Their Little Minds

I wish I could know what is going on in these cute little heads!  I catch glimpses of it in our conversations and it is usually pretty entertaining!

Eating snow cones, made from the snow in our front yard (the dirty look is from our flavoring).

Ethan is always making friends, especially with the employees of where ever we are.  At JCPenney the other day I overheard this conversation:
Ethan:  Do you work here?
Employee:  Yes.
Ethan:  Oh, do you know what I want to be when I grow up?
Employee:  No.
Ethan:  I want to be a haircut person (he had just had his hair cut).
Employee:  Oh.
Then Caden who has not wanted to be left out of anything lately runs up and says, "And when I grow up I want to be an elephant!"
The employee gave me a weird look and started laughing.  Hey, Caden is dreaming BIG!

The other night as Ethan was saying his prayers before bed he said, "please bless mom to be good."  After his prayer I said, "thank you for praying for me, is that so I can feel better after my surgery?"  He replied, "no, it is so you can be good mom, so next year Santa will bring you something better than a keyboard."  After further discussion I discovered that Ethan felt bad for me that my only gift from Santa was my new piano keyboard (which I love), he figured I was on the naughty list for sure.

For some reason Ethan made a comment the other day that only boys can be awesome and girls can be pretty.  Always listening and repeating his older brother, yesterday morning Caden said, "you are pretty mom, but you aren't cool.  I is awesome."

Of course Quinn spit up right when Caden smiled.

Ethan is always thinking, he rarely takes no for an answer, no is a challenge to him to think of a way around it.  The other day I bought a box of Skinny Cow ice cream bars (for when I just need a little ice cream, but not so many calories).  Ethan asked if he could have one, I said, "no, you can have one of the normal ice cream bars, they are cheaper, these ones are just for moms that are counting calories."  Ethan asked, "so you mean those ice cream bars make you lose weight?"  I replied, "something like that."  Then he said, "well I need to lose weight because my dinosaur pajamas are getting too small."  I reassured him that he did not need to lose weight, it was good to be a growing boy and that he just needed new pajamas.  He said, "well, I really think I need one of those ice cream bars so we can save money and go to Disneyland, if I lose weight we won't have to spend money on new pajamas and then we can go to Disneyland."  I was impressed with all of his thinking, but my answer was still no.

I love when they are sweet.  They have started calling each other best brother buddies, and love to wrestle each other to the ground as they hug.  After a fun family night on Monday Ethan said, "You are the prettiest Mom in the world, and you are the funnest Dad in the world."  And then Caden said in a high pitched little voice, "ewww, I love you guys."

I love their smart little minds!