For The Love of Boys

10 Things Every Mother of Boys Needs to Know

1. How to hold your own in a light saber, sword, stick, Nerf gun battle.

2. The difference between a skid steer loader, front end loader, and a back hoe.

3. The proper sounds effects for fire trucks, police cars and ambulances
 (or "Ambi's" as Charlie says).

4. Which Star Wars characters are on the good side and which are on the dark side.

5. How to design and stabilize world class pillow forts.

6. How to remove balls from gutters.

7. Henry Huggins, Horrible Harry, Nate the Great, Peter & Fudge, Captain Underpants.

8. How to reassemble complex and intricate Legos AFTER

 they have been played with and the instructions have been recycled.

9.  How to remove miniature weapons from the vacuum cleaner bag.

10.  The proper conditions for creating hurricanes, tornadoes,

 earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.

Be able to explain in great detail and

carry on lengthy conversations about said topics at a moments notice.

(11. ) Be able to do all in one weekend and repeat on a daily basis.

I have to say, maybe it's with spring around the corner,

but I'm finding my boys to be particularly delicious these days.

Eavesdropping to find them hugging and Andrew telling Charlie "there are no scary monsters."

The expressions Andrew uses like "I'd be delighted."

Last week Andrew was with me when I had to run to the mall to buy some make-up.

A: " Mom why do you need to buy make up?"

Me: " Because I'm all out."

A: " No, I mean why do you even wear it in the first place? I think you look prettier without."

Me: " Aww. That's sweet, babe. Are you only saying that because you are my son?"

A: " Maybe, maybe not."

Ok, is that honesty not the sweetest??!! :)

And I wanted to say thank you to these lovely bloggers...

Town & Country Mom and Happenstance Home for the Stylish Blogger awards.  I am always humbled by such kind words! Please click on the links to check out their wonderful blogs.  And if you missed my list of 7 things click here.

Megan from Little Blue Prints for featuring our playroom (I really need to take some pictures of it when it is light outside!!) on her favorite rooms series.  She has some awesome inspiration pictures, so be sure to check out her pretty blog too.