By: teri on December 29, 2012

12-29-2012

The Children’s Museum in Palm Desert had a dog statue in front with a name tag reading ‘R. Hero’ and Jaxon asked what the ‘R’ stood for.  Tyler responded, ‘Arf!’

After explaining to Tyler and Jaxon that calling people fat is not nice, Tyler suggests we use ‘wide’ instead. The boys spend the next few minutes discussing Tyler’s ‘wide’ head, Dad’s ‘wide’ feet and Mom’s ‘wide’… shoulder brace.

Other cute things were said, we did not record them.

11-9-2011
I picked up Ty from school. On the car ride home:
Ty: Everyone in the world is different.
Mom: That’s true. We are all different.
Ty: But what if there was another boy, with a big round head, and these shoes (pointing at feet), and the same tall as me…. well he wouldn’t be different at all. He’d be me.

11-8-2011
We’ve been doing a lot of “letters” in our house lately. Ty is working on his letters in school, Jax is learning to read, and AJ loves letter factory and making the sounds. Every Friday Ty has his share day and they bring something from home starting with whatever letter they are working on that week. Ty goes around the house asking what letter stuff he wants to take in starts with.
Today he ran in and said, “Mom, for T week I can take in me.”

5-21-2011

Ty successfully abandoned his pacifier when the dentist asked him and so he got a new toy yesterday.  He chose a giant AT-AT.   Today going down for his nap, he turned to me and said, “I want to buy a real AT-AT.  That would be the coolest thing ever.”

5-20-2011

A favorite game on the freeway for Ty and Jax is to point out Transformers they see (Sports cars are usually Jazz, everything yellow is bumble bee, cops are barricade, all trucks are Optimus Prime, etc) .  As we drove past the temple, Ty spotted and called out an Optimus Prime.  Jax responded, “The Temple is even better than Optimus Prime.” (The San Diego Temple looks like it could transform into something pretty sweet.)

3-16-2011

Ty found a long hair in the shower and declared that he does not like hair.

Ty:  Well.  I like my hair.  And Jaxon’s hair.  And your (Dad’s) hair.  And AJ’s hair. <Long pause>  When mommy gonna be a boy?

10-6-2010

Jaxon: Autumn is just a fancy word for fall.  You use it at parties.

8-1-2010
Today in sacrament meeting Teri was sitting in between Jaxon and Tyler (Norm was in the hall with a sleeping AJ). During sacrament Tyler kept tabs on the bread (loudly) telling how far away it was and when it was going to come to us. He did the same with the water. Then as the kids walked away he said, “What they gonna bring me next?” I told him that was it, bread and water. “Why just bread and water? They should bring something good like pizza with sausage.”

7-30-2010
Jaxon playing cards on the floor. “Mom look, its me versus nobody. I’m probably winning.”

7/7/2010
Sitting at lunch Jaxon starts telling Tyler about how great he’s eating, “Tyler, you are doing a great job on that sandwich. Its gonna help you grow big and strong.”
Jaxon looks down to eat his own lunch, meanwhile Tyler is looking at Jaxon holding up his hand. Jaxon didn’t turn back fast enough and Tyler says, “Hey Jax, you gonna give me five or what?”

4-23-2010

Jaxon reading one of his books.  He tries to guess the words based on the picture rather than reading them. Norm tells Jaxon that he needs to look at the letters and sound them out.  Jax replies, “Stop.  You’re making me lose my mind.”

2-14-2010

Jaxon and Norm are discussing the onions in the garden.  Norm tells Jax that he has no idea how to know when onions are ready to be picked and that they’ll have to ask Lola because she’s a good gardner.  Jaxon responds that he knows someone who’s an even better gardner than Lola.  Norm asks who and Jaxon says, “I’ll give you a hint, he created me. It’s Jesus! He’s the best gardner.”

Tonight, Jaxon said family prayer, part of his prayer: “And make sure that me, Jaxon, the one that’s saying the prayer, get’s his owie better.  And make sure he sleeps well so that he doesn’t get six.  I mean sick.”

2-4-2010

(A.M) Jaxon: Mom, I love Baby AJ a lot. I want to get him a really special cake for his birthday. What does he like? Mom, I’ll just pick for him, and then I’ll help him eat it.

(P.M) Jaxon was given a new game from Eryn. Norm read him the card and said they could open it and play. Jaxon was so excited he said, “Oh boy, I sure hope this game comes with ingredients.”
(He meant instructions for those of you who couldn’t figure that out)

<2-3-2010>

Tyler was trying unsuccessfully to open a nutri-grain bar, so Norm asked him if he needed help.

Tyler: No fanks.  Me good.

<Mid October 2009>

Jaxon has been sick and had a fever and during breakfast Norm told him about the white blood cells in his body and how they fight inside him to beat the sickness and the fever is a good thing because it tells us that “his guys” are fighting. Jaxon asked how many guys he had fighting and Norm told him there were lots and lots and we had to help them by drinking lots of liquids and resting.  (I only caught the tail end of this conversation).

That afternoon Jaxon was coughing and he turned to me and said, “Mom, I think my guys are losing.”

<9-12-2009> (approximately)

I got Tyler up out of his crib after we had the AC on over night and he tried to describe cotton mouth to me.

Tyler, pointing at his mouth: Yuck.  I ate yadybug.

<7-26-2009>

Jaxon:  Did you know that there’s something under God?

Norm: Really?

Jaxon:  Yeah.  And it’s invisible!

Norm:  Is it one nation?

Jaxon:  How did you know?

(Apparently, they are learning the pledge of allegiance in school.)

<Updated 7-20-2009 approx>

Norm and Teri, in Toys R Us, discuss the new set of X-Men toys which include the Blob.  Jaxon asks which one is ‘The Blob’ and when we point him out, says, “That Chunky Monkey’s name is the Blob?!?”

<Updated 7-11-2009>

Jaxon noticing his mother’s post delivery tummy: Momma, why is your belly still flumpy?

Jaxon explaining his days actions to his father:  I wasn’t a very good boy today, but let me tell you why.

<Updated 6-14-2009>

Jaxon (while going to the bathroom before getting in bed): Can I play one video game?

Norm: Not right now.

Jaxon: Oh, man.  You just ruined my whole day.

Norm: Excuse me?

Jaxon: At least, you didn’t ruin my whole life.

<Updated 5-30-2009>

Jaxon explaining to Adam how some numbers look similar: ’5 is just like 2.  Except its 5.’

<Updated 5-26-2009>

We’re going to keep this post alive for a while, updating it and changing the date when we add to it.  These will be brief moments in our lives, little things that Jax or Tyler do and say that make us laugh.  And yesterday, we got two from Jaxon.

When I was putting him in the car before we drove up to Uncle Karl’s, Jax leaned into my arm and kissed it and said, ‘I love you more than I can count.  And I can count to like 25.’

On the way home from Uncle Karl’s, Jaxon asked me, ‘What comes before 7?’  ’6,’ I told him.  ‘Ok.  What comes after 7?’ ’8′ ‘Ok.  I’m thinking of a number between 6 and 8. Can you guess it?’  This had teri and I in stitches for about 10 minutes.

<Some earlier gems that we don’t remember the date>

Norm was talking to Jaxon about breakfast and Norm put his plate in front of the wrong chair.  Jaxon said, ‘Not there, stupid.’  Norm replied, a little surprised, ‘Excuse me?’  Jaxon responded, “It’s spanish for ‘No, Thank you.’”