Catchin up......

Thomas goes through spurts of reenacting certain scenes from his favorite movies. It has been awhile since he has done it. This week he got back into toy story mode. It's funny because he hasn't watched many movies lately or tv for that matter. He started out by marking(with erasable crayons mind you) on the side of his door, woody's growth chart(as seen in the film...not sure which one though). I began telling Thomas that it isn't okay to write on the walls with anything. His reply to me with confidence, "but mom that is what Andy does on his door to measure woody and he didn't get in trouble." The scene from the movie quickly came back into the noggin and I tried so hard to keep a straight face. He then said, "Alright mom I will just clean it up." I had him scrub it clean and told him he could pretend to measure Woody's growing progress with his finger.

Below is a picture of Thomas reenacting another scene from one of the toy stoy movies. The aliens trapped Humpty Dumpty(not in the real movie only found in the movie created by Thomas James Gardner.) He then quickly ran upstairs to have buzz save Humpty from his awful fate. He must have gone on for an hour. I love his imagination and ways of thinking. This boy is always thinking and asking questions.

Another day in the "adventures of Thomas." Eric and I were laughing pretty good when Thomas came up the stairs with the doctors kit and became the surgeon that would save Mr. Gardner's life. He drew me a picture of what the incision was going to look like. He drew quite a few in fact to explain to both Eric and I what he needed to do. One of them had a black spot. Dr. Wety Tomet(that is what we had to call him....we kept saying don't you mean Thomas and he would say, "no, Dr. Wety Tomet) said there was something in Mr. Gardner's throat that he needed to be taken out immediately. I can't remember all the things he was saying but he was hilarious. He would go and explain things to Eric(as though he was the real deal) and I would pretend to be sad and he even took the time out to console me that everything would be fine. I must say he had great bed side manners!!

Moving on to the wee one. I couldn't believe how Brynnley was taking the medical abuse. Thomas was trying to look in her ears, mouth, and even nose as you can see in the pics below. Brynnley was pretty amused by the whole thing and thought it was pretty fun. She would laugh every time he was done with his inspections. Avery joined in as the nurse at one point and Brynnley again allowed them to give her shots etc. I mean check out that nose shot! Ouch!(gotta love his surgical head light. He found his nebulizer mask and figured that would be perfect! When he came downstairs with that on I knew it was a camera moment.)

When all was done she got them back by becoming a vampire!!! She obviously didn't get a clean bill of health. She has another check up in a month once her vampiritis subsides.

Saturday night I went to tuck the girls in while Thomas and Dad were reading and I found them both snug in Avery's bed. Avery begged to let her sister stay in her room and sleep with her. Brynnley did not want to leave either. We have a tradition on Christmas eve where the kids get to build a fort and sleep together(ONE night of the year.) So I reminded Avery of that tradition and unless circumstances were such that they needed to share a bed, it wasn't happening. I just imagined them jumping around laughing until 1 in the morning only to wake up to crabbiness. No thanks! I am still not sure Brynnley will be joining in on the tradition this year. Last year Avery and Thomas did great and it only took a few reminders to go to bed. As soon as we brought the whole, "go to bed or Santa can't come" into the equation they were sawing logs. I am pretty sure Brynnley won't be so easily coaxed. They were pretty cute though and I let them pretend for a few minutes.

Avery shocked me the other day and said she wanted to cute her hair to her shoulders. She has always loved long hair esp. after seeing Tangled. I asked her if she would be sad if it was cut off and she said, "no, it will grow back." Her hair does grow fast and I told her we would donate it if we were going to do that. I kinda want her a bit older so she can appreciate what she is doing. I learned from a friend where and how to donate and the lengths needed for different charities. Anyways, I cut 4 inches to start(in pics her hair still looks long so you get an idea of how long it was getting). I will wait a little bit and then if she still wants it shorter we will donate it. So far she really likes it the way it is and asked me to cut off 2 more inches. She is growing up!! She told me if she cut it short she would be just like mom. As long as it isn't boy short. Love you girlie!!

I can't believe the year is almost over. I am excited to publish my blog with what I have written so far for the kids to have for Christmas. I know they will cherish them so much when they are older(esp. to show their children.) I am going to start a tradition and do a book at the end of each year for them. Until they are older I will put them to the side in their keep sake box. They are the biggest reason for me starting this blog and my motivation to keep it going even when life gets so busy. I have gotten too busy to keep doing their albums on paper and since everything is digitized these days I figure they will have disks of all their pictures, videos, and now memory books from the blog. It's hard with the 3 kids to keep up on everything but Eric and I have made a point at FHE to record them at least once a month with a variety of questions. Sometimes after FHE we will just record them dancing and being goofy. I have LOVED watching the VHS videos(that I need to convert to DVD) from when I was younger. I don't have much but I cherish what I have. They grow up so fast. I know I will enjoy seeing and reading them as well as they will take me back to these sweet moments in a split second.