Chattin' with Mr. D...

It's been since June of last year!

So...time for a long overdue edition of-

Chattin' with Mr. D...

Summer/Fall/Winter 2013...

Drake and I were cuddling in my bed one morning while Rob was out running on the golf course-

Drake: Mom, I can smell Dad from clear out where he's running.

Me: You can smell him? What does he smell like?

Drake: He smells like golf course.

While I was feeding Sara, I was covering her with a blanket.

Drake: Hey, keep her blanket open so I can give her kisses.

Runs and fall into me on the floor-

Drake: That's called a crashing hug!

Watching So You Think You Can Dance-

Drake: Oh wow, I wish I could dance like that.

Me: Hey Drake, you should do a puppet show for us.

Drake: Ya, go get the bear in my closet that you put your hand in it's bum.

I can't remember where we were, but he saw a tuba-

Drake: Woah, what's that?

Mom: That's called a tuba.

Drake: Can we buy one of those tubas sometime? Maybe just a little one. You should buy one too Dad.

While eating Halloween candy-

Drake: Sara, I'm sorry but you can't have any candy. You're too little. But when you get really tall you can.

Sara was crying-

Drake: Sara, don't be afraid of Thanksgiving. It's not scary.

While putting up the Christmas tree, I put the star on top that was shaped like the star of David instead of a 5-point star.

Drake: Is that the star you're putting up?

Me: Yep.

Drake: Are you kidding me? That isn't shaped like a star!

At a family Christmas party while he and his two girl cousins were each going to the bathroom in different stall-

Drake: (yelling) Hey girls, you wanna play a game?!

Girls: Yeah!

Drake: Ok, if I have lots of couches and I sit on one, then how many couches will I have?

At my parents house in Utah, Drake was trying to go upstairs while people were napping.

Me: Drake, you may not go upstairs right now and play. Grandpa is taking a nap, Grandma is busy with Savannah and I am doing cards. You may watch a movie, play down here, or sit down by Mommy.

Drake: Well! I want to go upstairs. Sara's bow is falling, sitting there is boring, watching a show is boring, and going upstairs is fun. 

While driving in Utah, I'd had a rough morning.

Me: Drake, I really miss Daddy! Do you?

Drake: No, I miss my toys. 

As we passed the fire station-

Drake: Mom, I think when I get big like Dad, I wanna be a fire-trucker and go on the fire truck.

At church in Utah, we were sitting on a bench with our family, and Rob showed Drake that Grandma Hunsaker was sitting just down the bench from us. He then pointed out Chandler's grandma sitting behind us.

Drake: Do all of the grandmas live in Utah?

When his feet fell asleep-

Drake: My feet are sparkling! Owie, owie, get 'em off! Get 'em off!

Drake: Mom, why do you have flowers on your wall?

Me: Because I like flowers, don't you like flowers?

Drake: NO! I like boy STUFF!

2014 so far...

During soccer, Drake was on the other side of the glass and gave me kissy lips and said "Mom! mom!" Then ran around the glass and asked for a kiss. Melt my heart!

Everytime we talk to grandma on Skype- "Is hunter home yet?"

Drake was being so hyper and crazy and loud and I was trying to get him ready in the bathroom. Me: Drake, I want you to just think in your head to 20 and calm down. 

Drake: (loudly) 1....2.....3.....4!

Me: No, just think in your head to 20!

Drake So like wink 20 times?

Me: No, THINK with your brain and count to 20.

Drake: What's a brain!?

Me: Uh! Nevermind.

Drake: Is a brain my bones!? 

Drake loves to play pretend that he is the Dad and I am his kid. Randomly, one day...

Drake: I just really wish I could be a dad right NOW.

While playing with his friend Ryan-

Drake: Ryan, we should turn on Frozen and DANCE!

Sara was fussing a lot when I was getting her ready.

Drake: Sara, stop it! Sara, stop it!

Sara keeps fussing...

Drake: Sara, you are acting like Savannah! (which is his cousin that's 5 months older than Sara. haha)

Heard while I eavesdropped on Drake & his friend Hazel playing-

Drake: Hey Hazel, I'm gonna teach you how to be a cowboy! You gotta take off your hat (takes off his cowboy hat) and say "Howwwwdy partner" than put it back on. Ok? You try!

We were driving down the road and Drake started laughing hysterically in the backseat.

Me: What's so funny Drake?

Drake: I can't tell you mom! It's a secret. (laughing)

Me: Please tell me!

Drake: No! Only Grandpa can know.

Me: Please!??

Drake: Okay, I was just thinking about a funny dream I had last night that I had a snow mustache. Funny huh!?

Drake was acting sad one evening.

Rob: What's wrong Drake?

Drake: I just wanna snuggle with Mom.

My friend Laura told me about this conversation in her kitchen-

Hazel: Mommy, what does fair mean?

Drake: Fair means, like fair tidings, and fair tidings is like fair tidings of joy, that's what it means.

At the dinner table-

Drake: When am I going to learn how to be a dad?

Rob: Well, you have to grow up big like me, then go on a mission, then get married and then have a baby and then you can be a dad.

The next day at preschool-

Drake: Hey guys, guys! I gotta tell you something. 

Everyone looks at him (including the girls in the class). 

Drake: No, not you Gwen and Hazel, just the GUYS... Guys, do you know that when you get big, go on a mission, and get married, then you'll learn to be a dad?? Cool, huh?

During preschool one day-

Hazel: Dooty, Dooty, I'm a little Dooty!

Drake: Hazel! That's a bad word. That's the D word and we don't say that. We don't say the B word either. The B word is when you whine and say "I don't want to go to church!"

Recorded by Drake as a voice memo on my phone-

Drake: Today I was taking pictures at the church and I said "Cheeseburgers!"

As we are getting ready to go, Drake brings his shoes out to put on.

Me: Drake, you can't wear those. They don't match.

Drake: But, I want to wear these. (Throws them on the ground) See look.

Me: Okay, you can wear them.

Drake: But if I wear them, will people look at me and say, "You don't look handsome."? 

Me: Oh, Drake, you always look handsome, whether you match or not!

Drake: Because my feet are on the ground?

While watching Rob and our church Young Men group play soccer outside-

Drake: Mom, where's Cooper?

Me: He's right there...see the one with his shirt off.

Drake: But.... I can see his boobies.

Me: Remember on boys they aren't called boobies? They are called pecks.

Drake: Oh yeah. Well, sometimes I want to call them boobies. And sometimes I want to call them pecks. And sometimes I want to call them "tecks".

Drake came walking out of his bedroom one morning with a Spider-man mask on and a Spider-man T-shirt underneath some random clothes he'd put on.

Me: Woah, you have your Spider-man mask and your Spider-man T-shirt on, I see!

Drake: Yep! AND I have on Spider-man undies!