While fishing tonight, Colt cautioned his cousin Sarah "not to YACK the line or she would lose the fish." I said, "I think you mean YANK not YACK." Colt said, "Sarah, don't YANK it either."

Colt had a little cough last week and we always encourage "coughing in his elbow" to prevent the spread of germs. He really wanted to go swimming, but he suddenly was terribly concerned. He said, "Mommy! I can't go swimming because I will DROWN in the deep end if I have to cough in my elbow and can't use my arms!" Oh Colt. . . he is such a strict rule follower :)

Today I was being silly with Colt, acting like I didn't know what anything was. . . He thought it was funny.  He also thought he was pretty smart telling what everything was that I "couldn't remember." Then he told me he needed to go poop, and explained THAT to me.  "That sounds like fun!" I (totally) jokingly said.  To which he laughed and replied, "No Mom.  It's not fun! That's silly." Then he came back out of the bathroom and said, "It's only fun for DADDY, because he gets to play the ipad while he goes to the bathroom." bahahahaha.  I laughed out loud.

"Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a Christian soldier, a policeman, AND an acrobat."

David was explaining to Colt that we were going to go out to dinner to wherever Mommy wanted to go because she was the "Queen" of this house (I know so sweet). Then he said Mommy was "Queen" because she gave birth to all 3 babies. . . etc. Colt was trying to understand what it meant "to give birth," and he said, "Well Dad, all that stuff that Mommy did, I DID THAT TOO for everyone!"

"Mom, I know how long we will be in China." Oh, really? How long? "40 days." Actually, it will be 3 years before we will come back to visit. "Yeah, 3 years. That's what I meant to say." Uh-huh.

Colt is always trying to give his toys away to his friends. If they like something, he will generally just say, "Oh you can have it." I really am proud of him, and we have constantly reminded him to hold the THINGS of this world lightly. . . and love God and people most of all. So I suppose that is why it warms my little heart. Well his friend Jack was over here and Colt told Jack that he was going to get him a surprise. Well, Jack was super excited!! After Jack left, Colt told me that he wanted to save his money in his piggy bank and buy Jack an ipod (because Jack liked our ipod)!! Wow. Sweet kid. Good heart. Love him.