A day in the life of being Spencer and Preston's Mom...

Today while I was making breakfast, Spencer said he had a pain by his ear. I felt around to see if I felt anything and nothing seemed unusual. I started looking for some Tylenol to give him and I realized I am out. So I said, "Spencer do you need some medicine, or does it not hurt that bad?"

He said, "No, it's not that bad...It just feels like someone shot an arrow through my head." (All righty then! I've had an arrow shot through my head and you're right, it's not that bad:)
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We were on our way to Grandma and Grandpa Martin's tonight and Preston asked why we always go visit Papa and Grandma on Sunday. I explained to him that Papa and Grandma are lonely because they don't have any little kids at their house anymore and they like visitors.

Spencer said, "Well why doesn't Grandma just have another baby?"

And I said, "I am Grandma's baby, I am just all grown up now."

And Preston said, "Yeah, Grandmas can't lay babies, just Mamas can."
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Nate and I have been discussing getting a dog for a long time. Our boys beg us everyday for a dog. We are not opposed to getting one, we are just reserved because dogs are A LOT of work (and $$$), and our last dog died when he was only 4 and that experience was so hard on Nate and I. Thank heavens the boys were too young to understand. But now we hesitate getting another dog because our boys will get so attached to a dog now and when (not if) the dog dies, it affects all of us, including our kids, not just Nate and I.

So anyway...tonight after dinner, Nate and I were discussing it and I was telling Nate about how I had just taken the kids to the pet store the other day (because they beg me constantly to take them to look at the animals) and we looked at hamsters. I told the boys about how I had a hamster when I was little. And then we looked at the frogs and I told the boys about how I had frogs when I was little. And then we looked at the parakeets and I told the boys how I had a parakeet when I was little. We looked at the fish and I told the boys how we had an aquarium when I was little. We looked at the rabbits and I told the boys that I had a rabbit when I was little. And we looked at the puppies and I told the boys that I had lots of different dogs growing up. And as we look at each animal, the boys ask if we can get one (hamster, parakeet, puppy, etc.) and I keep saying, "No. Not today. But we are going to get a dog someday." And I feel so bad that my kids don't have a real pet and I had SO many pets growing up. So as I am telling Nate this story, Preston is sitting right next to me at the table and Nate and I want to surprise the boys by getting them a dog soon because we have been telling them that we will talk about getting one when Lauryn is two. So we didn't want them to hear us discussing the "pet talk" so we were talking in Pig-Latin (now that they can read, spelling the words out is no longer an option:). So I am relating this story to Nate, and I am saying, "So we see the og-days (dogs), and I telling the boys how I had a og-day when I was little, and then we look at the ird-bays (birds), and I am telling them that I had a ird-bay when I was little."(etc.) And as I finish relating the story to Nate (being very careful in pig-latin as not to clue Preston in on our secret conversation), Preston chimes in and says, "Mom! Can we get a urtle-tay?"