Mother Of Boys Blog

Living Large in Whistler (As stated by a 4 year old....)

Neema says to Harrison:

"Wow, what a wonderful life you have in Whistler. Skiing, golfing, biking, fishing, soccer, lakes....."

and he says:

"Yeah... I call it LIVIN LARGE IN WHISTLER!"

Where does he get this stuff from????

Massive Rockslide on Highway 99

Well, it's one of the hazards of living in paradise....Highway 99. On Tuesday night at midnight a massive rockslide covered the road, took out the train tracks and plummeted down to the water below. Thank god that nobody was under the rocks. Double quadruple million thanks to god that my dear friends Liz and Shaun and their children's pizza delivery man was late in Vancouver as they were the second car to come upon the slide.

The only way to reach Whistler is a back road that takes 7 hours. Whistler ran out of gas and milk for half a day, half the town panicked, and the news reported there was a gas and CHILI crisis....SERIOUSLY what are we gonna do without chili? Call the marines!

O.K, but this is supposed to be a funny post! I was going to take Harrison and Maverick down to meet their perfect new nephew and take the big boys to Playland at the PNE. So Neema was having lunch with H's cousin today and he says:

"I am so sad that my cousin Harrison can't come to playland with me. He can't come because he's STONED in Whistler!!!

HA HA maybe in 12 years....I dread to think!!!!!!!!

Slightly Embarassing...

Harrison came home from his 3 nights with Neema and very excitedly told me:

"Mommy, Neema let me use the steaming hot thing"

I said "What steaming hot thing?"

He said "The one to make the clothes flat"

I said "Ohhh you mean the iron"

He said "YEAH, I've NEVER seen one before!!!"

Busted.....

Who the heck has time to iron anyway????

*Note: I know that Neema would be mortified if I didn't point out that he was allowed to put his hand on hers and do it together safely!

Mommy made me mojitos for dinner....

Soooo we made a big mexican fajita dinner last night as Harrison is big on trying new foods at the moment. With a big smile on his face he said "Mommy, can you please make me another Mojito?"

I can just picture his teachers face when he tells her Mommy made him Mojitos for dinner!!!!

Yes, I am a rock star mother...

Daddy why did we used to be cows?

So we were driving past Squamish on the way to Vancouver and we passed some horses... here's the conversation that followed:

Dad: Harrison, look at those nice horses

Harrison: Yeah, remember the horses we saw in the Canada Day Parade (snicker)

Dad: Yeah, the one who did a big green poop!! (snicker)

H & D (group snicker)

Mom: (trying to dilute the potty humour...) They have green poop because horses eat grass

Harrison: Really?

Dad: Humans used to eat grass waaaaay back in history. We even had an organ in our bodies that we had just to digest grass. It's called the appendix. Our bodies don't need it anymore, and sometimes it needs to get removed. Eventually our bodies will phase it out because we don't need it.

Harrison: Silence

10 hours later as we were driving BACK through Squamish on the way home....

Harrison: Daddy, why did we used to be cows??

Did we ever howl!!!!!

Bedtime...

Anyone who knows Harrison knows that he is particularly articulate for a 4 1/2 year old. I think that's why I love it so much when he gets things a little bit mixed up.

Tonight after brushing his teeth, he jumped down from the counter (of course you would never climb down, must jump!) and yelled "First one to the bed is a rotten egg" then beelined it to the bed. Then he said proudly with a big smile "I'm a rotten egg!" We jumped (yes again jumped) into bed for a snuggle and he said "Mommy, I love you best in the whole WHITE world"
Sometimes he makes me smile so hard I think my face is going to break.

Father's Day (Jockey don't read this post!)

Today Harrison brought home the cutest thing in the world from preschool. With the help of the love of his life (his preschool teacher Courtney) he made Daddy a Father's Day Card. This is what it said:

My Daddy is almost 80 years old.
He weighs about 30 lbs and is 20 meters tall.
My Daddy's favourite thing to do is golfing.
I think he would want to go to Mexico.
His favourite things to watch is soccer, England is his favourite team.
I like red the best, so I cheer for them.
Daddy cooks Italian food for me.
I love playing rescue heroes with Daddy.

*I know it was for Daddy, but I'm making sure that this is kept forever!

Harrison's safety list (as dictated to me)

1.Always bring a lifejacket when you are swimming on a lake

2.Always bring a canoe (or a speedboat) with you if you are stuck in a whirlpool

3.Never put things over your face or other children's faces

4We can only touch our own private parts (then he wanted me to draw a willy in a red circle with a line through it!)

Bless.

Things that make me laugh!

*On our trip to Parksville last week we were driving to the ferry and the song "If I had a million dollars" came on the radio. When the song finished, I belted out a few lines adding that if I had a million dollars, I'd buy the house next door for Neema (Grandma) so Harrison could ziptrek from our balcony right through her front door. I then asked Harrison what he'd buy. Perfectly in tune, he belted out:
"If I had a million dollars, I'd buy a SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDDDDD......." I nearly peed my pants!

Note: If you don't know me, read my "ABOUT button for this to make sense!

*While I was snuggling my 4 year old to sleep, he said "Mommy, why aren't you wearing aprons on your boobies? Anyone who knows my knows that I am rarely "apron free" in fear of taking our a small child..."

more to come!