Stories

• Recently the kids were playing puppies together and these were the names they chose for their dogs:  Carter chose pop (always so original) Ava chose Rosary and Dawson chose barf.
• Thursday night was the first night of the Football Draft and Mike was pumped.  Carter asked me "After I get my shower, can I watch the drift?"  I just started laughing although we did let him watch a little bit of the "drift."  Then Friday night I asked him if he wanted to go downstairs after he gets on his pajamas and he replied "So I can watch the raffle too?"  Well, it's still called the draft, but yes you can.
• This week after one of Carter's tball games Mike was following us home in the jeep and as he was driving Ava was giving me a step by step narration of what Mike was saying in the jeep.  Or in her words "Daddy was like........"     I'm parking my jeep here outside.  I need to make a turn, AAAAAAHHHHHH!  I'm following my wife.  Although I think the humor is a little lost in translation, she had me dying with laughter the entire way home!
• This week we had a thunderstorm very early in the morning.  It woke me up and I was waiting for Dawson, because I know he is petrified of thunder and lightning.  I thought he would start crying, but he walked into our room, shaking like a leaf and not making a sound.  I put him in our bed and his whole little body was trembling and I could feel his heart beating a mile a minute.  He grabbed onto me as hard as he could, put the covers over his head and finally relaxed into sleep again.  It was such a different little boy than the typical fearless headstrong kid we see every day.