Tumbling Twosome!

I decided that the boys needed something fun to do this summer. With Braylon's past ear troubles and current ear tubes, we ruled out swimming lessons. So I took the boys to their first night of gymnastics yesterday. They loved it! Braylon especially got into the action and loved doing the handstands, summersaults, trampoline. Blaine had a little harder time following the complicated directions, but the instructor assured us that he did fine for his first time in. Fun stuff!

Final Insult

After several days of hearing various (and innocent!) insults from little Blaine, last night was the final straw! He told me he was done living with me and that he would like to go live with Granny now.

Guess he's ready to leave the nest...

One More

Blaine has been full of 'em lately. I asked him last night, "Do you think Momma is pretty?" He matter of factly said, "No."

I then asked Braylon the same question. He said, "Yes!"

At least one of my kids has good taste (or maybe just good sense!!).

Out of the Mouth of a 2 Yr Old

You know, 2 year olds are just plain funny. Maybe it's my simplistic sense of humor coming out or it's just the wacky, odd-ball things that my kids say. Anyway, here's a few cute tid-bits from this weekend, spoken in complete toddler seriousness:

I was very sick on Friday with a stomach bug. Brandon kept them away from home as long as possible, but near the boy's bedtime they all came home. I complained to Blaine that I didn't feel good at all and he said: "It's ok Momma. It's not that sad. I take care of you, I promise. I promise I won't leave you......I'll be right back." I had to chuckle, but true to his word, he came back shortly and loved on me a while. Sweet boy!

I was dressing Blaine in a bright yellow shirt: "Momma, you dressing me like a banana today?"

I was brushing Blaine's teeth while he was staring closely at my face. After a moment of observational silence he said: "Momma, you have hair in your nose!"

Clinicals

Brandon is on Day 3 of his first clinical rotation in wound/acute care. He says that so far he has really enjoyed what he is learning and, as I hoped, seems to have a new spark in his desire to become a Physical Therapist.

1/2 a week down, 7 1/2 weeks to go. (It's too early for this countdown, I think!)

Fair Fight?

MacGyver could beat Walker or Aragorn in a fight??? WHAT?? HAHAHHAHAHA That is funny whoever voted that way. But Brandon points out that MacGyver does have a knack for thinking his way out of situations... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm just envisioning him coming up with a contraption to outwit Yoda and his light saber.

I also see that more people think that Yoda can win in a fight among the tough guys, but no one wants him with them on a desert island.

Descrimination, is it? Hmmm? LOL

B-Ballin' Blaine

Anyone who knows Brandon well knows his love for basketball. You may know that as a kid/teenager, Brandon would play in his front drive-way for hours every day, no matter the weather. You might know that anytime we go to a game place, Brandon parks himself in front of the basketball shooting game for the entire time we're there and often uses far more coins than the kids under the notion of, "I'm getting tickets for the boys..."

Well, Blaine has inherited 'the bug.' We ate at Mr. Gatti's pizza last night. I had a pocketful of Gattiland coins in my pocket that had come out of his allowance can. I'll be dog-gonned if that kid didn't use up the whole pocketful minus two coins on the mini-basketball hoop game. And let me say this: He's not a bad shot given that he's 2 years old! Brandon is impressed by his natural jump shot. Blaine's personal best in the 30 second game was 16 points. Remember, this was on his own. No one helped him on that round. I just stood there, jaw open, amazed.