Colton Gets Slimey!

Slime from Halloween at the children's museum

Dad: You're probably going to need a bath before trick-or-treating tonight.
C: Why?
Dad: Because you have slime in your hair.
C: But everyone will love that!
Dad: Then you won't be Spider-Man, you'd be Slimey-Man.
C: But I like being slimey!

C: Why do I always have to take a bath when I get all slimey?

C: Let's show Oma & Opa my goal dance!

Halloween with the Lights On

The Imagine Children's Museum had their Halloween with the Lights On event today.  The kids get to dress up and the museum has fun things for them to do. 

Disappearing ghost poop

C: Dad, we're just going to Opa's house for a quick visit!  Just one minute!
Never mind that Opa's house is 3 hrs away...

Curtains are fun!  Tho not an official exhibit.

C: I only like green slime! This yellow slime is just hurting my feelings!
Mom fail.  I picked out the yellow slime instead of the green stuff. Of course, it wasn't an issue til we were on our way home...

Colton makes a Frankenstein...but didn't want a picture

taken with it.

C: Dad, when Mom had one baby in her tummy, and I had one baby in my tummy, and you had one baby....
Dad: Uh, I don't want to have a baby!

Happy Saturday

Colton & D

C: I don't like hockey anymore!  I'll just put up a closed sign!
(We had a rough morning, but practice went great!)

Me: What are you going to learn in hockey today?
C: I'm gonna do a backwards superman slide! And I'll be the skater backwarder!

C: I won!  See I got to my house! (Using the maps app on my iPod)

C: See Mom, I know how to spell now.  (Trying to play Words with Friends ~ hopefully he won't resign any more of my games!)

Colton in the Morning

C: I'm gonna use the sunglasses to see bigger things! (magnifying glass)

Me: Morning, buddy.  Did you have a good sleep?
C: No, I didn't really get very much sleep last night.  Only snoring makes me get more energy.

Me: Morning, buddy.  Did you have a good sleep?
C: Not really.  That heater bothers my sleep.
The heater that I *just* turned on when I went in the room to wake him up bothered him.

C: Why?
Dad: Chicken thigh.
C: Why did you say that?
Dad: I was being silly.  Was that silly?
C: No, because it hurts my feelings.
Dad: Saying chicken thigh hurts your feelings?
C: Yeah, but it doesn't any more.

Countdown to Halloween!

C: Do you think I can learn to be a real Spider-Man some day?

Kissing the mouth piece of the pumpkin

Me (talking to the kitty): You already ate!
Dad: We'll have to eat the kitty.
C: But then you'll get too much fur in your mouth.

The tongue definitely helps when carving

C: Why do babies like to look at things?
Me: Why do you like to look at things?
C: I don't very much now.

My pumpkin on the left; Colton's on the right.

Colton and Tron

C: When I grow up, I want to drive a motorcycle!
Dad: I've never wanted to have a motorcycle.
C: Why?
Dad: Because people don't see you, and if someone hits you, you wouldn't survive.
C: Yeah, well, I will be real careful, and have perfect balance, with the training wheels off of my motorcycle!

C: I will wear a helmet just like Sam Flynn!  (Tron)

C: I don't have a motorcycle.
Me: Nope.
C: Or a helicopter.
Me: Nope.
I don't generally give little boys toys like that.

C: You have to read quieter when my Tron music is on!

Colton went to go see Harold and the Purple Crayon at the Children's Theatre with Nanan ~
Me: The actors wear costumes up on the stage.
C: Yeah, and I want to wear my costume!
Jamie: You might scare the other kids there.

Colton on Being Gentle

Watching for his friend with his "telescope"

C: I like being a fireman!
Me: Do you drive the fire truck?
C: No, because I don't know how to drive. If there's a fire, you can drive, and I'll put on the sirens!

C: Can you run fast?
Me: I can't run right now, remember? I have an owie on my tummy.
C: Could you run fast if they were gentler when they took the babies out?
LOL! I'm not sure they can make a c-section any more gentle!

Me: No guns.
C: I'm just pretending that I'm a Transformer.
Me: That's fine, but no guns. I don't like guns.
C: But Transformers have guns!
Duh, Mom.

Colton, My Keeper

Wall-hanging turned costume 

Me: Don't pull on the kitty that way; he's an old kitty.
C: Will he last forever?
Me: No, buddy, nothing lasts forever.

C: I want the kitty to give me a high-five, but he isn't listening to me!

C: I very missed you.  I hadn't seen you before.
Really? Never ever?

C: I'm huuuuungry!
Me: Why don't you finish your roll?
C: I'm not hungry enough for that! Just for a bite of pie!

C: Mom, I'm gonna keep you.
Dad: Good, I think we'll keep her too.
Whew!

C: I really want to go to work with you!
Me: I'm off for a few weeks, buddy.
C: Why?
Me: To take care of you and the babies.
C: But what if I get into trouble?

Me: Can you lift this baby chair or is it too heavy?
C: I am strong because I eat so many vegetables!

C: I'm here to to take care of the babies so you can just do what you're supposed to.
Me: Yeah, and what am I supposed to be doing?
C: You can just listen to Dad and whenever the babies cry, you fix their problems!

Me: Could you close the door for me?
C: So the babies don't escape?
Me: So the kitty doesn't escape. 

C & D 10/16

Colton on the Babies

His sticker says he's organic

C: But Granddad said this was the last time I got to see my baby brothers!

Me: He meant at the hospital, buddy.  They're coming home with us and you can see them any time.

C: I want to hold the baby!  But not that baby!

C: We didn't watch the Tron I like. We watched the other Tron I like!

Me: What did Dad make for dinner?
C: Something to make you big & strong!

On feeding the babies ~
C: Is that where your chocolate milk comes from?
Me: It's not chocolate.
C: Why?

Me: Cuz I don't make chocolate.

After a bath ~

C: I'm all clean and sparkly!  Sparkly than the babies!

Colton Meets the Babies

C: I'm gonna skate even faster because I got a hockey magazine!

En route to the hospital ~
C: Mom! I forgot to give you a kiss!
Me: It's okay, buddy, you can give me one when we get there.

C: I want to play the throwing birds game!
Grandma's iPad was a huge hit!

C: That is my middle-of-the-night Thomas!

C: Why do our babies just have to sleep and eat?
Me: Because that's all they do, pretty much, buddy. 

C: Our babies don't have any teeth!

C: Mom, can you run now?
Uhm, ouch?

C: I want to stay and watch the babies!

He has been having a great time pushing around their beds, and the photographer was a big hit.  He helped her build little nests and we got pictures of the boys all together.  So cute!!  C's pretty anxious for us to be home, which should be tomorrow.  C's been staying with Granddad and Grandma and then had a bonus visit from Oma & Opa since they were in town.

Yay, it did arrive! (shirt says Big Brother Squared)

Holding babies with Oma, Opa, & Dad