Happy Halloween!

Nanan: Your silly-willies are in first grade?
C: Yeah!  And when I'm in second grade, they'll be in third grade!  And when I'm in high school, they'll be in college!  Do you know why I sent my silly-willies to school?
Me: No, why?
C: Because they'd be bored with nothing to do! 

C: Tomorrow it's just gonna be scattered-showers-pouring-rain.

I picked up a couple of foam crowns and Colton spent all day playing "kings."
C: My king is named King Super!

C: No, my king is really named King County!  And Jordan's queen is Queen County! 

Kids got play money tonight while trick-or-treating ~
C: Mom? Is $1,000,000 bigger than $2,000?
Me: Yes.
C: So, then I can buy my own computer!
Me: Sorry, buddy, that was play money.
C: But how come it won't work?
Me: It's not real.  Sorry. 

Colton's Race!

1k Kids Dash ~ over 200 kids registered today

So proud of my boy! He is so excited to run another race soon!

Me: It feels like a Sunday today. [Thursday]
C: Why?
Me: Because I'm here.
C: I know why you're here.
Me: Why?
C: Because you're on vacation!


7:30am, a half hour before C usually wakes ~
Me: Time to get up, buddy!
C: I'm too sleepy.
Me: You have a race this morning.
C: And see? I'm all ready to go!
He took off his jammies and put on gym clothes after I put him to bed last night.  LOL!

C: I am going to wear my sunglasses because my eyes are sleepy.

Halloween with the Lights On @ the Children's Museum

C: If I wear my skeleton jacket and my sunglasses, I can go as a spy!

C: You and me should take a nap later, because it's so early.

C: There are no cars out on the road because we're out so early!
Me: It's not that early anymore.  (8am)

C: When I grow up, can I be President Obama?

Colton on Weddings

Me: Do you have your listening ears on today?
C: Yep, they're plugged into my head!
Me: And will you leave your silly-willies in the car with me?
C:  They're just in my head too.

Me: Did you have a good day?
C: Yeah!
Me: Did you wear your listening ears?
C: Yeah! 
Me: And how about your silly-willies?  Did you leave them in the car with me?
C: No, they were at school.
Me: You were supposed to leave them with me!
C: They're just in first grade!  Not in my class!

Me: Did you have a good time at Uncle Jake's wedding?
C: Yeah!  Mostly because your dress was so pretty.
Me: Aww, thanks buddy!

C: You can't wear camo pants to the wedding!
Me: What about a camo dress?
C: No!
Dad: Yeah, Mom's gonna wear a dress today.
C: Me too!

C: I'm gonna be an author just like my dad!
This is Super Caillou battling against the rain cloud.

C: I like your dress, Dad! 

C: Do you know why I like Thomas?
Me: Why?
C: Because he has a nice smile!

C: I'm starting to like trains again! 

Picture of me!  Fancy shirt, skirt & all

Me: Tonight we're going to the rehearsal dinner.  Rehearsal means to practice.
C: Why do they have to practice getting married?

C: Mom, are you married?
Me: Hmm.  I'm not sure who that guy is that lives with us.
C: Dad!
Me: Is Dad married?
C: Yes.
Me: To Cartman?
C: NO!
Me: To Shrek?
C: Yes! 
LOL!

The Great Pumpkin

Grand opening for Colton's shelter

C: What'd we get in the mail today?
Me: Bills.
C: But we're not gonna give the mailman any more money!

C: Aren't I a good artist? 
Me: Very!
C: Good enough to be a mailman?
C has gone through an entire sketchpad recently making us letters and putting them in the mailbox.


C: When we get home, please don't make me go outside. I'm too hot.

Birthday card for the babies.  He wrote out the entire Happy Birthday song for them.


C completed another round of swim lessons on Sunday. He just needs to master a few more skills before moving to level 3! He is pictured below learning the back stroke. He has to be able to do the back stroke and front crawl for 10' to move on.


Let's play HOCKEY!  Skills drills 10/20.  Colton is in gold.

Music Man

We sent C to play his keyboard for a little bit. All was quiet
so I went up to check, and found him hard at work writing music.

Some treble clef practice

Me: Are you going to help me make squash fries for dinner?
C: I never like squash fries!
Me: But you helped pick it out.
C: It's for nights when you are alone!
...
Me: Did you like them?
C: They are fine.
...
Dad: Those fries were pretty yummy!
C: I almost liked them!

C: And one day we had a substitute in the library!  And one of the characters was the lady that unlocks the gate!

C: I am really not very happy that it won't be Easter soon.

C: I have to watch the presidents!  They are showing their percentages!

Museum Sunday

C: Did you know that you can't drive in Seattle? People are parking in the middle of the intersection!  When we go to Seattle, we'll have to take a train.  I saw it on the news!
Google the "Mercer Mess."

C: You have to help me get to sleep!
Me: Good night.
C: But I need some help sleeping! 
Me: Good night, Colton!

C: I had these AirFaces as a treat at school!  (AirHeads)

C: Is it 55 degrees?
Me: Yes.
C: So it's just one inch higher than just a minute ago!

C: These might be too small.  There's a baby on them.
Referring to the Gerber baby on his footie jammies.

C: Every Sunday that's not a race Sunday is a museum Sunday!

C: I can't brush my teeth tonight.  I'm too tired.

C: I can't get dressed before breakfast because I get too distracted upstairs!
#littleboyproblems

Me (to Dad): D would be my son; he's eating the frosting and J would be yours; he's after the cake.
C: I'm in to the whole thing!

Happy 1st Birthday, little brothers!!

What Colton Really Learns...

C: Remember the last time our tummies were sick? This is like that, only there's a VIRUS in it!
Poor C has a cold. 

Colton is Iron Man @ top left

C: There's the Xfinity truck!
Me: How do you know about Xfinity? 
C: I just do.
Me: What is Xfinity?
C: It's a place where you can hook up and download videos.

Bridger, Jordan & Colton @ Skate Night

Me: What letter did you talk about today?
C: X.  And you know what starts with X?
Me: What?
C: X-ray.
Me: And xylophone.
C: And Xfinity! 
/facepalm.

Watching the girls race

Colton on Cuddles

C: I'm kinda busy this weekend, amn't I? (aren't/am I?)
Me: Yeah.
C: That's why I don't cuddle very much.  So I'm gonna give you a hug.

C: Aren't you excited that it's an early release day?
Me: Why are you so excited?
C: So I get to cuddle with you at a different time.

C: But I don't want pizza for dinner! Pizza isn't healthy for you.
Me: Chicken and fries aren't healthy for you either.
C: Yes, they are!  Only treats are healthy!

C: I'm SOOOOO hungry!
Me: It's sooooo not dinner time yet.
C: But I can't even hold it!

C: Mom? I love you.  I made you this postcard!  It says I love you on it.

Watching the debates ~

C: I'm giving you an example of what President Obama should do [as he body slams D]. Whenever someone falls on him, he should lift him up and go on top of him. And I will give him some Iron Man gloves to help him too.

C: I want the battle between America and the other guys. (aka the Olympics)

Me: This is the battle for the President of the United States. We can either have Romney or Obama.
C: What about…George Washington?
Me: He’s dead. He lived a long time ago.

C: Who is going to win?  When are they going to fight? 

LOL!

Colton Is on to Me

Me: DON'T DROP THE BABY!
C: Mom? I'm hungry!  When can I have lunch?
Me: You can't have anything right now.
C: Why?
Me: Because you dropped the baby.
C: I decided to stop dropping the baby.
No babies were harmed in the making of this post.

C: Why does there have to be a leak?!  'Cause I'm DONE with only having pancakes, waffles, and milk & cereal for breakfast.
Major plumbing disaster at our house has left us without a stove & microwave.

C: Is today a donut day?

Me: I was very impressed with how much you ran at your school's fund run!
C: And did I run so much that some of that money comes to me?
Me: No, it all goes to the school, bud.
C: BUT IT'S NOT FAIR! YOU'RE JUST MAKING ME UNHAPPY THAT PEOPLE DON'T JUST GIVE ME MONEY!  *sob*
C had a rough day.

C: Why do I always have to have a bribe to do things I don't want to do?
Kid is too smart.

Colton Goes to the Hockey Game

C: This is such an instructive time!

C: Aren't you glad I'm doing something constructive instead of just keeping asking when it is time to go to the game?

C: I'm doing all this homework!
(He's coloring and has decided it is homework)

Me: Do you see the moon?
C: Yeah!  I can even see what it's made out of!
Me: And what is it made out of?
C: Rocks.

C: I wish I had a really long net so I could catch the moon.
Me: What would you do with the moon if you caught it?
C: We'd put it outside, and we'd bring it inside on windy days.

C: If we had a million fireflies inside my room, they'd look like stars, and be just like aerospace!

Wearing his "fall" shirt

Me: Did you have fun tonight?
C: Not really.
Me: How come?
C: Because the other team didn't win.
Me: The other team did win.
C: I mean our team didn't win and got shutted out.

C: We need to bring in a goalie fighter! Guess what he does!
Dad: He fights other goalies.
C: And he has lots of pads.
Dad: Like the sumo fighters?
C: Only he'd have so many pads that he wouldn't be seen!
Dad: Oh, so a ninja-goalie-fighter?
C: Yeah! 

C: You can sleep on my bottom bunk.
Me: No thanks, I think I'll sleep in my own bed tonight.  That sounds really nice.
C: But I will be SO BORED without you here!

Thank you, Auntie Melissa!