Zach's vocabulary

So, my boy's amaze me on a constant basis. The things they said and the thoughts they come up with just blow me away. Zach's vocabulary has really grown lately and he's saying new things every day. It's a lot of fum watching him learn how to communicate. He'll still point to things he wants at times, and he also takes me by the hand and leads me to where he wants to go, but he's also starting to talk more and more. I asked him the other day if his dinner was yummy, and he said yes. A minute later he asked me "Yummy, Mommy? Yummy Mommy?". He also bonked me or stepped on me the other day and, right after he did, he said sorry and then asked "You ok Mommy? This is such a fun age as he's learning to do things more and more on his own and learning how to communicate better. Zach was pretty sick yesterday and today. He was wake from 1:00-2:00 am, trying to get him taken care of. We were in my room, in front of the t.v., and he pointed to the t.v. and said very clearly, "Thomas?", meaning Thomas the Tank Engine since he loves trains. I don't think I've heard him say that before so I was pretty impressed.
As a side note, Nathan just amazes me constantly. The things he thinks about and says just blow me away. I think he's a smart kid. He also loves to build things. He'll build the most amazing things with his Kinex and Legos. It'll be interesting to see what he'll end up doing for a living.
One last thing, Jeff has been gone to Louisiana for Britney's open house out there. He's been gone for trips before, but I think I've missed him more on this trip than ever before. As I watched him drive away on Thursday, I had a really hard time watching him go. The boys have missed him and asked about him. Nathan knew that he would be gone, and so he hasn't asked as much, since he knew what to expect. Zach's asked about him a lot. He's coming back tonight and I think we're all really excited to have him home.

Nathan's Family Plan

Ok, so back in January, right after Nathan turned 4, he started asking questions about babies, including where babies come from, etc. He asked me if we were ever going to have another baby at our house since Zach is getting big. I told him we probably would, but it wouldn't be for a while longer. I asked him if it would be ok with him if we had another baby at our house. He said yes, and that it would be a girl, and that she would be so cute!. Since then, he's randomly mentioned that we're going to have a baby girl. This has continued, with no prompting from me, for the last few months.

So, the latest addition to this story is that we were in the truck on Wednesday, heading to soccer practice, when he mentioned something about then there will be six people in our family. I asked him about it, and he said after we had a baby girl we would have six in our family. I told him that oinly makes five, and then he said, we're going to have two baby girls. This was new and I told him I didn't know about that! He also said that he decided on a good name for his baby sister. Since he had two friends named Jake, we should name his baby sister Jake as well, that way he'd have three friends name Jake. I told him that Jake is a boy name, so he decided to name her Alisa instead. I asked him if it was Allysa (since he has a friend named that), and he said that, no, it was Alisa. As a side note, I'm not pregnant. I just thought I'd detail Nathan's plans for our family before I forgot about them. So, we'll have to see what happens down the road.

The beginning

Ok, so I've thought about a blog for a little while and we'll see how things go. My plan is to use this more as a journal to catch the things my boys do while they're growing up. I'm horrible about writing in a journal, so hopefully this will be a better option, and others can laugh at my family's antics as they grow up. For example, Nathan was hilarious today. He was extremely polite this afternoon. I mean, he's usually polite, but his was more so than usual. We went to dinner at Sizzler and he was so excited to go and get chicken nuggets. He was very willing to share with Zach and was just a sweetheart.

Zach was really funny too. He started to say a lot more than usual and is excited with his expanded vocabulary. He kept pointing at the lights and telling me about them. I got some watermelon for him and I would cut the slice so it was smaller and more manageable for him. He had already had two small slices and I was about to cut a third one for him, when he yelled at me and said "don't cut", or at least that's what we think he said. It was hilarious.

Ok, finally the cute thing for the night is we did our normal bedtime routine and did stories, scriptures, prayers, and then hugs and kisses. Nathan usually gives Jeff a hug and a kiss first, but this time he did me first since Jeff had left the room. After he went to give Jeff hugs and kisses, he came back and told me that, since Dad needed to be first, he wiped off my kiss, but now that Dad had one I could give him one. Funny funny boy. At bedtime, Zach wanted nothing to do with Jeff putting him into his crib, and demanded I do it. He was fine with Jeff doing everything else, other than actually putting him in his bed. Hilarious.

Ok, so that's enough for now. I'm hopeful to be good about keeping up with their antics and hope you enjoy it as well.