my brain...

We made cookies together the other day, shortbreads and gingberbreads. Carson helped quite a lot, so he got to eat quite a few! after he got tired of helping and I had to go on to some pies the boys watched some TV, and I baked. for over two hours. When Carson came back into the kitchen I asked him how his day was going. he said it was going well. I said sorry for not spending very much time with him today.
He said: "that's okay mommy. sometimes I just don't want to spend lots of time with my family anyways."
I asked him what he likes to do when he doesn't want to be spending time with us.
"oh, anything really." he said. "lots of things like skateboarding, rollerskating, those kinds of things. when I do those things I don't really like to spend time with my family."

We were talking later, near dinner time, and Carson had been asking for more cookies. (which he was denied...) He got a funny look on his face and said:
"I don't know why, but my brain keeps making me miss my Nana. It does it all the time. My brain keeps making it happen." I told him that it wasn't really his brain, it was more his heart. "why does my heart make me miss my Nana?" he asked. I told him that it was because he loves his Nana. "I do love her a lot." he said.
"mommy," he continued, "my brain is making me want to eat junk food too. I want to eat things that are good for my body, but my brain really likes junk food and makes me want to eat it all the time. I always want to eat cookies and chocolate and everything. I don't know why my brain does that."

fav quouts Dec 07

Logan
"Wook at DAT!"
,
"mommy, your my BEST Fwend."

"daddy- you wanna piece-a-me?"

"Cahson, can't catch me!!"

"I peed a Dora and Boots." (wearing a Dora pullup and forgot to use the potty)

"I play baskaball, football touchdown, SEE YA! soccah..."

"its a beautiful day to go beach..." (mommy) "REaLLY?" "NOOH! silly..."

" lets pray. pray DADDY, pray Cahson, Nana, Papa, Daniel, Gwandma, Gwandpa, Mommy, Daddy, Daniel...Daddy, Asa, Natalie...."

"can we read SolomonJohn?"

CARSON:

"I wanna tell you a joke. actually TWO jokes.
I'd like three crabby patties with a drink and TWO STUPIDS!!"

"heres another one. I'm so funny I CRACK MYSELF UP!!"

"thanks mom. you're the best of the best."

"thanks auntie Natalie for the gift. Auntie Natalie? you know what would make me feel really really happy? even more happy than this? MORE PRESENTS."

"Logan, you are completely destructive. you destruct EVERYTHING."

"mom, when we move we can get a dog. lets get a new house this week."

one small trip in a blizzard...

Carson spent the past few days at his grandparent's in New Bedford, and I decided to go get him on Thursday morning. (I missed him!) the only thing was that the weather was calling for some snow, so I left in the morning. the snow started half way there, and by 11:30 cars were slowed down to 35 miles an hour in a 65 zone, and visibility was way down. it took Mom Mendes 2 hours to get to U Mass and back- which is usually a 15 minute round trip ... and by that time there was no attempting the trip home.
so we spent the night and made sugar cookies with Grandma after a good snowball fight with Sheila and her kids.

he's 4!!

or almost four... but Carson doesn't know the date so this early birthday party constitutes his "change in numbers" to his inquisitive little mind.
Today we had a discussion as to why it is we are having a birthday party for him, Daddy telling him that it is because we love him that we are doing something nice for him and throwing him a birthday party. we reminded him to be thankful for what he is getting and not to just expect things because its his birthday.
Carson said "but its my birthday. when you have a birthday you have a party."
we asked why and he answered:
"everybody is a number. some people are turning 0, some are turning 3 or 4, some are turning 8, 9, or 10... and when anybody turns to another number what you do is have a party. you have to have a party when you turn to another number. I'm turning 4. I need to turn 4. so I need to have a party to turn 4!"
So we had a great party, his grandparents were here, along with aunt Natalie (who bought a great cake again... he asked for the same one as Logan had, so he got a duplicate spiderman and was thrilled!) and Micah, Sheila and her kids were here, along with Cynthia and Francesca.
Carson got some awesome toys (thanks everyone!) and couldn't believe his eyes when he opened his SKATEBOARD. now this skateboard has been prayed for for the past 2 months solid- every single day. he found it in our closet and thought it was daddy's.. so when he opened it along with his helmet and knee pads, he kept saying "I'm so happy mom, I'm so happy with this!" and was so excited to go skateboarding with dad. we had to explain that the skateboard he found in our closet wasn't in fact dad's, it was his being hidden until his birthday. Once he wrapped his head around that one he laughed and told grandma that it was pretty funny that he thought it was his daddy's.
after a long day of cleaning up his toys and the table in anticipation of the presents that were to come after cake, he played with all the great car toys he got, and of course his skateboard, and then promptly fell asleep on grandma's lap for a good hour. :)

20 days till christmas!!

so it has been a fun week. Carson has decided he can do anything he believes that he can do- telling me that he's telling me the truth and will prove it to me if I'll just take him to the north pole to go skating. or just to an ice rink. that would work too.
he has decided that he likes to talk on the phone and just spent over an hour on the phone with my parents. BY HIMSELF. yeah. no kidding.
He's also been asking for a skateboard for a very long time, every day he prays for one, and he asks me every morning if we could just buy one so that we can go skateboarding together.
He went to my room to watch cartoons in my bed one cold morning while the heat was warming the place up... he saw his hotwheels skateboard peeking out of the closet... and then thought that it was dad's! he excitedly showed me the coolest thing that Daddy owns, pointing from afar and saying that it was amazing that it came with knee pads and everything. he said "Mom, I wish I had a cool skateboard just like daddy's. then we could go skateboarding TOGETHER."
apparently he hasn't put the fact that his birthday is a week away and that he's never seen daddy skateboard before in his life... hopefully he'll still be surprised.
Logan is potty training in full force- on his own! I'll help him onto the potty whenever I think of it, but whenever he has the urge to go now he just takes his little self over to the big potty and maneuvers himself onto it and does his business. I think that the draw for him is the toilet paper. we've gone through many many rolls in the past few days... :) we've had some talks though, and now he is using less. he also pretends to be blowing his nose every time I catch him with some in his hand as well. he says "I blow my nose." with a cheeky grin as he flushes it down.
We're also in learning mode with Carson, who is starting to sound out letters and putting them into words. he read the word "fun" and "ball" and "look" today, and spelled "cat" "bat" "rat" and "fat" the other day... all with only a little help from me! I was so proud of my little guy.
so now to get myself into holiday mode and finish up some shopping... or at least get some good ideas formulated ?...