In the Deaver Household

Here’s some recent funnies and happenings in our home.

• “Can you wrestle me?” comes out of Leo’s mouth about a dozen times a day. 11 of those times it’s directed at Luke and the other time at me (Mom doesn’t do wrestling, though). Sometimes it’s the first thing he says to Luke when he wakes up in the morning.
• Reading and LOTS of reading. Dominic is becoming a pretty good little independent reader. He especially loves our kids Bible. Can’t believe he’s reading!
• D has 2 loose teeth, which leaves Luke and I trying to decide how we deal with the whole tooth fairy thing…
• Football! We’ve developed a ritual for our football Saturdays. The kiddos get their sleeping bags and pillow mats and lay on the floor. The three big kids will watch almost the whole game while Leo just crawls all over Luke. Then, Luke and I try to answer question after question after question. “What’s that yellow line?” “What’s a touchback?” “What color are we wearing?”
• More football! We’re into touch football right now. Every night after dinner, Luke takes the kiddos outside to play. They take turns being on Luke’s team and huddle up to make “trick plays.” Turns out every play is a trick play.
• Jackson’s athletic ability continues to surprise us. Since he was 6 months old, he’s loved to play with balls. He still has a great little arm and impressive coordination for a 4 year old. He’s usually happiest when he’s playing soccer, baseball, football, basketball or just playing catch.
• Leo now says “Ah-right” about a hundred times a day. Cute. And we are always thankful when he is being compliant.
• Leo has an unexplained fear of monsters all of the sudden. Last night, he was petrified when I put him to bed, telling me, “I don’t want the monsters to get in!” So, I checked under the bed, in the closet, etc, but he was still scared. So I got the Holy Water and sprinkled his room and brought him a crucifix to sleep with. He wanted it right next to his head in his bed. Today at nap time, he asked for the crucifix again and said, “God takes care of the monsters.”
• Patrick loves to tell stories in his loudest voice possible. And listening to him talk is sometimes like listening to Elmer Fudd. It can take a good 2 minutes to describe something that happened in 10 seconds. He has the sweetest lisp, too.
• Dominic has this crazy attention to detail and the ability to retain almost any information. Today, I found a picture he’d drawn with BTN written on the top. When I asked him what that meant, he told me, “Big Ten Network” and there was a giant red helmet drawn below it.