Josiah's Birthday Interview - Age 4

1. What's your name

Siah!

2. How Old are you?

3? … 4

3. What makes you happy?

*smiles* Kaiden. Kaiden make me happy. Hey, Kaiden do you make me happy? "no!" mommy, kaiden didn't make me happy!

4. What do you like to do with kaiden?

He loves me. "I don't love you!" mommy, kaiden didn't love me!

5. What is your favorite animal?

horse

6. What do you like to eat?

marshmallows cereal

7. What is your favorite thing to do?

nose ?

8. What is your favorite tv show?

real race cars

9. What is your favorite color?

blue

10. What is your favorite song?

*Sings random words*

11. Who is your best friend?

daddy is my fren.

12. What do you like to do with daddy?

daddy likes to fight me.

13. What do you like to do with mommy?

I love you.

14. What do you like to do outside?

play bikes

15. What is your favorite game?

a basketball game

16. Who is your favorite hero?

superman

17. What is your favorite toy?

rescue bot

18. What is your favorite Cereal?

marshmallow

19. What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to grow up like a baby.

20. What's your favorite day?

uhhh party rocking.   ?

He refused to put pants on. 

Catch up!

Well, it's been quite awhile since I wrote. 

Things have been... up and down lately.

My husband got a job that was about an hour away from where we were living. 

We had to move. I hate moving. I love it, but hate it. 

I like the change. But I miss what I'm leaving. Not to mention the packing and unpacking.

Craziness! 

We had a few set backs but we're moved in. Not all the way unpacked though. 

Our house is tiny and I don't love it, so I've been procrastinating. 

BUT I realized I've had the wrong attitude about it and I'm coming around. 

I can't keep telling myself that it's only for a year or else I'll never make it a home. 

Even if it's for a year, that is a year of memories I can't get back. 

Even if this is only a small chapter until the next, big one, it's still a chapter. 

I don't want my boys to look back and remember this as just a house we stayed in for a time.

I want it to be a home where we had good memories. Even if its just a years worth. 

You never know when you won't be able to make new memories. 

Here's a few memories we've already made here;

We had to buy a new stove! It's the first one I've owned. The boys got to help put it together. :)

We had a REALLY nice day and the boys got to enjoy the water hose. 

Kenneth made a cake for my birthday! And it tasted pretty good! 

Daddy left his shaving cream out... this wasn't even all of it.

Our backyard has LOTS of worms to catch so we can go fishing!

I know this post was boring, but I just need to catch you all up real quick.

The six month mark of my brother's death is coming up on the 23rd. 

I can't believe it's been 6 months.

Miss you, Dolly.

Hunting Dinosaurs

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 Tonight is one of those nights that I enjoy playing with my kids. Some nights they just fight the whole time or disobey me every 5 minutes. But tonight we had a blast. 

 My husband is working evenings this week. After a few nights of it, the boys and I start getting frustrated with each other. 

 Sometimes I get so caught up in other things that don't matter. Like facebook or looking at recipes pinterest. Anything to distract myself. Sometimes I get frustrated when they try to interrupt. Now Josiah grabs my faces and says, "Mommy, look at me. I need to talk to you." It really stings when he has to get my attention because I don't pay attention to him from the start. Sometimes I block them out because  I get tired of having to stop their brawls or their mess making. I'll just have them help clean it up when its done. If they hurt themselves fighting, maybe they'll learn from it? 

 But there are lots of times where they ask me to play and I do. We play cars or racing or wrestling. Jo is getting a little too rough, so I try to hold him off til Daddy is home to wrestle. 

Tonight they found flashlights and shut off all the lights. When I asked what they were doing, Josiah was immediately offended. He told me "SHHH, mommy! What's that? Find the dinosaurs!" So we walked through all the rooms and looked under all our toys and blankets. But all we could find were invisible sleeping spiders! Josiah wouldn't let me squish them. And then a dinosaur got me and so Josiah had to shoot me. But when they sat on me I came back to life. Then I cooked them into some brother stew. But they said they tasted like poop, so I didn't eat them. Then we played "hide and go scare". Which is basically where I hide in the dark and they come find me and I scare them. They love it! Now that Jo is older, he hides too. Kaiden tries to hide but... its ALWAYS under the table. Every. Time. Josiah is a good big brother though, and does a really good fake scream and acts like Kaid really scared him. 

 The last few days they have been cracking me up. Josiah has decided he's a comedian. Everything he says is followed by, "That was funny, huh?" and then a chuckle. 

 He told me he wanted to go swimming yesterday. After I explained it was too cold and we could go when it was warm, he said "I have a jacket, Ma!". His logic is fool proof. 

They have provided more laughs for me this week than a real comedian would have. 

My comedian with his bath hair <3

Just a couple of silly geese. :)