Never Gonna Kiss a Girl

I am writing this blog so that I can remember to tell the story on Brenden's wedding day.

Yesterday, Brenden and I were running some errands and he started telling me about how he would never ever ever ever neeeevvvvvvvvver ever evvvvvvvvver never never never ever kiss a girl.

My response - Sure you will - someday.

Brenden's response -- No, never ever never ever ever.

My response - OK, not a problem.

So tonight, the boys, my sister and I went out to Steer N Stein and I was telling the story. Brenden put his hand up in front of his face, waving it up and down with an "eee, eee, eee" sound and said, I will never kiss a girl, not even when I'm married! Kellie said, You have to kiss a girl if you're married and Brenden said Nope, not me...with more hand waving and "eee, eee, eee" noises. LOL

Speeches and Enunciating

Tonight Ethan practiced his "valedictorian" speech for his "graduation" from the "Apple Valley One Room School House" tomorrow. For three weeks, everyone in the fourth grade has pretended to be part of the Apple Valley Schoolhouse in the 1850s. It has been really neat. Ethan's alias is Robbie Smith. His teacher is now Miss White. They wear old style clothing and carry their books in pillowcases. The three weeks is coming to an end so the other night, he had to write (OK, I helped him a little) a valedictorian speech. Yesterday he found out that his was one of six out of the entire fourth grade that would be part of the graduation ceremony. So yes, folks, Ethan will give the first speech of his life tomorrow morning. Drumroll please....:

"Good morning fellow classmates, staff and parents. Thank you for attending our graduation. The teachers and students have worked very hard. We have learned much about reading, spelling, writing and mathematics.

Much has happened this year. I remember the time when I brought an apple to my teacher Miss White. When she took a bite of it, a worm popped out! Boy did she scream to the heavens! She ran out of our one room school house faster than a speeding horse! I also remember how we all came together to mourn the passing of Farmer Brown's beloved cow, Bessy. We are more than a schoolhouse, we are a community.

As graduates entering our community, I believe we can work together to bring peace back to our country. President Pierce did us wrong by signing the Kansas Nebraska Act. Now, we are graduates. We can do our part to make a difference.

Thank you for coming."

Video camera's ready!

So while Ethan did his work, Brenden did his. Of course it took me saying "focus focus focus" to both boys, but that's how it always is. Anyway, Brenden had to write the words he missed on the day's spelling test three times each and in a sentence. When we got to the word "would" I explained to him that the word isn't the "wood" that's is like the wood of a tree. Instead, I said, it's like "Would you like to go to the movies?" So not to cheat, he came up with his own sentence: "Would you like to go to the park? (hehe) When he was writing out the sentence, he came up to me and said how do you spell "jya?" I replied HUH? What are you talking about Brenden?! and he said YOU KNOW, JYA!! WHAAAAAT? says me! Finally, he says YOU KNOW, LIKE WOULDJYA LIKE TO GO TO THE PARK? HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I guess I should start enunciating.

Ok, good night. :)

Out of the mouth of...Bren

Last night, Ethan fell asleep a little earlier than bedtime. So, I tucked just Brennie in at 9. Every night I remind the boys to say their prayers and sometimes I get them started or pray with them. As I was walking out of their room last night, I heard Brenden start to pray. What I heard went like this "Thank you God for my pillow and my toys and my bed and for boxes and for windshields and our car..." He is the cutest thing. I don't think I've ever thanked God for my windshield.

Speaking of Brenden's words...before I started blogging I wrote down somewhere else a funny phone conversation I had with him one time. It was about 3 or 4 months ago. I called the boys from work one day to say hi. Brenden answered the phone. Our conversation was:

Brenden: Hello?
Me: Hi Brennie (in hushed tone)
Brenden: Hi Mama! Why are you talking so low?
Me: Oh, because I'm at work baby.
Brenden: Ohhhhh! Is everyone sleeping?
Me: Hehehe no baby!
Brenden: OOHHH! They are just trying to concentrate!!
Me: Yeees baby that's right! You are so smart!
Brenden: I know! And I just thunk of that myself!

hehe...I have the cutest kids ever.
:)