I know, three posts in one day?! Craziness! I would like to say that the four loads of laundry that need to be done, a sleeping (and teething, so cranky and sad) baby, and a 3-year-old that is more than willing to watching movies all day; can be thanked for me finally taking the time to blog. Now that I have blogged Christmas and Christmas Eve, I just wanted to write down a few of the funny things that are being said around our house. Well, you could consider it annoying or even naughty, but to get through Nelson's "I'm right. You're wrong." stage still sane, I would just like to think of them as funny.
We hear the phrase, "No, (insert parent's name here). It's not (insert word), it's (insert his word)." All day long! If you call him, "Nelson boy", he will say, "I'm not Nelson boy, I'm Nelson big boy." Or, if he hears you say any number other than three (no matter what you are talking about), he will say, "I'm not (number), Nelson's 3!" As you can see, it can get very annoying. He does say some pretty cute things sometimes, though, with his obsession to correct us.
Last Wednesday night, after reading scriptures, Richard started to explain what he read, "So, you see Nelson. The prophet Samuel..." Nelson interrupted him, "No, Dad! Nelson's not a prophet! Nelson's a child of God!" I don't know how his little ears heard that he was a prophet, but I'm glad he remembered learning he was a child of God in Sunbeams the Sunday before!
The following night, we took the boys to the church to watch the young men play a basketball game against the bishopric. Nelson loved watching the game and "playing" basketball afterwards. Richard went to help Nelson make baskets and then at one point, he threw Nelson up into the air. To that, Nelson responded, "Dad, I'm not a ball. I'm a Nelson!"
Now that I am writing about him, there is so many more blog posts I want to do like: Nelson is a Sunbeam! and Nelson's Taking Gymnastics! And, of course, I so need to write more about my little Bug (Clive). Can you believe he is 8-months-old, already? He is moving all around and eating everything! I even found him standing up in his crib last night! He is growing up way too fast for my liking!
One more funny story. This time it's about Richard and me. I wrote a little about it on facebook and people kept asking to hear the whole story, so I thought it would be easier to write it out on here. First of all, I love to tease Richard, I always have. He's getting better at teasing back or at least going along with my teasing.
So, we were at Ikea last Friday night eating at their food place. It had been a long day, so we were just talking about nonsense and saying silly things to each other and to the kids, when we had this conversation:
R: "Clive, why are there always tears in your eyes? Is it because you have no bottom eyelashes? J-M is that why you are always crying?"
J-M: "No. It's because I'm married to you."
R: "Ouch. That hurt!"
J-M: "No, Richard. I'm the one that cries all the time. I'm the one that's hurt."
Of course, we were smiling the whole time at each other, but we were really good at saying all of this with super serious voices. At that point, the lady who was sitting by us with her back towards us, turns around and says, "That is the most awesome conversation I've ever heard!" I don't know if she was talking about the very last conversation or the other ten minutes of conversation we had been having, but I totally liked it! Go ahead, lady and eavesdrop on me all you want! I know I am so funny... at least I think I am!
So I totally forgot to write about the funniest thing Nelson has said lately! He's been hearing what he wants to hear lately, mostly things about Thomas the Train. Today all the speakers spoke about honesty. Honest in his mind was Thomas. Honesty in his mind was Thomas track? Crazy child! Anyway, last weekend we went to Flour Girl & Dough Boy (a local bakery/cafe) to eat lunch. It's a small place with one bathroom for both girls and boys. Well, Nelson needed to go to the bathroom, so Richard took him. After about five minutes, they were still in the bathroom and their were three people waiting. I went to the door and knocked, Richard opened the door slightly, I told them, "Hurry. There's a line out here.", and left. Richard came out laughing a few minutes later with Nelson. I guess after I shut the door, Nelson said, "There's a lion out there?!" I don't know if he was excited or scared, but at least lion sounds somewhat similar to line. So funny!
