Party of Four: September 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Hurricane Ike...

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Amanda and Patrick's Wedding!!

This weekend was Amanda and Patrick's wedding! It was beautiful!! These pictures are in reverse order, but most of them are here!

I love this picture! I can't wait to see the non-blurry one the photographer took!

They boys were bell ringers. We have been preparing for these 25 seconds for a long time. Lots of practice and talk of a surprise at the end if they ring the bells. I hated to bribe them, but it was well worth the two $2.99 cars it took for them to ring the bells. At the end of the isle, after they had finished, Reid said in a loud voice, "Daddy, where is my surprise?" Well, they did deserve a surprise...they stayed happily in tuxes for 3 1/2 hours! I was so thrilled, because I wanted it perfect for Amanda and Patrick. It was a perfect wedding! Look how happy they are!

I love this shot of Amanda and Dennis. She is deep in thought!!

Just a little prayer before she walked down the isle!

Does this count as a smile?

Patrick helping Quinn and Reid before the wedding. Look how handsome these three look! Of course, the boys have their wedding gifts...Mater and Lightning McQueen.

I think we have a Christmas card!

Or maybe this one!

Yeah, Aunt Suzanne is here!!

Could you just eat this face up??

Thinking about the the task ahead...

Look how beautiful Amanda looks!!! Ohmygosh I could cry!!

Making a call on Mommy's cell..."Can anyone get this tie off me?"

Yo, yo...Reid is in the house!

Sweet...he posed like this himself. I'm not sure where he got this!

Love it!

We are going to Amanda's wedding and we are going to ring the bells and get a surprise!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star! The girls are Maddie Sue and Hannah. They were bell ringers too! They were cute as can be! I wish I had more pictures of them all together!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

September 13th...Hurricane Ike, Quinn's 2nd birthday, and our 5th anniversary!

Hurricane Ike...

We evacuated on Thursday to Mom and Dad's house thinking we would be out of harms way, little did we know that we would still be in his path!

We started out the weekend like always, fishing and playing outside.

Friday afternoon, we took everything off of the deck to get ready for the storm.

Just hanging out on a beautiful, hot day!

This is Friday and Ike was moving closer to the coast of Texas. We tried to keep the kids outside as much as we could, because we knew we would be inside for days.

Here are Dad and the kids going for a walk before dinner. The wind was really gusting at this point.

I'm going to be two, tomorrow!

The storm hit Conroe around 4:00 in the morning. It was very loud outside. The street lights started to flicker and the noise makers were going off and on, so I jumped out of bed to turn on TV. I wanted to see where the eye of the storm was...just south of where we were. Then the lights went out. It was a little scary not to be able to see outside. The storm continued most of the day, but the worst was over. Here are a few videos I took the next day, but they don't really capture how bad it was at night. These were taken about 8:30 the next day.

This is a huge tree outside our window.

Here is Matt keeping the boys busy the next day during the rain...

We had to celebrate Quinn's birthday in the dark...I love the way mom improvised with a stack of chocolate chip cookies!

Just a lantern for light...the boys didn't seem to mind.

A super nice neighbor of Mom and Dad's had three generators and let us borrow one. We hooked up the refrigerator, two lamps, TV, and fan. That was wonderful! We had little gas, so we had to turn everything off at night. At least we could keep the food from spoiling!

Matt and I take a picture of what we are doing every anniversary...well, two years ago, I was in labor, and this year we are in a hurricane. We did have salmon by candlelight, but it wasn't exactly what we were expecting!

We didn't take many pictures of the devastation. We had to watch too much on TV, but this was amazing. This is a tree where Mom and Dad live. Remember, his is about 100 miles off the coast line and it still got this much damage!

We heard from our neighbor that we had power, so we headed back to our house as soon as we could. We came home to a few fallen trees and a few lost shingles, but that is about it! We were so fortunate.

We cleaned up our yard a bit and then headed over to some friends to help them clean up the debris in their yard. They live in an older neighborhood with established trees and huge trees were down there!

My friend, Jenny is expecting here second baby any day and she and her family didn't have power so they stayed with us a few days. We ate like kings, because her husband, Kelsey, brought over a ton of seafood that was spoiling and fried it up for us that evening. Thank goodness their power came on and they are getting back to normal before the baby comes!

Our friends in Clear Lake, Friendswood and Kemah are all fine. They had a some damage, but everyone is safe! We are so thankful for that, because they are just north of Galveston!

Mom and Dad are still without power and will be for 2-4 weeks! They had "catastrophic" damage to their power plant! They are sticking it out at home until we all leave for Amanda and Patrick's wedding. That is something fun to look forward to after all of this!!

Monday, September 8, 2008

A few memories from the past...

My sweet boy turns two. Just two short years ago, Quinn was born. What a wonderful day. Who would have ever known what joy he brings to our lives. His humor and big smile keep us going!

His favorite sayings;

"What daaaaaat?"

"I don't waaaaaantooooo!"

"I want Mader and Lightningaqueen!"

"How about anoder one!"

"I'm bigga and bigga and bigga!"

Quinn turns TWO!!

Today was Quinn's birthday celebration with his friends. His actual birthday is September 13th. Here he is dressed up as Spider-Super Man! It is HUGE on him!

For Quinn's birthday, we fed the ducks at the park with our friends.

Sweet brothers!

Mmmmm....bread!

Quinn was so cute...he was singing Happy Birthday to himself!

Yes, Mommy, we almost ate the whole cake!

Yummy! Who needs forks?

Our friend, Henry!

Grant and Ms. Jenny!

We were able to get some of the boys to sit and take a picture...so cute!

Fun on the playground! We are dinosaurs!!

Big Jumps!!

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Reid and Quinn's Quotes

217. We were out eating Mexican food and Quinn wanted to know if he could drink some of our "Applesauce"!

216. I was trying to spell so the kids didn't know what I was saying. I was looking up "The Avengers" on movie ratings for kids and I said to Matt, "Do you think the A.V.E.N.G.E.R.S. would be Ok?". He said, "I don't I think so, I think it is like T.R.A.N.S.F.O.R.M.E.R.S." I said, "I think it might be more like S.T.A.R. W.A.R.S." Then Quinn said, "Mommy, I think The Avengers is more like Star Wars and not like the Transformers!" Well, there you go!

215. Tonight the boys were "play fighting" and Quinn kicked Reid in the family jewels. Of course with lots of crying, Matt explained to Quinn how badly that hurts boys. Meanwhile I was talking with Reid. Reid said, "Daddy told us one time that if we hit those little balls in there too hard we won't be able to have babies. Quinn told me one day that he was going to try and pop his bubbles!!

214. We were talking this morning about playing basketball against a team. The boys said, "We played them one time and one boy on their team is really good." I told them that it is good because if we play people that are better than us we get even better! Quinn thought about it for awhile and said, "He's good at playing basketball and we're not so why is he playing against us if we aren't very good?"

213. "I guess one of my taste buds fell out!" ~ Reid

212. "Just think, in 4 years you could have 7 grandkids!" ~ Big Charlie talking to Matt when we found out his parents are only 5 years older than us! Sooooo funny!

211. We've been doing several food drives for different communities. We've also been selling cookie dough and other food items for a fund raiser. I told Reid that I needed to deliver food to our friends down in Clear Lake and he said, "...because they don't have enough food to eat!"

210. "Is that how people had babies a long time ago?" ~ Reid. We were watching Dumbo and I said that I loved that movie when I was a little girl. When Reid saw the storks bringing the babies, he wanted to know if that is how babies were born a long time ago. I explained that the way you have babies has always been the same, but that is how parents use to explain it a long time ago!

209. "Reid erupted me!" ~ Quinn when Reid kept talking over him.

208. Quinn and I were on our way to school and I asked him where he would like to go if he could go anywhere in the world. He said, "You mean when I'm married, have kids and you and Daddy are dead?"

"Ummmm...ok?" ~ Mommy

"I'll take my kids to Legoland." ~ Quinn

"That sounds like fun...can Daddy and I go too?" ~ Mommy

"Ummmmm....remember...you are dead?" ~ Quinn

207. "You are going to be toasted bread!" ~ Quinn to Grandpa. Grandpa was joking with him and said he was going to be toast if he tried to get him.

206. "I think not on the first day." ~ Quinn when I asked him if he was going to talk in school. (He is usually pretty quiet the first week. Found out that he is doing great and talking!

205. "Super Great" ~ Reid after the first day of school when I asked how it was.

204. "I'm very interested in this room!" ~ Reid when he first saw his kindergarten room at Meet the Teacher Night.

203. We were talking about going to the art museum. Then we talked about some of the artists they learned about at school as they were getting ready for their art show. Reid said, "Who was the artist that cut off his ear? He gave it to a girl as a gift." (ok...I didn't know that part) I said that it was Van Gogh. Then, of course I had to go into a somewhat lengthy explanation of why he would do that. I explained that sometimes people's bodies are sick, but Van Gogh's mind was sick and that made him do things that people wouldn't normally do. Quinn said, "Did he watch TV all day or play on the computer too much?"

202. "Looks like somebody already did!" ~Reid, when we were in the art museum. We were looking at old Greek statues with missing arms and heads and I told him to be careful not to touch anything!

201. "Mommy, you are unbelievable!" ~ Reid

"Why do you say that?" ~ Mommy (not sure what I was about to hear.)

"Because you are so pretty." ~ Reid

"That is so sweet. What makes you say that?" ~ Mommy

"Daddy told me." ~ Reid

200. "You guys look like Justin Bieber with your hair like that." ~ Mommy

"What's a bieber?"~ Reid

"You know what a beaver is, Reid." ~ Quinn

"No, a BIEBER!! What's a bieber?" ~ Reid

"It's an an animal!" ~ Quinn

199. "Mommy, we went to Little Tweezers for dinner!" ~ Quinn (Little Caesar's)

198. "I see your broccolies!" ~ Quinn to Reid while in the tub.

"What are broccolies?" ~ Mommy

"You know, you have big ones and Daddy has little ones! ~ Quinn

197. Looking at a picture of Matt when he was a little boy...

"Daddy had a lot of hair before....before he was a daddy!"

196. "Mommy, why is the fire blue on the stove?" ~ Quinn

"Well, blue flames are the hottest and the best to cook with." ~ Mommy

"How do they get the flame to be blue?" ~ Quinn

"You know, I'm not sure. Grandpa is coming over later and I bet he knows. We'll ask him when he gets here." ~ Mommy

"Can we ask Daddy?" ~ Quinn

"Yes, but Daddy isn't here today. I bet he knows too." ~ Mommy

"Do only mans know?" ~ Quinn

GREAT!!

"Mommy knows lots of stuff like how to fix a car and how old you need to be a race car driver."~ Reid

(At least I have that!!)

195. "I love you boys so much. Ever since the day you were born, each day has been so special with you in it!" ~ Mommy

"Just like a trick or treating day!?!?" ~ Quinn

194." When you die into someone else that means that you, um, love them more than falling in love. You love them so much that you fall to ground for them. Just like on that Superman video when she fainted." ~ Reid

193. "We are going to play pony tail on the donkey at the party." ~ Reid (...that's PIN the tail on the donkey.)

192. "The potty is going to EXPLODE!" ~ Quinn after putting too much toilet paper in the toilet and flushing.

191. Holding his bear and monkey, Reid said, "Aww, I love these guys. One day I'm going to grow up and I'll still have them!"

190. “I won’t look at your picture until you are finished drawing it. You have my word!” ~ Mommy

“I’ll keep that word until the whole thing is finished and then you can have the word back.”~ Quinn

189. “Eight years ago today Daddy took me up high on a mountain, gave me a ring, and asked me to marry him. I said yes!”~ Mommy

Is that because you wanted two beautiful boys?” ~ Quinn

“Yes it is!!” ~ Mommy

188. "Quinn, I'm going to call you Mr. Snail." ~ Mommy

"Why?" ~ Quinn

"Because you are moving as slow as a snail this morning." ~ Mommy

wait for it....wait for it...

"Mommy, remember the Tortoise and the Hare?" ~ Quinn

187. Quinn and Reid were negotiating who was going to wear what underwear.

"Quinn, it doesn't really matter because when we are daddies, we aren't even going to have pictures on our underwear!" ~ Reid

"Daddy has fish and a golfclub man." ~ Quinn

"Those are called boxers." ~ Reid

"I don't think we are ever going to grow up for a long time." ~ Quinn

186. "I'm going to use violent red to color this." ~ Reid (violet)

185. "Refridreator" ~ Reid

184. Here is how the conversation unfolded this morning...

"Guys, we are out of milk and bread this morning, so let's go get koloches this morning for breakfast." ~ Mommy (Daddy is playing in a golf tournament)

A few moments later...

"Mommy, that sure is a beautiful shirt!" ~ Quinn

"Yeah, that is the most beautiful shirt in the world...with all of those flowers!"~ Reid

"Yep, it sure is special!" ~ Quinn

"Super special!" ~ Reid

I guess the way to a boy's heart is through his stomach, too!!

183. "Fasty" ~ Reid

"Checkered" ~ Mommy

"Dusty" ~ Quinn

"FLAKING ASBESTOS" ~ Daddy being funny while we were naming our go-carts on the way home from riding. (Anytime we got behind another cart, little pieces of something would fly up in our face.)

182. "I thought WE would stop growing forever!!" ~ Reid being concerned when the park ranger at Mammoth Cave was telling us not to touch the formations. If they were touched, they would stop growing forever.

181. "This steak tastes like cake!" ~ Quinn, after eating a bite of chocolate cake. While we were eating lunch with Suzanne's friends, we ordered a piece of chocolate cake. Quinn asked what the brown thing was on the plate and I said jokingly that it was steak. When he got a bite, he was surprised!

180. "I think that is a grandpa cat." ~ Reid looking at a white cat.

"Why do you say that?" ~ Mommy

"Because all grandpas have white hair!" ~ Reid

179. "I don't ever want to be president!" ~ Reid

"Why not?" ~ Mommy

"Because I don't want all of those people looking at me all of the time when I'm on stage." (while making a crazy silly face) ~ Reid

(Not sure where he got this, but he is adamant about not wanting to be president! Probably a good thing...)

178. "Hey, I think I'm going to be a grandpa and Quinn is going to be a daddy because I'm older than Quinn." ~ Reid

177. "Is it tomorrow?" ~ Quinn this morning when he woke up. (Last night we told him that we were going to celebrate his birthday tomorrow.)

"Yes, Quinn it is tomorrow!" ~ Mommy

"I see the pancake mix!" ~ Quinn (he picked the breakfast for the day)

176. "...and thank you God for giving us puppies for one day."~ Quinn

175. "She always says, 'Hold on..." - Reid

"Yea, and one second...." ~Quinn (They were discussing me from the toy room.

174. "That dog is allergic to cats!" ~ Reid when we were playing in Veterinarian section at the Children's Museum.

173. "The kids are old enough to be by themselves because they lost their teeth." ~ Reid talking about some kids on a show they were watching.

172. "We went to the atrium today." ~ Reid

"What did you do there?" ~ Mommy

"We go there to pray, there is a bunch of Jesus stuff in there!" ~ Reid

171. "What are these for?" ~ Reid after finding the stirrups in the doctor's office.

170. Sigh....."I'm done talking for a while." ~ Reid after having a long conversation with Quinn and me. (Reminds me of Matt =))

169. "Does my voice sound different? Did it change?" ~ Reid when he woke up on his birthday. (You have a few years, Reid!!)

168. "Mommy, thank you soo sooo soooo sooooo much for cooking." ~ The boys when I made them Frito,-Chili pie for dinner.

167. "Quinn, I'm so big I need size 6 underwear like you!" ~ Reid

166."Get it? Get it?" ~ Reid every time he tells a "made up" joke. (Not always, Reid)

165. "I certainly found my toy cell phone!" ~ Quinn.

"You certainly did!" ~ Kim (I think I say 'certainly' that a lot!)

164. "Hey, do you want to go on a date night?" ~ Reid

"Sure, ok, let's go!" ~ Quinn

(They were making there cars talk to each other!! So cute!)

163. "Mommy, why do you have big brains?" ~ Quinn, not pointing to my "brains"!!

162. "Mommy, I think I'm going to marry you when I grow up." ~ Reid.

"You are?" ~ Mommy

"Yes, but what if we forget the rings?"~ Reid

"Oh, we won't forget them." ~ Mommy

"Maybe we should buy them now and put them in a special place." ~ Reid

161. "Mr. Matt, why do you not have so much hair?" ~ our friend Grant when he was over here playing.

"Grant, that is male pattern balding." ~ Matt

160. "I want to take my money and buy something for some kids who don't have any toys." ~ Reid. We took some money and bought some cars for the kids in Nashville who's homes were flooded. It was so cute to see him in the store for 20 minutes trying to pick out a toys for the kids. He kept saying, "I just can't decide."

159. "Mommy, come in here quick and look! This mop is AMAZING! It can clean anything!" ~ Reid walking in on an infomercial. The power of advertising!!

159. "Is Robin Batman's kick-side?" ~ Reid

158. "Mr. Christopher had something on his leg. I saw it when I was under the water. It looked like a stamp." ~ Reid

"Oh, that must have been a tattoo." ~ Mommy

"No, it couldn't have been a tattoo, because they come off when you are in the water a lot." ~ Reid

157. "Spiderman is going to versus the Joker." ~ Quinn, he knows that versus means against and he is trying to figure out how to use it.

156. "Why don't we ever go to King's Burger?" ~ Reid asking about Burger King.

155. "Mis-TER Christopher?" ~ Reid asking about his smimming teacher. (he thinks it is very cool is teacher is a man!)

154. "Christopher Robin sang us a ducky song while we were floating on our backs!" ~ Quinn (everyone loves Mr. Christopher)

153. "I want a baby." ~ Quinn

"Why" ~ Reid

"I just want a baby." ~ Quinn

"Well, we don't have one because God didn't put an egg in Mommy's tummy." ~ Reid

"Mommy, do you have a baby in your tummy?" ~ Quinn

"No" ~ Mommy

"Quinn, why do you want a baby?" ~Mommy

"Because he is cute and Charlie and Bailey have one." ~ Quinn

"You don't want a baby, cause they lick things." ~ Reid

"Like what?" ~ Quinn

"I don't know." ~ Reid

"Reid, why don't you want a baby?" ~ Mommy

"Cause they lick things....but I sure want a dog." ~ Reid

152. "Daddy got on the scale with me and I weighed 99.5 lbs.! Does Daddy weigh more than 100?"~ Reid
"Yes." ~ Mommy
"Do you weight more than 100?" ~ Reid
"Yes." ~ Mommy
"What presents do you get when you get to 100?" ~ Reid

151. "I'll take out the trash and give Connor his birthday present." ~ Quinn talking about the tissue paper in the birthday bag for Connor.

150. "I can have one turn and you can have one turn...I mean, I will have two turns and you can...I mean...I can have ten turns and you can have ten turns...." ~ Reid wanting to play games on the computer.

149. "A bird came in our house and laid a feather!!" ~ Quinn when he found a feather from a pillow.

148. The boys have been talking about wanting to get a pet. Quinn wants a cat and Reid wants a dog. I told them the good thing about a cat is you can pet them and then they go and play by themselves, but the bad thing is that you can't really play with them. The good thing about a dog is they will play with you, but the bad thing is that they want to play all the time. Reid said, "So what is the bad thing about a dog?" (Apparently, playing all the time isn't considered a bad thing when you are four years old.)

147. "What till Daddy sees us. He is going to say, "How are you doing that in the world!" ~ Quinn (I think he meant to say "How in the world are you doing that?")

146. "When we were in your tummy, how did we get out?" ~ Reid

"Well, I pushed you out." ~ Mommy

"Well when I push on my tummy, nothing comes out, so how did you do that?" ~ Reid

"You kind of came out of my skin." ~ Mommy

"How?" ~Reid

"Well, Reid, it is a long story." ~ Mommy

"Good! I love long stories!" ~ Reid

145. GB is here helping out while I'm traveling this week. The boys wanted to watch a show while she made dinner. GB said, "Reid, I haven't worked this remote in a while, and Mommy didn't show me before she left. I'm not sure if I know how to do it."

Reid said, "I'll show you... you know, Mommy didn't know how to do it at first either. She had to practice and practice and practice. That is what you have to do, too. Just practice and practice and practice.

144. "Quinn lost a tooth!! Look, Mommy, it looks like Quinn lost a tooth!"~ Reid commenting on the space between Quinn's two front teeth! Cracks me up...he just noticed?

143. "To infinity and beyond!! ... God our Father, God our Father...." ~ Quinn in his bedroom instead of sleeping.

142. "My face looks mean." Quinn drawing a smiley face on a heart for a Valentine's Day card.

"It still looks mean." after Mommy tried to fix it.

"I don't want a lady!" after Mommy drew eyelashes.

"It looks like she is ready to fight!" Quinn still concerned about the smiley face.

141. "Who is she? What is that girl? Reid, you missed the girl! Is that girl naughty?" Quinn looking at a picture of Gene Simmons of Kiss.

140. "That's a brilliant idea!!!" ~ Reid talking about building a fort in the living room.

139. "It sure if froggy out here!" ~ Quinn talking about the fog.

138. "I did a good job and this was the first night! We should tell everybody in the whole world!" ~ Reid about going potty at night and not in his nighttime pull-up!

137. "I don't have to go potty, I'm just dancing." ~ Quinn

"Quinn, there isn't any music."~ Mommy

136. "I just spilled a little water on my underwear." ~ Quinn

135. We call it poo-poo. Some people call it POOP. Like people in other countries call it poop but we call it poo-poo." ~ Reid

134. "Quinn, would a hug make you feel better?" ~ Reid

133. "My Batman pants disdappeared!" ~ Quinn

132. I was making a complicated dinner and had to chop, steam, saute, grill, and bake all at the same time. Reid was hungry and kept asking when we were going to have dinner. I said, "Reid, do you have any idea what all it takes to make this dinner?" He said, "Yes, it takes too much time!"

131. "When I grow up I'm going to find a nice girl and get married and build a house."~ Reid.

"That sounds like a good idea. If you want to find a nice girl, you are going to have to be a nice boy. You boys are so nice, I'm sure you will meet a nice girl." ~ Mommy

"I'm talking about the nice part where they look pretty." ~ Reid

"Quinn, what do you want to do when you grow up?"~ Mommy

"The same as Reid." ~ Quinn

130. "Daddy, we ate a bug!!" ~ Reid and Quinn after they ate a real "Spicy Mexican" bug at the Science Museum!

129. "We are going to play for another fifteen minutes and then we are going to take a nap." ~ Mommy

Silence...

"What did I just say?" ~ Mommy

"We are going to play for fifty-five minutes and then we are going to take a nap!" ~ Reid (nice try)

128. "Those are some mighty fine cookies, Mama!" ~ Reid looking at the cookies I made for their school party.

127. "I'm going to tell Uncle Dennis that Santa Clause has a chair like HIM!"~ Quinn after we saw Santa when we were at the Christmas train.

126. "I really love Isaac a lot!" ~ Quinn pretending to fly his airplane to Nebraska.

125. "I slept so long and when I woke up it was Christmas Eve!!" ~ Reid on December 20th!! (Will Christmas ever get here?)

124. Reid was helping Quinn put on his socks..."His feet are pretty big. They are bigger than my feet. I'm older so I'm taller than Quinn, and I think Quinn is thicker."

123. "Reid, don't go potty there!" ~ Matt telling Reid to go potty in the restroom. We stopped so much to go on the side of the road that Reid just started pulling his pants down when he got out of the car!

122. "I'm REA-DY!"~ Reid this morning at 5:45.

121. "It's the macaroni song! ~ Quinn talking about the Macarena song.

120. "Do you love Lauren?" ~ Mommy

"Yes, I do! I like the way she looks." ~ Reid

"What do you like about the way she looks?" ~ Mommy

"She has brownish black eyes. She also has a nice dress."~ Reid

119. "We are having a consequated." ~ Reid, I think he meant to say "We are having a conversation." (He and Quinn were talking.)

118. "When will it be Halloween again?" ~ Reid, the morning after Halloween.

117. "Trick or Treaters to the rescue." ~ Reid and Quinn every time they went to a new house.

116. "Probably I didn't take a nap." ~ Quinn when I asked him what he did in school today.

115. "When I grow up I'm going to be a doctor and take care of GB." ~ Reid

114. "I'm so tired of looking at Quinn's penis!" ~ Reid and everyone wishing Quinn would put on underwear!

113. "Quinn, let's get some underwear on you, OK?" ~ Mommy

"NoK" ~ Quinn

112. "That plant L-O-V-E-S my pee-pee!" ~ Quinn as he "watered" the plant at the park. (No, there weren't any potties to be found!)

111. "Look in my folder! The teacher writes it in there!" ~ Reid when I asked him what he did in school.

110. "Jupiter is the biggest planet in the WORLD." ~ Reid, they are learning about space!

109. "Grandma Alice has my nose." ~ Quinn when I said that he looks so much like Grandma Alice, he even has her nose.

108. "My birthday cake didn't say A N Y T H I N G!" ~ Reid in a sad voice as he was talking about Quinn's Batman cake. (Next year it will, Reid!! So sorry buddy!!)

107. "GB is in charge of the snacks!!" ~ Reid excited about snack time at GB and Grandpa's house.

106. "... and they all slept for a long time until the sun came up!" ~ the way Daddy ends all of his bedtime stories!

105 "I love him so much I don't know what to do to make me more happy!" ~ Reid talking about Monkey.

104. The boys were running around and I told Quinn he smelled like a puppy. He took a big long sniff and said, "You smell like rabbits!!"

103. "I don't know what you said, that didn't make a sentence, Quinn." ~ Reid to Quinn. Quinn just woke up and was trying to gather his thoughts.

102. "I don't like that dinner."~ Reid

"Reid, it really hurts my feelings when you say that you don't like my dinner and I worked so hard on it. How would you like it if you worked so hard on a picture for me and I said 'I don't like that?"

"I would make you a different one." ~ Reid

101. "I was worried about Quinn because I wanted to see him at nap time to see how he was doing." ~ Reid about Quinn's first day of school.

"Reid was thinking about me and I was thinking about him." ~ Quinn on their first day of school.

100. "It was my mouth." ~ Quinn after I asked if he tooted.

"Quinn, that wasn't your mouth...that sound came from your bottom!" ~ Reid

99. "No, no, no...you go clean up." ~ Quinn telling me to go away because he wanted to put on his shorts himself.

98. "I'm just going to worry about myself and not Quinn!" ~ Reid when he woke up before Quinn. I told him he could watch something while I worked. (I must say, you worry about yourself...a lot!)

97. "My head hurts and I have a fever right here." ~ Quinn pointing to his head and leg. He wanted a little attention because Reid wasn't feeling too good.

96. "I want some Raisin Bram!" ~ Quinn

85. "If you leave, I won't have any more mommies and daddies to talk to me." ~ Quinn as I was explaining that I was going away to work for a few days. Ok...now I'm really crying!

84. "When we were in your tummy and we were born, did we come out of your skin? How did we do that?" ~ Reid. We've been having a lot of birthday discussions. We even took out our baby tubs & baby books! They are getting so big!

83. "We don't know if it is a girl or a boy because we don't know it's name."~ Reid when I asked if he thought the elephant in the book was a boy or a girl. (I guess that is how you tell the difference...that and long hair apparently!)

82. "QUINN IS GOING TO CUT HIS PEE-PEE OFF!!" ~ Reid yelled to me while I was in the bathroom. They had been cutting paper in the morning. Quinn took off all of his clothes to go to the bathroom and when he returned, he was opening and closing the scissors in a dangerous area!

81. "Daddy, kiss Mommy on the face!"~ Quinn as we were all passing out hugs and kisses!

80. "It's an extremeless shark!" ~ Reid

"What is an extremeless shark?" ~ Mommy

"I don't know, I just wanted to say those words! ~ Reid

79. "This family needs another baby." ~ Reid

"It does?" ~ Mommy

"How did you get a baby in your tummy?" ~ Reid

"Well Mommy and Daddy love each other very much so God helped us get a baby in my tummy." ~ Mommy

"Well, how did God do that?~ Reid

"I'll look that up and get back to you!" ~ Mommy

78. "I want some privacy." ~ Quinn as he went potty.

"I went on the potty and my pee-pee got stuck."~ Quinn (still not sure what he means by this! A little concerning!)

77. "We have to go there, and then there, and then there, and then there, and then there, and then there, and then there, ... (30 times)" ~ Reid said in a crying voice as he pointed to calendar spaces until he reached his birthday.

76. "They said there were going to be characterSSS." ~ Reid wondering why there was only the cow at Chick-fil-a.

75. "What starts with the letter P that is not a potty word?" ~ Reid (We are having issues with this...already??)

74. "Daddy, come and check on me in 4 minutes...I may have a fever." ~ Reid needing a little attention while Quinn has a tummy ache.

73. "Maybe on the way home from the park some water leaked out of my cup and spilled into my underwear." ~ Reid explaining why his underwear was a little wet.

72. "I'm going to marry you, Mommy, when I get as big as you, I'm going to marry YOU!" ~ Reid "Why do you want to marry me?" ~ Mommy "Because at weddings there is supposed to be a mommy AND a daddy." ~ Reid

71. "Go put on your underwear...go put on your underwear...we aren't going to play until you put on your underwear!"~ Mommy

70. "But you can't pet a goldfish!" ~ Reid wanting to know if we could get a dog or cat for a pet.

69. "But Mommy, you went pee-pee in the lake when we were on the boat with Mrs. Sandra and Mr. Stewart." ~ Reid after I told him to go to the bathroom before we go to the pool! Great!

68. "What happened to our nap? Where did our nap go?" ~ Reid and Quinn after being on the boat all day. They were so tired!

67. We were praying for all of our friends and family and we got to the end of the list and Matt said, "Is there anyone else you would like to pray for?" The kids came up with a few more people and then Quinn said, "Pray for Daddy's HAIR!"

66. "Is he not very nice? Is he naughty? Is he a little naughty?" ~ Quinn when he sees characters in books without big smiles.

65. "If we are ever playing on the stairs and fall backwards and bust our head open...is Jesus there with us, too?" ~ Reid, asking me questions about Jesus after reading our Children's Bible.

64. "I did a popsicle recycle!" ~ Reid, trying to say he did a obstacle course with recycling bins. 5/9/09

63. "He still has a smile on his face!" ~ Reid, talking about the frog in the driveway that I accidently ran over.

62. "Quinn your head is just getting bigger!"~ Reid, explaining why Quinn's hat didn't fit.

61. "Are Quinn's eyes still rusty?"~ Reid, wondering if Quinn had pink eye.

60. "Where is the other kid's food pyramid?" ~ Reid when he wasn't really sure he liked the answer to why our bodies need healthy food. I believe he thought the top of the pyramid should be a little bigger!

59. "I like doing adventures with you, Mommy!" ~ Reid

58. "Smell with your nose, I smell pizza!" ~ Reid

57. "Can you do like this? Can you do this, Mommy? Can you do this? Can you do like this, Mommy? Can you do this?" ~ Reid and Quinn posing their Spiderman action figures to see if I could get into the same positions! The answer was always, "no!"

56. "Do we have any of those long things that make your fingers orange?" ~ Reid requesting "Cheetos"

55. "Mommy, are you 60?" ~ Reid. (Seriously, Reid???)

54. "Mommy, you look handsome!" ~ Reid (Wow, maybe I should wear makeup more often!)

53. "I'm going to get married with Quinn." ~ Reid when we asked if he would ever get married. Not sure if he meant to Quinn or with Quinn.

52. "That's the underwear pocket, Mommy." ~ Quinn, sticking his hand in the front flap in his new underwear.

51. "Maybe on special occasions the shopping man puts protein in our bread!" ~ Reid explaining to us why it would be ok to eat just bread for dinner. (Reid I'm there with you on that!)

50. "My bumper hurts...I need some cough medicine." ~ Quinn

49. "Do you have to go poo-poo on the potty? Can you go? Did you push? Can you push harder? Can you do it? We can get a car if you do!!" ~ Reid to Quinn (talk about pressure!)

48. "What T is it?" ~ Reid wanting to know what size his new shirt was. I believe he thinks that if it is 4T or 5T he is closer to a birthday.

47. "If we are playing and you forget, I'm going to remind you that we need to go to Cindy and Dennis' house." ~ Reid

46. "They made a good dinner, Quinn, so don't spit it out." ~ Reid

45. "Take those out of your ears or I'm taking them away!!" ~ Matt talking to the boys about their vitamins.

44. "Can I give you some privacy?" ~ Reid as he closed the bathroom door!

43. "Can we go in the sacozy?" ~ Reid. He wanted to take a bath in the jacuzzi.

42. "Oh...my...goodness...Reid...has....treasure!" ~ Quinn looking at Reid's backpack with a lollypop in it from school. They get treasures when they make good choices. 2-19-09

41. "Can you learn? Can you learn where they go? I don't need to help you anymore if you can learn where they go." ~ Reid's response to Quinn's 5th request for help on a puzzle.

40. "If that boy can eat a whole hot dog, it's time to get outta them Huggies!" ~ a guy in Sam's jokingly told me about Quinn.

39. "I love you even more than before I met you!" ~ Kim to Matt. Yes, even I say funny things!

38. "It says, "t-h-e--r-o-b-o-t." ~ Reid, when I said I didn't know the words to the scary looking transformers movie book that I accidently checked out from the library. He was going to help me!

37. "I'm going to do something very, very naughty..." ~ Quinn.

(thanks for the warning!)

36. "I know who that is....Obock Obama" ~ Reid looking at a t-shirt of our new president.

35. At church tonight we were saying, "Jesus heals the broken hearted." Reid turned to me and asked, "Does Jesus fix people who are broken?" I said, "Yes, He does!" Then he thought about it a little more and then said, "Jesus is like a super hero!" Yes, He is!

34. "Don't say 'three'!" ~ Quinn, when I have to count to get him in his car seat.

33. "I'll kiss it! Spiderman kisses something when someone gets hurt! ~ Reid, as he kissed Quinn's foot when he fell down.

32. "Our teachers at school never sleep!" ~ Reid

"They don't?" ~ Mommy

"No, there are no beds there and they have to teach boys and girls to learn all the time!" ~ Reid

31. Baby Kenzie's knick knack name is "ZZ". ~ Reid

30. "Sonic is for Corn Dogs!" ~ Reid, when we told him we were stopping at Sonic for ice-cream after his Art Show.

29. "When you are little, you are a little boy and when you grow up, you are called a daddy. When I group up I'm going to be a Daddy..... and .... Spider-Man!" ~ Reid (You are going to make some woman very happy!)

28. "I love you, Quinn!" ~ Mommy

"I love Daddy!"~ Quinn

"I love you! ~ Mommy

"I love Daddy! ~ Quinn

"Who loves Mommy?" ~ Mommy

"Quinn!" ~ Quinn

27. "I want milk in REID'S cup. I want to sit in Reid's chair. I want Reid's truck!"~ Quinn on Tuesdays and Thursdays when Reid is in school.

26. "Pretty soon I'm going to be 4 ... 80 inches tall!!" ~ Reid

25. "Mommy, I need some yawn medicine because I can't stop yawning!" ~ Reid

24. Reid and I were playing "Sequence for Kids" and he beat me the first game. We shook hands and I said, "Good game, maybe I'll win the next one!" He said, "Ok, let me look at the directions (as he pulled them out of the box). Ok, let me see...it says to play two times and I think I'm going to win." Seriously, he beat me EVERY game we played that morning...fair and square!

23. Reid and I were talking about numbers and I told him that they go on forever and ever and never stop. You can count forever and never get to the end. He said, "Just like the lights on the dance mat. They never end either!" Yup, just like that!!

22. "I want to brush my teeth a-f-t-e-r we do naked dancing!" ~ Reid

21. We went to church on Christmas Eve. On our way out a lady was passing out chocolate Santa Clauses. I told the boys they could hold them and have them after dinner. Reid did. When we turned into our neighborhood we turned around and Quinn had a big chocolate smile. He had eaten through the tin foil (sounds like a puppy!) I said, "Quinn, what are you doing?" He replied, "Anything!!" (That means 'I'm not doing anything') Hmmmmm. 12-24-08

20. We've been reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas every night for about 3 weeks now. The boys know it by heart.

Every time I read...

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.

I hear....

"I like cherries!" ~ Reid

"I like chicken nuggets! ~Quinn

He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

"I like jelly!" ~ Quinn

19. We saw a man fixing the car-wash and I told the boys he was filling it back up with soap. Reid said, "...and appetizers, too!" I asked him what appetizers were and he said, "I don't know, but grownups say it!" (We've been bringing lots of appetizers to parties lately!!)

18. "You got to move it, move it. You got to move it, move it! Rudolph red nose reindeer...hmmm hmmm...hiny nose." ~ Quinn sings instead of napping.

17. "I'm hungry!! I want some oatmeal!!"~ Quinn, right after eating toast, two eggs and strawberries. "There is some under your plate...(Quinn looks)...I was just pretending."~ Reid

16. "I want to see Rudolph at the North Pole...sit on Santa's lap. I want to see Rudolph and Santa Claus at the North Pole. I want to do that!" ~ Quinn

15. "Be careful with the "Chrima" tree?" ~ Quinn after taking some of the ornaments off the tree. (I have a feeling it is going to be a long 23 days.)

14. "That's the biggest tree in the world I didn't see in a long time! Is is snowing?" ~ Reid when he woke up and saw that we put our tree up while he was sleeping.

13. We were on our way to the Winter Fest and Quinn was crying about something. Reid was ready to go, but knew we were having a hard time getting out of the house with Quinn. He said, "Just pick Quinn up, Daddy!" (Maybe I've said that once or twice, too!)

12. Reid and Quinn both have a bad cough. We think it is croup. Reid was saying that he couldn't quit coughing and his throat hurt. Matt said, "You just have a little bug." Reid got the strangest look on his face and said, "Did it crawl down my throat?" Of course, we both started laughing and tried to explain what he meant and that is wasn't a real bug. But right in the middle of our explanation, he said, "Was it a dead bug?" Poor guy...now he will have nightmares!

11. "You do not do that. When Daddy says to not do that you don't not doing that. Do you understand? " ~ Daddy (Mommy laughing) "No." ~ Quinn "The right answer is 'yes', Quinn" ~ Daddy (laughing)

10. "My pacifier is BROOOOOOKE!! ~ Quinn

9. "My pacifier is broke!!" ~ Quinn when we cut the tip off of his pacifier. We are trying to get rid of it. So sad!!

8. "I want to go to Taco-ba-Vana." ~ Quinn requesting a dinner location.

7. "I would like some lemonems. I would like some emenlems." ~ Reid asking for M&M's. He wasn't sure what they were called.

6. "I want Cheerios and Jesus." ~ Quinn when we told him that he had to put down his snack before we went into church.

5. "When a boy grows up he is called a man and when a girl grows up she is a princess. ~ Reid

4. "Dares Superman!" ~ Every time Quinn sees a Halloween figure with a long cloak. 10-08

3. "Are those poopy diapers up there?" ~ Reid as we were walking in our neighborhood and he saw ghosts in the trees. They were made with white plastic trash bags and balls for heads.

2. "I'm not sleepy, I just don't want to see anything!" ~ Reid's reply to me when I told him he was sleepy and needed a nap because his eyes kept closing.

1. "They are wet from my tears." ~ Reid, when I asked why his shorts were wet. He was having a difficult time in school. 9-08