September Top Ten

10. I asked Hayden to go take a shower. Showering is not one of his favorite pastimes. I asked him, “Why is it important to be clean?” Hayden replied, “So you can get a wife?” I said, “Showering is important so you don’t stink.” He said, “You could just use Febreze.” Then in his commentator voice he said, “CAN the shower and get Febreze today!”

9. Hayden was talking about how fun it would be to have a mansion for a home. (We already live in a mansion as far as I’m concerned) I said that I wouldn’t like it because it would require a lot of cleaning. Hayden said we could get a maid. I explained to him that this life isn’t about acquiring riches and hiring other people to clean up after us. I said if the Lord blesses us with riches I want to be able to help others--I don’t want to live in my riches. If I need help cleaning every once in a while I can hire someone to help me, but I want our family to be able to care for the things that we have. Abby said, “I don’t want a maid.” Thinking she had understood the importance of work and taking care of our own things I asked why. She said, “Because if I got in trouble I’d be embarrassed in front of the maid.”

8. Weston after a bath said, “My skin is….is……loose.”

7. The kids had a particularly hard time being reverent during Sacrament meeting one week and Rob and I had to remind them quite a few times to be quiet. While preparing dinner Rob was telling me how the Bishop had asked us (during the Sunday school lesson that he taught) to make reverence a priority in Sacrament meeting. Feeling guilty Hayden said, “He asked US specifically?” To Hayden’s relief the Bishop asked ALL families to be reverent, not just ours.

6. After throwing Hayden’s Nintendo DS down the stairs Weston said to me, “Sorry I threw Hayden’s Nintendo DS down the stairs. I forgive you.” Note to self: teach Weston what forgiveness is.

5. Rob teasing about starting yet another fad diet proclaimed one morning, “I’m starting a cleanse tomorrow.” Thinking he was serious I said forcefully, “No you’re NOT.” To which he replied, “Yes I am. I am drinking nothing but KFC grease.”

4. Bastian searching his brain for the words bed skirt said, “a tutu?”

3. Hayden likes to play a game called smiley with Weston. Hayden made up the game. Weston doesn’t love to play. Hayden sits on Weston’s tummy while holding Weston’s arms up above his head. Hayden proceeds to smile in a VERY animated and annoying fashion, bobbing his head this way and that while approaching Weston’s face. Weston kicks his legs and yells, “No, not smiley….NOT SMILEY!!!!” Hayden loves to play.

2. Weston was sick. He heard me say he caught a flu bug. He pointed to his mouth and said, “Do I have bugs?” I said, “Yes, you have germ bugs that are making you sick.” He thought for a moment, no doubt thinking about all the nice bugs he had met this summer and said, “the germ bugs will say, ‘oops, sorry.’”

1. Weston wanted Hayden out of his way. Weston pushed Hayden and hit him and then said, “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.” Hayden now wants to try this technique.