Asher...

I know I've been blogging about Asher a lot, but he is doing the funniest things lately! He has a few favorite things to pretend. He wants to be a mailman. He has this certain bag he carries around delivering mail. One day it was quiet so I started looking for Asher. He was down the street delivering mail!
Next, he loves to be a pirate. We got him pirate accessories for Halloween and he couldn't wait to open it. He now wears his pirate hat, eye patch, earring, and hook all the time. The best is he's sometimes a pirate doggy! Anyway sometimes he only wears part of his costume. That's when this picture was taken. Remember when this was cool? Earrings and a backward hat.
One day he was in full Pirate attire and was in the driveway singing "yo ho, a pirates life for me". The neighbor came out to talk to the pirate and asked if he was Jack Sparrow. Asher replied, "no I'm Johnny Cash!"
Which brings us to the next phase.  Because he loves to "jam out", Brian thought that Johnny Cash would be perfect jamming music, so we turned it on for him. He sat and listened to the entire album 3 times! So of course he can sing a few songs with no help. Brian's brother, Uncle Rico, (Brian thought it would be a fun nick name and it has stuck!) Anyway, Tyler asked if he knew Johnny Cash and Asher said, "Don't take your guns to town Bill, leave your guns at home." This is a line from one of his songs, I wouldn't have known that if it wasn't regularly playing at our house. He can really belt out Ring of Fire.
Asher's favorite place to jam out is in the car. The only music we can listen to in the car is Jack Johnson, so I'm quite in love with it- sarcasm-.   Anyway Asher keeps a pink ukulele in the car so he can jam out every time we're in the car.
This pretty much sums up Asher's imagination right now. I'll keep you posted.

Question and Answer

This list of questions was posted on Becca's, (one of my favorite mission companions) blog and I thought it would be fun to have Asher answer these questions. Here is what he had to say.

1. What is something that Mommy always says to you? “do not touch cars"
2. What makes Mommy happy? "daddy"
3. What makes Mommy sad? "fall down stairs when I big shoes and knock me down and get pocky and go to doctor and fall down stairs."
4. How does your Mommy make you laugh? ”funny faces"
5. How old is your Mommy? “1.”
6. How tall is your Mommy? “this big.” arms up
7. What is her favorite thing to do? “color.”
8. What does your Mommy do when you're not around? “don't let people give me treats.” (Interpretation- don't take treats from strangers.)
9. If your Mommy becomes famous, what will it be for? “famous? Like a truck and carpet.”
10. What is your Mommy really good at? He pointed his finger.
11. What is your Mommy not so good at? “push us.”
12. What does your Mommy do for her job? “do this" pointing his finger, (I guess I'm a terrible mother!)
13. What is your Mommy's favorite food? “cereal.”
14. What makes your Mommy proud? “Five.” showing me 5 fingers
15. What do you and your Mommy do together? “Play games.”
16. How are you and your Mommy the same? “Elmo.” (?)
17. How are you and your Mommy different? “you don't have brown, you have blue.” (meaning the color of our shirts)
18. How do you know your Mommy loves you? “Mickey Mouse, yeah I like him and Goofy”

1. What is something that Daddy always says to you? "Don't get up." (out of bed, well the floor, at night)
2. What makes Daddy happy? "laugh at him". "jibberish"- that's Asher speaking Spanish, so I guess Spanish makes daddy happy.
3. What makes Daddy sad? "I don't know."
4. How does your Daddy make you laugh? ”Be funny, ha ha. He fell down and conked his head"
5. How old is your Daddy? “free,(three) like me.”
6. How tall is your Daddy? “bigger bigger like this" arms up.
7. What is his favorite thing to do? “Work. Walk in park.”
8. What does your Daddy do when you're not around? “works.”
9. If your Daddy becomes famous, what will it be for? “Giant. Big giant hits us and the big furry spider will die, and I don't want to touch him, he's really scary.”
10. What is your Daddy really good at? "a game."
11. What is your Daddy not so good at? “get a new belly.”
12. What does your Daddy do for his job? “help with Fred and Becky." (They are helping Brian finish the basement.)
13. What is your Daddy favorite food? “cereal.” (I think I've seen Brian eat cereal 5 times our whole marriage- he's not a big fan.)
14. What makes your Daddy proud? “Proud? Proud is not happy."
15. What do you and your Daddy do together? “Play games.”
16. How are you and your Daddy the same? “shirts.” (He always wants to match Brian)
17. How are you and your Daddy different? “we not different."
18. How do you know your Daddy loves you? “laughs"

My mom always says, you know what kind of a parent you are by the way your kids treat dolls.  Well, I just found a new way!"

Happy Birthday to me!

I got a package the other day from my brother Toffer. I opened it up and it was a huge gas station size box of snickers bars. I thought, "how did he know I like snickers? Maybe I liked them when we were little, or it could be that pretty much everyone loves them. hum, lucky guess." I of course opened it up immediately and enjoyed a tasty treat. A few hours later I looked at the receipt that came in the box and realized it wasn't a receipt, it was a message. "Now you can be a busy mommy and sill have Snickers!" I realized he sent them because of my last blog entry about my terrible day and just wanting a snickers. Surprise, surprise, my eyes welled up with tears. Thanks Toff, that was so creative and yummy. Thanks everyone for the calls and wishes. Happy Birthday to me!