Funny Things the Boys Have Said Lately . . .

Camden: I opened the back door to take the trash out the other day, and Camden said, “Makai outside?” (Makai is my parents’ dog that they brought with them when they visited for Thanksgiving a week and a half ago). I told him that Makai wasn’t in the back yard, that she went home with Nana and Papa. Camden tilted his head to the side (he does this when he’s not happy) and said, “No Nana and Papa, Makai outside!” He just didn’t understand that the dog wasn’t still in our back yard, since that was the last place he saw her.

Eli: I was giving the boys a shower the other night and Eli looked at my belly and asked, “Is Courtland going to pop out right now?” I told him that my belly wasn’t going to pop, and that Courtland wasn’t ready to come out yet. So he asked, “Why is your tummy so big then?” And I explained that the baby is growing, and that he will keep growing bigger until he is ready to come out.

Kolby: When we went to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square with our friends, the Barkers, Kolby had to use the bathroom. So I took Kolby and Eli and Miriam brought her two little girls inside to use the restroom. I always take the boys into the women’s restroom with me since they aren’t old enough to go into the men’s by themselves yet. On our way out of the bathroom, Kolby asked what the tampon dispenser on the wall was. Thinking that I would just be matter-of-fact and answer him clearly so as not to make a big deal out of it, I just told him it was for tampons. He asked what tampons were, and I told him that they were for girls and that he didn’t have to worry about them. Kolby can get pretty frustrated when he feels like we are not answering his questions to his satisfaction, and he started to get frustrated with me, asking me again what tampons were for. So I told him that they were for periods, hoping that would satisfy him. Of course not. He then demanded to know what periods were, and for the life of me I couldn’t think of a good, simple, quick explanation of a menstrual period that would be appropriate for a 5-year-old boy to hear (and for me to be telling him, in front of all the other kids, in a public restroom). Miriam, of course, was just laughing through this whole conversation. So, after Kolby asked me a few times what a period was, and I delayed (hoping that he would forget his question), I finally just told him that I couldn’t think of a good answer and I’d have to think about it and talk to him about it later. Luckily that seemed to appease him for the time being. We’ll see if he remembers to ask me about it again in the future.

Feeling the Baby Move

So, the other day I was laying down on my back on the couch, and I called Eli to come over to me so he could try to feel the baby move. I put his hand on my stomach, but the baby stopped moving and he didn’t feel anything. Then he looked at me and said, “Mommy, the baby is in your neck!” I told him, “No, Eli, that is Mommy breathing, not the baby moving.”

Funny Things

I realized that I hadn’t written down some of the funny things the boys have said recently, so I thought I’d better write them down before I forgot them.

A month or so ago I took the boys to a little pet store just to look at the animals for fun. There were several kittens there, and Kolby asked me if we could have one. I told him that we couldn’t have one because daddy was allergic to cats. And after explaining what allergic meant Kolby said, “Ok, can we get a kitty after daddy is gone?” I told him that daddy was going to be with us for a long time, so we couldn’t get a kitty. He said, “Ok, then can we get one after daddy is dead?” I told him that daddy wasn’t going to die anytime soon – that he would be with us for a long, long time, and that we couldn’t get a kitty. So quietly he said, “Ok, after daddy dies in a long, long time.”

And a couple weeks ago my grandma told me about a conversation she had with Kolby this week. Kolby asked her when she was going to have a baby, and she told him that she wasn’t going to have any more babies. He asked why not, and she told him that she was too old. He then asked her if mommy was old, and she said, “No, mommy is still young.” And he said, “Yeah, Mommy is still young because she is going to have a baby. But after she has this baby then she will be old because she isn’t going to have any more babies after that.”
I thought that was pretty funny, and it shows how much Kolby picks up on – Michael and I have talked about this probably being our last baby, but I hadn’t ever discussed that with Kolby.


And then last week we were walking home from church. There was a little dog sitting in a front yard along our walk home. It was about the size of a chihuahua, but it was black and brown with big ears and long fur, and I wondered what breed it was. I said, “That’s a cute little thing – I wonder what kind it is?” And Eli quickly responded, “It’s a dog, Mommy.”

Funny Kolby

Yesterday morning Kolby and Eli came in to wake us up around 7:30 and they told us they were hungry (because both of them refused to eat much dinner at all last night). So, I told Kolby that he should make us breakfast. We said that we wanted him to cook eggs, and that we were “hungy” (how Eli pronounces ‘hungry’). He said, “Ok, Daddy, I’ll do the crack part and you do the egg part.” We thought that was pretty cute. And then later on after breakfast, I told the boys they could watch their favorite show, Super Y, with Daddy while I took Isaac to his doctor’s appointment. Kolby was waiting to watch his show, and he asked when it was going t be on. We told him it would be on a 9 o’clock, when the clock says ‘nine, zero, zero.’ A little while later we heard a beeping noise and Michael asked me who was playing with the microwave – I called Kolby and he came out of the kitchen and said, “Now the clock says nine, zero, zero.”