More Cole

I feel like all of my blogs are turning into "Things Cole says", but I know if I don't write these down, I will never remember them when he is older. Here are two more from this morning:

He comes in my room early this moring and tells me that he had a dream. In his dream there was a T-Rex in our house and he ate Josh...nobody else, just Josh. I asked him why the dinosaur ate Josh and he said "well he was being mean. He kept feeding him boogered peanuts." I asked him what he meant by "boogered peanuts" and he says "oh you know those things where you take a peanut and put it up your nose and then take it out - a boogered peanut". I told him I was still sad that the dinosaur ate Josh and he said "it's OK. You really didn't care in my dream because he had been kicking you."

Then Alaria came in and was jumping on my bed. She jumped up and landed right on my face. I heard my nose pop and then blood came gushing out everywhere. I was trying to catch it and it was running down my arms and all over my comforter - agh! Anyway, Cole says "Mom, you might want to keep that blood. Just in case you do decide to become a vampire, you might need it."

What a Kid

Cole sure has a strange way of showing his love for me. Here are two funny stories from the last couple of days:

On Tuesday he came home from pre-school and had been learning about "Dr. Martin Luther King" so I started asking him what he learned and why this man was important. He told me that he was special and becuase he had a dream that people with different colors of skin could get along. So I tried to take this opportunity to teach him about what life was like before this time, and then explained that it is good to be friends with everyone - it doesn't matter what color their skin is, what color their hair is, what color their eyes are, etc. and he interrupts me and says "Oh like you mom, I can be your friend even though you're a girl but you have short hair"

Today I was singing to the kids while I made breakfast and Cole yells out "No Mom! Wait, how many judges are there again on American Idol?" (I tell him 4) "OK, well then theis is what you would hear if you were on American Idol: No, No, No, NO. You're NOT going to Hollywood!"

And this has nothing to do with me personally, but still makes me laugh when I think of it. The other night Cole declared that "my two worst enemies are JEANS and SLEEPING"

Lastly - a sweet one - yesterday I took Alaria in to the doctor (double ear infection - ow!) and Cole was so cute, he drew a picture of him with a doctor and wrote on it "Thanks for taking care of my little sister" and gave it to the doctor - I seriously think it made her day, she was so shocked and Cole was so proud!

Christmas Photos - Finally!

We had a wonderful Christmas! I finally loaded all of the pictures off of the camera....here are a handful of them. Josh is already asking if we can make a chain to count down til next Christmas.

Alaria loved her doll stroller and pushed it around all morning I don't know if I have ever seen a kid so excited for Christmas morning as Joshua. On Christmas Eve, he began asking right after breakfast if he could go to bed becuase he knew that when he woke up Santa would have come.

Josh and Grandpa had a lot of fun watching Jazz games together while we were in Price.
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