9 years of "total bliss"

This month we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. We did not take a big trip, we did not purchase expensive gifts, we did not look through our wedding album. In fact I am semi-ashamed to say that we did very little. I am finally getting around to scanning the thousands of pictures from our wedding 9 years later. I have no excuse for not doing this earlier, that is actually valid and I do not believe that I can justify this. Not only have I not scanned any of our wedding photos, we have never had any prints done or sent to friends or family. As I sit here and wait for the scanner and load photos one at a time I thought I would make some notes on the old blog site. I think I am going to post a couple of good ones, completely unedited, just for fun. I sure hope Abby comes back around and cleans up my sloppy work as she is beoming quite creative with the editing software.

Joshua's Quote of the Day

Me: Joshua, stop doing that.
No response
Me: Joshua, stop doing that!
No response
Me: Joshua Benjamin!
Joshua:(turns to me calmly) Do you know why I'm not listening?
Me: No, why.
Joshua: Because I have an alien in my brains.
Me: An alien in your head?
Joshua: Yes, and do you know what he's doing in there?
Me: No, what?
Joshua: Watching TV.

Joshua's Quote of the Day

I sang Joshua a lulluby last night. Afterward he looks up at me and says, "Mom, you have a beautiful voice. When you sing it makes my heart move." I guess I'll let the "snail" comment go....sniff, sniff.

Joshua's Quote of the Day

As I am putting Joshua to bed last night he looks up at me and smiles a sweet smile, a pure, unconditional, loving smile that only a child can make and says to me, "Mom, you are as beautiful as a pink snail."

Jesse's first crush

Jesse has a new therapist named Shannon and though she is in her thirties Jesse is very fond of her. Jesse was playing "Clubhouse" the other day (inspired by a Berenstein Bears book) and he wrote a sign for his "clubhouse" that said "No Girls Allowed". I noticed it, smiled and went on with my day. A few hours later I went back in the playroom to announce dinner and noticed Jesse had an addendum to his sign, at the bottom it read "Welcome Shanen".

Joshua Benjamin's quote of the day

Joshua: I'm going to have 2 kids.
Abby: You mean when you grow-up.
Josh: Yes, when I grow up to be a daddy. But if the mother says "no" then we will have 16 kids.

I've created a monster

I've started telling Joshua the "Knock-knock" jokes from my childhood. I know, I'm an idiot. It's like when I bought the boys plastic swords for their birthday and then was upset when they "stabbed" each other with them. However, what's worse than Joshua memorizing the jokes I tell him and telling them to me over and over is that he makes up his own. They go like this:

Josh: Knock-knock
me: Who's there?
Josh: Eyeball
me: Eyeball who?
Josh: Eyeball butthead!

And if you didn't find that funny, try this one.

Josh: Knock-knock
me: (sigh) Who's there?
Josh: Cup
me: (bracing myself) Cup who?
Josh: Cup, eyeballhead and your butt!

Bottom line, all of Joshua's knock-knock jokes have "eyeball" and "butt" in them and none of them are clever or funny. He's four.

It all comes back around

His mom had purple hair, his dad a mullet, both have tattoos. No wonder the poor kid is confused and wants, what he calls, a hohawk.

Flying fish

The fish can swim and fly...

More swimming

Summer fun continued...

Raising fish

Just about every day we swim. The boys want to swim nonstop and hate to get out even when their wrinkles have wrinkles from the water. They have learned to swim so quickly and I already have nightmares about December and how I will convince them that it is too cold to swim. I have been so poor about posting and updating this blog that I am going to post a lot of pictures that we have taken over the last couple of months of both boys. For those of you that will not see him in person, yes Joshua has a mohawk in some photos. He asked for it, I have a feeling it will be gone by the weekend.

Cousins

Abby's cousin Megan and her daughter Suzanna came to visit for a week in order to get out of the cold and rain of Northern CA this spring. The boys really enjoyed having their third cousin around. They went to the zoo, swimming and spent time playing big brother.