Hi I'm Joel

A couple of days ago I overheard Joel introducing himself on a pretend game show he had created. His intro went something like this, "Hi, I'm Joel Ethington, I'm a cub scout, I have a lot of cool dance moves and I can climb really high in trees." It's interesting to hear how he defines himself and I'm thrilled that he has such high confidence. I hope that's a characteristic that he never loses.

Cara saw me putting mascara on and said, "I wanna polish your eyelashes Mommy."

She's a character with personality plus. I can't quite figure out who she is going to be.

I'm way spoiled. Kelly took the kids grocery shopping today and hauled them all off to soccer. Then I went shopping all afternoon (the retail therapy kind) and then Kelly took all the kids to Microcenter with him when I got back. Then he had the gall to ask me to help him put them to bed. Je suis si sure!

The Dau of Eli

TODAY

Eli: "Mommy what if there was a boy and he needed to go potty, and he pointed his penis straight up and the pee pee went in his mouth?" (said with manic giddiness, wonder and awe for his own supposition)

Me: "That would be disgusting."

Eli: "Yeah cuz nobody likes to drink their own pee, not even Jesus."

Yeah.

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Eli: "Mommy, how old is Christopher Columbus?"

Me: "He's dead, but he lived about five or six hundred years ago."

Eli: "Yeah, but how OLD is he?"

Me: "He's dead . . . yada yada yada"

Eli: "Oh, you don't have birthdays in heaven?"

Me: "No."

Eli: "Oh, oh cuz you can't eat in heaven and on your birthday you have to eat cake or cupcakes, so you can't have birthdays in heaven."

Yeah.