Funny things Gabe said

These are probably "you had to be there" funny, so if you decide to keep reading, you've been forwarned.

I came home from work tonight and Gabe was lining up all of his alphabet flash cards. They all have letters with colorful pictures of word that start with those letters. He pointed out the card the has the "Parent Instructions" on it (no colorful pictures), and I go, jokingly, "What a rip-off!"

Hey kept playing with the cards, and came to the parent card again and said, "This one got tore off; Daddy need to fix it." I thought his understanding of rip-off was pretty cute.

Later, as we talked as he laid down for bed, he said, "Is Mommy your friend?" I said, "Yes, but she's more than my friend, she's my wife. Do you know what that means?" He replied, "Hmm?" So I told him, "It means that we're married and we'll be together until Jesus takes us to heaven." And Gabe says, "No. He just stay in the Bible." You've gotta love 2-year old theology.

Bible Verse

(Thanks to Christian A. for the idea) We've started doing memory verses with Gabe. We started with the very first one ...that leaves like 31,102 more until he's got the whole thing down.

It's just amazing to me how Gabie picks up on stuff. For the first couple days when I tried to get him to repeat parts of the verse after me, he would say, "NO," and cover his mouth with both hands (You'll see some of that here). Then a few days later, when he was in a better mood at the time, he just busted it out after I said, "In the beginning..."

Sharing a Pic, Fishing, and Shenanigans

First, I just saw this picture that Sara took of Gabe at the Apple Orchard last week. It has to be one of my all-time faves. You have to love the hat knit by Ini (Gabe's great-grandma on Sara's mom's side). Nice work, Sar.

Next, my grandpa, dad, brother, brother-in-law, and our two, two year olds spent a great morning fishing this past Saturday. The little boys didn't get too into the actual idea of fishing, but it was good for them (especially Gabe) to be able to get out into nature. (Thanks, Dad, for keeping the boys entertained while the rest of us got to fish.) Between the bunch of us, we caught about 4 fish (none longer than 3 inches...one hooked through the eye) and a nice little turtle (with a net). It was just a blessing to get to spend the time with the guys; I hope we'll do something like this again soon.

Last, I spent some good time late Saturday night hanging out with my buddy, T. We spent time talking about the important things in life, family, faith, politics, etc. until the coffee shop we were in closed. Toward the end of our conversation, we continued our deep talk by discussing the whole mentos + diet coke phenomenon. He had never seen the two combined in person, so we decided to drive to a 24-hour walmart, bought several bottles of diet coke, a pack of mentos rolls and went to a nearby parking lot to try it out. 80% of our attempts didn't do too well, but we got one bottle to launch like 30-40 feet in the air. It was a fun dose of the shenanigans of our youth. But if you read this, please dont tell because we dont want to get in trouble.

Q

Here's a video of Gabe drawing an O and a Q.