So after Curt was gone for a week facilitating LeaderShape Doha, the boys and I were INSANELY happy to have him home! Not that we didn't have fun and have good friends help out while he was gone, but as I said in the note i sent with him, ". . . we are just so much better WITH you." :)
We decided to take it easy Saturday night and go out to dinner with the brood. As we entered the mall, the giant carrot from previous posts was sitting outside. Curt says, "Is that a carrot? Do you think it tastes good?" and in MOMENTS Aidan has hightailed it over, climbed on the trailer and is putting his mouth on it to try to eat it. Hysterical. he does love his veggies . . . :)
When we were leaving the mall, i was holding brady and aidan's hands and curt had gavin's. We were parked at the end of a row (with a curb on the passenger side) and some IDIOT comes FLYING aroudn the corner in their landcruiser and nearly hits Aidan who is dawdling along. Scared and COMPLETELY PISSED i say pretty loud, "That guy should NOT be driving to F@$*ing FAST!". Brady (who is in the parking spot) looks up and me and says as sweetly as can be "That's f@$*ing fast!" All i could think of was that scene from A Christmas Carol when the kid swears when he's helping his dad change a tire and the look on his face, which i'm sure matched mine - shock and horror. WHAT had i done?! I didn't acknowledge it, curt and i are both doing EVERYTHING we can to hold in our giggles and curt takes brady to put him in the car seat. As I am putting Aidan in the car seat, (brady is in the middle seat) AGAIN, Brady looks and me and says "That's f@$*ing fast!". Trying to implant SOME OTHER WORD in his brain i say, "yes that guy was SUPER fast. TOO fast, SCARY fast" curt is laughing so hard to himself he has to walk to the back of the minivan and catch his breath. at one point i have to turn my back and leave the minivan myself because we are DYING. Brady hasn't said it since, but of ALL of the words for him to get right the first time, it has to be THAT ONE?! As we pulled out of the spot, curt says "Well, there goes parent of the year . . ."
Tonight we ordered pizza and Gavin actually ATE CHEESE. that was pretty much all he ate (nothing like flavorless pizza bread leftover), but we could hardly believe he actually ate the cheese and toppings! At one point, Brady says "Knock Knock!" We are both surprised since we haven't done knock knock jokes with the boys, must be tess and ariana! I say "who's there" and Brady says "people!" "people who?" and he just giggles. So cute. I told him he had just told us a joke and he laughed some more. double cute. :)
Gavin has been stringing together 3 and 4 words these days which is AWESOME! he is also repeating lots of things after his brothers which is really cute to see. His favorite is to say the Sesame Street Song, "sing, singoutloud,singoutstwong!" just about as fast as he can. and randomly - you never know when you will get a hit of sesame street. . . :)
Aidan has also become our human garbage can. he is eating what seems to be twice what his brothers eat (it also takes him twice as long). he must be on a growth spurt b/c i can't tell where he is putting is all!
all in all, life is good at the VuKenoyer's . . ..
