The New Baby is a BOY!

Apparently we won't have much trouble with this rule. The new baby is, according to our ultrasound today, another boy! We are very excited to have FOUR amazing boys to raise.

Another One From Jack

"Porcupine trees are green every day of the week."

A Collection of Quotes

These quotes from my kids were all previously posted on Facebook, but I thought I'd post them here too, for posterity and for those who don't have Facebook.

From Alexander:

"Can you find some ways that are non-standard for pulling out teeth?"

"If I were president, I would make a law that spies would have to work every day and I would want everyone to be healthy so the only days they could eat candy would be birthdays and holidays. Also people would not have to get out of the car to get gas; they would just have to press a button and it would come out automatically. I would make someone invent that system. "

"You know, Mom, people only say that Santa will only bring presents to good kids to scare kids into wanting to be good, but that's not true."

"That doesn't make sense. You used a double negative."

Alexander referred to the Ravens as the Voldemort Ravens. (Voldemort is the Bad Guy in the Harry Potter series. Alexander misheard "Baltimore" as "Voldemort.")

Alexander's reaction to his first root beer float: "Mmmm! This tastes like ice cream with root beer on it!"

From Jack:

"Alexander, let's play 'Alexander and Jack,' where we be ourselves."

"Pop Tarts are dangerous."

From Kai: (to be fair, Kai's quotes are not funny. I am just impressed that he is already putting together quite a few three word sentences. He's also developing an expansive vocabulary!)

"Want go night night."

"Want get down."

"Where Allie go?"

"Bear dirty?"

As we passed a McDonald's: "Chicken?"

Gingerbread Train

This year we found a gingerbread train kit to make, which was a fun change over the houses we've done the past few years. Fun as always! Kai and I were there, too, but we mostly kept Kai away from the icing. He did make a few contributions to the design. :)

That is What We Get For Cleaning Up After Them

Me: Jack, think carefully about how many toy bins you dump, because you will need to clean all of those up tonight.

Jack: But what about the Clean-Up Fairy?

Halloween 2011

This year for Halloween Kai was a little train conductor. Jack was Mario. Alexander was creative. He'd been talking for weeks about his costume. He planned to be "Captain Clothes-A-Matoj." He had decided that Captain Underpants should have a brother who wore a ton of clothes all the time. I thought it was a passing fancy but when Halloween came along he was still set on being Captain Clothes-A-Matoj. He donned his costume. When Justin arrived home, not knowing of Alexander's planned costume, he asked Alexander if he was a pile of clothes. Apparently Alexander liked that explanation because while trick-or-treating he ended up telling everyone that he was a pile of clothes. He got quite a few laughs. Either way I think it was an interesting costume.

The kids had a great time as usual. We all went together around our little court and then Kai and I went home to hand out candy while Justin continued on with the big boys. Kai was very helpful and even managed to put a leaf in one kid's bucket. Upon his brothers' return we commenced our traditional viewing of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

"Ashes, ashes, CHEESE!"

Kai loves doing Ring Around the Rosie. He sings, "Ashes, ashes, ashes, ashes, all down!" (Ashes sounds like "ah-ee.") I tried to catch this on camera, but perhaps I've trained him too well. He got halfway through and then... "Cheese!"