coughing

My kids have been coughing ALOT lately. Hunter's is allergies and Brookes, I do believe, is fake.

The other day they were w/ Mom and Rick and were going to eat at Cracker Barrel (my children's favorite place). Mom told them that if they want to go eat they haveto stop coughing.

They made it through their meal w/o coughing at all. As soon as they got out to the car Brooke said to them- "Is it ok for us to start coughing now?"

potty talk

So my kids potty talk. Fart, pee, poop.. they are all everyday words in our house.

However, it is getting out of hand. Brooke and Hunter are obsessed w/ poop. Lately they have been pretending to poop on each other. Then today Hunter brought home a picture of a dinosaur brushing his teeth. Hunter had drawn the dinosaur pooping. Yep, he drew a large brown mess coming from his bottom. Hunter thought it was so funny that the dinosaur was brushing his teeth and pooping at the same time.

Every time the kids fart they point it out also. Doesn't matter if anyone else even knows they did it.

They even have burping contests.

Yep.. we are high class people. I probably shouldn't have shared this w/ other people.

Me too

Brooke's new thing is when someone tells her they love her she says "Me too." Not sure where she got that. I answer Scott that way occasionally but usually when we are alone.

One time I said I love you and she answered "me too" and so I said "You love you too?" She laughed and said "no, I love you."

I actually kinda hope she keeps it up. Its cute.

my brother

We were all in the van the other day. Hunter was trying to tell Brooke something but of course she was ignoring him. He kept saying "Brooke" over and over again.

Finally, Scott said "Brooke. answer your brother."

Hunter again said "Brooke"

Brookes reply was "yes my brother."

buying a brother

Yesterday I was upstairs folding clothes and Hunter and Brooke were downstairs. I heard them start fighting then I heard Brooke coming upstairs going off on Hunter.

She marched into my bedroom and said "I don't want to buy anymore brothers!"

Apparantly she thinks we buy babies like dolls.

body

So, Hunter and Brooke's new fun thing to do outside is trace people's bodies on the ground w/ chalk. Yesterday Brooke was tracing Nick and Scott.

Let me back track some... Hunter and Brooke were having trouble tracing our heads to look like heads so after they would trace us or each other they would say "You don't have a head" or "You have a little head." Then they would free hand it in.

So yesterday Brooke traced Scott and then Nick. After each of them she said "You don't have a body." Then she would draw a loop in their groin area. Yep, apparantly she was adding private parts to the boys. She knows body part names, not sure why she didn't use the acutal name but probably better.

So now there are chalk bodies in my driveway drawn anatomically correct.

Bee

Today Hunter and Brooke were out back playing while Scott, Nick and I were inside. All the sudden Brooke came running in the house screaming at the top of her lungs and covering her mouth.

At first it sounded like she was saying "Someone peed on me, someone peed on me!"

I was trying to get her to calm down and realized she was saying "There's a bee on me!" She kept screaming "There's a bee on me!!!" and had her mouth covered.

I finally got her calm and pulled her hand from her face.

There was a ladybug in the corner of her mouth. I told her and she burst out laughing. She was rolling, saying "Oh I thought I had a bee on me!"

Bambi

Hunting season is getting close, in case you didn't know. Which is a big deal at our house. So at dinner tonight we were discussing it and Scott and Nick were trying to get Hunter excited about going hunting (don't worry, he doesn't get to this year).

I really thought Hunter would be my hold out, I thought maybe killing animals would bother him. Trust me, I know the benefits of hunting but I really thought Hunter would not enjoy it. I knew Brooke was a lost hope, she'd go kill Bambi now if I let her.

Speaking of Bambi, I said to Hunter, "You really want to go hunt deer, you want to kill Bambi?" Hunter just laughed and said "Mom, Bambi's not real, Bambi is just pretend."

Scott and Nick thought that was just hilarious.

Lovely.