Talk about a making you feel guilty...

Last night Johnny wanted to play Crazy 8s.  We were setting up Apples to Apples Jr so we could all play a game together...but Johnny hadn't played before and just wanted to play his game.  We told him to give it a try, but he didn't want to.  "No!  I want to play my game.  God and Jesus would play with me!"

I should change this blog to "guess what Johnny said"

Courtney got baptized today.  It was a beautiful day and we were blessed to have family here to help celebrate.  Grandma Sevy gave the talk about baptism and was talking about how Courtney was being like Jesus in this choice to get baptized by authority.  "By John!" yelled out Johnny.  Right after Courtney came up out of the water, Johnny jumped up and down and said, "Go Courtney!! Wahoo!!"  Seems to want to get all the attention.


I think he redeemed himself at dinner tonight.  After the prayer, everyone started eating.  Johnny said, "Wait!  My Holy Ghost is telling me something!  We forgot to wash our hands."  I guess he really was listening today and really is trying to understand it all.  

Johnny says...

When Johnny was getting his pajamas on tonight, he was having some issues with buttons.  When asked if he needed help, he said, "I can do it.  I know how to do EVERYTHING, except swim in a big deep hole where there's water.  Or climb rocks.  Or climb a house."  Where do they come up with these?

Funny quote of the day

The kids got a perfect day today.  They spent about 7 hours with all their grandparents at the same time.  We went out to lunch, made Christmas cookies, and acted out the nativity with everyone taking part.  Three kids and seven adults means we all got to have a major part.  As soon as we were all decked out in our costumes, there was a knock at the door.  Mind you, we were all in the living room so there was no chance of secrecy.  Mom took off her angel costume/towel and opened the door. It was Mom and Dad's next door neighbor delivering goodies.  She said "Merry Christmas" and then asked if Dad (Joseph in a bathrobe) was feeling ok.

As a bonus, here is Kyle's hippie wise man mama bearing a gift of chocolate to the baby Jesus.

Packing for Christmas

We are going to Grandma's house for Christmas and the kids are pretty excited.  They couldn't wait until Saturday to start packing and Johnny told me he was ready to go.   I am glad I checked...here is what he had packed:

3 ties (he never lasts more than a half hour with a tie on)
1 Sunday shirt
6 pairs of underwear
1 pair of socks
5 pairs of pants

Yup.  But to his credit, I think he ran out of room for shirts.  He had a whole pile of t-shirts in the middle of the floor.  Silly kid.

Beatle Mania at our house (post #4 now, is it, for today?)

Johnny is sitting next to me doing "homework" and singing along to Dad playing Beatles Rock Band.  "She's got a ticket to riii-iide.....My baby don't care."   Now he's singing his questions to me in the tune of the songs.   "Mom what does this say?" and of course I've got to sing my answers back.  Earlier, and the reason I grabbed the computer to blog, he was singing along to "I wanna be your mother baby, I wanna be your man."  Bwahaha!  I think I'd rather he said that than lover.  Not a word I'd expect to hear from a 4 year old, kwim? He knows a lot of these songs now.  Super cute to listen to.  He's actually a very good singer with an awesome memory for music!  As you can see, though, drums is his instrument of choice.  He can't read well enough yet and guitar is pretty challenging.  Drums you just to bang really loud.  Nice looking band, dontcha think?

One more Johnny-ism for the day: at the library today Johnny got a ruler.  On the way home he was measuring things and said, "Look!  This weighs 6 months."  You gotta give him credit.  He used a term for measuring size and gave a unit to his number.  This kid's a genius.  Mathematical AND musical!

Blog post #3 for today (don't forget to scroll down to see the other new entries)

While we were at the hospital today, the X-ray tech asked Johnny, who is 4 years old, what he wants to be when he grows up.  J thought and thought and finally had the answer.  "Five!"