Henry's antics

We wanted to devote an entire post to Henry, because he's just been really fun lately (that is, when he's not pushing mama's buttons). He's started pretending and is good at repeating a lot of the phrases that we tend to overuse. Some of our favorites:
1. "You guys"
2. On the phone with papa: "So how's your work?"
3. "Mama's gonna rock you, babycakes." (Quoting Grandma Seibert's promise to June that mama would rock her to sleep from now on- fat chance.)

He also has new names for us- "Pop-popske" and "Momke."

Here's Henry in his favorite playroom of the house- our 4'X8' kitchen floor- we all really like each other here, and since mama spends most of her time in the kitchen, we all spend a lot of time in the kitchen. If you can't catch all that he's saying, Thomas (the train) is going to the grocery store to buy milk and pizza. Mac (the red semi) and Tanker (the black semi) are going to the marshmallow store for marshmallows (what else?), but the first marshmallow store is out of marshmallows, so they have to go to another store (based on actual events of Papa and Mister Paul). Meanwhile, Mac and Tanker have left their respective trailer and tanker back at the campsite with Lightning McQueen. Really, who needs dolls?

When not in search of marshmallows, Mac often goes out to buy lunch to take to Papa's work- usually milk and cheeseburgers.

You'll note that all of our favorite toys are trucks with trailers. They are the best.

After the kids ripped the room apart (we like to think it's not always this messy), Henry tried to do a puzzle, but his baby sister is really getting good at crawling. So Henry had to take matters into his own hands.

This is our favorite way that he tries to get rid of her.

We have pumpkins in our front yard. Today papa commented that they were beautiful. Henry replied "They're not beautiful, they have grass on them." Apparently, he does not approve of the lawn care.

Papa had his computer out and Henry was playing with it. Papa asked if Henry wanted to type some letters with him. Henry answered "Papa, you can type ABCs when I'm done doing my work."

And our favorite: We were reading a new book, "How Do Dinosaurs go to School?" which asks the age old question whether dinosaurs behave in class or act up. When a T-Rex was misbehaving in his class, mama asked Henry why the teacher looked so upset. Henry's response: "Because that dinosaur is going to eat him!"