Expressions of a child

Today and the last few weeks have been good. There has been some sickness, some ear tube and adenoids surgery but all and all ~ considering my bestest friend is 1,000's of miles a way in a very hostile area - we are doing good. I have been keeping myself WAY busy which is good and bad - it is all work - church, freelance, friends - but my thought is, better take it now and then in a bit there will be nothing. So today after a week of 3-5 hours of sleep a night I decided to take the day off - today is my Saturday and it is great because that means I still have 2 days in the weekend! So, no work at all today and we will get back at it tomorrow. Today there were some funny things that Landon and Zach said so I thought this would be a good place to try to remember them....Enjoy!

* In a conversation at the dinner table - Landon randomly starts asking how we make the insides of a strawberry which leads to a discussion on God that had a little something like this in it . . . Landon-"So God is not 'who-man' he is just God." - That's right my big boy God is all that and more for he is God and he created all things and will never die!

* Started the Biggest Loser Challenge at my church this past Wednesday - today we are taking a walk/wagon ride down to the bay to enjoy this beautiful weather - for a moment I thought I may be raising a Bob off Biggest Loser (isn't that his name?) as Landon walks behind me and as I pull the wagon loaded with 2 kids and 2 shovels says rather loudly - not exactly yelling - "Walk Faster!" He had no idea I was exercising and enjoying them so I tell him yea mommy does need to go faster since I am exercising and he said he was exercising, too for soccer. I guess this is so funny since this is my child that looks at my belly and says in a desperate voice - Mom, when are you going to exercise! He even wanted to know how fast he would be able to see me lose weight - he better be glad he is only an innocent 4!!!

* Coming back from our bay outing I ask the boys what they want for dinner to which Landon so maturely said, "I wanted crab but I couldn't catch any". That boy - he had asked at first for me to put his swimsuit on so he could go in the water and get the big crabs like he has done once with my dad and Mike.

* Zach had surgery today and never wakes good from anesthesia - so he is a rather unpleasant person for the first 15 minutes or more. The nurse tries to make him happy by turning on the tv - of course all they have is Barney in our room and I say oh Barney will be just fine - knowing in the back of my head he was going to disagree. Barney comes on and his blood pressure still doesn't drop in fact he starts crying more and says "No Barney! No Barney! I go home!" Guess I can't blame him to much, but it is amazing a popsicle didn't do the trick, but changing to the Cars movie worked magic!

I am sure there are more and I love writing them down to look back at later. More to come . . .

Oh on a side note - I had a free Krispy Kreme coupon this morning so I got one for Zach and I was so proud of myself that I did not indulge at all!!! As I walked back to the car so proud of myself I thought this is crazy I am so excited and getting so much joy from me doing something that would of given me 5 bites of satisfaction plus feeling guilty.