My boys and their toys!

When I first found out that my oldest child was a boy, I remember thinking "Yuck!! Boys' toys are NO fun!!". I remembered all the toys that I had as a child {Barbie, My Little Pony, Rainbow Bright} and had hoped for the day that I would be able to play with those really girly toys again.

After three boys, I am stuck playing with dump trucks, super heroes, dinosaurs and trains. With almost five years of playing with boys' toys under my belt, I have found that some aren't nearly as bad as other. I have actually grown to like dinosaurs, and for Christmas this year I found some really cute {age appropriate} super heroes for the boys to play with. After reading Aileigh's post about her son and his trains, I started thinking about how much my boys really LOVE their Geotrax trains.

I think Henry got his first set of Geotrax for his second birthday. We have slowly added to the collection, and Grant got a big addition {a few trains, a bunch of tracks, and a train table that 'Santa' made for him} for Christmas two years ago. Even though the trains are a relatively old toy, my boys still play with them almost everyday!! They love to build tracks and hook the trains together. Henry and Grant will spend hours in the playroom building and playing with their trains {with only a few whines, hits, and tattles added in just because they are brothers}. The boys have so much fun with their Geotrax, and Jason and I even like to set up the train track sometimes to see what all we can build!

I guess boys' toys aren't as bad as I though they would be!!

Wordless Wednesday

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{Not So} SUPER Cute Kid Questions!

Jason took off work today because we are finally getting our {oh so muddy} driveway paved. So while he stayed home with Eli {Henry was at Preschool}, Grant and I ran a few errands in town.

We hit the bank first and then headed over to Lowe's. I was looking for some roses to plant on our trellis {to replace the Carolina Jasmine that mysteriously died at some point last fall}. I decided on two pots of climbing roses and then headed to the check out, where Grant's {Not So} SUPER Cute Kid Question occurred.

The cashier was obviously {at least to me} a male....short hair, hat on, named Chris....but with a somewhat high pitched voice.

My ever inquisitive child asked:

"Is that a girl?"

Now, Grant said this as we were leaving the register, but he also said it loud enough that I know poor Chris heard him {along with two other customers waiting in line}. I was SUPER embarrassed, but I just kept on walking and didn't dare look back.

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Join in on the Not Me ! Monday! fun.

I did NOT 'sample' some of the yummy candy that Henry brought home from his Valentine's party. I made sure not to buy a lot of Valentine's candy so that I wouldn't eat it.....I would NOT eat some of his candy just because there wasn't any other candy in the house.


I did NOT leave two laundry baskets full of Henry and Grant's clothes in the living room for the entire week. I did NOT leave them there after my wonderful husband washed and folded them for me and all I had to do was carry them upstairs and put them away. I would never be that big of a procrastinator.


I was NOT almost late for my friend's baby shower on Saturday because I was busy posting something on my blog. I would never be late just because I was playing around on the computer.


I did NOT go to Walmart on Sunday and stock up on 50% off Valentine goodies for next year {and some candy for this year!}. I don't have a ton of Valentine's stuff in the attic from doing the same thing the last three years either!


I did NOT ask a friend from church to follow my blog so that she would be #14 of my followers. I did NOT care that I had 13 followers, and the number didn't weird me out a little. I do not feel better now that it says 14! (update: 15!!)


I DO have two little boys at home with ear infections {in three ears} and both of them are on antibiotics! I hope they get better soon!!

Random Picture Challenge 6.0

Four Little Men and Girly Twins' Random Picture Challenge.

This weeks challenge (version 6.0) is to post the 3rd picture from your January 2007 (or 13th) picture folder.

Join in! It's SUPER fun!

These are the gingerbread houses that Jason and I made with the boys before Christmas. The picture is in my January file, because I took this picture right before I threw the gingerbread houses in the garbage!! I think most people like to eat their gingerbread houses, but ours were made our of graham crackers {which were probably extremely stale} and had been used for decorations for a week or two. Not my idea of a yummy snack!! You can tell they had been sitting out for a while....took at the melting peppermint on the house on the left!