A few Raleigh funnies

We were in Wilmington last week for Thanksgiving and had a good trip. Will didn't sleep very well. Ral was a total jerk one day.
Par for the course I guess!!

Mike and Raleigh were discussing in the van whether the Cape Fear River is a river or a lake.

Ral is convinced it is a lake. Im amazed that he knows everything so soon in life. He told Mike it was a lake a few times, then says, "I told you three times already!"

Later in the van he was saying something to me and I didnt hear him. When I asked him to repeat it, he said, "I can't tell you anything."

Yeah. He's 3.
Not 13
Not 30.


3

A dog

The other night I was talking to my mom on the phone when Ral runs in the room and does something to Will.

I keep talking...thinking little of it b/c things seemed calm.

A few moments later I see Raleigh shaking something around and Will was fussing.

I tell my mom I'll call her back and sit up to find that Raleigh had put a big vacuum cleaner belt around Will's neck.

I asked him what in the world he was doing.

Ral looks at me, shakes the belt like its a collar and says, "Mom, I just want him to be a dog!"

What a beautiful smile! 

Bedtime

Will is sleeping great right now. We went through sleep training...AGAIN! It seems like we sleep train someone on a regular basis.

Surely house training a dog is easier than sleep training my boys.

This time, however, it worked!!

Will went through 2 days of making our lives pure heck when we put him down. He screamed for about 2 hours.

Now..he whimpers for 2 minutes.

Ral is fighting naps and sleep all of the time. Last night he announced that he wanted to throw his bed in the trash. I asked him if he took a nap at ME's house.

His response??? "I didn't like it."

Last week he informed her he was too big for naps and I said it was ok for him not to take one. Today he told her he needed Thomas sheets so he could sleep better.

Will's Laughter.

I came home last night and Will had crawled into the kitchen, I picked him up and Laura called me into the room.

She said "watch this" and she started to laugh, a high pitch squealing laugh

Will started to smile and then he cackled. It is the first time I had heard him laugh that hard. It was great. My sons are such a miracle to me some times. Will's laughter made me feel good.

Count on Raleigh, Count on.

Dad was giving me a haircut today and I was watching mom play with Raleigh. Mom had to get something from out of the other room and Raleigh fussed that she was leaving. Mom said "Raleigh I'll be back in two seconds. You can count.".

So Raleigh begins to count "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" I was pretty impressed because he was just reeling them off. Then reality hit with a sledge hammer.

Raleigh continued....."11,12,14,19,14,20,18,19"

I busted a gut laughing at him. I was impressed that he knew he had to keep counting he just didn't know what to say.

Too Funny.

Happy Halloween! 

My trick or treat boys! 

Cowboy Raleigh on Halloween! 

Will

Will is getting so big! He is crawling all the time now. I am just now starting to give him a few bites here and there of table foods. We are still on Stage 2s for the most part. His upper right tooth came in a few days ago.

Besides being cute he is also clapping his hands now!

I'll post new pics soon!

Dental Floss

Last night after I brushed Ral's teeth, I flossed them.

A rare occurence...but it was done.

Afterwards he went in to use the bathroom. I went in too to put up the toothbrush. While he was standing there, I threw the old floss in the toilet.

He started to get upset, but I told him it was ok.

I then went into his room to get his night clothes out. He comes in, looks at me, and say, "I got that floss, mom!"

Ummm...what???

You got it out of the toilet, Raleigh??


Yep..he fished it out of the toilet.
Right after he got through peeing in it! :)

Thank goodness for good soap and hand sanitizer.