Random update time!

It makes me laugh that two posts ago, I posted pictures of the boys in the snow.  I haven't updated the blog lately because we've been too busy playing outside, in our shorts!  Last week was Zach's spring break (it's still funny to me that a 5 year-old can have a spring break), and we didn't need to head south to find a beach, it was absolutely gorgeous here!

Anyway, on to my random updates about our two goofy boys:

Charlie has been noticing letters and numbers.  He'll see some letters on my shirt, on a sign, wherever, and point and them and say "A, B, R..."  And no, he isn't right.  In fact, he often says those same letters while pointing at numbers.  He occasionally throws in an "I" sound, but for the most part we hear those three letters.  One of these days I'll get video of it, cause it's pretty darn funny.

Scott and the boys often go to Target on the weekends, as part of their breakfast outing.  Exciting, I know.  A couple months ago they came home and Zach excitedly told me there was a t-shirt that Scott wanted for his birthday, and he wanted to get it for him.  Great.  I took the boys to that same Target a week or so before Scott's birthday, only to discover they had that shirt in a medium and an XL; Scott usually wears a large.  I explained to Zach they didn't have Scott's size, and he decided we should get the XL.  Here was his logic: well, it doesn't fit him now, but he'll grow into it in a few months.  Hopefully Zach is wrong and Scott won't "grow" into an XL anytime soon!  :)

With the gorgeous weather, we've been spending a lot of time outside.  Charlie LOVES it; you ask if he wants to go outside and he just runs for the door, grabbing his shoes.  And when you open the door to the garage, he always heads for the same thing: the blue push-car my parents got him last year.  He loves it.  It's very cute, except when we're heading into the garage to get in the car to go somewhere, and I have to chase him before to get him in my car, as opposed to his!

We had a solid month where no one in our house was sick, and it was positively delightful.  But a bit of a stomach bug and colds have hit many of us, and last week that resulted in us canceling a playdate.  The next day, Zach said "Mom, I would cancel Charlie's sickness if I could."  If only.

If you want Charlie to come running, start putting toys away.  Whenever I toss his cars into the plastic bin I (try to) use to corral them when no one is playing with them, or if Charlie gets up in the morning and finds all the cars in the plastic bin, he immediately dumps them back out again.  Arg.

Zach said something the other day about God being able to fly.  This was news to me, and interesting, so I asked why he thought God could fly (I didn't think they taught him this in preschool.)  His answer:  invisible people can fly, and God is invisible so he must be able to fly.  Huh.  Solid logic, I guess.

With the warmer weather, Charlie is no longer wearing a onesie under his clothes.  He's absolutely delighted with this, since it means he can show you his "bee-bo" - his belly button.  Well, he tries to say "bee-bo", which is from a Sandra Boynton book we all love, but unfortunately he says something that sounds more like "bee-bee", which is quite disconcerting when he's pointing at my belly.

Zach climbed up on the couch while I was reading the other day, and peered down at my book.  He said "Wow, that's a lot of words. Why aren't you saying anything if you're reading all that?"