Overheard....or "I'm rubber, You're glue"

Colby (to his identical twin brother):  "You're ugly"!

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... what's that say about YOU, kid?

Add One to the List

In the ever-growing list of places that Colby has gotten stuck....

His foot got stuck BACKWARDS between the outside railings of a deck 4 feet off the ground.  This is hard to envision, but he was turned forward holding on to the outside of the railings, and his foot was wedged between the slats, turned with toes facing 180 degrees the opposite direction, leg twisted completely around.  He was whimpering and calling for help when I found him like this. 

All I can do is shake my head.  HOW?  WHY? HUH???

Soccer Moments

At the game last night, Dad made the mistake of promising One Greenback for each goal made.  Quinn just happened to make a goal.  Amongst the cheering, in the middle of the game, while the ball was in play, he left the field, came right over to Rob, and said "Can I have my dollar now?" 

A friend and fellow mom sitting next to me was in charge of snacks for this game.  To keep Reagan busy, she offered her an "early" snack of Oreos.  Colby's "cookie detector" alarmed, and he made a bee-line for the sideline, in order to get his cookies too.  Except, again, it was the middle of the game and the ball was in play.  Rewards were obviously backfiring for soccer ;).

Colby struggles to pay attention to what's happening during a game, but he was doing really pretty good job last night.  The ball was being thrown in from the sidelines, and Colby was open, but really somewhere in La La land, paying absolutely no attention whatsoever.  The ball hit him in the chest, bringing him back to the game in a hurry.  The look on his face was priceless. 

And my favorite moment of the game.... Colby made a good defensive play, and Rob congratulated him and gave him a thumbs up.  Colby looked over, smiled shyly, and gave Rob a thumbs up back.  I WISH I would've caught it on film, because it was the cutest thing ever.

After the game, I told both boys how proud I was of them, and how much they had improved over last year.
Colby just said "Well, then, why were you laughing at me the whole time????" 

Dang it, when they keep doing funny stuff, how am I NOT supposed to laugh at them????  After I explained the look on his face when the ball hit him in the chest, he just smiled and said "Oh yeah, that WAS funny!"

Future Careers

At dinner tonight, Dad brought up the fact that Colby had said he wanted to be a spaceman when he grows up.

Colby: "No.  Now I want to be a doctor.  A spaceman is too dangerous.  I'm afraid I'll get lost and end up someplace Spanish."

OOOHHHH.  Then a doctor IS much safer.

A question From Colby

Colby:  "Mom, do all the words in Japan start with the letter 'J'?"

Not long afterwards he began speaking to Quinn in a language he called "Tongue Language", which seemed to have alot of "L"s in it.  "La loo lala lee".  Too funny.  Quinn replied in HIS version of Russian, which sounded something like "KZXHSK".   Then they started calling each other "buha boiga", which they told me was "bad boy" in Finnish.  I actually think they might be right!!!!

Outlook

My life-long friend Katherine has been visiting.  Katherine is a Positive Person in every sense of the word.  She laughs at every mishap, her favorite color is yellow (at least it was in the 4th grade.  I'm sure she's never changed that particular aspect of her personality in the ensueing 30 years).  So here's the scenario: The kids and two middle-aged females were playing with the GeoTrax train set when I heard this....

Colby: "Oh No.  The airplane is broken!"

Katherine: "No, Colby.  You should be positive about that.   Like, 'my, aren't we lucky we have trains and airplanes to play with?  They're so cool and fun, and we are so lucky!!!  We can play with lots of different toys!"

Colby internalized this advice, and played contentedly for another few seconds.  Then he turned around and said....

Colby: "Nope.  I'm gonna have to go negative.  The airplane won't work."

I had to snicker.  He IS his mother's child.

Math and Maturity

Quinn: "Mom, what's a billion plus a thousand?"

Mom: "Uhhhhhh, one billion one thousand?  I think.  I'm not so sure that that's how you'd say that number."

Colby: "It's okay, Mom.  Maybe when you're older you'll know the answer to that."

hee hee hee.