Gavin's Opinion of Mommy at 35 Weeks

While Gavin was eating breakfast yesterday, he very seriously said, 

"Mom, first you were a skinny girl."

Then he paused and said,

"Now you are fat."

What a way to start the day!  At least he started with the fact that I use to be skinny!  But who can blame him for thinking I am fat - look at the pictures - I am HUGE!

Yesterday I was officially 35 weeks pregnant!!!!!  Hopefully I can make it at least another week or two.  But at most, I only have to make it 20 more days (as of today)!  I am miserable and would like to be done being pregnant, but for the twins sake, I hope they stay in until 38 weeks!  My mom comes today so there is hope that I can make it to 38 weeks since I will be able to rest more!  Everyone is very excited for her to come!

Gavin Tax

Gavin is such a funny little guy.  I love that just because there is "Daddy Tax" there must also be "Gavin Tax".  He is so cute and serious when he says it, that I don't even mind when he drinks my drink or eats my food.

Gavin - "I Love Stinky Things"

Gavin cracks me up!  He was taking his shoes off and said he his shoe was stinky.  Then he said,

"I need to smell my other shoe and make sure it is stinky too.  I love stinky things.  Pee uuuueeeeeeee!"

What a gross and silly little guy!

Gavin's opinion of food cooked with love

The other day, the boys were watching a show (while I was cooking dinner & they were eating) and they were cooking something on the show and they said the last ingredient was love.  They boys asked what that meant.  I started to explain that it means the food is cooked with love, that the person cooking the food is cooking it because they love you.  Here is what Gavin thought of things cooked with love:

"Love is kisses." (with a very disgusted look on his face)

Then he took a bite of his food and said, "Yuck, I can taste the love.  I don't want food with love in it.  Mom, cook me some without love."

Yeah - I will get right on that - food without love!

Matthew - how hair grows

The boys all needed their hair cut (they were starting to look like shaggy dogs) so I cut/buzzed it the other day.  I'm not great at cutting their hair but they are young so they don't care (next time 

I need to take them to Dani to get real hair cuts).   Anyway, after I cut their hair, they were all itchy so I had them go take quick showers to rinse the hair off.  When Matthew came down, Dallin asked him if he had washed his hair.  This is how Matthew answered:

"I didn't wash my hair.  I didn't want to get it wet because then it would grow.  Water makes things grow."

He is right, water makes things grow!

I added this picture of Gavin - I think that with their hair cut/buzzed, they look a lot a like - and he is just so cute!  I love that he always does "thumbs up" in pictures lately.

Gavin & the Big Monkey

Gavin woke-up this morning and came right into our room to tell us the following:

"There is a big monkey outside and he likes to throw us!  He's scary!"

Later he told me:

"There are really 2 big monkey's and they are really freaking me out!"

Seriously, where does he come up with this stuff?

Matthew is in LOVE!

Matthew came home from school today all goofy (even more goofy than normal).  Finally I got him to tell my why he was being so silly and this is what he said,

"I am kind of in love with a girl!"

What does that mean to a 5 year old?  Of course I had to try to get more out of him.  This is what he told me,

"I am in love with Allie.  She has been my special friend 3 times and today she told me 'it feels like I'm in love with you'.  And I thought in my head, why am I in love with her?"

"She is my best friend now.  But I don't know where she lives."

I asked if he played with her at recess and he said, 

"No, I just play with other guys."

Wow - my little guy's first little crush (besides my cousin "Big Gavin's" wife Amanda)!  I did find his class picture so I could see what she looks like - and she looks a lot like Big Gavin's Amanda - what a shocker!  I told Matthew that she was a cutie pie and he said, "Yep!"  My Gavin was funny and said, "Aaaaaaa, I don't want her to see me (referring to her picture) cause then she will be in love with me!"  So silly!

What Would You Wish For?

Matthew came home from Kindergarten yesterday and told us what his teacher taught him about leprechaun's - here is Matthew & Gavin's short, but funny, conversation:

Matthew - Mom, my teacher told me that if you catch a leprechaun you get to wish for anything you want.

Gavin - Even pickles?

Matthew - Yep, even gold!

Gotta love little kids!  In the picture of Gavin, he has "double" hats on - he thought that would be funny!

Me, I would wish that it was June 12, the twins had just been born (that day - which would make them 38 weeks), and they were healthy!  I am not a good pregnant person - but I am very happy to be getting TWO babies!

Gavin's 1st Day of Itty Bitty Ball

Gavin was sooooo excited that HE got to go to Itty Bitty Ball yesterday (he hasn't gotten to do much of anything with me not feeling so good).  He was smiling and happy the whole time.  When it was over, I asked him what his favorite part was and he said,

"I LOVED all of it!"

I am glad he really liked it because it was hard for me to sit on the bleachers for an hour.  But to see his smile and listen to him talk about it - I can figure out how to survive (only 5 more times).  Yesterday was baseball - they play a different sport each time (it is at our community center and is for 3 and 4 year olds).  I will show more pictures when it is over and I make a scrapbook page (or two).

Soccer - according to Matthew

The other day I was asking Matthew (& Dallin) if they wanted to play basketball again since soccer starts about 2 weeks after basketball.  Here is what Matthew told me:

"I want to play soccer.  You get to run a lot in soccer and you get to kick.  It is kind of like fighting.  I love soccer!"

Should I be worried?  At least he likes to run!

Crazy Gavin!

This picture is from Thanksgiving (have you ever seen a guitar playing pilgrim?).   Anyway, it is a picture of Gavin being CRAZY - which goes along with what he said to me tonight.  He was suppose to be in bed sleeping when he came down and said,

"Mom, I don't want any presents."  

He looked so said when he was saying it.  Then he said,

"I just a crazy boy!"

Gavin - Making me Smile!

Gavin is always making me smile.  The other day he was being silly (I don't remember exactly what he was doing) and I JOKINGLY asked him if he wanted me to throw him in the trash can.  This was his reply,

"But . . . Mom . . . you love your Gavster!"

He is right, I do love my Gavster!

Who is Smart - according to Matthew

I'm not sure what Matthew & Ed were talking about the other day, but this is the part I heard:

Matthew - "Dad, you are smarter than an alligator".

Ed - "Okay - are alligators smart?"

Matthew - "Dad, you are even smarter than Joshie and Joshie is smarter than an elephant, and elephants are really really smart."

I love how 5 year olds think!

"Just Checking out the Dark"

The other night, we got home right as it was getting dark.  Instead of going into the house like usual, Gavin started walking out to the street.  I asked him what he was doing and he said,

"I just checking out the dark."

And he kept walking.  When he got to the street, he looked around and said,

"Yup, it's dark.  I need to go to bed."

What a cute little guy he is.

Gavin - so hungry!

The other day, Gavin was telling me he was hungry.  I was in the middle of doing something so I told him to wait a minute.  When I turned around, I saw him with everything from a whole shelf in the frig on the table and him digging in.  He said, 

"Mom, I hungry as the whole world!"

I guess I need to feed him more!

Screaming Brecken

The other day, when we were eating dinner, Brecken was being his normal self and screaming (not always a mad scream - more of a look at me scream).  Matthew said,

"Maybe Brecken, we can change his name into SCREAMER!"

Sad but so so true!  

P.S. He is not screaming in this picture.

Scary Guys - According to Gavin

While Gavin was eating breakfast this morning, he said,

"I don't like them scary guys at the party store.  Them freak me out!"

I guess he thought of that because I was getting ready for Brecken's little birthday party tonight so he saw the Mickey Mouse decorations and thought of when we went to the party store and the workers were all dressed up as "scary guys".  I'm not sure where the "freak me out" came from - but it sure made me laugh!

Gavin's Quote of the Day

Last night, while I was teaching and Ed had the boys, Gavin was pretending to be a robot so Ed asked him if he was Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. Then Gavin said,

"Robots don't have names. Just guns."

I have no idea where he got that - he is definitely all boy!

Oh, I LOVE Matthew

Today, after Matthew got home from school, he said,

"Mom, you don't have to exercise because you're already skinny!"

Of course, the real reason he said that was he wanted to play the wii and he knows that when I exercise I watch my shows and he can't play the wii.  Oh well.  I will take what I can get.

Why Ed is Super Awesome - According to Gavin

Gavin is so funny.  Ed flew out of town early this morning for work so Gavin talked about daddy a lot today.  But the comment I remember the most (which came out of no where) was:

"My daddy is super awesome because he can make paper airplanes."

I guess it didn't really come out of no where - Ed had made the boys paper airplanes on Saturday and Gavin was playing with one at the time.  I just think it is so cute the things little kids think of.