The Brothers

The last few posts have been mostly about Parker, since he is new and exciting. So here's a little something about the other two. They are so lucky to have each other. They are best pals and I'm excited for Parker to be the third musketeer!

If you can't read it, Spencer presented himself as a Father's Day gift to Andy. He actually did a pretty good job matching colors, especially for a boy!

Carson had never been to the dinosaur park before (the same one that Spencer visited on his first grade field trip recently), so we all went to check it out. He was pretty apprehensive when he first walked in and saw how big and lifelike the dinosaurs were. We kept emphasizing that they were just pretend!!

This dinosaur is probably the scariest one, but by this time he was feeling pretty brave. I think he enjoyed the rest of the park until we went into the museum where they have robotic dinosaurs--a T-Rex and Triceratops--that move and make noises. It's fairly dark in there and it is kinda spooky. As soon as they started moving, Carson let out the most bloodcurdling scream I've ever heard, and it wasn't just one little shriek. It echoed through the building and continued for at least 10 full seconds before he finally took a breath and cried. Poor little guy!

Here is Spencer in the shrubbery, pretending to be a dinosaur....

He might be scary if he wasn't so cute!

In closing, a little anecdote about Spencer: Fairly often, I call Andy between 4:00 and 5:00 to ask him to bring some grocery item on his way home from work. One day Spencer asked me for a snack, but I told him it was too close to dinner time. So he took it upon himself to call his dad and say that "Mom wants you to bring home some cheese." Andy asked if I wanted shredded or brick, so Spencer said, "Brick." So Andy walks in the door with his grocery sack. I asked, "What ya got there?" He said, "I thought you needed cheese." I said, "No, I don't need cheese. If I'd known you were going to the store, I'd have asked for milk." Simultaneously, we yelled, "SPENCER!!" Now whenever Spencer calls his dad, he has to preface his comments with, "I promise, I'm NOT LYING!!"