laundry fun with kids

So, the boys have apparently reached the age where they put stuff (random weird stuff) in their pockets. And leave it there. For me to find when I do the laundry. Yesterday I found a piece of mulch in the dryer. Today, while doing another load, I thought to ask Gavin if he's been picking up rocks while playing baseball keeping them. I mentioned the mulch - he said he picked it up at his school. "It's my pretend walkie-talkie!" he declared, offended that I didn't understand as much from the get go. Oh, I love that kid and his imagination. I can just see him on the playground at his school, talking into his pretend walkie-talkie....

commercials are dumb

Okay, so we generally watch our TV shows off the DVR rather than live ... grown up shows, kid shows, all of it. Today Gavin was watching some Saturday morning cartoons (not being recorded, we couldn't fast forward through the commercials) and now, all morning since, I've been told - repeatedly - that Gavin wants Sketchers shoes. "I want those!" is the refrain any time he's allowed to see the commercials during a kid show. Argh. Oh, and also? He gets so irritated when I fast forward through the commercials. He wants to watch them, and I cramp his style by using the remote to bypass the glitzy commercials. Poor kid.....

at the park with Kelly

Kelly took the boys to the park today. Gavin is the cutest around, isn't he? He smiles so nicely for Kelly when she takes pictures. All the pictures I take have him smiling in a weird way.

Right now, G is pretending to play baseball in the living room, using a plastic bowling pin as a bat. "Pincher pinch, batter bat!" he yells out before swinging. Funny little man.