Happy Mother's Day!

On Thursday I told the boys that I thought we should probably spend--at least part of--our normal afternoon out looking for a Mother's Day gift for...their mother.

Seeing that we were in her vehicle (because it already looked like one that a 4 year-old and 6 year-old boy lived in!) and it was nearly on empty I decided to fill it up with gas while the young men made their decision as to what that wanted to get for their mother for Mother's Day and where they wanted to look for it.

Upon returning to the aforementioned vehicle, I asked where they wanted to go. To which (as you can imagine) the answers were quite self-serving. Again, I reminded these two young men who I assure you DO love their mother very much, that Sunday was Mother's Day and we should probably find a gift for her while we still had time. Once more I asked, "what do you want to get her?"

No lie, the next thing I heard was...

"We put gas in her car!"

"Is G the same as 7?"

Today (during church), Toby asked Charity, "Is G the same as 7?" At which point she turned to me to shared the most recent "cute," yet bazarre thing to come out of one of our children's mouths.

A moment later, she turns to me and on her fingers goes, "a, b, c, d, e, f, g"--"G" indeed is the same as "7." Of course, our bazarre son is apparently smarter then his parents!

Boys ride their first "grown-up" ride

Dad had two meetings in Orlando last week, one on Wednesday and one on Saturday so we all decided to go and spend a couple of days in the ol' home town.

Mom and boys past the time during Dad's Wed. mtg. with @ Burger King with a flat tire. (Big indoor playground and fast AAA made it not as bad as it sounds...not to mention that Dad was 45 minutes late to his 1.5 hour mtg.)

Most of Thurs. was spent moving to a new motel, with a stop @ a Christian Book Outlet (not really any deals, in fact the one thing Dad was looking for was 2X as expensive as it is at Walmart!), miniature golfing (on a Pirate course!)--believe it or not Mom won by one stroke (3 hole-in-ones!) if you don't count all of Toby's "hole-in-ones" that consist of any ball that goes in the whole without having ever come to a complete stop after "tee-off"--regardless of number of hits. And finally dinner at one of Mom & Dad's favorite "artsy" (literally decorated with local art work, even had a couple artist working during the meal) tapas restaurant--that just happened to be next to the miniature golf place.

Friday was our along-awaited return to Sea World--why do they charge you $65 bucks to get into the place and another $10 to park?--at least they let you bring in your own food, but of course we were not that prepared! Toby only wanted to go to Wild Artic (polar bears, beluga whales, narwald and a huge walrus). We all went through the "simulation ride" intro instead of the stationary program for the first time. They have added some "kiddie rides" of which Seth wanted to ride all and Toby wouldn't do a single one. But the highlight was "tricking" Toby and Seth onto their first "grown-up ride"--Atlantis, part log-floom, part roller coaster. Seth made it on by about .023 inches.

Saturday was an all-day conference for Mom & Dad, while Toby & Seth got to go to "pre-school". Sounds fun and it was free day-care. But not according to Toby. Two friends were suppose to come but couldn't make it, so the only people they knew were each other...and classrooms divided them into different rooms. YE! Knew that wouldn't work. Toby spent the day with 3 & 4 year-olds. Highlight here...Seth "bent his tooth"! I don't know! Says he "hit it on the wheel of the race car when he was getting in" but no one saw it, there didn't appear to be any blood, however he wouldn't eat and still won't brush that tooth himself. But NO probably chomping down a 3 week old chocolate chip cookie tonight!

Back home, finally getting back into a "routine" and PopPop & GiGi will arrive tonight to surprise the boys...There goes everything!!!