kids say the darndest things...

"The sun crashed our snowman. That NOT NICE!"

On the way to school one day after telling Mercer that Daddy was at work... "Mommy, you not work. You stay home. You stay home and clean my stuff."

And the final one which is a "doozie" - as he was looking through an advertisement in the Sunday paper, he came to an ad with women in bikinis. He said "they need to put clothes on" and he covered them up with something. Then he took the covering off and pointed at the bikini top of one of the women "boobies."

Todd and I about lost it at the breakfast table! We tried not to laugh, but it was hard!!

Tonight, we were playing with Play-Doh as a family. As we were opening the package & unwrapping all of the car / truck / airplane / helicopter / dune buggy parts that stick into the squishy dough... he kept saying "wow" "wow" "woooowwww"

After squishing around and making some jumbled-up creations, he would make airplane noises and car noises. "Nrrrrrrrrooooolllllllll.........Brrrrrrmmmmmmm....."

He would also grab whatever Todd or I had in our hands and say "here, I need to do something" or "I need to show you something." Then you could see the wheels turning inside of his head as he was trying to think of what to show us or what to do once he held the dough & pieces in his hands.

This doesn't flow with the story - but it should be on the record that Todd was holding back some anxiety at the colors being mixed & smooshed together. I think they look kinda cool & swirly.... until at some point we end up with this homogeneous grey color... but kinda fun right now!

We have been holding our annual soup night event. Tomorrow night is the 4th in the series -- the last soup night for the year. So far, the first three events have been smaller than usual, but it's been nice to catch up with some people that we haven't talked to in awhile and really wanted to catch up with - so that's been great - getting to spend some one-on-one time with folks. This is why we hold the event.

Mercer thinks it's pretty great to have a party at our house every Saturday night. He's enjoying the event.

We're still continuing his swimming class (because of our concern with life safety/ the pond in our back yard). We'll keep that one up. He's doing well and can float on his own for a little bit... and is able to pretty much climb out of the pool now.

We also enrolled him in a parent-tot tumbling class for this winter quarter. Don't know how long we'll do this one, but right now it's great because he's getting to blow off some energy on Saturday mornings and is learning to do flips, walk on a balance beam, even do a backwards flip on the uneven bars with the teacher's help & my "spotting" him. He's enjoying it for the most part, but is having a hard time waiting his turn to do the activity / standing in line. Hopefully the class will work on his patience a little bit??

That's about all that's going on. Have a great week.

'Til next time...

(This is Mercer trying out his first chocolate-covered strawberry... and another pic of Todd & Mercer watching football together. The J-E-T-S gave it a good run this season~ maybe next year Todd will go to the superbowl to support his team??)