The Color of Poo

Ben's favorite color is blue. So, for Zach's birthday, Ben wanted to buy Lofthouse cookies with blue frosting and cookies with yellow frosting, yellow being one of Zach's favorite colors and the other being green.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, I noticed and mentioned to Ben that his poo was bright green. I thought for a moment then told him it was from the blue frosting. No big deal. But yesterday, Ben brought a blue cookie to Zach and told him it would turn his poo green. Steve asked Ben if he wanted a blue cookie too. Ben replied, "No, green isn't one of my favorite colors".

Fish Fry

Zach had a day off from school on Friday. At about 4:30, Zach came up the stairs as I was just starting to get the pots around for dinner. He said, "Mom, I don't like home days all day. I want to go somewhere. I want to go to McDonalds". I replied, "Well, your dad and I talked about going to the fish fry". He said, "I want to go there! I want to try that"! Zach's enthusiasm for the fish fry was so contagious, even Ben became excited. And when we finally pulled into the parking lot at the restaurant, Ben asked, "Is this the fish RIDE"?

Another Tooth

Zach lost the other top tooth on Saturday. He was at Granny and Papa's and while playing outside in the snow with Granny he ran, face first, into the back of her and knocked it out. The tooth was lost in the snow for a day. The Tooth Fairy didn't seem to care though. She still left him some money under his pillow.

Mint Green

We were already running late for school when Zorro decided to visit wearing a knitted mint green sweater (and a yellow pee stain). This was just too cute not to post.

Wall Hugging Hot Wheels

I wish I had a movie of the difficulty Steve had putting this thing up. The wall template may have been helpful but it was far from perfect. We had to make use of some extra adhesive Command strips that I had for hanging pictures in order to get it to fit right.

It is now on the short wall of our upstairs hallway. Zach got this for Christmas from my brother's family and both boys love it.

The Christmas Surprise!

Zach was worrying for a few days that he might lose his tooth when it fell out. He was afraid it would fall out while he was sleeping and he might swallow it. But, as it would happen, he bumped it with his knee while at Granny and Papa's on Christmas night. He is shirtless in the picture because he and Ben were playing strong men.

Thomas!

Ben got an XL Thomas puzzle from Grandma for Christmas. He has always been my puzzle boy. So, he and Daddy sat down to put it together the other night.

Zach wanted his picture taken with Thomas too. So, they are laying on my kitchen floor with Thomas. Ben has put the puzzle together three times now and he's getting quite good at doing it.