The Boster Family

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Laundry Day

"Mommy, please don't wash my monster shirt!"

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010

James is quite the conversationalist. For example:

that soun uh-dea! (that sounds like a good idea!)

spexxors a watt (I took pictures of my friend's son, Wyatt)

in the chicken (the kitchen)

liza-phone (xylophone)

no, that's mine mommy!! (yes he is sometimes a bit jealous)

You look like a dinosaur! (he said this to my mom...he was pretending to put crackers in her mouth, then would pull them away at the last second - so she was opening her mouth trying to grab them.)

Go fast, clock!!

Me used to sit here! (while visiting my Grandma's house, where we used to live)

I blowing in the wind! (I love this one. He was holding hands with me and Jonathan and would lift up his legs and swing between us.)

Those are french fries. (the dotted yellow line on a toy road for his cars)

I build clippers with Benj. (now this is a strange one. He has some wooden train tracks, and there are a few pieces that fork into two tracks. For some reason, he calls these pieces "clippers." Uncle Benjamin came over and built a train track with him.)

Clip a cracker (when you break a graham cracker into smaller pieces)

I do this trick Grandy show me. (His Grandy showed him how to pull his arms inside his shirt and pretend like his arms were missing. He got a big kick out of it!)

Telephone poles, Mommy! (who knew he knew what telephone poles were called?!)

Sleeve foots (my child is pretty clever - this means pant legs)

James: Someone coming today?
Me: Nope, I don't think anyone is coming over today.
long pause.....
James: Plano students?
Me: No, not today! Today I am just going to hang out with James!
another pause....
James: No, hang out with plano!

Teach me piano, teach me piano! (This was so cute. Read more here.)

Me: Eat your chicken - it'll make you big! It's yummy.
James: No, it's not. It make me litterer!

No want chickenrole. (suspicious of my chicken casserole...)

Me: James, take a bite of your banana.
James: No, it's creepsy.

James: I want juice.
Me: We're drinking milk this time - milk goes better with ems anyway! (m&m's)
James: No, it goes with a cookie.

Me have tears in my room! (he was crying in his room)

There's Pooh in the chapter book! (he LOVES chapter books! I read Winnie the Pooh to him and he was RIVETED for 45 pages. He would have listened to more but I stopped reading!)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

I love this.

Monday, April 26, 2010

overheard

This is something I overheard James saying as he played by himself the other day - pretty funny!

we have no diapers in our house
there's diapers in the dirt
we drive on some
our wheels on some
the dirt...the dirt...oh, the dirt!
we goin' to sleep in this. go to sleep go in this. ohh...naps. two naps. two naps, mommy!
I so tired! I too so tired! I go a sleep sometime, was I sleepy

Bugs

James' new favorite pastime:
looking at bugs on our front walk!

If the front door is ever open at all, he races for the door and runs outside to look for ants. What a cute kid.

Here Comes the Sun

What beautiful weather we've had this past week or so. My boys and I love it!

We have loved:

taking many trips to the little park by our house

looking for bugs on our sidewalk many times per day

actually turning on our air conditioning

just getting out of the house more!

the sun!

going to Uncle Josh's track meet (and were so excited that he won his event! yay Uncle Dosh!)

running and jumping outside (James is quite the jumper as you will see in the below pictures)

The only down side to the great weather:
Scraped knees! James got his first two scraped knees on the first two warm, sunny days.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

How was your day?

Mine was just dandy.

Wanna hear about my day?

A little background: I am trying to become a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. Awesome, right? Credentials are always nice and I'll have a nice little acronym/title I could stick at the end of my name for kicks - Jennifer Boster, NCTM. Well you see, in order to complete my application I need to make a teaching portfolio that basically proves that I am a good piano teacher and that I have experience and stuff. Well it's due in about a week and I have to admit that I did procrastinate a bit...I have been working on it on and off but this past week or so decided I had to just get it done. Well here are some fun little happenings of the past day (keep in mind that the perception of a "day" is blurred significantly when one gets less than 4 hours sleep) for your reading enjoyment:

Yesterday (which really feels like today) I let my son watch three movies while I worked on my portfolio. (Am I a horrible mother?) At least they were good movies - Little Einsteins, Meet the Robinsons and Kung Fu Panda. And I justified by telling myself that I at least was home with him and sort of watching with him, so it was a fun mother/son activity.......right?
I decided last night to just buckle down and get it done. I went to bed at 5:20 a.m. (It's not quite done yet....)
I woke up at 8:46 a.m.
Both James and I are wearing yesterday's clothes.
My kitchen is messy and smells like beans.
I have big piles of laundry in my house.
James had the wettest diaper known to man. I lifted him off the couch and there was a huge pee pee spot about ten inches in diameter, and the back of his shorts were soaked. (p.s. lately he HATES getting his diaper changed. We hate it too. It is a struggle every time. I think we may be potty training soon....)
I grabbed the wet child and hurried him upstairs to the bathroom. Then I hurried and grabbed the (recently washed) couch cover off of the couch to wash.
How do you get pee pee out of a couch cushion?
As I grabbed the couch cover off I accidentally flung a little bowl of cheerios and crumbs from the bottom of a Crispix box across my living room floor, which I vacuumed less than 24 hours ago.
When I took James up to bathe him I left some macaroni and cheese on the stove - I turned off the stove, but left it sitting in the water.
When I came down it had absorbed all the water and was this nasty, sticky gloppy pile of queasy noodles.
James had a bath - phew! and started running around in his diaper
I hurriedly emptied the contents of the dryer (clean whites) into an already existing pile of clean laundry, so I could move the wet clothes to the dryer and wash the couch cover and pee pee clothes.
As I'm standing by the washer I hear a little voice from my bedroom, "Look at me!! Look at me!! This is fun, Mommy!" He is head first in the basket of clean whites with his little legs flailing in the air.

Ah the joys of life, eh? Seriously though, I am totally laughing at all these great happenings (maybe it's because anything is funny when you got three hours of sleep.....)

Life really is good though!

We got to watch Lost last night! Man oh man we love that show!
I made the best peach smoothie last night
I love the rain!
My boys are wonderful

Watching some Einsteins after his bath.

Notice the glazed-over look...

A little peek at my messy house, because hey, that's real life

p.s. after posting this, I hear a little voice from James' room (where he is supposed to be napping - like I had just barely put him down) - he had opened the door (darn, why did he have to learn that skill?) and was trying to come downstairs. So I put him back in there and closed the door and put up the baby gate. Two minutes later there's a crash as he knocks down the gate. He is by my feet playing with trains, saying over and over and over again, "I never take a nap...I never take a nap....I never take a nap....."

Monday, April 19, 2010

Family.

We love having family stay with us! Here are some more fun pictures from when the Bosters came into town last weekend...

Megan and Joseph with Daniel and Bethany's new baby, Caroline. Megan and Joseph will also be new parents in a few short months! We're excited to have another little Boster boy in the family!