Out of the Mouths of Babes

First, let me mention that our boys (especially Ben) love to wear capes. Everywhere. All day. Sometimes they even wear them when we go grocery shopping. To demonstrate how serious they are about them: today as we were in the car & half way to town to watch a parade (yes, horses, marching bands, fire trucks, floats, & the like) Cedric realized that we'd accidentally left his cape at home & he insisted we go back & get it even if it meant completely missing the parade. Mind you, these are simply just blankets that they tie around thier necks. Well, yeterday evening I had asked Ben to get undressed so we could put on jammies & get ready for bed. Since Ben still wears a diaper at night I had gone upstairs to gather all the bedtime hoopla when suddenly I hear a little patter of footsteps running up & down the hallway gleefully yelling,

"Naked superhero to the rescue!"

It made me smile. So stinking cute! There is just something about being naked to a kid. I think all my kids would run stark naked all day if I let them. 

Out of the Mouths of Babes

This may be one of those 'you had to have been there' moments, but I'm going to share it anyway because I thought it was quite funny and rather cute.

Ricky: "Mom, what's this?"
Me: "That's called a rubber spatula."
Ricky (in all seriousness): "Oh! Does that mean you have to rub it?!"
Then he starts to pet it gently as if it were an animal.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

This was Ricky's response yesterday after I told him we were having pepperoni pizza for lunch.

"I don't like pepper, but I really like the roni."

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Ben walked into the bedroom this morning as Brian was getting ready for work and revealed a bit of his developing sense of humor.

"So Mister NorthWestern Energy Guy...

you bout done getting dressed?!"

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Tonight as Brian and Ben were going over some catechism questions before bed, this transaction took place.

Brian: "The Holy Spirit is inside of you."

Ben (pointing to his tummy): "Yep. The Holy Spirit is inside of me. He's right here inside my tummy, in my belly button."

Out of the Mouths of Babes

We went out to dinner last night and were trying to figure out what to order for Ben to eat. He had been munching on some appetizer chips and salsa (which he loves) and was sitting right between Grandpa and Grandma so was pretty content. After looking over the quite extensive children's menu I asked Ben what he wanted to eat. This was the conversation:

Momma: "Hey buddy, what do you want to eat?"

Ben (thinking hard): "Hmmmmm......... Beer!"

I think he's doomed!

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Last night as Ben was drinking toe-jam infested water through a straw in the bathtub:

"Mmmmmm... this is goodicious!"