August 2009 updates

Sunday August 2, 2009: In primary they were talking about temples. I asked Colby what they talked about and he said, “Going camping and the temple.” When I tried to find out more he said, “You need a tent and sleeping bag to go camping.” So when I asked sister Criddle she said they talked about how you have to prepare to go to the temple like you have to prepare to go camping. The Bishop talked in sharing time about baptisms for the dead. When he said, “for the dead” Colby had a look on his face and jumped out of his seat and said, “You baptize dead people?” I’m sure his thinking revolved around taking people from the cemetery. So the bishop then asked what they were going to do when they were 8 and Colby said, “I’m going to be a truck driver.” (Stories told by primary teachers and the Bishop).

Monday, August 3, 2009: Then Colby’s Idea was to play “I Spy.” He was trying to tell us which primary teacher taught him that game and he said, “It’s the one full of air.” That’s how he describes fat people since we told him it isn’t nice to call people fat.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: Colby climbed into my bed when he woke up this morning. He told me once again that I am cute and chubby. He thinks he is giving me a compliment – coming from him it is! He knows that saying “fat” isn’t nice so he calls me chubby.

Thursday, August 6, 2009: Colby was up just after 7 am and was ready to go to the dentist. It was his first appointment today. When it was his turn he climbed right up on the big chair and laid back and was ready to go. He laughed and smiled through the whole thing. He didn’t like when the chair got too reclined, but he just told them that it was far enough. And he didn’t like the toothpaste they used either. He held up his hand to have them stop and then he got up to rinse and spit and laid back down for more.

Friday, August 7, 2009: We went to Jessica’s (Levinson) Birthday Party at the Dedham health complex swimming pool. They had big inner tubes for floating on. Evan and Colby each had a tube they were sitting in. I was in between Evan and Colby, and I saw Evan flop over backwards! So I went over to him to help him up and I turned over and looked at Colby. He had just done a back flip off of his tube too. Evan at least knows how to hold his breath, Colby on the other hand won’t do it. So I ran over to him and he was able to pop himself up. He took a big breath and looked at me and said “why did you knock me over?” Surprisingly he didn’t get any water in his nose and mouth. He held his breath, even more surprising was that he didn’t’ cry. He just wanted to wipe his eyes off with a towel.

Saturday, August 08, 2009 Josh did not stick to his grocery list made me very irritated. We ended up leaving around 2:30. I was still irked in the car until on the radio the song “I’ll make you crazy” came on, and Colby who was quiet blurted out “Hurry, Change It”. For some reason he hates that song and he could tell right away what it was. We had to put on the Dixie Chicks for him (his new favorite CD in the car). He gave me a much needed laugh.

I woke up at 4am because I heard the lid of the toilet close. Colby had gone to the bathroom! But he also had on his bedroom light and was reading a book. He said that he had a bad dream – that he and I were playing blocks downstairs, and we built a tower and looked in and saw a face looking in at us. So he didn’t want to go back to sleep. He stayed up and finished reading his book then went back to sleep.

Sunday, August 16, 2009 church it was so hot so we had the AC in the car on. Colby wanted his window down (as usual). Josh said “if you can tell me what 2 + 2 is, I’ll roll down your window.” Without missing a beat Colby said, “It is 4.”, so we had a hot ride home.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 I tried to sleep but couldn’t . I heard Colby making sounds at 11:45pm, and went in his room and asked him what he was doing. He didn’t say anything, he was just laughing in his sleep.

Saturday, August 22, 2009: I called an inactive sister to say Hi and was giving her my phone number and paused for her to write it down and Colby goes “6,9” to finish off our phone number. I had no idea he knew it.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009: seems we went to the playground. We stayed for a couple hours. There were a couple kids and their mom their and Colby said to me as they were right there, “Why is their skin kind of dark and blackish?” Really? He has been around so many different people for his whole life and has never said much about it and now with them right there he has to bring it up? I just said there are lots of different kind of people and everyone is different. He wasn’t bothered by it, just curious. Then he was playing with an older boy and he saw me and told the boy, “That’s my mom over there. The pregnant lady.” I was just laughing at him!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009: Colby woke up this morning and said, “Is it Wednesday? That means trash night and Wipeout (our new favorite TV show) is on today.”

Sunday, August 30, 2009: As church was over Maren, and some others were talking in the hallway. Colby was trying to talk to Maren saying Maren, Maren, Maren over and over. Finally he walked right up in the circle and stuck is finger up and said, “Excuse me, Maren, I am trying to talk.” He wanted to ask if he could play with Evan tomorrow.

Josh’s rash was still itchy and I was looking at it and I said it looked like alligator skin and Colby said, “Alligators don’t have hair.”