There's going to be a BALL?!

Me to Tom: "My cousin Morgan's wedding is officially December 20th."

Julianna: "A wedding?"

Me: "Do you know what a wedding is?"

Julianna: "Yes. It's where people get married!"

Me: "Yes, and then there is a party with food and sometimes dancing after."

J: "OH!! There's going to be a BALL?! I will probably do some of my breakdance moves!" [Jumps up and runs to Drew] "Drew! There's going to be a BALLLL! We can breakdance!"

Drew: "Ugh. You don't breakdance at a BALL! That's where you do the tango or something. I don't want to go to a ball! Maybe a ballgame but not a ball!"

For some reason, knowing Morgan's fiancé Erik, I imagine he might agree with Drew. Am I right Morgan? :)

Love notes and the rodeo

I kid you not, all of these conversations happened with my children within one hour.

Julianna made me a note that said "I love you" decorated with hearts and X's and O's. She brought it to me and expressed how much she loves me. Then she started to help me make dinner. She poured the milk into the mac and cheese for me and turned to load it in the dishwasher. When she did that she let the biggest toot ever go. Then she looked at me and said, "Thar toot was my 'I love you text to Daddy."

Two minutes later, Tom called and I told him what happened. He laughed and said, "She knows my language, I guess."

Then, just a bit ago, I was taking Drew to baseball practice. He's really tired from DNC camp this week and late nights with baseball games and rain storms. So, he says, "I have to start school in two months! I feel like summer just started and I already have to go back!" I tried to reassure him that there was two and a half months left of summer but he literally cried he was so sad that summer was going too fast. I changed the subject on him. I told him we better look up when the Pretty Prairie Rodeo was so we could plan to go. He asked if that was a good one and I told him it was Kansas's largest night rodeo. He thought for a minute and said, "Hm. So they will probably have all the best buckers and bulls that that one? I'm happy that you're taking me to that one and not just any old rodeo."

Then after a couple more minutes of driving, I got his sports glasses out for him and was wiping them off on my shirt. He was getting impatient and I told him, "Hang on, Buddy. I'm getting it cleaned off." He said, "You don't call me 'buddy' a lot. Dad does. He used to call me buddy all. The. Time." I asked, "Oh yea? Did you like it when Dad calls you buddy? It's kinda nice when someone gives you a nickname. Makes me feel loved." He answered, "Yea, I liked it. It didn't make me feel loved, but I knew he liked me."

These kids!

Nature Camp!

Drew went to his first day of nature camp today. It's his first year and it's a camp that both Tom and I loved as kids and then Lily's loved it too. He's been waiting for his turn for quite some time. Some of the employees were excited to see little Drew was big enough to come to camp. He received a nice welcome.

He was a tad nervous. He was asking Lily all sorts of questions about what would happen when he got there and where would he put his lunch. All his nervous questions made me smile because I can relate. The second born has the advantage of quizzing their older sibling before heading into new situations. I know I took advantage of that trick as a kid! My sister even drew me a map for my first day of high school. :)

I made him pose for a picture. He said, "Mom! It's not the first day of school!" Ha