2. I frequently say to Adrianna, "IIIIIIIIIIIIII....luuuuuuv...Mama," eagerly anticipating when she'll repeat it back to me. One afternoon at lunchtime, I said, "IIIIIIII...luuuuuuuv..." and she blurted out, "MAMA!" The grin in her face was priceless! She's said Mama before, but this took the cake.
3. Gabe kept parking his cars in the hot wheels gas station and saying, "hurry up...we not stopping again." I kept wondering what it meant. After asking many questions I realized that he doesn't understand that you put gas in your car at a gas station. He thinks it's only a place for a potty break!
4. Nate woke up one morning and asked right away, "Do we have school today?" "No," I responded. "Mr. Matlock sure is a nice guy!" he said. "If we have a lot more snow days, you'll have to go more days at the end of the summer." He then added, "Does he not know that?"
5. All three kids needed me at the same time and I said, "There are three of you and I only have two hands. Someone has to wait just one minute." Nate said, "I think it should be Gabe!" I can tell he really loves his brother!
6. I got up early one morning to have some time to myself. I woke up Nate at his usual 7:15 and he started crying very disappointed tears. I asked him why and he thought he had overslept and missed PJ day at school! I guess seeing me in my regular clothes and makeup that early really confused the little guy!
7. It had a pretty good night with Adrianna and she was finally feeling better. But, then Gabe and I got a little something! Gabe asked me that morning, "Why if we suppose to wuv our brovers and sisters, did Adwianna get me sick, too?" I got to start off that morning by explaining germs to a 3 year old!
8. Nate spent an evening in our room because of some bad choices he made at school that day. The next morning, he said, "I am going to try my hardest to be good today because last night was the worst EVER!" "If you don't straighten up, it's only going to get worse," I said. "The only thing worse would be going to school naked!”
9. I started the morning with a yummy breakfast and then listened to the sounds of brothers playing together and giggling! Loved it! Gabe told me after breakfast that day, "I wike it when Nate has no school. We get to pway togefer awwwwwwwww day!"
10. Nate told me one day that he wants to be a teacher when he grows up. I asked why and he said, "because when you're a kid, you have to write on your papers with a pencil but when you're a teacher you can use all different colors of pens!" I giggled and then Gabe peeped in. "I want to drive a garbage truck when I grow up!” I can see them both doing those exact professions!
11. I was putting together dinner for a friend who just had a baby and Gabe asked, "Why you do dat for a nuffer famwee?" "Because it's nice to do things for other people. It's a way to show them how much you love them." He then pulls up the stool to the counter and says, "I love you, Mommy. What I can do for you today?" You just did, Gabe…you just did!
12. Nate heard me yelling one morning while I was doing some stretches on the Wii Fit and asked me why I was playing the Wii if it hurt. I told him that the hurt is good for me and it helps me be a better Mommy to him, Gabe, and Adri. "You're already the best Mommy," he said.
13. Nate asked, "What's so special about New Years Eve?" I added, "It's the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 so we get to stay up late and party." "Why haven't we done that before?" "We have," I said. "You just don't remember." He finished with, "I would remember getting to stay up late. You and Daddy just like to party without your kids!”
14. Gabe asked me where the kitty was and I reminded him that she doesn't live with us anymore. "That makes my heart hurt," he said. Mine, too, Gabe!
15. I heard Nate sing, "Silent night, holy night, round young virgin," and asked him what the song meant. "You don't know?" he said. "I know, but what do you think it means?" He said, "Jesus was born to a virgin. That means she never had a baby before and the song says round because that's the shape her belly was!" "It's yon virgin, Nate.” “How can you know what the song means if you don’t know the words?” he finished!
16. Nate asked me one night how much longer til Daddy comes home from his work trip. I told him only two more days and his reponse was, "I miss Daddy so much. Things aren't the same when he's not here." My thoughts exactly!
17. I found mud from Nate's shoe on the seat in the van one evening and said to Nate, "We need to get that cleaned up before Daddy gets home or he'll have a cow." Nate responded, "I'm confused!" Gabe then added, "I hope dat cow don't bite him."
18. Gabe said, "Lets call the bafroom duh boom boom room." "Why?" I asked. He finished, "Cuz dats the sound the toyet makes when I'm in dare!"
19. I had on a necklace that I rarely wear. Gabe said, "What is that?" I said, "It's a necklace to help Mommy look pretty." He added, "It's not working!" That kid! He deserves credit for honesty, I guess!
20. Me: Look at that tractor, Gabe. Gabe: No, dats a combine, Mom. Me: Oh! Well, look at that tractor over there. Gabe: Dats a baler, Mom. A few minutes passed. Me: Hey, Gabe, look at that pinwheel in the grass. Gabe: No Mom, dats a windmill. Oh son, I'm so glad you know everything. Didn't my mom used to say that to me?
21. I took Gabe to have chicken and noodles with Nate at school one day! YUM! They sure do have to eat fast! Gabe didn't even finish and when it was time to go, Nate grabbed Gabe's tray and took it to the window! He told me, "Thanks for coming guys, but the sooner we get our trays put away, the sooner we get to go to recess!" I see how we measure up!
22. Gabe asked if he could watch a Thomas the Train movie and before I started it, he said, "Wait, I have to do someting foist." "What are you doing to those tractors, Gabe?" I said. "I have to take da tires off so day don't drive off while I watch dat movie!"
23. The living room was especially stinky and there was no doubt that Gabe was the culprit. I asked Gabe, "Is that you, Gabe? Are you the one stinkin' up the house?" He answered, "Yeah, it's me. I so sorry sweetie!"
24. Nate asked me, "If you die before me how will I find you when I get to Heaven?" "If you can't find me, I'll find you." "Good," he said. "Now I can stop worrying about that."
25. Gabe sat on my lap and had a bad case of goosebumps. He said, "What's dat?" as he pointed to the hair standing up on his legs. "It's hair, Gabe," I said. "I'm big now, huh, because I have hair on my legs like you do!"
26. We were visiting my dad in the hospital and as we were leaving, Gabe asked my mom if she was leaving Papaw there. "Yes," she said. Gabe then said, "Can we leave my baby sister, too?"
27. Gabe was being VERY whiney and I asked him to turn off the whining and turn on the big boy voice. "That button is broken," he said.
28. Woke up the other night to the sound of the kitchen sink running. I went in the kitchen to see what was going on. Gabe was sitting there on the counter getting a drink of water from the faucet. "What are you doing, Gabe." He answered, "I just ate a weely gwoss booger and I need a dwink of water."
29. Gabe insisted on looking through my purse and I asked him what he was looking for. "Chopsticks," he said. "Gabe, there are no chopsticks in my purse." "Yes, day are," he insisted. Finally, he pulled out my chapstick and said, "I tode you so. Here are duh chopsticks!"
30. We visited a church to see our good friends get baptized and on the way home, we were talking to the boys about it. Nate says, "I want to get babbetized." I tried so hard not to laugh and even after I corrected him, he was still saying it that way!
31. I discovered Gabe trying to put the sweeper extenders in his shorts and he told me that he was pretending they were "sords" and he was a "piwat." "What do pirates do with their swords, Gabe?" "Mom, day use dem to make moshmewos and chocwat miwk."
32. Gabe splattered some of his drink in the car and I said, "Be careful, Gabe. Mommy just cleaned out the car yesterday." He responded, "It's not dat bad...just wike wittle skid maks in my undayways."
33. "We got to sing & pway at schoo today just wike at choich. It was called chappy," Gabe said. I said, "It's chapel, Gabe" "Whateva it's cawed, I had a gweat time."
34. Nate: how do know that the way you spell eyelid is right? Maybe I spell it right & everyone else spells it wrong. Now are you gonna tell me that you don't spell my name N A T E? Me: Actually you spell your name N A T H A N I E L. Nate: Now I know your just trying to be mean!
35. After picking up Gabe from school this afternoon he told me, "Can we go to Mamaw's house? I need some mo of dat bread wif duh green stuff in it!" Luckily, Mom sent home some zucchini bread with us yesterday so he got to have some with his lunch!
36.Gabe came in our room, too early for a Saturday morning and asked for breakfast before Matt & I were ready to get out of bed. We tried to talk him in to watching TV for a while so we could sleep in a little more. "But Jesus wants us to eat healfy food!" He was very convincing!
37. We're in line waiting to pick up Nate & Gabe says, "Dares wots of cars picking up day bruvers. Bet none is wike my Nate." I bet he's right!
38. Gabe learned a new word...he's using the word 'debastated' every chance he gets. He told told me, "When I go to schoo dis week and don't get to spend duh day wif you, I be debastated!"
39. Gabe got sick in the car on the way to take Adrianna to the doctor. He got to go in wearing just his underwear (which he loved), because there was throw up all over his clothes and I didn't have something else for him to wear. The doctor asked him why he threw up and he said, "Pwobree cuz I ate too many boogers!"
40. Gabe got his helicopter, which has a little string and a hook that hangs down to rescue people (toys), stuck to sock. "Gabe, get in here, please," I asked. He yelled, "I'll be there in a minute cuz the hookers got me!"
41. Gabe was drinking lemonade out of a green cup and asked me why his lemonade was green. "It's not green. It just looks green because the cup is green," I said. "No it's not...it's GREEN," he insisted. "OK, Gabe, it's green." He added, "OK, maybe it is still yellow." I have a strange feeling that we'll be having these arguments his entire life!
42. Nate told Adri this morning, after she was complaining about breakfast, "You should eat your food, Adri, because Daddy works hard to buy us our food." He then added, "When you get older, you'll have to work hard to buy food, too. Unless you marry someone like Daddy then you'll just get to stay home all day and do nothing like Mommy."
