Last night, we were over at the Andrews' house, and all the kids were playing sticks (or samurai swords, as they imagined), when little Rachel (the twins age), comes in and says that Caden hit her with the stick.
I told her thanks for telling me, and that I would take care of it.
Caden, who has snuck inside and heard me talking, with a worried little face, brown furrowed in concern,

CADEN- "don't take 'care' of me mommy!"

It was super cute. :)

"when i was a mosquito..."

we had an insect infestation the other night. as in huuuge bugs and moths and crazy winged insects all over. there was this massive mosquito hawk flying around. and ellie- like the crazy puppy she is, kept trying to eat it. but as soon as it got into her mouth, she spit it out because it was still alive. ANYway, she finally killed it, and its gross dead body stayed at the top of the stairs for a little while before i cleaned it up. we kept telling the boys that it wasnt a mosquito, it was a mosquito HAWK- and that it ate mosquitos. thye boys thought that was hilarious.

Rylan, talking to himself, or at least someone other than me, said...

RYLAN- "when i was a mosquito- a mosquito hawk ATE me!".

it was hilarious. :)