Derby Time

Where do I begin? I have several posts rattling around in my brain. I'll pick this one. :)

January is such an empty month for us. Open weekends and routine weekdays. It's a relief for me, especially after December. We all know what December is like. Derek's been hunting for two weekends with his dad. Braylen went along one day, and our friend Shawn joined them both weekends. They ended up with two deer, and while Derek would like me to post some pictures of his hunt, he didn't bring me any that were blog-worthy. At least not in my blog. :) Maybe next time. Now that hunting is done until spring, I'm hoping to get my living room painted. Braylen will help Derek build some shelves for his room, and of course January is all about Cub Scout Pinewood Derby cars.


Kaleb's sanding his wheels while Aaron sands his car. Braylen's inside not feeling well, but he's building a car too.




Aaron won't be in scouts until next year. But one look at his drawing, where he planned to use his brothers' leftover wood scraps to build a car and wait until next year for tires and stuff, Derek and I melted. I found him a car kit and Derek's including Aaron with the big boys. :)

Aaron sure does love to do whatever Braylen and Kaleb do. But he's still my little boy, and I want to remember how he shows me that. :) So here are some of his latest funnies.

He chants a "song" from one of the "Despicable Me" mini-movies: "I like bana-a-nas" over and over again. So I give him a banana for a snack and he says, "I didn't used to like bananas but now I do. Did they change them?"

He calls tater tots "croutons."

He says, "for the forty-tooth time" instead of forty-second. He also says, "I catched it." When I correct him, part of me regrets it. Soon his baby talk will be gone.

When I ask him where Kaleb is he says, "In the bathroom of course. He's just the king in there!"

So many times when he chatters I'm doing something else at the same time. Last week I had to stop what I was doing and figure out what in the world he was talking about. He said, "Is that a fake woman on a diving board? Or a little woman on a diving board?" Huh? Turns out he was looking at something in the newspaper.

Fridays are his favorite days of the week because he can write in his journal about anything he wants. Today he wrote about his pinewood derby car. :)

Finally, I want to remember how much things have changed between our firstborn and our baby. When Braylen was little, and he had bad dreams, he'd cry out for me. I'd get out of bed and go to him. I'd soothe him any way I could--pray, sing, or snuggle--sometimes it took all three. When Kaleb had bad dreams, he'd come find me in the middle of the night. I would take him back to his room and snuggle him in his bed until he was okay. A few nights ago Aaron had a bad dream. He came to my side of the bed and said in a very bossy tone of voice, "I had a bad dream. I DON'T want to talk about it. I'm getting in your bed to snuggle with you!" I rolled over and let him snuggle beside me. I don't even remember saying anything. Oh, how times have changed. :)