Thursday Night Fun!

Well it's Thursday night, and in the Crull household, that means Mommy and boys' time! :) On Thursday's Shawn stays at school to work and then goes to Young Life in Westfield. It is nice to have a night with just the boys. Tonight we went Shopping for a birthday present and then came home and ate dinner. Alex was being silly and dancing to our new HSM3 CD (yes, it's for the "boys" ;) and I was videoing him. Check it out on my Facebook page. :) Alex is also my little budding photographer. He loves to take pictures with our digital camera. If we could just get him to keep his fingers out from in front of the lens, his pictures would be really good! :) Here's some cute pictures from tonight.Doesn't it look like my head has been superimposed onto someone else's body? :)

This struck me as funny...

Tonight as the boys were taking a shower (and I was trying to clean up / messing around on the computer :-), I heard this loud banging noise coming from the bathroom. I went into the bathroom and the boys were throwing their plastic alligator up against the wall of the shower. I very loudly asked them, "What do you think you are doing?" And they replied, "We are trying to get our dinosaur out of the alligator's tummy!" So, I looked inside its hollow mouth and body and saw the dino wedged inside the alligator. It actually was kinda cool, because you could feel the dino body inside the alligator body. It took some banging and eventually some tweezers, and Super Mommy was able to dislodge the poor dino out of the pit of the alligator's tummy!

If you know Alex, you know he is a little absent minded. This is a picture I took of him on morning after he had gone potty. He did remember to wash his hands, but he didn't think to pull up his underwear and jammies! He has just now started constantly coming out of the potty with his cloths on. In the past, he would just run out without anything on bottom, and continue going about his business like nothing was wrong!

This lovely project is what Alex brought home from school today. In case you can't tell, it is a squirrel. I don't know what kind of "fur" is on the thing, but it looks a lot like a bunch of Brillo pads or someone shaved their cat and brought in the fur for this project. None the less, he was proud of his handy work! :)

Notice the lovely bangs and eyebrows! Maybe it's just me, but I think Alex had some help on this masterpiece.

The boys and their loot!

Brannon

This week Brannon and I had another interesting conversation. The older he gets, the more interesting our conversations are. I was getting ready for school and I wasn't finished getting dressed yet. Here's how our conversation went:

Brannon: What are those spots on your tummy?
Me: There called stretch marks.
Brannon: How did they get there?
Me: Well, when you were in my tummy, you were so big that the skin on my tummy had to stretch.
Brannon: I wish you didn't have those spots.
Me: Well, they don't bother me.
Brannon: I wish God would take those spots off your tummy.
Me: Well, a lot of mommies have spots like this.
Brannon: I wish God would take away all the spots on all the mommies tummies.
...long silence...
Brannon: Miss Jill doesn't have those spots.

Don't know where that came from...;)

Alex

My mom told me something really funny that Alex did this week. She said that he came up to her and said, "Look Nana! Look what I can do!" He had one of his hands up turning it around (like when you're turning a doorknob). Then he said, "Look at this! I can do it with this hand too!" And he started doing the same turning motion with his other hand. Then...this is the kicker...he looked at his hands and then to Nana and says, "I am SOOO SMART!" :) I love my sweet boy!

Halloween 2008

Just like all kids, our boys have been looking forward to Halloween for awhile. I think this week was probably one of the longest weeks for Brannon (next to the week of Christmas and his birthday!). Brannon kept changing his mind again and again about what he wanted to be for Halloween. But he finally settles on Optimus Prime (from transformers). Alex wanted to be Spiderman, but we (Nana and PaPaw) couldn't find one with muscles, so he was Ironman...the next best thing. :)

Friday dawned with so much antisipation and excitement! And boy did God bless us with a beautiful day (which I guess is weird to say since I'm talking about Halloween)! Brannon had silly sock day at school on Friday since it was S week, and both boys brought special Hallween snacks to their classes. My mom picked both boys up and brought them to my school for the festivities. You have to understand the school I teach at. Every holiday is a BIG deal, ESPECIALLY Halloween! We start at 2:15 with a Halloween parade. All the kids bring their costumes to school, change into them, and then "parade" around the parking lot in them while all the parents stand around taking lots of pictures and video. Then we come in and have class parties until we leave at 3:30. It's great fun, and the boys always enjoy it. Once school was out, we made our way to my dad's office for their Halloween festivities. At his office different departments had decorated their office areas and the kids could walk around and get candy. After dad's office, we went back home and met our friend's Dave and Jennifer, and their son Jacob, and went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Then we made our way to my parent's house and tried to go trick-or-treating there, but the boys were done and we only made it to one house! :) Brannon said that he thought that the mom and dad's should go up to the house to get candy and let the kids stand and wait for them. We told him that's not how it works. :)

What a great day! Needless to say the boys, and mommy and daddy, were all tired! And this morning, we woke up and took fall pictures...the new candy came in handy to bribe little boys to smile...more on this when I get the pictures from my mom. :)

Here are the boys in my classroom.

My grade level dressed up in sports related things. I dressed up as a "fanatic fan". I had a lot to choose from in Shawn's closet! :) Most of the day I dressed in my crazy Halloween outfit. Halloween is my favorite day to dress crazy. Every year I add something to perfect my crazy Halloween outfit. This year I got some cool striped socks and a little witch's hat that clipped into my hair. My kids in my class kept calling me a little witch.

Here the boys are at my dad's office. Big surprise, the boys fell asleep in the car. Brannon's sleeping pose is especially funny!

It was amazing how many people called Brannon a Power Ranger. People with boys our's age called him Optimus Prime.

Trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.

Brannon, Alex and Jacob (aka Tony Stewart)

The Crull's and the Presser's
:)