Colton Writes a Letter to Santa

Letter to Santa.  It reads: "diapers" on left; "doll"
in center & "pajammies" on the right. 

C: Why do you want to go to work?
Dad: I don't want to go to work; I have to go to work.
C: But why do you want to go to work?
Dad: I have to, so we have food to eat.
C: But we have lots of food and you could stay home with the babies!

C: Hey Mom, this is your car.  Try not to put your coffee on it!

C: Mom, I'm sorry. I didn't make any turns on this road. 

C: What if you weren't a mama?
Me: What if?
C: Then the boys would be mamas! And when I grow up, I want to be a mama too!
Me: You do? How come?
C: Because that's what I want to be!

C: I wrote my letter to Santa!
Me: What's it say?
C: Doll.  Because I wanted a doll.

C: I don't like when it's clean down here!

C: Why did you only warn me three times?  I want you to warn me sixteen times!

Colton and Presents

Colton wrapped presents for Jor

Dad: (reading a bumper sticker) Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.
C: And I am a boyfriend!

Dad: Don't put your fingers in your eye.
C: But it helps me move big, little, and also small things!

C: And I will hide these presents under the tree so Jordan can find them! I'm going to give him some building stuff so he can build much better! Is that nice of me?

Watching me wrap presents ~
C: Can I get rid of a book too?

Me: Get dressed.
C: But my underwear started to unfreeze me!  But my pajamas are the best!

C: What if I stopped growing?
Me: Do you want to be that short for all of your life?
C: No, I want to be a dad!  But my Thomas pajamas would still fit.
Hmm. Decisions, decisions!

C: Everyone that's my friend needs a present.  Everyone on the Earth is my friend!  I am the present-maker. If you need me to make a present, then I will make a present for YOU, Mom!

C: I want to borrow one of Santa's reindeer so I can fly and deliver my presents!  Or I could drive in a car. I'm gonna load them into the car, and you can deliver them.

Colton Makes a Gingerbread House

C: I'm supposed to have someone--YOU--help decorate!

C: Why are they working on the telegraph poles?

Me: I'm leaving and never coming back!
C: I won't drive you crazy anymore, Mom.
Me: I was joking, buddy.  Don't worry.

Dad: If Mom doesn't throw me off the ferry...
C: Why are you gonna throw Dad off the ferry?
Me: Dad is teasing, buddy.
C: Oh. Mom, Dad was just teasing. 

Dad: You don't want to wait for me to come back with a yummy lunch?
C: I just want you to get lunch without going shopping.

C: Every day I just want chocolate chip cookies. But not the other kinds.
Me: You don't want the sugar cookies with sprinkles that you made?
C: Also those ones.
Me: What about the date-filled ones? 
C: Also those too.
Me: Good to see you aren't picky.

Happy decorating!

Colton on Christmas

Making "gingerbread houses"

Santa: And what do you want for Christmas?
C: I want some things I hadn't had before.

Santa: Can you tell your brothers apart?
C: Maybe my mom can.
Santa: That's okay, because I can't tell them apart either.

C: I want to get something new while I'm waiting for Santa Claus to come!

C: Why don't I get to make the decisions?
Me: You did make a decision.  You decided to not eat what was for dinner and now you can't have something else.
C: But why do you always get to make the decisions?
Me: Because I'm the mom.

You Say Forever, C Says for Ages

Color changing pudding. Mmm, green.

C: I'm going upstairs to change my underwear, but the moon is starting to rise!
Wrong moon running up the stairs... 

Me: I thought you hated baths?
C: I didn't like water. I just wanted water the next day, so that's when I had to have a bath!
He likes water today because he got a new squirt gun to try out from the dentist.

C: What did you say?
Me: Nothing.
C: But you said something one time ago.

Me: Did you have a good sleep?
C: I was so tired I couldn't do anything til morning!

Me: Pick up your marbles, bub.
C: But I don't like doing that!  That would take for ages!

Colton Is a Jedi Master

Best baby toy ever - it even entertains C!

C: Can you put the baby down on the playmat now? I have his binky in case he is hungry!

C: My cards exploded! That tickled!

Me: Pick up your cards so we can have dinner.
C: But I don’t like cleaning up stuff. That will make me all tired out and I won’t be able to do anything at all til morning. Mom, I have a headache. I really do. I played goldfish too many times.

C: My head hurts and I can't use it anymore.

Me: Can you show me how you move stuff with your eye?
C: Let me get the correct eye.  There. 

C: Are you going to give your rocket ship a try?  How 'bout you just get better at practicing.

C: I might need some needle and thread to help me do this.  [make a paper airplane]

C: Hey Mom, I made you another paper-airplane-rocket.  Was that nice?

C: I am going to make you another paper airplane.  It just takes a little practice.

The rocket ship is just to the left of my computer.  It doesn't fly so well.

Colton on Games

Dad: Hurry up and get dressed so you can have some Dutch babies!
C: But I'm soooooo tired!

Me: Let's go!  We've got to go check on your babies!
C: But Dad is doing a great job!

C: Can we stop at the store and get checkers?
Me: No.  You told me last week that you hated going to the store.
C: Not this time!  Can we please just go get me checkers?
Me: You'll have to ask Santa.
C: I don't think he has it in his bag. 

Go Fish with Dad

C: I'm gonna put these corrections [markers in pic above] to help us stay in place!  I'm not gonna use corners; I can only make lines.

C: Do you have any trop-cicle fish?

C: I drew a goal-fish!

C: I got the crab you kept asking me for!
Dad: Colton, do you have any crabs?
C: There's my only one that I just drew.

Colton Feeds the Baby

Colton & Jensen

C: Look at my cool steam-it!  It's not as big as me, so I can't go through it.

the "steam-it"

C: When you sleep, do you get smaller and smaller?

C: What if Dad wasn't signed up for work today?
You sign up for work?

Shooting the ball between the legs of the baby swing ~
C: It got in the hole! That was good shotting!

He gave Jensen a pacifier ~
C: Mom! I'm feeding the baby because he was hungry!

C: He was really hungry!  And you can feed the other baby.

C: He's enjoying his food!  But I'm all done feeding him.
Me: You can stop feeding him.  Thanks, buddy.
C: I'm gonna keep feeding him because he's still hungry.

C: Look, he's trying to feed himself!  Look, he's eating by himself!  Is that amazing?

C: He's still eating!  I think he might eat all night!  And it would be so-so-so boring!

Colton on Commercials

Watching Rudolph with C. At the first commercial break ~
C: Is it over?

In reference to the Zhu Zhu Pet commercial ~
C: Those are good! I like this commershnell!

C: I watched all the commershnells in my Rudolph!  They tell you what is going on in your neighborhood.

C: I'm done with mac and cheese until it snows.  I think ate too much. But I'm always gonna eat grilled cheese sandwiches!

C: Look at that house!  It looks like the North Pole!  Look at that house!  It looks like a skeleton! 

C: I want to tell Santa what I want for Christmas.
Me: You can tell him when we go see him at the mall for pictures.
C: Can we just go to the North Pole?
Me: You'd need a plane to get there.
C: Well, that's what I want to do.

How Bout Them Apples?

C: I couldn't find Netflix.
Me: You have to scroll all the way down to the red folder.
C: Oh, I forgot to keep the TV on!

C: I really want to hang glide!
Dad: Where did that come from?
C: I just do!  And you can hold the rope!

C: Do you think Santa Claus came?
Me: I don't know, go check the tree!

C: I like the apple kind of apple juice!  Not the peach kind.

C: When Christmas is all done, I'll be ready to live at the park.

C: It sure is foggy.  But it's sunny over there!  Let's go play over there!

C: Let's check on the muffins!  They look pretty good!  But they're not as big as mountains. They can't get that big or they'll get burnt.