Benisms

I've kept the tv off today.

I wondered if we'd make it through. Avee thinks dvdvd's are what supplies the blood to her veins. Bo can't "evoh sink of anysing to do" when the tv is off. I'm embarrassed to admit this.

I imagined us filling the day with playdoh and go fish and painting and reading. I would be mom of the...day. I decided it was time to make this change, whatever sacrifices of sanity I would have to make. I made this decision last night.

This morning Bo cried for 15 minutes and threatened to nevoh eat breakfast, lunch OH dinnoh, evoh again. I asked him who would be hungry if he did that. He got even more mad when he did the math and realized it would be him and not me.

We have had one of the most delightful and pleasant mornings that I can remember having in a long time. I guess it helps that Danyo is asleep and they are getting a little more of my undivided attention. But as usual, the highlight of being a mom, is getting to hear the crazy things my kids say.

Bo was talking to me about his church class and how his friend Sara is a CTR 9. I told him next year, in a couple of months, he would be a CTR 5 because he would be almost 5. We had this discussion for some time when he said, "So, I guess I'm a CTR 4 now?" I told him his class was called Sunbeam, that's just the name they called the class of 3 and 4 year old kids. He had wandered into the living room so I almost didn't hear him say, "Now why do you sink Jesus even wants me to be a Sunbeam? It just seems wee-yod."

Later, I was leaving a message:
Me:"I'd like to come visit you sometime in the next week, whatever works for you..."
Bo: (stage whisper in my face) Does she have KIDS!?
Me: (Glaring at Bo) just let me know and we'll set up a time, thanks!
Bo: I want to go! I want to go! Does she have kids!?
Me: No, she doesn't have any kids.
Bo: Oh! So that means she's not married!
Me: No it doesn't. She's married. She just doesn't have any kids.
Bo: Ohhhhh, so she's SKINNY!
Me: Get over here boy, I'm gonna whoop you...

Avee, ever the optimist, was rummaging through the shelf of dvds and decided on one to come and plead her case with. She pulled it out and 7 more toppled down on her and onto the floor. She froze, looked at me wide-eyed (I think she may have thought she was being sneaky pulling Caillou out) and said, "This is sihw-ee-us!"
It took me another 10 minutes to realize she was quoting Wonderpets.

I have seriously been laughing about something every 15 minutes---I just won't bore you with the little things that only I think are funny. Okay, yes I well. I turned the heat on this morning and Avee has been going around to every vent warming various body parts. One in the living room for her head, the one in the kitchen for her uncast left foot. One in the bathroom for her backside. I think she's evenly roasted now.

I often put Danyo in the corner of the couch and surround him with pillows. About every other day Bo comes dangerously close to him and gets a yelp and a scold out of me. Today I put Danyo upstairs in his crib in hopes of getting a longer sleep out of him. A few minutes ago Bo flung himself onto the couch where a couple of pillows were piled up. He got a panicked expression, looked around the room for Danyo, looked at me and said, "Am I sitting on Danyo?!" Poor sweet boy tries to do what's right, it's just sometimes his body doesn't let him.