Hey mom did you know ???

That is the way most of Evan's conversations are with me lately. Everything he says starts with 'hey mom did you know?' Luckily at this point, I can answer most anything he asks. Today he wanted to know if I knew that sometimes elephants wear gloves, no I did not know that. Or hey mom did you know that Gordon is bigger and faster than Thomas? Yes, I knew that one. Hey mom did you know that if you eat the snow it tastes like candy, no I did not know that one either. He has a statement or a question about everything all day long.

Yesterday while reading to him, he stops me and tells me that 'zoo' spells zoo. He just tells me like that, I was happy and sad all in the same moment. Happy that my little guy is learning, but sad that he is growing up too fast.

Then today he announces to me that he needs to 'poop.' Ok, here we go. I start to follow him into the bathroom for the normal routine. He tells me quite frankly that he needs some privacy. Oh, sorry. He moves the step over to turn on the light, then he sits his little potty lifter thing on the toilet and he does his business. I walk into the other room, in 2 seconds he is right behind me announces that he is 'done.' Very happy with himself. Again, I am happy and sad in the same moment. Sad that my little guy is growing up and happy that I don't have to wipe his little butt much longer!!

I should make a note about little Nick. He is sleeping in his bed. Yeah. Well at least until about 4 am. Then he comes into our room and stands there until I wake up and see those huge brown eyes, he is always standing there with Teddy and his blanket. I ask him if he wants to get into bed, and he always does. Except last night, I woke up to him climbing up the side of my bed, then kinda doing a half flip over me, plopped right in between Mike and I and he was out cold. He hates to have covers over him, so he lays in between Mike and I, on top of the covers. So then it is impossible to roll over, pull the covers up, anything. So I just get up and come downstairs, make coffee, get on the computer, whatever.

The boys have been in bed since 8 o'clock and I can still hear Nick running around upstairs. The boys have always loved to play hide-n-seek. We play in the house and Nick normally just follows someone around, but Evan really gets into it, they love to play. The other night Evan says, 'let's turn out all the lights and use our flashlights and play.' Ok. I had purchased these tiny little flashlights for a birthday party gift bag, and the boys love to play with them. So we turn out all the lights, and everyone gets a tiny little flashlight. When mom or dad are it, Evan hides and Nick just stays with mom or dad. When Evan is it, mom and dad try to hide and Nick gives us away every time. He just walks around with his flashlight on and talking, it is so funny. We have this big closet in the kitchen where I keep the sweeper. One of these days, I am going to take that sweeper out when nobody knows, hide it upstairs or something, and then hide in there, they will never find me!! This summer will be fun, I can see us playing this game outside! Oh we are in for a ride, I can see it now. And I love it!!

It is raining out, isn't it still winter??