Hilarious phone conversation

On Mothers Day...

Jake:  Hi Grammy! Happy Mothers Day!
Grammy: Thank you!
Jake: What are you going to do today?
Grammy: Well I have to give Gramma Honey a bath
Jake: You're gonna give her a bath????!!!
Grammy:  (laughing) yes
---Brock and I cracking up---
Me: Mom that's very confusing!!
Jake: Yeah, that's very confusing. I guess because she's so old......

Captain Under Pants Ninjas

The Girl Next Door...

My boys are five and I already have a cute little blonde ringing the bell asking if they could play. Daily. She's a sweet little girl though and they all play nicely together. In fact, I'm getting this blog post done right now because they're creating mii characters on the wii and cracking up.
In the TV room I have the boys class pictures displayed and they must have been looking at them or talking about them because the little girl said, "I think Jake has a cuter smile." Oh no, I thought. How will that have made Parky feel? Is this the beginning of fighting over girls and jealousy and hurt feelings? MY feelings were hurt for him! He blew it off though and they went on with their business. I can't stand the thought of a girl breaking my babies hearts. I'll have to hurt her. Or scare the daylights out of her.  Or both.

Mother's Day Luau

Too too cute. The boys showed us how to do the hula and they made us snacks and picture frames and gave us bracelets. And Parker wanted to wear his "wedding vest" because it was a fancy occasion. :) Such a lucky mommy I am

They may look alike....

but boy are they different!!!

So Jake is clearly my child. The emotional, intense, reactive one. Parker is way laid back and rational. Clearly, UNlike his mother. Jake explodes and yells at Parker and antagonizes him and is just sometimes not very nice. Yesterday in the pool Jake is shooting his water gun at Parker and Parker repeatedly tells him to stop. Jake does not stop. I wait for Parker to stick up for himself, he doesn't. I TELL Parker to stick up for himself, he doesn't. Jake keeps at it and Parker just keeps saying stop. Finally, I took the water gun away from Jake and told him he's not being very nice and he's not listening either.
Later I asked Parker why he lets Jake treat him that way. Why he won't turn around and make Jake stop. And he shoots back at me, "Because! If I do that then he'll just do it back to me again!! One day, I want to teach my brother some justice."
I'm not really sure what he meant by that, but it was pretty damn funny to hear.
I also told Jake he better hope there's not a kid in kindergarten that treats him the way he treats Parker. Should have seen his face drop.....

Shubert

Shubert is a character the boys learn about at school that teaches them to be helpful, not hurtful. I'm pretty sure that peanut butter cookie Jake is eating gave him the runs for the next 36 hours....thanks Shubert. Not exactly helpful, was it?

Tanks, guns and helicopters

An awful lot of talk about guns and bad guys for a group of 4 year olds in my opinion....