out of sight

Ben started swimming lessons today. Afterward I told him he did a great job swimming but that he needed to listen to his teacher a little better and not talk to the kids as much. He looked at me and said, "Honey, you just shouldn't watch me."

fuss-pot?

Ben tried to wake Ted up this morning (those of you that know Ted know that this is not an easy thing to do). Ben came up to me and said, "He won't wake up, that big old fuss pot!" Who knows where he got that from!

What an imagination

We put Ben to bed the other night and about 25 minutes later he got up. I went to ask him why he was up and this is what he said: "I heard a noise in the house that sounded exactly like an alien spaceship, so I started thinking that the spaceship is probably black with yellow polka-dots on it." Clearly...

Ben's growing vocabulary

Benton and Reed got in a little fight today (well, they fight everyday) but this time Ted got upset with them. Ben was crying because Reed hit him, threw his pillow down and then Daddy was angry with him. I was holding him when he said, "I have a hateful brother (sob, sob), he threw my pillow down and pushed my quarter under the fridge (sob, sob), I have a hurtful and hateful brother."

Earlier today he told me that peanut butter sandwiches make him nauseous.

Yesterday he said to Pa, "I am a genius, I know more about bikes than you do."

A few days ago he opened a DVD case where the DVD was missing and he yelled, "Damnit!" (Let's hope he doesn't repeat that one!)

I don't know where he is learning all these words?!