From the Mouths of Babes

I'm a little punchy tonight - woke up in a panic last night at 4am to howling winds for the third time in as many weeks.  Checked my Blackberry and saw that Wake county had once again fallen under "tornado watch" status.  Needless to say I did not get back to sleep!  Branches the size of medium trees littered the yard today.  This weather is crazy!

Want to post a few funny things I've overheard D & B say lately.  There have been some real humdingers recently!

Quote #1 - Devlyn


Context:  Family dinner on the porch, working on table manners after "poopie" has inevitably entered the conversation several times.  C & I reiterate that mealtime chat should revolve around civilized, polite topics.  A few questions about what that means are answered.  Devlyn thinks for a minute and excitedly blurts out:

"One time Luke's best friend had a pet worm and it exploded!" 


Luke is Devlyn's best preschool buddy and in D's mind this was entirely appropriate dinner conversation!  Ha!

Quote #2 - Blake

Context: Out to dinner at the Mellow Mushroom, playing video games in the bar area waiting for an outside table.  Devlyn is playing a hunting video game.  I am holding Blake as we watch Devlyn play.  In between rounds, scantily clad cuties pop up on the screen and shimmy around.  After the third time said cuties make an appearance onscreen, Blake looks up at me and says, "Mommy, I yike yose yadies."  Charles chimes in, "Me too Blake.  Me too."

Quote #3 - Blake

Context: Devlyn's first t-ball game has ended and Blake is reveling in the fact that he got his very own after game snack and juice just like the big boys on the team!  The Mom and son who brought the team snacks are leaving, walking to their car.  Blake says good bye to them at least 5x as they walk to their car and finally as they are almost out of earshot he screams at the top of his lungs, "BYE, I yove it!" referring to the snack they gave him.  He was SO seriously sincere that if I hadn't been laughing so hard my heart would have broken.



Ahhhh....good stuff.









 

Cool Timelapse of the Tornado As It Approached Downtown

One of WRAL's cameramen captured this from the top floor of the RBC building as the tornado approached downtown.  Not sure that was such a good idea but it sure is a cool shot!

Random Insanity

I've been running at 300 miles an hour lately so sorry for the complete lack of updates/pictures/videos, etc.  Here are a few random points of note regarding my/our life lately:

1)  I just posted a new slide show to the blog.  You should check it out : )

2)  I just folded laundry and put it away in D&B's room while they were sleeping and neither of them noticed, woke up or moved a millimeter.

3)  Devlyn is on his first tee ball team.  His team's name is the Bats.  Devlyn is totally freaking awesome at baseball.  I knew he would be.  He's always struck me as a baseball kind of guy : )  He took a grounder up the arm and to the face at practice tonight while fielding.  Aw.  Another rite of passage - check!  This whole kids/sports journey is just starting and I am already WAY too excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!

4) I just had deja vu that I may have already told everyone about tee ball already.  Oh well.

5)  After MUCH thought, research and deliberation we decided to enroll Devlyn at a highly recommended, public, year round school located near his current pre-school.  Yesterday, the brand spanking new superintendant of Wake County schools called an accelerated vote and approved funding of over $1 million and the addition of magnet-like programs to be applied to the traditional calendar school we can walk to that we just opted to pull Devlyn out of!  We still have the option to re-enroll him there - all we have to do is spend more time thinking about the whole thing AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!  If I'm bald when you see me this summer it's b/c the Wake County school system caused me to pull my hair out!

6)  I wrote a promotional marketing plan for an open sourced marketplace mobile app development company last week.  It was EXTREMELY challenging and I *think* I kicked ass on it.  I learned a ton while doing it and I'm proud of myself.  I'll be more proud and less stressed when I know that it works!

7)  When I put my hair up Blake immediately tells me to take it down - ha ha ha.  Devlyn did exactly the same thing at about the same age.  It cracks me up.  I've never been fond of myself with my hair up either but something about hearing it straight from the mouths of your innocent, male offspring just takes the cake.

Until next time...........toodles.