More cute and funny

Okay, I debated whether I should post these stories or not, but, what the heck. Because I am not a skinny girl, when Brantley gets me laughing really hard my belly shakes. Well, Brantley started coming over to me and grabbing my mid section and makes this funny noise. I had asked him to stop doing it. This morning while I was putting his toothpaste on his toothbrush he did it and again I asked him to stop. I said, "Brantley, I know I'm fat. You don't have to do that." He look at me and threw his arms around me with a big hug and said, "Mommy...you're not fat!" How sweet is that!

Since I told an embarrassing story on me, time for one on Lawson. Recently Brantley's school had Donuts for Dads. Lawson took Brantley to school and asked if Brantley wanted to go get Donuts and he said no. When Lawson asked why he said, "Cause I want you to lose weight so you can play with me more this summer." Okay, that wasn't so sweet.

And finally, it's time for Brantley speak. You have to guess what it is you think Brantley is talking about. I love this because he always seems to make up his own words for things. So, we are watching our favorite show...SpongeBob Squarepants. The episode is 'The Algae is Always Greener' in case you want to watch it for hints. In that episode, Plankton and Krabs switch lives. Toward the end of the episode, Krabs has just tried to steal the krabby patty and he's flying through the Krusty Krab naked. SpongeBob says ,'No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service' and starts shooting at Krabs with a cannon. Brantley laughingly says, 'Look, he's going to shoot boobie cases at him!' There's your test folks. What do you think boobie cases is/are?

Brain Age

For Christmas, Lawson got me a Nintendo DS with the game Brain Age. Yes, I asked for that...don't laugh. Well, Brantley loves playing with it. He's actually really good at some of the exercises. Sometimes he plays with it when I'm not aware. He loves low to high, head count, and triangle math.

One of the things that the game does is each person sets up a profile. Sometimes when you begin it will ask you to draw pictures or answer a question like what color are you wearing today or what was the most interesting thing you saw on tv today. Once more than one person has drawn the pictures, it will show them to you side by side so you can compare and discuss. Brantley has drawn pictures for Lawson before. Now, he's answering his questions. Lawson opened up his profile and it asked what was the most interesting thing you saw on tv on 2/22. What you are supposed to do is remember what you wrote that day. Of course, he wasn't the one who wrote it so when he clicked enter and it brought up the answer from that day it said 'fidel castro'. It was even spelled correctly although Brantley didn't capitalize the names. I'm guessing he was playing with it while the news was on. Believe it or not, he really likes watching the news too.

David Copperfield

I remember watching TV specials of David Copperfield when I was growing up. I kept watching until he started doing the things that were obviously not real, like making the statue of liberty disappear. I never liked it when he did those things. I was happy just watching the normal magic he did on stage. So, when I heard David Copperfield was coming to town, I decided to take Brantley and his cousins to see him. Brantley had no idea who Copperfield was. I thought my niece and nephew might know, but they didn't either. My niece was skeptical about it. Before the show they had a large movie screen on the stage displaying descriptions and accomplishments of David Copperfield like the fact that he is the only living magician on a postage stamp, or that he was named Magician of the Millennium. She said, 'Is this just going to be a movie or is it going to be in person?' Boy was she in for a surprise. The show opened with a large box on the stage. The stage hands came out and showed the box was empty, spun it around like they do and then revealed David Copperfield sitting on a motorcycle inside. His first big act was coming through steel. He lay down on a table and a piece of steel was placed on top of the box. Then they draped a shiny silver sheet over the entire table and David Copperfield came through the steel. Brantley was unimpressed. (Today I found out he figured out basically how Copperfield did that trick.) What did impress Brantley was when he got a volunteer from the audience and borrowed his red tie. He took the tie and made it dance and do other things. Brantley was amazed. I wish I could have taken a camera inside just to get a picture of his face. The rest of the show was complete amazement for him. The look on his face was priceless. We all enjoyed it. My nephew even wants to go see him again, and I think I wouldn't mind seeing him again also.

Happy Valentine's Day!

What else do you do on Valentine's Day but pretend to brush your teeth with frosting!

SNOW!!!

Well, we finally got some snow, but it was gone by the time we got home. It was really pretty coming down this morning. Since it didn't get above freezing all day, I thought for sure it would still be on the ground when we got home. No such luck. I didn't even get a picture.

Family Photo

We don't get many of these.

How about some basketball?

Today was the final day of basketball. This has been great for Brantley to get some good winter exercise. It's hard to stay active when it's so cold outside so it's nice to have something active that is indoors. Baseball will get started in about a month and it's always so cold at the beginning. Now, I have to be the bad sportsman mom. I'm really proud of Brantley being such a team player. He always passes the ball to his teammates, however a couple of his teammates are ball hogs and won't pass the ball. We kept hoping Brantley would just take the ball all the way, but being the good team player his is, he would pass the ball and run to the square and wait for a pass...exactly what the coach told them to do. You can see in the video he's wide open waiting for a pass and gets a little annoyed. That's his buddy Houston that's about a foot taller than he is. On the way home, Lawson told him next time when he isn't getting the ball, not to pass it. Brantley said that was a dumb idea. He's already a good sportsman.