{"id":476,"date":"2012-03-26T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-march-26-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:27:00","slug":"monday-march-26-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-march-26-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday March 26, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

These boys of ours continue to provide the best medicine ever. I have got to get better at writing more of the story immediately instead of scrawling a few words convinced I’ll remember. A few stories are lost in translation, but a few are too good not to remember forever. <\/p>\n

It was 11:20 and Liam was starving.
L: PLEASE let’s eat lunch before I die.
Me: (laughing) Oh, Liam. I missed you so much in Jamaica.
L: I’m just funny cause you’re home from Jamaica.
Me: So you weren’t funny when I was gone?
L: No<\/p>\n

Nice to know I didn’t miss anything!<\/p>\n

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Liam was outside playing when suddenly I heard him come in the back door. “Mommy, I need a band aid.” I got one out of the box and went over to investigate where I saw a teeny tiny scratch on his finger that barely qualified as compromised skin. As I bent to place the band aid Liam said, “P’ease don’t get b’ood all over ‘ou hands.”<\/p>\n

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For something special for David and I, I purchased alfalfa sprouts for our salad. Adam ate them quietly. “It feels like I’m eating weeds,” he said. Suddenly I remembered the time a few years ago when he first spotted alfalfa sprouts on a salad and burst out, “WHAT is that hairy stuff?”<\/p>\n

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Anyone else want a turn answering questions? They come at the oddest times … just a sudden-sprung question out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

Adam: “Who invented the jacket?”<\/p>\n

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Liam while clearing the dishwasher: “I am so fascinating.”<\/p>\n

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Liam: “Mommy, you have two carrots on your plate and I have two carrots on my plate. That is so bizarre.”<\/p>\n

Oh, how I snickered.<\/p>\n

His phrasing is just so odd. Later he was taking his shoes off when I heard him muttering, “Oh b’ess my heart when I touldn’t make it.”<\/p>\n

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This one should be a video clip because Liam’s accent and his mispronounced words and most of all his dramatic emphasis are what make him so funny. We purchased a minivan about a month ago and Liam still has not gotten over the awesomeness of this. (Can you imagine how differently he will feel in ten years?) What struck me funnier though was this frequent little interchange. Imagine a touch of nasal tone going on.
“Mommy, are we doing to put du tar on du martet (market)?”
Me: “Yes, we are.”
Liam: (with a whooshing thumbs up) “DES!” (yes)<\/p>\n

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We have boys, not girls. But somewhere along the line they inherited a touch of drama. One warm afternoon we were all outside. The boys were picking up stray sticks and hauling them to the pile to be burned. The wind started picking up and a few clouds were moving in. It was hard to tell if the rainstorm was going to come our way or go around us, but there were definitely light grey rain clouds above the woods next to our house. I looked down the hill to see both boys with their heads craned back, staring into the sky. I glanced up and saw and two airplanes flying just low enough to make out their outline instead of looking like two silver bullets. Nothing about the clouds or the airplanes was at all out of the ordinary.
And then I heard Adam, “Oh, that’s bad. Two fighter jets moving into the eye of the storm …”<\/p>\n

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Just the other day Adam was sprawled out on the kitchen floor being lazy. He will sit around and just think. Sometimes he starts rambling about an invention after awhile. Sometimes he decides to play something. And sometimes he will suddenly burst out with something just completely off my radar. This was one of those days. All was quiet and then out of the blue, “Mommy, for the first time in my life, I stood bewildered.”<\/p>\n

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\"March<\/a> <\/p>\n

I hope your day is every bit as fascinating as Liam clearing the dishwasher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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