Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I love half price books!

Yes, it's true.  I can get lost in the half price book store for a few hours.  It doesn't matter if Eli is with me or not, I can get lost in a book!

Last month, I found myself at a local Half Price book store with Mom and Eli.  This happens a lot!  Anyway, I spent some time with Eli and we found several books he wanted to take home.  Then, Mom came over and told me she would read with Eli so I could look for some books of my own.  Off I went, to get lost in a book, no time constraints in my head.

A few minutes later, as I was browsing, I heard a page overhead for 'Customer Tena, please come to the buying area."  I thought to myself, "Interesting that someone else named Tena is here..." and kept browsing.

A few minutes later, the voice came again no different than the first, "Customer Tena, please come to the buying area."  That's when I thought something must be up.  No way were there THREE women in this store named Tena!

I quickly made my book choice and headed to the back of the store.  As I turned the corner, I saw my big boy Eli talking to the clerk at the counter.  It seems that he didn't want to be with Grandma anymore (she was within eye-shot but couldn't hear what he was saying) and wanted me to he told the lady at the counter that he needed his Mom to be paged!!

What a silly boy making the clerk at Half Price Books thinking he was lost and that his mom didn't come at the first request!

Monday, February 20, 2012

40,000

Last night when I was taking Eli to bed, I was asking him if he thought he should go to the bathroom 'just one more time' before he went to bed.

Eli:  "Mom, I don't have accidents."
Me:  "You never know."
Eli:  "I can hold it 40,000 hours!"
Me:  "Hopefully, you won't sleep THAT long!"
Eli:  "How many hours do I sleep anyway?  8?"

(40,000 is his favorite number.)

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Bob WHO???

Husband has been very busy lately doing all kind of home improvement projects.  It all started last year with a very large hail storm that wrecked our house!  (Mostly outside damage, but it was A LOT!!)

Anyway, I keep adding things to Husband's list to do around the house, as does he!  One Saturday morning, he was telling me all the jobs he was going to get finished that day.  I then added a few more that wouldn't take him much time at all...

Husband responded with, "Who do you think I am, Bob Vela?"

Before I could answer, Eli asked, "Mommy, you think Daddy is Bob the Builder?"