Random Gabe moments...

Me: "Hey Gabe? How'd you get so cute?"
Gabe: "Um, Jesus just made me that way."
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Me: "Why are you pooping so much today?"
Gabe: "Because it's summer time."
Me: "Oh? You have to poop more in the summer time?"
Gabe "Yeah. Because summer time makes you poop."
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We told Gabe to go sit on time out (for something I don't remember)
Gabe: "If I sit on time out for a long, long time, then I will get smaller and smaller and then the kitty will come and take me and eat me. Do you want that to happen??? Do you!!???"
(This was genuine concern - he was like yelling it- totally believing it would happen)
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Gabe (in a deep voice, imitating me? I don't know) "Hey daddy, I got a surprise for you. Caleb's poopy."
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Had to add this one from yesterday:
Gabe: "Tell me a story of when I was a baby."
(I tell him about the night he was born - again - he loves to hear this.)
Then he asks: "Then I came out of your tummy?"
Me: "Yup!" (he's never needed more info than that.)
Gabe: "But where did I come out?"
Me (looking at Josh) "Uh...." (I debate telling him my belly button, but decide not to lie. I won't tell you what exactly I said but even I'll admit it sounded horrible. I looked at Josh after and said, "Was that a good answer?" and he said, "Uh...nnnnoo.")
Gabe crinkles up his nose and goes: "That's the cwaziest thing I ever hweard!!!"
(Wait till he asks HOW the baby gets there.... I'll leave that one to dad.)
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Gabe (to Josh): "I tink God made you a person and a bear."
Josh: "Why do you say that?"
Gabe: "Cause your back has fur on it."
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7-17-10
Yesterday when I was exercising in the living room (an unusual occurence) Gabe said to me:
"Why are you doing that?"
Me: "So I can lose my belly."
Gabe: "Mom! If you do that then the baby can't grow in there anymore!"
(So, had he thought there WAS one in there?!)
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and here's a picture.... "like father like son"

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Random Caleb moments:
Putting Caleb to bed one night, and giving him all his stuffed animals....
Caleb: "bonk-ee! bonk-ee!"
Me (confused): "Blankie? You want your blankie?"
Caleb: "No! Bonk-ee!"
Me: "Barney?"
Caleb: "Bonk-ee!" (then pauses a minute and goes) "Bonk-ee! Ooh ooh, aahh aahh!!"
Me: "Oh! MONKEY!"
Caleb: "Uh-huh, uh- huh!"
(Good thing he's smart enough to get his point acoss a different way!)

"The City Beautiful!" (Our Nauvoo Trip)

This week we had the chance to get down to Nauvoo, Illinois for a little vacation. Josh's sister, Janell, and her family were in Illinois for her husband's graduation ceremony from the University of Illinois (he was taking online classes for his masters) and Josh's parents flew out to Wisconsin also.

So after they were here for a couple days we all drove down to Illinois and met Janell's family for a quick Nauvoo trip. Janell booked this house online and it turned out to be such a great place! Way better than the Nauvoo Family Hotel which I've stayed at every time. We were joking about it on the way down and how Janell's other hotel that she booked online for their drive out had been so bad that they just kept driving, and we were like, "This house is gonna be 200 years old.... really gross.... it'll be like the early saints experience!" But we got to Nauvoo and drove to the temple and the house was literally right across the street! It was crazy! She said, "I didn't know it'd be THAT close!"

We got to visit Carthage Jail (where the prophet Joseph Smith was falsely imprisoned and later martyred- explanation for you three non-LDS readers) then take turns going to the temple and leaving the kids at the house. That was actually the first session I've been to at Nauvoo since getting my own endowments about six years ago the day before my wedding! It was cool to actually be there in a relaxed state and able to look around and admire the beauty of the rooms of the temple. It's so amazing the way they built it to look just like it would have in the 1840's. Aaron even talked them into gving us a short tour after our session. Overall, besides few deafening temper tantrums from Caleb (where I may have lost hearing) it was a great trip!

Here are some pictures!