Ahhh Kids

This blog can't be all Jesus Hype Man and Churches in Speedos, well I guess it can, but I'm not sure I want it to be. With that being said, here's some kid anecdotes.

The other night my wife sang her usual songs to our boys at their bedtime. It's part of our hour long routine at night, most of which includes me reading for 30 minutes to them (they are wired and have to calm down). She closes out her song to Jeremiah with the final line: "As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." To which he responded for the first time, "I not a baby anymore." To which my wife responded by quickly walking out of the room with tears in her eyes. To her it means her baby is growing up. To me it means my starting linebacker is one step closer to putting on the pads. It's all about perspective.

Last night Wesley and Jeremiah were playing with a tape measure. Wesley, being just like his daddy, likes to tie things all over the place. After seeing Wesley tie the tape measure to a chair and seeing how far out it would measure, Jeremiah wanted in on the action. Anything that his older brother is doing is the coolest thing ever, so he comes over and starts pulling on the tape measure. My apparently knowledgeable five-year-old responds with, "Don't pull on that too hard Jeremiah, it's made in China." Out of the mouth of babes...

Today, I get a text message from my wife who is battling the stomach flu (please don't let me get it, please don't let me get it) saying that Jeremiah got into my cologne for the second time. She said and I quote, "It smells like 20 boys are going on their first date." Sigh. That's going to be nice going into my house and being knocked out by the smell of my own cologne. At least my house doesn't smell like 20 boys going on their first date who just discovered Axe body spray. Don't get me started on that abomination.