The Funnies

*Thing 1's prayer this morning:
"please no bumble bees because they sting you on the head, but thank you for their honey. Thank you for mommy, daddy, Gummy bear, Thing 2, and Buttercup, but no thank you for the devil"

*We looked up our home on google maps and then Thing 1 asked to see Jesus' house and I told him that Jesus doesn't have a house, but then he remined me, "what about the temple?" Thing 1's response when we looked up the LA Temple on google maps, "Jesus has a swimming pool too?!"

*Thing 1's response when I asked the boys what things Jesus gave to us, "Jesus gave us bunnies so daddy can shoot them."

*Thing 2's answer when I asked the boys last week what the Army guy told them he does for a living, "When people try to mess with our country they shoot down their planes." Thanks Army guy. He visited their school during summer camp.

*We arrived home from getting lunch one day, and when I unpacked the food, a toy was missing from a kids meal, so I said, "Ugh that guy was a bone head." Thing 2 then said, "He was a skelleton?"

*When ever we arrive somewhere, Gummy Bear always says, "What is this place?"

*Gummy Bear will frequently look at me and say, "I want to go home." Most of the time, we are home. I think he misses his first home in heaven.

*Gummy Bear LOVES to shake mannequins hands whenever we walk through department stores. Today we walked through Macy's and he walked up to me and said with a smile on his face, "uh, oh", in his hand was a hand-- a mannequins hand. I had no idea how to put it back on so I gave it to a gal who worked their.

*Gummy Bear knows how to manipulate, whenever I discipline him he hugs my legs and says, "I need you mom."

Lots to catch up on

Life as you can imagine has been pretty busy. I need to do better at this blog thingy. I don't know why it's hard for me to do this. Things happen through out the day and I think, "This is something I should blog about, folks might get a kick outta this." But I don't, for some reason I just don't do it.

But here I am, updating the world about the lives of the Crawley Clan.

Our boys are so fun and so funny. They say and do the cutest things that always keep a smile on our faces. It's hard to be upset, or even stay upset when the boys are around. Here are some of the funny things the boys have said recently:

Tommy

While we were out back playing, I was picking up Jack's poop and Tommy being the helper that he is said, "I'll help you mama."

"Oh no Tommy, this is a yucky job, but thank you. When you are a bit older, this will be your job, picking up Jack's poop"

Tommy replied enthusiasticlly, "Oh thank you mama."

Trenton

While we were sitting at dinner the other night, we were having steamed veggies and the boys were asking if Spider Man ate vegetables. I told them yes, he does and that's why he's so strong. Trenton picked up a sliced carrot and I told him that carrots were very good for him and will make his eyes strong. So he picked up two carrots and closed his eyes and put them on his eye lids.

Another classic Trenton moment was one morning while Michael was getting ready for work and I read a headline from the news that read "12 house dems to oppose public funding on abortion on health care bill" *silence* Trenton says proudly, "AMEN!"

(Well we all know how that played out in the end, darn donkies)

Joseph

Our little Joseph is talking a lot. He says; Jesus (he recognizes his pictures too),no, yes, butt, belly, shoes, socks, daddy, mama, church, done, more, down, fart, poop, please, thank you, sorry, and a few others. He's picked up on a lot of things, he's a three year old trapped in a one year old body. When we go for walks, Joseph will pick fights with all the dogs. Once they start barking, he stops and walks closer to the gate (not right up to it) and starts barking right back at them.

The other day, Joseph was sitting in his high chair and farted pretty loud, and said, "I farted." Tommy and Trenton couldn't stop laughing.

Well, Michael has been super busy with work. I'm so grateful for all he does. He puts a lot of time into the business and making sure the clients are happy, as well as the employees. The boys love him to peices, they enjoy being with him. He's been taking us all to the park a few times a week and the boys love it.

I've been busy with the boys as always. I was just released from my calling as the Beehive adviser (teaching 12 & 13 year old girls) in Young Women. I'm pretty bummed, but I am glad for the almost two years of service in the position. I taught some great girls, or I should say, they taught me a lot and are such great examples. I especially loved having my neice, Sara, in the class, her first Sunday as a beehive was also my first Sunday in the calling, that was pretty neat. I'll definitely miss the young women, but I will still see some of them often because they are such great helpers with our boys. I also plan to work on my Personal Progess, and hope to get my medallion in the near future.

So my new calling is teaching the five year olds in primary. I'm actually excited. I've been in Primary before, and it was always nice, but hard at the same time because it's two hours and I missed out on the other classes and Relief Society. But this will be my first time in Primary as a mother, and I already feel different about it. I know this is where I need to be, this is where the Lord wants me to be. It's actually an answer to prayer. I've been praying on how to teach my own children the Gospel, of course there are the basics, prayer and reading scripture and of course setting an example; but I've been feeling that it isn't enough. I've been wanting to do more.

Being a convert to the Gospel, I didn't grow up in the church and missed out on Primary and Young Women. Well now with this calling, I'll be familiar with the lessons and will be able to break down the Gospel in an easier way for our boys to understand. They know who Jesus is, and they know He loves them, but they don't quite understand what He has done for them. We've been talking about Easter and the resurrection but they don't quite get it. I recently purchased a childrens book that covers the topic pretty well, I just need to find a time when the boys will give me five minutes to focus on the miracle of the Savior.

I am looking forward to serving my calling and learning more about the children and how much the Savior loves them. I just hope that I can teach it in a way that the five year olds will understand. I'm so excited to learn from these special, little spirits.

I am so blessed. I love this Gospel and I know without a doubt, and with all my being that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the true church of our Savior on the earth today.

Slow down...please

I can't get over how fast the boys are growing. Joseph is pretty much a three year old trapped in a one year old body. He is doing everything they are doing. I love having conversations with Tommy and Trenton, the things they say are priceless. In fact, today Trenton had a dirty diaper while famiy was here one of the uncle's said he'd change it (joking of course) and I asked Trenton if he could have anyone change his diaper in the whole world who would he pick, he pointed to a picture of the Savior and said, "Jesus". I thought it was so cute. I told him that Jesus would love to change his diaper no matter how stinky it was.

The other day, Tommy was being fussy and I told him not to be so fussy and he replied, "I'm not fussy, mama. I Tommy." I loved it.

Joseph is saying "eat", "cheese", "sock", "shoe", "no", "daddy" (his first word), "mama" (finally), and "night night". He also loves to dance.

I love my boys, there is never a dull moment with them.

Michael and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary this summer. I love him so much. I can't believe we've been together that long, it's gone by so fast. We've had a great ten years together and I hope we grow old together. Michael is trully my best friend. He knows how to make me laugh and smile, even when I am having a hard time.

Things are a bit hard for me these past few weeks, a lot of changes ahead. I'm glad I have him by my side.

Scary shoes

Now that we are upon the Halloween season, Samwise and Frodo are fully aware of all that is scary. If we are out and about in a store and walk by the Halloween display, they point and say, "Scary." then run off to get the scary display out of view.

Frodo is not a huge fan of anything scary. Looking at halloween costumes was a difficult thing for him, so we definitely avoid any scary party stores.

Since it seems like everywhere we go there is a "scary" display, Frodo anticipates it when we are out and about.

Yesterday we went to the shoe store to get some new shoes for the twins, since all they've been wearing are sandals and the weather is getting cooler. When we walked into the store, Frodo grabbed my hand and came in close and said, "Oh scary." I told him that we were at a shoe store and that there were not scary things in there. He then let's go of my hand and says, "Oh okay", then waves at the shoes and says, "Hi shoes".

So cute, I had to share.

Kids say the funniest things pt 2

Today while driving around we were leaving a gated community and Tommy saw the gate was closed and said, "Oh no." Then when the gate opened automatically, he said, "Thank you gate."

On our way home, we picked up the mail and the boys Wiggle shirts arrived and they were both so happy. Trenton asked, "Did the mail buy it for us?"

The gal next door left her sandals here and Trenton said, "Lemme smell 'em."

Kids say the funniest things

This week Tommy said:

*When I called him Thomas, he responded with, "I not a choo-choo"

*When I was changing his poopy but and Joseph came crawling toward us, "No baby, no eat my poop." Joseph wasn't anywhere near his gross diaper.

*He now has an appetite for eating people. He walks up to daddy and says, "I eat you daddy." and playfully nibbles on Michael's arm.

*He grabs a hold of me and says, "I got you mama." Then pulls me and says, "This way".

Tommy's speach has improved so much, I'm so proud of him

This week Trenton said:

*"Ow my nuts", when he was laying underneath Joseph's jumper and Joseph jumped on his groin area.

*After bath time tonight, "No more stinkies."

They make me laugh

My boys are so funny. Today we went to go pick up new humidifiers for them (I'm hoping this will help Tommy get back to sleeping through the night) and the guy in Walgreens had to climb a wobbly ladder to get the things down and Tommy kept saying, "Thank you man.", so cute because he didn't know the gentleman's name.j

Trenton said the same thing when the bug guy came today to spray the outside of the house. Trenton asked what he was doing and I told him that the man was spraying bug spray to kill the spiders so he could play outside and Trenton said, "Oh. Thank you man."

Yesterday Trenton's request for breakfast was, "I want cereal, tiger, rawr." His way of asking for Frosted Flakes.

Joseph is crawling all over the place and that isn't satisfying for him, he's trying to get moving quicker and is trying to walk.

Tommy has had a hard time sleeping through the night for the past two to three weeks. He's come in our bed a few times and other's he asks to go outside and play at 5:00am or wants to watch TV at 4am. But the times he's come into our bed, I can tell his little nose is stuffy and he has a hard time breathing and switches from his nose to his mouth, I bet that's what's making it difficult for him. so today I bought a new humidifier because the other one was gross and and crappy and gave him some claritin, so I'm hoping that helps. Oh and I also washed the bedsheets too. We'll see.

My funny boys

Well, this past week Joseph turned 3 months, time sure does fly. Next week Trenton and Tommy will be turning 2 years old. I can't believe my babies are big boys. Tomorrow we are having a pirate themed party with my family after church and on Thursday, the day of their birthday we'll have another one with Michael's family.

The boys are so funny. It takes me 10 minutes to change Joseph's diaper because he's such a big flirt. I can't help but get hypnotized by his smile and play with him and make him laugh. Tommy is quite the adventurer, he climbs on everything even the counters without a cell of fear in his body, thankfully Trenton is the complete opposite, he is cautious and hates to get hurt and will do all he can do avoid it. Tommy is a bit clumsy and falls all the time so he's used to getting hurt.

It's been raining and cold. I need some hot chocolate.

The other day, Trenton was running around in his diaper (the boys love to strip) and he paused and said, "Fart" and then pushed out a fart. It was kinda funny. He's definitely a boy.