Monday, March 15, 2010

Funnies and Fears


Lately I feel so bad that I haven't written down all the fun things the boys do. So, here are a few I'd like to remember and maybe even tease them about later.


Beckett is still very much a ground dweller, crawling his way through the world. He loves to stand for 10-15 seconds at a time on his own, but has no desire to move his feet which, really is fine by me. In his travels, he usually likes to have a toy in one hand, usually in the form of a car, a plastic doughnut, or his glasses. Of course he doesn't actually wear glasses, but he does wear Mr. Potato Head's glasses. You know, the tiny plastic yellow ones that only fit onto Mr. Potato Head. Beck loves them. He loves for you to put them on him. It is so funny, and it makes him so happy. It'll be a sad day indeed when we can't stretch them out and squeeze them on. We'll just have to find him a larger pair.




Asher is, as always, hilarious. One of his favorite movies is Babe (the pig). In this movie, Babe has a particular duck friend named Ferdinand. Now, for some odd reason ever since he started watching this movie last spring, he's had a fear of ducks. Not the real ones, but the other kind. He is petrified of the "ducks that come through the window." What? Seriously though, once nighttime comes, he won't go near a window with open blinds or curtains, particularly in his bedroom or in the bathroom. He tells us that the ducks will come in the windows, and get him. He is genuinely afraid of those ducks. Poor kid.
Then there's the butterflies. At night (always at night, right?) he tells me and Corey that the butterflies will get him. We can't totally trace the roots of this one, but we think it might be moths. Last summer, for some reason moths would sometimes come in through his heating vent. He'd run to us making crazy claims of butterflies in his room after we'd put him to sleep. We just figured he was trying to stay up longer, until we realized (more than once) that he was telling the truth, and that there were actually moths hiding up on the ledge in his bedroom sometimes. Creepy! I can hardly blame him, but to hear him talk about those scary butterflies is kind of funny.
Maybe there's something to all things that fly. Who knows?
I sure do love these boys.


I had to post a couple of pics of cute Beckett in this adorable hat. It's Asher's size, but I can't resist sticking it on lil' Beck. I'm just gonna have to get another one I guess. A friend of mine, Adrienne makes and sells them on Etsy. Her hats are SO cute. She is one amazing crocheter! Check out her shop.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

So cute! Thanks for posting that. I was laughing out loud about Asher's fears, kids are so funny. Chloe used to be terrified of black toilet seats, TERRIFIED, she would hold it for hours instead of going on a black toilet seat...crazy.

Unknown said...

In case you didn't figure it out, that last comment was from me (Adrienne), not Tyler.

Hi I'm Lindsey! said...

Oh too cute! I love seeing updates of your cute boys. Can't wait to see you this summer! Tell Corey that Aaron misses their runs and bike rides. He doesn't have a good buddy here that he can do those early morning sanity rides:)

Pamela said...

That frog hat is so awesome!!!

Alisha Joy said...

Haha, that duck story was hilarious! River had a crazy fear of chickens for a while when we has 3 . . . don't worry, he grew out of it. And that frog had it FABULOUS! I have brought a bunch of Adrienne's hats and kept some and given some as gifts. LOVE THEM!