So our neighbor was telling me how her son, Collin, had his first school age kiss from a girl. A few days after this Vaughn just plurts out to me that he kissed Collin. I asked him where he kissed him and he said on the cheek. He confirmed with me that he really does like Collin and that Collin is a pretty cool kid. I told him that we really only kiss our family and probably shouldn't kiss our friends. This sparked Torin to share his wisdom and it went a little something like this:
"Vaughn when you get older you will meet a girl. You two will hang out with each other, for awhile, and then you'll love each other and get married. Once you are married then you can kiss her. I mean, you'll probably date for some time and then after your married you can have babies."
The best is the tone that Torin has when he is "preaching" this to Vaughn. As though he has SO much experience with this and that he just laying out the facts to him.
Vaughn didn't have much of a response except for looking at Torin with a pretty much blank expression. These two fill my life with unknown amounts of comedy!!!
September 2, 2010
September 1, 2010
Happy Baby!!!!
I just love it when I walk into Bercan's room either in the morning or after one of his naps and he is just SO excited to see me. Literally, there is a grin from ear to ear with drool running out of his mouth and his body is just about bursting with excitement.
Why shouldn't he be like that? I mean after all he has no worries and the sight of my face makes him SO happy!! His body is bouncing and is ready for the day to start, to play and just be a little baby boy.
It made me start to think when does that stop? It's not like Torin and Vaughn wake up quite like that but they are definitely excited in the morning and have energy busting out of every limb. I'm amazed sometimes going into their rooms at 7am to find that they have turned their bed and box spring into a slide and are gleefully sliding down it with giggles and smiles looking up at me as I enter the room.
But seriously I can't remember the last time that I woke up and just bounced out of bed so excited to start the day that I had a perma grin on my face. Wouldn't it be amazing if we still did that as adults? That we would look over at our spouse and just be thrilled to see them every morning. Instead I hardly roll over to look at Bjorn but more am rolling out of bed with my eyes half open, stumble into the bathroom to get ready to workout. Trust me there is not even a slight grin on my face at this time in the morning.
So I am going to challenge myself and others that read this to try it. Pick a day that when you wake up that you are just bursting with excitement, smiling from ear to ear and that your body is bubbling with joy! If your spouse asks you what drugs you are on just tell them "Life". After all, if we are waking up in bed that is warm with a roof over our heads shouldn't we be so excited to start our day like this for being so blessed?
Why shouldn't he be like that? I mean after all he has no worries and the sight of my face makes him SO happy!! His body is bouncing and is ready for the day to start, to play and just be a little baby boy.
It made me start to think when does that stop? It's not like Torin and Vaughn wake up quite like that but they are definitely excited in the morning and have energy busting out of every limb. I'm amazed sometimes going into their rooms at 7am to find that they have turned their bed and box spring into a slide and are gleefully sliding down it with giggles and smiles looking up at me as I enter the room.
But seriously I can't remember the last time that I woke up and just bounced out of bed so excited to start the day that I had a perma grin on my face. Wouldn't it be amazing if we still did that as adults? That we would look over at our spouse and just be thrilled to see them every morning. Instead I hardly roll over to look at Bjorn but more am rolling out of bed with my eyes half open, stumble into the bathroom to get ready to workout. Trust me there is not even a slight grin on my face at this time in the morning.
So I am going to challenge myself and others that read this to try it. Pick a day that when you wake up that you are just bursting with excitement, smiling from ear to ear and that your body is bubbling with joy! If your spouse asks you what drugs you are on just tell them "Life". After all, if we are waking up in bed that is warm with a roof over our heads shouldn't we be so excited to start our day like this for being so blessed?
Torin Parenting
I always love how Torin will go through a difficult phase in his young life and then be able to remember the lesson from it only to parent his brother with it. In the moment it is a mix of sweetness with a little of me rolling my eyes :)
This morning Vaughn just couldn't find a pair of shorts even though he had a pile of them in his drawer. He said in a very whinny and almost crying voice "I wearry don't like does shorts and I don't want to wear dem." Torin looked down at his whinny brother said in a smooth gentle voice "Vaughn you need to appreciate what you have. Some kids don't have any shorts at all." Vaughn's response to this was "I don't want to be affrecitive TORIN!". Torin just shook his head in disappointment and walked out of his room.
Funny thing is that I literally cannot recount the number of times that I have said this to Torin and I can only imagine how many days it will be until I'm saying the same thing to him again....I would give it about oh say 7 days as that is the day that school starts :)
This morning Vaughn just couldn't find a pair of shorts even though he had a pile of them in his drawer. He said in a very whinny and almost crying voice "I wearry don't like does shorts and I don't want to wear dem." Torin looked down at his whinny brother said in a smooth gentle voice "Vaughn you need to appreciate what you have. Some kids don't have any shorts at all." Vaughn's response to this was "I don't want to be affrecitive TORIN!". Torin just shook his head in disappointment and walked out of his room.
Funny thing is that I literally cannot recount the number of times that I have said this to Torin and I can only imagine how many days it will be until I'm saying the same thing to him again....I would give it about oh say 7 days as that is the day that school starts :)
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