Colton Does Mother's Day

C: You don't get to do anything today since it's Mother's Day!  I'm going to put on a hockey game for you!

C: Mom, how did you like the donut that you had?
Me: It was delicious!  How was yours?
C: It was even delicious that I've never tried before!

C: Mom, I've been thinking that I want to drink pollen from flowers like a bee.  So can you make me small?
Me: Sorry bud, I don't have that kind of power.  But I bet we can find some sunflowers that are as big as you.

C: I'm going to get a dog and name it Weasel.

Me: What kind of dog are you going to get?
C: A weaselish dog!
Me: Is that a big or a little dog?
C: It's like a fire station dog. 
Me: Oh, you want a spotty dog. Your dad had spotty dogs growing up.


Me: We're going to have special breakfast tomorrow!
C: What is it?
Me: Sausage and eggs or something.
C: And I'm gonna tell Dad my super secret surprise for you.
Me: Okay, don't tell me.
....
Me: Not this Saturday, but the next Saturday, Bridger is having a sleepover party.
C: You guessed my super secret surprise! I'm having a sleepover party and you can sleep in my room! We're going to have cake. And Dad's invited!

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!