Nothing much new just a few little funny stories about the boys..
Dead Inside
A couple of weeks ago Grant started telling me all mommies were mean. “It’s true.. they are”. I kinda brushed him off and figured it was some weird phase or he was mad about having to do is ONE job of emptying the dishwasher (and not letting him con Henry into do it for him). But this kept coming up in different conversations throughout the week and the other attributes he’d given to “all mommies” were getting more disturbing. “All mommies are mean, they are evil.. and they are dead inside”. Weirdly I took the most offense to the “dead inside” comment. How could he think I was dead inside?!? I’m the most alive-iest inside person I know!! (could someone dead inside come up with a word like alive-iest?.. ok don’t answer that) And really, that’s a weird concept for a kid to say… “dead inside”? really? I can’t imagine WHERE he would have heard that. I pushed for more answers. I got “they’re all wrapped in themselves”. What?!?! Now we’re all self-centered? Where is this kid getting his intel? Am I going to have to actually start WATCHING Power Rangers to find out what it’s teaching my kid? I had to get to the bottom of this. “How are they wrapped in themselves.. what do you mean, Grant?”. He answered “You know.. like band-aid wrap stuff.. wrapped around their heads and bodies and stuff.” The light went on. Mummies. Got it. It all fell into place. So I could breathe a sigh of relief knowing my kid didn’t find me dead inside and wrapped up in myself, mean and evil. I’m normal. He’s normal. The world has been restored to it’s normal self. 
Does Not Approve
Yesterday after swimming lessons I stopped to get the boys Happy Meals on the way home. On the way home Henry opened his only to find they’d mistakenly given him a GIRL TOY. We were already on the road and I wasn’t about to go back and switch it out. So I told him sometimes girl toys could be fun too. He seemed fine with it. Grant however was not amused. From the backseat I heard him say with much disdain in his voice “That’s a BARBIE doll. I don’t like Barbies.. if I ever got a Barbie I would just go over and throw it right in the trash”. Henry somehow didn’t catch what was going on and wanted to fit in so he of course agreed “uh huh! I would throw it away too” and I hear Grant say “well that’s whatcha got!” It didn’t turn into any huge argument so I didn’t think much of it. When we got home they were able to open their toys and Grant looked on with serious disgust as Henry opened his Barbie Head with it’s matching comb. Fortunately Henry didn’t know what Grant meant when he said “Actually Henry’s Happy Meal toy is really lame”. It’s always weird when you hear your kid come out with little phrases like that. Today I’ve already heard Grant again say twice “If I ever got a Barbie I’d just throw it in the trash”. Perhaps the power of suggestion would make Henry do the right thing. It’s like he thinks it’s devaluing all of the other cool toys in the toy room by even allowing it to exist in our house. I’m going to keep it around for awhile to see what happens to it.
They are seriously and endless source of entertainment.. every day.
