The Story of My Boys

Sunday, June 12, 2011

My Amazing Little Guy

We were at BD's Mongolian Grill last night (tasty!). Benjamin was being Benjamin. To be fair, it was late and they were tired, so it was to be expected. Benjamin kept saying he wanted to get a cherry cheesecake dessert. They were only $2, so we let him choose his own. He is a chocolate fiend, so we were pretty sure he wouldn't like it much. He didn't. Jacob chose to share a full-size dessert with Greg. A chocolatey, gooey mess of deliciousness. Benjamin wanted this, but only said so once Greg and Jacob were done with it. Benjamin then dropped his spoon on the floor. Our server was only somewhat competent, so it seemed like we'd be done before he brought a replacement spoon. Instead, I asked Jacob to go get a spoon from the soup/salad bar for Benjamin. It was, no surprise, a soup spoon. That doesn't work very well with a tall, skinny glass for ice cream sundaes. Benjamin didn't want to use anyone else's spoon. I cleaned Greg's off and offered it to him. Nope, he didn't want it. He didn't want the soup soon.

And then, Jacob came up with a brilliant idea. "Hey, I can take the spoon over there (the soup/salad bar area) and pretend to come back with it!"

Would it really work?

Jacob went off with the cleaned off tall spoon and took his time going to the soup/salad bar area. He came back and presented Benjamin with Greg's cleaned off tall spoon.

It worked like a charm.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Things They Say

5/17/2011:

Me (to Benjamin, while hugging him like crazy): You're my cuddle bug.
Benjamin: Yep. And your other cuddle bug is at the baseball game.

6/4/2011:
A storm was getting ready to start. Benjamin was nervous. I told him it would just bring rain to help the trees grow and that we'd be safe in the house. Benjamin didn't want to hear the thunder or see the lightning. I said our house was really safe during all of that. Jacob said, "So we probably wouldn't get hit by lightning?" I said no, because our house isn't very tall and we don't have anything around to attract it. Jacob said, "Right, because it would probably go to tall things like tall trees and tall buildings downtown." (pause) "Except it wouldn't hurt the tall buildings downtown because they have things on top that keep the lightning from hurting the building."