Kids are so cute!

During our usual bedtime routine yesterday, Ryan and I were talking about school and how he liked his current preschool teacher and he recalled the names of all his old teachers. I told him that he will have a new teacher next year. Ryan said that after preschool, and then kindergarten, you go to "oneth grade". =) I corrected him and then we talked about all the grades from 1st through 12th grade and then I mentioned that after 12th grade mommy went to college. He replied, "I went to college too!". Well, that's news to me!

And not too long ago when Ryan was sick and coughing he said, "I have too many throat" and "My throat is coming out". What he means to say is that he has too much phlegm. In hindsight, I probably should have told him about phlegm, but I didn't. I just bust out laughing every time he says this.

And tonight as I was helping him get ready for bed, I see that he has 3 band aids on his body. From what I can tell the band aids are for invisible owweees. We must be spending a good amount of our salary on band aids and not just any plain old band aid; they must be Dora, or Sesame Street, or Sponge Bob band aids which apparently have magical powers to make all owwees go away. See the band aid on his middle toe below. On any given day, Ryan will always have at least one band aid on his body.

 

Lauren also has some quirks. 

1. I can always tell when she is sleepy because she will bury her head in my shoulder. 

2. Aside from the horrible stink, I can always tell when Lauren has pooped because she will babble non stop afterwards.

3. When we first started rice cereal at 4 months old, she was sooo impatient. She needed a constant stream of rice cereal in her mouth or she got upset. Unfortunately for her, there is no such thing as a funnel spoon so she had no choice but to learn how to be patient.

Now at 5 months she is a good and patient eater.

 

And of course, Happy Veterans Day today!! To all the veterans and those currently in service - we are grateful for your service to this country.

Sick

It was inevitable. Lauren got her first cold this past week, most likely from me. She had a runny nose and I'm sure she ate a lot of snot cuz it was dripping like crazy down to her mouth, but she was in good spirits. In a way I'm glad she finally got it because now I don't have to avoid her. I can finally give her hugs and kisses again!

These days Lauren loves taking a bath every night and then getting tucked into her crib for bedtime. She gets all excited and starts kicking and squealing with excitement. I remember Ryan did that too. Lauren and Ryan go to bed around 8:30 and wake up at 8. I'm glad they have synced up their bedtimes. Because of the cold, gloomy mornings, Ryan has a harder time getting up, and he eats his breakfast at a snails pace, so he is always a little late to preschool. Ryan doesn't have time anymore to watch one of his favorite morning shows on TV called "Team Umizoomi". I really should get up earlier to wake him up earlier, but for now, I really love having any amount of extra sleep.

We missed the Reformation Day festivities at church since our family was sick, but if they had gone, Ryan would have dressed up as Thomas and Lauren would have been Belle. Although it's late, I'm going to get them dressed up so we can take pictures at least.

As we were wallowing in our misery last week from being sick, it made us totally appreciate being healthy. How easily we forget to appreciate what we have when we have it. Anyways, I'm looking forward to a much better week and SUPER excited about the upcoming holiday season.

And also, I am super duper excited to watch "MegaMind" screening tonight with Ryan!