inside joke

Brooke's new thing is to whistle when she needs me. This is only funny to the few people that were at Hunter's soccer game today, where she showed off her whistling talent. Its actually rather annoying.

truly could beat her

This is a conversation that happened in my van the other day...

Me: Brooke, put your hands in your lap.

Brooke: you put your hands in your lap

Me: Brooklyn Marie

Brooke: Brookyln Marie

Scott: Brooke, don't back talk to your mom that way

Brooke: You don't back talk to Mommy

That is a synopsis of the conversation, maybe not word for word but you get the idea. It ended w/ Scott climbing over the seats (I was driving) and Brooke crying.

could you not breathe

I've been holding on to this story for a while. Mostly because its embarrassing for me.

A few weeks ago I was laying in bed w/ Hunter and we were just talking. Hunter said to me "you have bad breath." I apologized and turned to lay on my back and we kept talking.

A couple minutes later he said "mommy, could you just not breathe?"

I kissed him on the forehead and got out of his bed.

3 going on 13

So Brooke was getting in trouble tonight because she wasn't doing what she was told (no big surprise). I started counting (which why I bother counting I don't know because I ALWAYS get to 3) and made it to 3. I started walking towards her so she turned around and started stomping off, then all a sudden she stopped, turned around and said "Are you serious?" Then, turned around and did what she was suppose to.

Scott walked up at that moment and we both just started laughing.

WE ARE IN SOOOOOO MUCH TROUBLE!!!!

hunter stories

I have 2 stories tonight.

So Hunter and Brooke have watched a couple movies the last 2 days. I noticed that when there were scary parts Hunter would explain them to Brooke. Like, they watched Snow White and after Snow White ate the apple, Hunter kept telling Brooke "shes not dead Brooke so don't worry." Then tonight they watched Yellow Dog (thats not the actual title but thats what they call it and i don't even know the actual title) and it gets intense in a few scenes. Hunter would say "don't worry Brooke, they save yellow dog, it'll be ok." It was really sweet.

Then tonight, after Nicks soccer game we stopped at a gas station and in one of the parking spots a dog was laying in the middle of it. Right in the middle of it, people didn't park there and it didn't move. It was cold and rainy and I felt really bad for it (yes, me, I felt bad for a dog). Hunter and Scott were in the bathroom forever (Hunter had to poop, of course) so Brooke and I talked to the dog and fed it hot dogs. I was actually thinking about taking it home (yea, I was drunk or something) until it stood up and I saw that it was pregnant. Anyways, the point of my story. When we got back in the van, Hunter kept saying over and over (and over) "mom, the dog doesnt have a collar." Apparantly if it doesn't have a collar, we are suppose to take it home. Poor dog, I really was sad to leave it but we couldn't bring a pregnant dog home. Plus, the guy working at the gas station, said the dog had been there for a few hours and everyone had been feeding her. Lets face it, the dog was probably happy.

middle of the night

So Brooke earned a special night of sleeping in bed w/ me. I laid down w/ her until she fell asleep then I got up to get some things done. When I went to get in bed she had peed out her diaper and all over my sheets. I picked her up, laid her on the floor and stripped the bed. She of course woke up so when I got the bed remade and we got laid back down we talked for a few minutes. I had the tv on but told her to go back to sleep. She was quiet for a few minutes then I heard her singing "If you want to be me, be me. If you want to be you, be you." From some commercial. It was cute. Maybe this is one of those stories you had to be there to appreciate.

energy

I have Dancing w/ The Stars on and the MC made a comment about the dancers having alot of energy. Hunter said "Mom, they have a lot of energy." I said "they do?" He said "I wonder where they get all that energy, I bet they saved it up."

dinner

My kids both talk constantly. I know, they get it from Scott (he,he) so we deserve it but they talk all the time.

At dinner tonight the kids were talking about nothing and we needed them to eat because Hunter had soccer practice.

Scott told them no more talking, while Brooke was mid sentence. She became silent immediately however, her mouth kept moving, right w/ whatever she was saying. It was laugh out loud funny. She got quiet like she was suppose to yet finished what she had to say.

new car

Brooke told me tonight she wants a car. A real one. She said she wants to put the keys in, turn them and drive away. I have that dream sometimes too. That I drive away, not her.... ok, sometimes her (not really, relax).

shower

So the other day Brooke was in the shower. I bathed her and told her to rinse herself off, then walked off to do something. I cam back and found her in the crab walk position (you remember doing that in gym class). She had her privates pushed up under the water. I asked her what she was doing and she said rinsing herself off (of course!) I said to her "you can just stand up and rinse everything off." She said "I know, but I like this."

Lovely!