explained how the pictures to this book were in their heads, and they could make them look like whatever they wanted. They thought Pippi was hilarious, and were laughing at the thought of a little girl carrying a horse. So obviously, they were imagining it all vividly. Just a long-standing dream of mine to be able to read chapter books to my kids at night, and instill a love of reading. And now I get that experience. I'm so blessed. I love being a mom.

For The Record

5 years 4 months stats for little boys:
Quinn - height 44.5 inches, weight 44 pounds. A perfect square.

Colby - height 44.5 inches, weight 41 pounds. A little more of a rectangle.

I know this compliments of various doctors appointments the boys have gone to lately, for completely random reasons.