Team Ostler: Rainy Day Fun

1.26.2010

Rainy Day Fun

As you all know from the news California has been receiving an enormous amount of rain recently.* This, of course, translates into bored, wound-up, restless kids. So I was really proud of Ben when he turned that restlessness into creativity and decided to make a road with the books winding from the living room to his play room. He spent hours building and driving his cars along the road. Luke and Jimmy also enjoyed the road creation.

* I know that there are many of you reading this now who are living in never ending snow and below freezing temperatures that are dying to make a comment about how wimpy I am, and I just want to make a little clarification. I am in no way complaining about the rain. Believe me, I will take a little rain any day over what you are experiencing. And for the record, yes, I am a wimp and I'll be the first to admit it!!

4 comments:

Ronda: Well, atleast you clarified and admitted you are a wimp. I think I can handle your complaining of a little rain now. :) I an so glad I found you on fb and now get to follow your families adventures in California.; January 26, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Amber: Creative for sure! You are not being a wimp. Anything that stops you from being able to go outside or do the things you want to do is a pain!; January 26, 2010 at 9:58 PM
Cameron, Shannon Voge: That is so imaginative Ben! Boys are so creative with things like that... my girls would just play pretend with their dolls all day, which is something you can't drive cars on for hours :); January 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM
dodasgirl: thanks for the disclaimer! i would say that your kids are bouncing off the walls because they are spoiled by your normal perfect weather, but i know that they are just naturally active.

and for the record...we love the snow, romping and playing and sledding and snowball fights and fort building. so, everyone wins!; January 27, 2010 at 9:18 PM

Funny Things Kids Say

We were at church and during the sacrament I was talking to Luke about Jesus. I told him that Jesus bled and died for us. Luke looked at me with a very concerned look and said, "Did Heavenly Father give Jesus a band-aid when he was bleeding?"

We were about to walk out the door so I told Luke to go potty. He came out of the bathroom saying, "I can't go! The batteries in my pee pee are dead!"

After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).

Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"

We have a saying in our house. It's "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" But Ben has his own version of this. He says "you get what you WANT and you don't throw a fit!"

Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.

Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"

We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."

I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)

Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"

I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"

Jimmy and I are listening to "Give Said the Little Stream" and Jimmy says "How does it talk?" I said "How does what talk?" He said, "The stream, it doesn't have a mouth, how can it talk?"

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1.26.2010

Rainy Day Fun

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