Noggin

I went to run to the store, and Joey decided to run with me, even though I told him he would NOT be getting anything while we were there.  Well, that all changes as soon as he sees something he wants.  Good cooperative behavior turns to tantrums and deal making.  So there he sits, on the floor by the register while I try to pretend he isn't bothering me.  He says he isn't going anywhere...

"That's fine, Hard Head, I am going home and I guess they can put you to work here."

He jumps up off the floor in a panic as I start to leave, and bumps his head on the display shelf.  The poor lady at the register leans over as if to rub it for him and he jerks away from her.  He leans away, rubbing his head and tells her,
"That's okay, I got a hard noggin.  That's why mom says I'm a hard head."

The lady at the register and the people waiting behind him in line started laughing.  He skipped out of the store as if he was there just for their entertainment.

Truth

Joey came home from school and I checked his folder for his behavior chart.  It was there, but it wasn't filled out.  So I asked him if he had a good day.

"Yes, I had an all green day."
Well, I don't see any green, so how do I know you are telling me the truth?

He wrinkles his nose and looks up at me in shock.
"I was good!  I was THERE.  I know the TRUTH!"

I can't argue with that logic.

Lessons

"Know what mom?  I learned to play soccer!  I am not very good at it.  But guess what?  I learned something about playing soccer.  I learned that if you play soccer with the wrong ball, like a basket ball, then you get your toes hurt."

"Know what mom?  I learned that Dad's should not take out splinters.  Mom's tell you to close your eyes and think of nice things and it comes out with just a little hurt.  Dad's just grab it and yank and make a little BLOOD come out!"

"Know what mom?  I learned that my DS would be okay when I drop it because it has a case on it.  I am still gonna be careful though.  If I drop it too many times it the case could not work, maybe.  Or if I drop it down a cliff or something then it REALLY won't work.  So I have to still be careful."

"Know what mom?  My sock feels tight but not because it is too small.  It's because my wiggle toes don't want covers on.  So I am going to keep it on and stretch it out until they get used to it."

"Know what mom?  I know how they test car crashes!  I seen it on TV.  They make a car of only metal and they put a fake human in it, then they crash it.  There are lots of targets on the fake human to see how many spots he gets crashed on."

Orca

(Watching Keiko the Killer Whale story-he has a conversation with himself in front of the TV)

"Why would they take a perfectly good whale, scoop him out of the ocean and put him in a swimming pool to do tricks for fish?!!!  If he was in the ocean he could get his OWN fish and people could watch him with binoculars!  I would hate it if I had a big house then people put me in a squished house and bossed me around for no reason.  If I was big enough, I would take them all out, put them on a big truck and put them all back in the ocean.  Human people are mean."

Yes Joey, yes we are.  :(

Pop

Joey walks in the kitchen with his plate and cup in hand, and neither of them are empty.  With his picky eating, I have to try to get him to eat just the smallest things.

Why are you putting your things away?, I ask.
"Just my milk.  My drinking area is full."

Okay, just make sure you finish eating, I told him.  He walks a few steps, taking a bite of his toaster strudel.  He ends up walking back to me hunched over as if someone punched him in the belly.

What are you doing?, I asked
"I guess my eating area is filled up too.  I feel like I am gonna pop."



I didn't know we had two different sections to fill?

Rich

A piece of a conversation between Luke and Joey I overheard:

Luke: "oh, is Dad RICH now?!"

Joey: "no, he's in the Army."

Luke; "so?"

Joey: "How can he be rich if he is in the Army then?"

Good question son!  LOL

Hens

We had a church home meeting, and some ladies came to join us where we chatted away the entire hour while the boys sat on the floor and chimed in once and a while.  Wes pushed his opinions in there a view times while Joey lay on the couch quietly next to me and ignored us all playing his DS.

At the end of the meeting, they said next visit it would be the males turn to talk, as a little ha-ha to end the evening.  I agreed, and promised Wes during the next visit I would not say ANYTHING at all and the other ladies swore to him as well that they would remain silent.  From the corner of the couch we heard a mumble:

"Yeah, like that's gonna happen."

The entire room bust out laughing!  Joe might not know when to watch what he is saying, but at this age he has good comedic timing!

Easter

Well, Joey didn't want to join the millions of kids on post for the Easter Egg hunt this year, and after the couple weeks he has had I was not going to force it. BUT when we took the boys to a b-day party he asked to stop at the field it was held at (it was 7 hours later) "just to check". It had rained since the hunt as well, so the field was soaked and had baby rivers going through it. His sharp eyes caught sight of ONE yellow egg on the opposite side of this field! I was pretty sure it was empty but he ran to check anyway, excited just to find the egg. BEHOLD!!! There was, in fact, still a little treasure inside just for him! We searched a little bit longer, but that was the one and only egg still on the field. "It was left JUST for ME!" he says. You know what? I think it was Joey, I think it was.

 

Fortune

We had Chinese food for dinner and this is the first time Joey got a fortune cookie.  He didn't understand how a cookie could tell your fortune.

"Cookies could be wrong you know."

And he also was afraid to risk picking the wrong one.
"What if I get a BAD luck one?"

But in the end, he picked a cookie and read his fortune out loud to us.
"You will soon bring joy to someone new in your life."

He looked up and frowned.
"What?! This can't be for me!  I don't even HAVE a life.  Life's are for grownups!"

 

Bite

"Mom, we gotta dress warm.  We don't want to get Freezer Bite."
Freezer bite, Joe?  What would that be?
"You know, Freezer Bite is when your skin gets too cold and turns black and falls off and you die...do you die actually?"
Frost Bite,Joe, and no.  Most times you don't die.
"But your skin falls off right? 
It can yes.
"Okay, it's good that you don't die.  But if we don't dress warm then we get Freezer Bite and get spots of our skin black that falls off.  So dress warm."
It's Frost...forget it.  Yes Joe, lets dress warm.

Harry

Time for a hair cut Joe.
"Nope.  Time for a NOT hair cut."
Okay, well if you don't get one, everyone is going to start calling you Harry.
"Well, YOU are still going to call me B and Joey."
Why?  You don't like Harry?
"No Harry is an ugly name."
Well okay then, we will stick with your regular name of BeeBop, okay?
"That will work."

Promise

Joey isn't eating like he should, so I told him I was going to call Gramma who would be very disappointed.

Luke, his big brother was sitting by and pointed while saying "ohhhhhhhhh!" to Joey, to make such a punishment seem twice as bad.

"Stop it!" Joey yelled at him. "What if YOU were little and YOU broke a promise and someone said OHHHHHHHH to YOU!"

His panic was apparent, and made his Gramma laugh.  Don't you dare break a promise Joe!

Gaming

"Mom, I told Luke that Game Pack 4 was out (something to do with Mindcraft) and he was really amazed!"
He stops and thinks.
"Well, he was super excited..."
He stops and thinks again.
"Wait, do both of those mean the same thing?  They do right?  Amazed and excited?  Well they sorta do, but kinda don't...so he was both of them."
And off he went back to his game. 

Studious

"Mom, did you know that round glasses are called 'studious' glasses?"
Really? (actually, I had NO idea, so this was a pretty cool piece of info)
"Yep.  They are the kind of glasses that Harry Potter wears."
And he is studious? 
"Yep."
Are your glasses round?
"Nope, they're oval.  But I AM studious anyway."

Adopt

We were at the commisary so Matt can check what number he is on the 'become a bagger' list from last summer.  Joey is in the back seat playing his DS, which is dying.
"Mom, we have to go home.  I need to plug in my DS, it's RED!"
We have to wait for Matt to get back.
"Lets just leave him!"
No, I am not leaving him here. Don't be mean!
"Why not?  Someone will adopt him!"

Busy

I told Joey I was going to go up in the tub and to be good down stairs with his Dad (so he doesn't worry!)

"Where is Luke?" he asks

Out playing.  Dad is right here to keep you safe, just stay inside and stay out of trouble.

I turned to walk back upstairs...

"Wait! Who is going to play with me and keep me entertained?!"

Papa

I was singing the "Inty Minty, Tibity Fig" song my dad taught me as a child (used to tap closed fists in order to find out who is 'it' for a game) to Joey one day.  He kept laughing and telling me to sing it again and again.

Well, why don't you learn? I asked.

"I don't want to"

Well, you have to so you can teach your kids too.  See, your Papa taught it to me when I was a little girl, then I taught it to you when you are a little boy.  So now you have to teach your little kid when you have one.  So you have to practice with me okay?

"No." and he stops talking completely and looks away with his arms over his face again.  (He does this when he can't deal with 'outside' things, as a comfort of sorts.)

I wait a while, then ask if he is ready to talk with me again, and what did I say that made him upset?

He looks at me mean, but I can tell his eyes are watering when he yells,

"YOU MADE ME MISS GRANDPA!!" and he drops his head on my stomach and cries.

Whodathought? Heartache.  Ugh.

Boots

I have to convince Joey to toss some things he doesn't fit or need anymore. 

A pair of Red Galoshes had to go. 

He holds them up and sighs..."Mom, remember when I could fit these? I would play Boots the Monkey with red boots and Eme would be Dora and we would go on an adventure..." and he slowly placed them in the box and went to bed... 

 One item a night? 
Not if he has a memory like THAT for them, then I myself won't get rid of them EITHER!!! 
Whaaaaaaaa!!! :(

Note

Update on the bad day post before this one:
I asked Joey what exactly set him off to have a completely ruined day with no fixes whatsoever.  He looks at me and says, "Didn't Ms.(teacher) call you?"

No, she didn't, which is why I am asking YOU what happened so it won't happen again tomorrow.

"Well, it's Ms (teacher) job to call you and leave you a Note on your Phone!"

Hungry

Joey had a BAAAAAD day at school today.  After a bad day yesterday and being sent to his room, I promised him he would get a spank if he repeated the bad behavior.  Well, he did, for three hours longer than the day before.

I took him with me to pick up his brother and friends from practice, and on the way home he starts yelling about how hungry he is.  Mind you, we are pointed directly toward McDonald's, and there is no missing those golden arches.  I looked at him as mean as I could in the rear view mirror and stated, "If you DARE ask for McDonald's young man, I will add a fourth spank to the three I already owe you."

He looks right at me, eyes wide, "I do NOT want McDonald's mom, I do NOT want McDonald's."

I went back to my regular mom voice, knowing he had understood my point, "Good to hear." I said.

"I want Subway!" he said with a smile.  All the boys in the van started laughing.  That boy has guts.

Engine

Joey, where is your Bus?!  Wait!  I think I hear a big cranky engine!

"Nope, that's my cranky engine" he laughs.

I look at him confused as he runs away...

"I Farted!"

Strike

"I went bowling today.  The best part was the pizza."
So how did you do?
"I got a strike so I was mad.  Then Ms. (his teacher) told me that a strike was good.  But on one game a strike is bad and another game a strike is good.  That's dumb.  People should make up their minds so I don't get mad for no reason."

Sandwich

"Mom I LOVE this sandwich!"
You do huh? I hoped you might.
"I DO! It's the chicken! I love it! I have a party up in my brain!"

Lolly Pop

"We learned about how to get lolly pops today."
Lolly pops?
"Yup! You mix 10 sugars and 10 waters and stir it. Then you pick your favorite color and put it in. But then you have to stir it again if you want colors in it. So you mix it and wait your turn and raise your hand. Then you give all that junk to your teacher and she gives you a lolly pop that she said she made yesterday. Tah-dah, just like that. That's how I got a lolly pop."

Cake!

I picked Joey up early from school (so he could turn in some paperwork) and he had lots to share: "Mom, I got scared out of my chair today!"
How did you do that?
"Well, here, let me tell you how it worked.  I got my Ipad and I got a new game on it.  So I touched that one and it was spelled C-A-K-E with an explanation mark at the end of that.  So when it came on it said CAKE! real loud and scared me out of my chair. That's how that happens."

LOL!

Anger

Matt is upset that we are forcing him to go on a date, and yells that he is going to go on a 'rampage' (joking).

Joey over hears and tells Matt matter-of-fact "That WON'T help your anger. I learned that in school. You just have to take a DEEP breath and there...your problems will be solved."

I love the things he picks up our of a whole day of school, and what he deems important to pass on to others.

Tub

Joey usually has to have a BUNCH of stuff with him in the tub, but this morning was unusual and he only had his imagination for the most part. I heard singing, so I went to closer, to listen.

"Swim Joey Swim! Swim Joey Swim!" sung to classical music we listen to in the house. This is what I saw walking in there, lol.

Yes, he is actually doing the motions of SWIMMING! lol Silly boy.

Pillow

After a rushed morning, Joey is all ready for school and waiting for the bus. He settles on the couch with our dog and his DS.

"Ahhhhh, warm," he whispers, so I looked over to see him curl up to Honor, our lab. "Honor, your are my favorite pillow." he says to her, then lays back to play his game. She stays put right there for him until the bus comes several minutes later. <3 A Boy and his Dog.

Blanket

The whole time Dad, the brothers and I are putting this blanket together, Joey is watching curiously.
"Who is that blanket for mom?"
Oh, just some kid I know...
"Well, I am the only kid that watches spider man."
No answer from me.
"How is is this little boy you know?"
Oh, about 6 or seven I think, but he's big so maybe he's 7 or 8?
"Hey, I am seven! What does he look like?"
Hmmm, blonde hair and blue eyes.
"I have blonde hair and blue eyes! It's for ME then!"

Yes Joey, the blanket is for you, silly boy.

Eggs

Josh was making his breakfast this morning, while Joey eats cereal in the living room. He makes a few ugly faces and looks around wondering what the smell is. He looks funny at Matt who automatically responds with "It wasn't me".

Then he looks toward the kitchen and yells, "JOSH! Your eggs smell like FART!"

That didn't stop Josh from eating them anyway.

Waffles

"Joey, are you going to be able to eat all this?" I ask as I cut up the left over waffles he says he wants to eat.

"Well, I don't know it till I try it I guess!"

My Prince

We were watching Disney's Tangled and it got to the part where the prince died in the tower. (I can't ruin the movie for you, because he tells you in the very beginning that he dies!). Well, I got a little choked up, and Joey stood looking up at me. He gives me a hug and says,

"Don't worry mom, these movies always have a happy ending."

lol. I know sweetie, but I still cry on the sad parts. He was so sweet.

Rushing

First day of vacation? Arguing with a child who wants to go to sports when he is injured so he can further injure himself. Then another who didn't get up when his door was opened, then another who didn't turn a light on to WAKE said child up and ran late for school with no real breakfast.

Then there is the youngest, who is content to sit in front of the TV while I struggle to get food in him, clothes on, and get him ready to head out the door. Then he pushes me away after I finally get frustrated and yell at him to help me out!

"Stop RUSHING! You always RUSH! I can do it my own SELF anyway!" he says. Okay, first rule of vacations; stop rushing. I got it.

ABCs

Things Joey Says: "Mom, this shake is dumb! I can't even get any out!" Well, suck harder hon, it will come up. "I used Every Single Tongue Muscle!"


Things Joey Says: "Mom, can we make lemonade? All we need is lemons, ice, and those little umbrellas."


Things Joey Says: "A-B-C-D-E-F-G..Ineedadrinkand...Igottapee...Q-R-S, T-U-V..."