Eavesdropping

If you were to eavesdrop at any given time of the day at our home you may hear:

• Hyrum telling us all about his "Imaginary World." "In my imaginary world on my imaginary planet we have volcanoes and lava that cover 90% of the planet and if you are a bad guy....." On and on this sweet little boy goes about the universe there and the climate and the animals and the dangers and the accommodations.  He can't wait till the day that he can create worlds :)  He may also be reading to me which I LOVE.  Right now we are finishing up Micheal Vey.
• Paul.  Paul may be talking about the different scabs he has from his many falls lately.  His knees are covered with small scrapes for all his many, many falls.  I can't figure out what the deal is, he has been turning too sharp on his scooter and tripping over classmates feet during races-- all to discover the wonder of scabs I guess.  "Picking the big ones do this."  "Picking the ones that are this color do that..."  "Mom!  I need another band aid!"  Oh man...
• Bryan is delighted with turtles.  Has been for quite some time.  But in his mind, even though he is NOT a fan of TMNT, he pictures turtles as heroes.  Paul once told him that turtles have a fast button in their shell.  And apparently in a movie (or dream) a turtle jumped.  Bryan builds Lego's and plays with his bath toy turtles and pretends they are fighting off bad guys and doing super cool stunts all with this magic button and amazing jumping abilities.  Bryan asks for new turtle toys daily and "can we get a turtle that doesn't poop?"  I have a problem with poop and apparently taught my children to have the same apprehensiveness towards such issues with animals too. 
• Jared has started gooing and giggling!  His smiles are to live for!  He is so calm and peaceful still--- I hope it stays that way always.  But it probably won't, so I enjoy every minute of it.  He has one strong spirit about him and at times makes me just cry because I am so happy he is here!  Man, I sure love him!

The other day I was shopping and missed a call from Brad.  I checked my phone and he had left a message.  Hehe, little did he know!  He forgot to hang up the phone and I had 5 whole minutes of real life uncensored.  Eavesdropping, I couldn't help it :)  The next five minutes I laughed my guts out listening to the message.  It was filled with Brad gooing and cooing with Jared.  He giggled with him and kept telling Jared how cute he was.  I could hear Jared responding and gooing so sweetly back to his Daddy.  After listening and laughing at how cute it all was, I couldn't help but be incredibly grateful for a husband who loves his boys.  Love.  Pure love.  Yep.  It is pretty awesome.