Heard Around Here Lately...

Jax and Hayden were playing in the sand table about a month ago when Jax got water all over his shirt. He came inside and asked if he could take his shirt off. I told him his shirt would dry, that it was just water. He said, "Pleeeease, Mommy! I just wanna wear my nipples."

Emerson came home from school and was on the back step, dumping the sand out of her tennis shoes from her sand box play at recess. Jax went out and said "Emerthin, you're not gonna like thith. Today Mommy let me have the latht peeth of gum in her purth, and me and Hot Thahth altho ate the lath two yogurt-th at lunch." Emerson replied, "Jaxey, that's okay. Those aren't special. Family is special." Jax said, "Yeah, and you are too."


Emerson in the car: "Mommy, that song is getting me 'con-stracted.' I can't concentrate."


I asked Emerson what she would like for Christmas. Her answer? "A lot of interesting pieces of metal." I asked her why, and she said that she is studying metals on her table upstairs.