Life With Boys

Morgan and Tyler started the morning with a full chorus of dinosaur roars (remember our mornings are usually starting at about 5 am, whether we want them to or not).Matt: “What do the big dinosaurs say?”Tyler: “Roar, but big dinosaurs are scary.”Matt: “What about the small dinosaurs?”Tyler: “They are nice.”Matt: “What about flying dinosaurs?”Tyler: “Those… Continue reading

And apparently that mouse in our house made a neat little bed in the air filter of our car. Continue reading

It’s happened; I’ve finally had a dream about Mom. I was on travel study, or something and had somehow gotten severely sunburned (to the point where my skin was peeling off in sheets. It was really gross and out of nowhere both my Mom and Dad came in to what I guess was my hotel… Continue reading

Morgan finally told us what his name is. He usually tells you it Tiewere or Mama, but today he exclaimed that his name is MOORGIE. Continue reading

“Morgan did it.”It’s becoming a catch phrase in our house — coined by a big brother who is all too quickly learning how to shift the blame off of himself.Now Matt seems to have adopted “Morgan did it” as his mantra as well. Continue reading

We went to get icees tonight and Matt got “Brain Freeze” (the I’m going to die because I drank this cold drink too fast and now my brain is going to escape from my head feeling). Matt: “Oh, brain freeze.”Tyler: “What’s brain freeze?”So Matt tried to explain, obviously unsuccessfully and Tyler’s next move was to… Continue reading

With grapes.Frozen grapes. I want to fill myself with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. So I’m eating grapes.I think I’ve consumed 10 pounds of grapes in 4 days. Something is terribly wrong here. Continue reading

Morgan is using sentences more and more — his favorite phrases at present include:“I did it.”“I find it.”“Where’s Tyler?”and of course“No, don’t like it.” Continue reading

It’s all about dipping. Food in not complete without some kind of dip — even if the combo is enough to make your stomach turn.One of Tyler’s most classic combos has to be tomatoes in maple syrup followed closely by grapes in spaghetti sauce.Morgan is starting to pick-up the habit now too. Yeah. Continue reading

When Morgan was given his envelope of Valentine’s at school he exclaimed, “I got mail.” (And no, we don’t have AOL) Continue reading