Conversations in the Wood House...

Zion:
Let me set this one up..... We have 5 stockings hanging from our mantle. First of all, I have them set up in a pattern. They are all similar, but we have 2 green and 3 red. So, the 3 boys have red stockings and the 2 girls have green stockings. It works out, if we go Dad, Mom, Zion, Paige, Maddox the stockings go red, green, red, green, red, which makes me perfectly happy! Well, Zion does not like the pattern. He wants them to match--so, he will frequently rearrange them so that the green ones are together and the red ones are together! He is pretty particular, which most of you who know him are already aware of. But what makes it even funnier is that he doesn't call them stockings. Though normally quite articulate, he calls them "sockets." Thus the argument....

Zion: Mom, why did you hang the sockets like that?

Mommy: Well, I hung them in order.. Since we have three boys and three red stockings and 2 girls and 2 green ones, I just hung them up in a pattern. This one is daddy's, then mommy's, then yours, then Paige's, then Maddox's. It's a pattern, see?.....

Zion: Yeah, but mom, I don't want them to hang in a pattern.... I want them to match! Like this.... See, mom, now the sockets are great!

"Sockets," according to Zion....

Paige:
And then our sweet Paige, who is so funny, is expanding her vocabulary all the time! Sometimes in order to motivate the kids we might say something like, "Whoever gets in the bathroom last to brush teeth is a rotten egg!" Well, Paige loves this! But I can't figure out whether she wants to be the rotten egg or not because she actually says "rockin' egg!" Now, we love everything about rock stars, rockin' out and rock 'n roll, etc. So, she really might see this as a positive thing..... No matter what, it does motivate her to move, and it's hilarious to hear her running around saying, "Last one is a rockin' egg!"

Maddox:
He's beginning to say SO many things! He's good at repeating though a little fickle about it. In the last few days he has said some pretty funny things.... Well, funny now. First, I was changing his diaper in his bed just before his nap. He started kicking his feet, and I said, "Don't do that." He looked at me and said, "Don't do that!" I was amazed, and actually started laughing! Then, just lastnight we were sitting at the dinner table, and he threw some food on the floor (which is a constant battle:), and I said to him, "No, no, no!" And as I went on to say, "You don't throw food on the floor...." He looked at me and said, "No, no, no!" I looked at Shane, who turned his face and laughed!!!.... I had to fight a smile, but was able to get the point across... I love that he's talking more and more, but it will be interesting as he starts to repeat everything!!!