Connor: Daddy's don't cook very much.
Mommy: Hmmm.
Connor: Neither do Poppa's.
Mommy: (Attempts to stifle laughing.)
Connor: Maybe they're not very good at it.
Jake: Yeah.
Mommy: (No longer even trying... just laughing so hard I cry.)
Friday, May 23, 2008
Along the lines of "When I grow up"
Jake: Mommy, your minivan is so cool.
Mommy: Thanks Jake
Jake: Mommy, when I'm an adult I'm going to drive a minivan.
Mommy: Well, you might want to drive a different car. Something faster or cooler.
Jake: No, I want a minivan so that on daddy days I can drive all of my family around, including you mommy!
(Mommy's heart melts at this point. See why I'm cool with him living with me forever?)
Mommy: Thanks Jake
Jake: Mommy, when I'm an adult I'm going to drive a minivan.
Mommy: Well, you might want to drive a different car. Something faster or cooler.
Jake: No, I want a minivan so that on daddy days I can drive all of my family around, including you mommy!
(Mommy's heart melts at this point. See why I'm cool with him living with me forever?)
Jake's Preschool Graduation!
May 19th, 2008 - Monday 7:00 PM
Jake's school had a big graduation ceremony for all of the PreK kids. It was pretty impressive. The kids all dressed in cute little cap and gowns and they all stood up there and showed off all the songs and dances and things they learned in preschool. Then they had a great slide show of the kids answering questions like, "What makes a good teacher?" and "What did you learn in school?"
Then the kids went to the back and the director called each child's name and they would come up front receive their "diploma" and walk over to a microphone and tell everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Well let me just back pedal a little bit and tell a story from a few months ago. Jake was getting ready for bed and he was asking what he could be when he grew up.
Jake: Mommy what should I be when I grow up?
Mommy: Well you get to decide when your a grow up. What kind of things are you interested in?
Jake: Well it would be cool to be an astronaut.
Mommy: Very cool, what else?
Jake: How about a race car driver?
Mommy: Ummm, that's pretty dangerous.
Jake: What job could I have and still live at home with you?
Mommy: That's a great idea! You could be a telecommuter and then you could work from home all day long and live with Mommy!
Fast forward to preschool graduation day. Jake is the very first child called and he walks straight up to that microphone and determinedly shouts, "I want to be a telecommuter when I grow up!"
The entire hall cracks up laughing and Rob gives me the evil eye and says, "That's not even a job it's a method of working. And besides I thought we agreed we would encourage him to move out of the house at 18?"
Hmmm.... looks like I need to find an occupation for Jake where he can live next door to me.
Jake's school had a big graduation ceremony for all of the PreK kids. It was pretty impressive. The kids all dressed in cute little cap and gowns and they all stood up there and showed off all the songs and dances and things they learned in preschool. Then they had a great slide show of the kids answering questions like, "What makes a good teacher?" and "What did you learn in school?"
Then the kids went to the back and the director called each child's name and they would come up front receive their "diploma" and walk over to a microphone and tell everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Well let me just back pedal a little bit and tell a story from a few months ago. Jake was getting ready for bed and he was asking what he could be when he grew up.
Jake: Mommy what should I be when I grow up?
Mommy: Well you get to decide when your a grow up. What kind of things are you interested in?
Jake: Well it would be cool to be an astronaut.
Mommy: Very cool, what else?
Jake: How about a race car driver?
Mommy: Ummm, that's pretty dangerous.
Jake: What job could I have and still live at home with you?
Mommy: That's a great idea! You could be a telecommuter and then you could work from home all day long and live with Mommy!
Fast forward to preschool graduation day. Jake is the very first child called and he walks straight up to that microphone and determinedly shouts, "I want to be a telecommuter when I grow up!"
The entire hall cracks up laughing and Rob gives me the evil eye and says, "That's not even a job it's a method of working. And besides I thought we agreed we would encourage him to move out of the house at 18?"
Hmmm.... looks like I need to find an occupation for Jake where he can live next door to me.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Spring Break 2008
Okay, I know I'm over a month late posting Spring Break pictures... but they're here at last. We went with Nana and Poppa to Gatlinburg and stayed at the Westgate Smokey Mountain Resort. The boys loved it. As we entered the National Park, Rob and I kept saying, "Okay, boys were now in The Great Smoky Mountains." Connor immediately piped up and said, "It's not good to smoke. Why are the mountains smoking?" We had a lot of fun with that one! I'm not really sure that Connor understands our explanation of the name for the mountains still.
The resort was awesome. They had an indoor water park that was perfect for the kids. Of course they wanted to spend every free moment there. Even Nicholas loved it and got into going down the little kid slides.
We also went into Pigeon Forge and saw some shows. The boys loved going to see the magic show and were thrilled when we left with magic wands for them. They kept saying crazy things like, "Hocus Pocus now your a dragon!" Finally Mommy took the wands and made all the boys disappear!
We also spent two days at Dollywood, because of course the Bramhalls love an amusement park! We rode lots of great rides, although most of them involved us getting soaked. Luckily the weather wasn't too cold. We rode the bumper cars as well. Jake and rode together and Connor rode with Rob. While we were all getting buckled in, Connor looks right at me and says, "Your going down Mommy!" Of course I died laughing and Rob was thrilled that Connor had said what he told him to at just the right moment. So of course the theme for the rest of the trip at the park was, "Your going down!"
Rob had to fly out to Boston for work for two of the days, but that didn't slow us down. We went hiking in the Park and saw a dinner show. Of course we swam so much at the water park that I couldn't get the smell of chlorine off of us!
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