Aww, Colton

Photo credits: Lilja Photography

C: I'm doing an art project!
Me: Cool, what are you making?
C: I'm making flowers because I'm marrying you.  And I just need to build the flowers to get them ready.


C: Know what game I'm gonna play?
Me: What?
C: I'm gonna play the stay-outta-the-lawnmower's-way game!
Good idea.

C: You know what's okay?
Me: What?
C: If Dad makes his own dinner sometimes. Because the boys eat all his dinner. Right?
This was Colton's way of asking for his dad's fish. 



C: I'm gonna go upstairs and make a list of people that are coming to my birthday. If they've been rude to me, I'm gonna put an X on their name. If I circle their name, that means that they're coming to my birthday. It's kinda like tic-tac-toe, right?

Colton Puts on a Concert

One ticket for admission

Pre-concert set-up - note legs behind the curtain

Taking tickets

The man himself

The audience - Dad got the "green" section

I die of cute!

"Bye-bye baby tooth
Oh baby tooth good bye
I can feel you wiggle
with just a little jiggle
Oh bye-bye baby tooth good bye"

Me: Is that your microphone or a megaphone?
C: It's a microphone.  It helps my voice be bigger.  My voice is just this big and it helps it be this big.

When Life Gives You Lemons...

Dad: Did you notice that our boy has freckles now?
C: Yeah, and that's why I'm a little itchy.

C: I ate all my breakfast!
Dad: Good job, buddy.
C: And good job, lemon!
Dutch Babies with real lemons for breakfast today! :)

C: I hate school on Wednesday!  School should never be on Wednesday!  I'm just gonna have recess all day!
Me: You love school.  You just don't want to leave the park. 

Me: Are you going to add any pictures to your book?
C: No, it's just words.  And I'm going to make lots of copies and sell them.  They are just $1.  And that's easy to buy, right?
My little entrepreneur...

C: I'm reading quietly, so you can't hear me. 
It's nice to read quietly, isn't it?
You can turn the hockey off so we can read. 
And you're reading too!  I like reading, don't you?
Yes, yes I do... now if you would just work on the quiet part.... ;)

COLTONS IN SPAAAAACE

C: I wrote a book about space today!  Have you been to all these planets before?
Me: Nope.
C: How come?
Me: Just hasn't happened.
C: Can I go to outer space?
Me: Sure.
It could happen. 

"I am in space"

Love the comet orbiting the sun

C: Of course you have been to this planet.  (Earth)
Me: Of course.

This boy jumped off the diving board AND
swam all the way across the deep end sans life jacket!

C: I did my first magic trick! At first, this one M&M flew out, and then I shook it real hard, and then when I looked in again, they were all gone. Pretty magical, huh?

Last page of his book

C: This is a bill for $100. You need to give me $100.
Dad: You have to provide a service to send a bill. What service do you provide?
C: I sell organic stuff.

C: Hey Dad, this is our battle car!
Dad: What are we fighting?
C: Every Honda!

Colton Has a Phone

Cheek pink from a self-stamping session.
His "phone" is a piece of styrofoam

C: Look what I made today!  A key!
Me: Dad said he is going to get you your own key pretty soon.
C: Yeah, because I'm going to be an adult soon and will need one.

C: I'm going to put my smart phone in my pocket.  The only other thing I need in my pocket is money, because I'm going to be an adult soon.  And you can't be a person without money!

C: I downloaded Angry Birds Star Wars and Skylander Giants on my smart phone today.  Don't you like that I did that?

C: I'm just going to sit in here and play on my phone where it's quiet.

Colton Is a Cheeseball

Me: I saw the celery was starting to come up.
C: And the celery is all to you!
Me: Yum, I love celery.  Don't you?
C: I just love chocolate.
Touche.

C: This bug was just bugging me nuts!

Me: Did the Easter Bunny come visit?
C: Yeah!  He actually magically actually threw the basket through the window into the trunk, but didn't break the glass. 

C: And my Nanan said we could have a little chocolate every hour, so that cookie I just ate was for 1 o'clock, and now I need my 2 o'clock treat!

Me: What are you doing?
C: Smelling to see if I can find the jelly beans that you hid. 

Snow Coltons

C: I'm thinking we should have spaghetti for dinner!
Dad: I haven't pulled anything, but I think your mom said something about breakfast for dinner.
C: YAY!

Me: How's your nose today?
C: It's not any better. I have an idea! I think you need to take real good care of me.

Spring snow - 3/22/13

C: And maybe we can get a cute little puppy!
Me: Mmm, not while we have babies.
C: Well, when I'm the parent, I'm just going to have three puppies!
Me: Are you going to have three kids too?
C: No, I'm just going to have FOUR dogs!

C: Do you know why there wasn't much snow out there?
Me: Why?
C: Because most of it was in a ball.

Colton Gives a Ticket

("Mom I am mad at u")
Because I wouldn't let him dig for bones, in the dog yard,
with his hockey stick.... because ew.

C hands me the above note ~
C: Mom, I am mad at you, and I am very sorry.
 

Jensen thwaps Colton with a toy ~
C: OW!  Mom, this is why I only wanted one baby!
Me: Well, we can't give one back now.

Still working on smiling nicely...
Silvertips game 3/17

Me: Wow, look at it hail!
C: YAY!  That means it's getting Christmaser!

Colton on Evolution

C: Who made the Earth?
Me: I don't know. A bunch of gasses exploded and made the sun, the moon, and the stars.
C: Who was the first person on the Earth?
Me: Depends on who you ask.  The bible says God made Adam, and he was the first one.  Scientists say we gradually evolved and became humans.
C: But the dinosaurs were here first.
Me: Right.
C: And then the presidents.
Me: Yes.
C: And then the builders.
Me: The builders came before us?
C: Yeah, they had to build houses and cars so we can drive.
Me: Oh, right.  And then us?
C: Yeah.  Only you came before me because you're older than me.
Me: Are you calling me old?
C: Yeah!

Colton on Healthy Living

Two miles on blades AFTER an hour
of hockey this morning!

C: Mom, I found an apple seed!  We should go outside and plant it.
Me: Mmm, we don't really have room for another apple tree.  Go ahead and throw it away.
C: I'm allowed to go outside.

Growing wall 'o art.

C on raw collard greens ~
C: It's delicious! It's like I'm a lady bug!

C: When you see me running like this, it's because I'm moving my muscles.  Do you like it when I move my muscles?  We're having a very healthy day!  

Then he proceeded to do "push-ups," which looked more like jump squats to me, but whatever. And he keeps getting into the weights, and then showing off his shoulder to us and having us admire how big his muscles are.  

C: I'm wearing my handsome shirt!  Do you like being handsome too? 

Me: Girls are usually referred to as pretty, but sure.