Funny Things
I wanted to get these posted before I forgot. The boys have been really funny lately and I know I've forgotten a lot of they cute things they've been doing but here are a few!
Weston - roll playing with his legos ( he loves legos, he builds things all the time and play's .... dolls I guess.. with them)
"hey - you're the bad guy. No I'm not. Yes you are. No I'm not I have a smiley face"
Tyler - his new thing is to repeat things or 'fill in the blanks' with conversations.
The other day someone had called and after I was done talking, hung up the phone and went to help Tyler with something. Tyler kept saying 'called' 'called' and I had to confirm that 'yes, someone called on the phone'
Tyler will also start yelling out 'self' if we don't listen the first time when we are trying to help him with something. He will get very angry and yell 'self' until we let him do whatever it is by himself. If we don't, he gets his feelings hurt and cries It shouldn't be funny but it is!
Tyler has been sort of potty training himself. He seems to always want to sit on the potty just after he has messed his pants, or sometimes before he needs to urinate and will go successfully. So John and I thought we would try to capitalize on the moment and see if we could get him out of diapers before the baby came. Well after 2 day's of trying I gave up! It wasn't worth it, I didn't care that much and he apparently didn't either. Well since then, he has put his 'needing to go potty himself' in overdrive and continues to want to go and many times is successful, so we'll see - he may do this himself after-all.
In trying to teach him how to go 'yuckies' or have a bowl movement... we said he has to push them out.. So now he'll look at us and say 'potty, yuckies.... P.U.S.H.... (in a very exaggerated, constipated way, treats!' it's very funny - especially how descriptive he is in his tone!
Yesterday at church, Weston left to go potty and Tyler felt left out, so he had to go potty - dry and clean and was successful so that was great - but we wont always be in sacrament meeting with him wanting a reason to leave - so it may take a while.
When he got back though, he was examining his stomach, where he still thinks the belly button is the link to the baby in mommy's tummy.
So he, in a very loud voice, starts calling out body parts, then continues with 'baby (while pointing at the belly button' 'P.U.S.H.' - in the same constipated way he says push to get the yuckies out! We had several people around us laugh at that one!
Weston announced yesterday that he wanted daddy to go play with him because 'Daddy you're my best friend, Tyler's not because he bites'.
Due to my lack of mobility, our sometimes treat is to have the boys play outside, while I sit on a chair in the front and watch. The other day Weston kept telling me to 'watch me exercise mommy'. He was riding his bike so I thought that was it - and frankly I wasn't caring much about really watching anything. It wasn't until later, after many times wondering why he kept getting 'stuck' in the vacant lot next to us - in the exact spot every time, that I realized with the help of John - that Weston's exercising was positioning his bike with the front wheel and training wheels down so the back tire could spin - then he would petal as fast as he could. - Doing just like daddy does with his bike trainer. Very ingenious for a little kid - but also kind of weird! A home made bike trainer for a 4 year old, all you need is a vacant lot and training wheels!
Weston asked me the other day why baby Layna didn't have any dresses. I said that she did. He asked where they were and I said in the closet - and then he asked 'Why can't baby layna wear them'. I explained she had to come out of mommy's tummy first.
And Weston is still operating under the belief that I ate the baby - which is how and why there is a baby in mommy's tummy. After my last doctor visit, Weston was very concerned about the Doctors using tools to help get the baby out. I was trying to be fairly vague and said they didn't need tools. And very upset by that he explained 'Mommy, your mouth isn't big enough for the baby to come out' (apparently he thinks I'm big). So I consented that they Dr.'s would use tools if they needed to.
Well - that should be it, I'm sure this is long. They have just been so fun and amazing to be around lately. It is fun to see the world through their eyes - and come to understand better how they understand life. In that, I think we are coming to appreciate more and more the process of life and how we learn and grow... and more grateful for these boys every day - in keeping us grounded on the more important parts of life and less on the 'adult' aspects of life!