Kids say the funniest things

In the most grown-up voice that a 5-year-old could muster, Katelyn says this to me as we are driving home from Alfred's softball game last night:

"If daddy texts you, could you please ask him if we could go to Starbucks? I think I want to have coffee for dinner. I could smell it already and it smells SO good!"

Just to clarify, Katelyn does NOT drink coffee but she does love the smell of it when we brew the flavored kinds at home (shout out to Don Francisco - Hawaiian Hazlenut and Butterscotch Toffee is our fave!). The strange thing is that I didn't have any coffee in the car last night so I'm not quite sure what she was smelling. Although, in retrospect, I think it was a little bit of delirium since she fell asleep not long after making that statement.

By the time we were on our way home from the game, it was passed 8pm and none of us had eaten dinner yet so I stopped off to pick up food. Jacob was BEGGING for noodles as though he hadn't eaten in years and years during the 5-minute drive from Panda Express to our house. By the time we got home and I opened his door to get him out, he looked at me and said:

"It smells gooooood..."

I just about died laughing! Not that I find it all that amusing that my son was starving but the growing range in his vocabulary these days always takes me by surprise. His sentences are still choppy sometimes but he's been trying to tell stories. For example, how he was trying to tell Alfred about walking on the bleachers and falling down during the softball game. Except his version was more like:

"I fall down... WALKING, DADDY!! I fall down.."

And how funny was it that every single time Alfred's team came in from the outfield, Jacob would yell, "HI, DADDY!" or "HI, UNCLE!" (when he would recognize one of his many uncles on the team) and he would look at me, point to the field and yell, "BASEBALL GAME!" What my son lacks in eloquence of speech, he definitely makes up for in enthusiasm! (Anytime I write in bold, that's him yelling. And the boy is loud. REALLY loud. Many people have commented on how deep his voice is already for a toddler... we're very interested in how much deeper his voice will be after he hits puberty.)

One of my favorite Jake-isms is how he always tells me, "Good job, mom!" when he sees me in my work out clothes. He'll congratulate me even BEFORE I start working out and then do so again AFTER. Sometimes Alfred will work out with me and try to fish for a "Good job, daddy!" from Jacob but Jake will ONLY compliment mommy... maybe because I need the encouragement more than Alfred does...! Mommy HATES working out.

I will end this with a little shout out to my brand new Kindergartener, Katelyn. Thankfully she is liking school... for now... knock on wood that it continues for the next.... 17 years (if I'm lucky, she'll be done with all by then! - ha!)