When I Grow Up...

Liam has declared, on separate occasions, the following things about his life as an adult:

"When I'm big I'll drive a motorcycle and you can sit on the back and hang on tight. We'll go to Starbucks for coffee and drink it there because you can't drink and drive with a motorcycle. I'm going to drink coffee when I grow up."

"When I'm older I want a convertable. So I can drive it with the top down with other people and with the top on in the winter. I still want a motorcycle."

"When I grow up I don't want a job like Daddy. I want to stay home and play and go to your house and take you out to coffee."

"I don't want kids when I grow up. And if I can't marry you then I don't want to get married."

Quinn, on separate occasions, has declared the following:

"I hope I find someone to marry when I'm in college."

"I think I'm going to be an astronaut. Maybe. I'd like a job like Daddy has where I can come home, cook dinner, play with the babies."

"When I get a car of my own I want a van like yours, Mom. Only blue. Well, when I'm old enough can you just give me your van and then I don't have to use any of my money? I can drive lots of kids around in it."

"I don't know how many kids I'll have. That's up to whoever it is I find to marry me."

Night and day these two. Night and day.

Facebook Status Updates

We just got back from a long weekend up in Door County, Wisconsin. With little to no internet access on my phone I was unable to post the following facebook updates:

• Beautiful! Stopping at the first beach we can find so the boys can stick their feet in Lake Michigan water.


• Found the farm. Setting up camp.


• Cousins are here! Quinn and Henry are already riding their bikes together along the gravel driveway.


• Mmmmm. S'mores


• Heading to the beach before it rains.


• Rain came - driving around aimlessly.


• Found a great state park - Newport - had lunch in the shelter and found great secluded beach. Boys had fun jumping the waves.


• Over $60 to take a ferry?! No thanks.


• Found another state park - this time we found a shoreline with only seashells on the ground. No sand. Just shells. Very cool.


• Heading to a fireboat cruise, then biking, then a fish boil!


• Fireboat cruise not worth the money (or the drive).


• Uh. Don't spin your kids too fast on the tire swing and then put them in car. Looks like we'll be skipping the fish boil.


• Giving the boys baths and cleaning up the van. YUCK.


• Boys are feeling much better. Quinn can't wait for Henry to get back to the farm so they can ride bikes some more.


• Heading home. My van still smells like vomit.


• Home! To do list: laundry and clean out the van some more.