Water

Cherise, my cousin, is sitting in the recliner reading a book.  Benjamin comes up to her and says something.  Cherise is into her book and just blankly said to Benjamin, "Yah, Sure."  Then she got a glass of water poured in her lap.  After it happened it registered what he had said.  "Cherise.  I. pour. water. on. you."  She jumped out of the chair and he started crying.  Pour guy couldn't understand what he did wrong.  Not that anyone yelled at him.  How could you?  He asked first.

Moral of the story... Always bring a change of clothes to the Cappert house.  You never know when you'll need them.  Cherise was prepared.

Our Morning

Today started at 6 am.  The kids came up in our room.  We were so proud of Ben.  Not only did he sleep through the night, but he did it in his toddler bed with Riley and Wyatt in their room.  I didn't put them to bed until 9pm so we had minimal stand up comedy from Ben this time.

Then Wyatt was so excited.  He had a board book in his hands and informed me, "Mommy!  Uncle Morgan is a teacher and he's teaching me how to read!"  Then he told me to watch him as he looked at the pictures and made up his stories.

I tried to load the dishwasher, but Collin kept crawling inside it.  So I asked the kids for help and Wyatt volunteered.  He took him out of the kitchen.  I could here him telling Collin, "The kitchen is closed."  and Collin was crying.  I asked Wyatt why the baby was crying and he said, "I'm sitting on him.  He can't go anywhere."  He had him completely pinned to the ground.  Ok.  That wasn't exactly what I meant.  Riley took over baby duty and I asked Wyatt to go read to Ben.  When I was done in the kitchen I came out and found Wyatt in the recliner reading to Ben, Riley drawing, and Collin with a piece of chalk in him mouth.  The kid won't each food, but give him dirt, sticks, or chalk and he's all over that. ????

We're Hunting Rabbits

Wyatt comes inside and asks me, "Mom, can I have a carrot?"  "Sure.  Just give me a minute and I'll get up and peel it for you."  Wyatt-"No Mom.  We're trying to catch a rabbit.  Rabbit's don't eat peeled carrots!"  So I go outside to watch them and they are carefully placing the carrot in the last place that they saw the bunny.  They turn to look at me and say, "We're going to catch the bunny for our new pet."  Good luck guys.  Two minutes later Wyatt comes in to give me a report that they still haven't caught him yet.  Patience young grass hopper.

Now they've set a trap.  Still no rabbit.  

Instead of sitting outside they are now watching out the bathroom window so they don't scare it away.

Me and My Shadow

This morning Wyatt comes up to me feeling real sad, "Mommy, my shadow is a girl.".  So I had to inquire about how he knew this.  The answer I got was, "Because I keep blinking."  ok...  Makes perfect sense.  Then he started to wonder.  "Since I'm blinking all the time I don't know if I'm a girl or a boy???"  Riley was standing on the other side of me.  Her response to all of this was, "Yeah! I have a sister!!".  Once this registered with Wyatt he was quite certain that he is a boy.....as are all the rest of us.  I don't think he has a girly bone in his body.

Great Day! Legoland and then Soccer

So we start out at LegoLand today.  Feild trip with Riley's kindergarden class.  So fun!!!  I just love being around these little people and listening to what they have to say.  Half way there, on the bus, banana (names have been changed to protect the innocent :) ) says, "I can smell legos.  We're almost there."  I told her that this was a very rare talent and I was pretty impressed.  It's not everyday you meet someone who can sniff out lego's in the air.  I was lucky today.  Found one. 

So we go about our day.  Ride the ride, eat lunch, go to the 4D movie, and then go to the Lego Factory.  This is where they show us how lego's are made (sort of...).  So the first part of the machine is called something like the Gizmonot.  Ralph, our tour guide, asks the kids if they can say Gizmonot.  They all yell it back.  He answers with, "what?"  They all yell it again.  Same thing.  Ralph does this one more time.  He answers again with, "what?"  Banana says to Ralph, "You know, we're little, and sometime little people can't say everything the right way."  So now we know why Ralph couldn't hear them.  Ralph started laughing so hard I thought he was going to hyperventalate.  Then Ralph started to talk about being brave.  He looked over at Clementine (again changing the names to protect the innocent) and asked her if she was brave.  She told him, "No.  I'm Clementine."  That took him a moment to process.  I guess Ralph wasn't ready for the wittiness of our group. 

So after Legoland we had our first night of Soccer.  Fun!  Much better than last year.  The kids are now playing with their friends on the team and having a great time.

Ben walked around eating Goldfish.

And then the boys decided to play in the dirt pile as if it was a sand box.  Wyatt was actually making dirt angels. 

When we got home I gave them a bath and had to empty the tub 3 times before we actually had clean water. 

I think I'm going to sit by the dirt pile every Friday soccer night.  They boys were contained and well behaved the whole time.





And you thought your family was crazy....

So we decided to have the family and the Preuss's over for a BBQ.  Great idea!  (The Gal's)

So we're kind of silly, what family isn't???

 We're playing wiffle ball.  Nice!

Ivy get's a home run!









Family Bonding.

And Then......

Nobody knows who actually started this, but it seems that Aunt Heidi might be the culprite.

 Jason stills claimes to be an innocent bystander.
Not photographed, but yet part of all the craziness... Alex.

And then we go back to normal.....like nothing ever happened.



Ben Makes A Bottle

4:00 PM - Benjamin comes up to me while I'm sitting at my desk with an empty baby bottle and tells me "Mommy.  UH OH.  Mess."  I ask him, "What did you do?"  He answers, "Make. Baby. Bottle."  I go into the kitchen and he spilled all the baby oatmeal all over the counter, chair, and floor.  The funny thing was the baby was sleeping.  Still can't figure out why he needed to make the baby a bottle to begin with???

5:30PM - He tried it again....  This time I heard the jug of baby water crash to the floor.  I go in there and he has baby oatmeal all over the counter again.  He looks at me at says, "No. Make. Baby. Bottle."  Ya think...

I'm not sure when I started having the 2 year old make the baby his bottles, but apparently I should have given him better lessons.