This time he is only on a part of the couch with a shirt on!
Investigative reports
So much for the shirt.
Would you please look at the camera and put a shirt on. At least he's off the couch.
I give up!
So the wife asked me "How come there are hardly any pictures of Tyler?" Well here by request they are. I was trying to hold out for some better pictures but the natives are restless...
I started developing a theory about his pictures. They all seem to fall into about three categories;
Couch
Blocked/looking other direction
No shirt
Couch
Couch and no shirt!
Hey let's take a picture! Quick look the other way!
Oh two categories again, couch and no shirt.
So I guess he pretty much walks around from couch to couch with no shirt on according to these pictures. I'll have to make a second post just to clear things up...
This was a cold fall day, but it was sunny out so it looked deceptively warm. I went outside and promptly came back in to add some layers. I thought it was a good day to let the kids go outside and take some photos. 
Here is Caleb in his winter hat. Ever seen a kid so happy? I think it's the silly hat that is seeping silliness into his melon.
Brayden and Caleb both like to do the "Superman" on the swing. I still can't figure out why they don't use them the conventional way.
Brayden on the trampoline...Funny I just realized we call it the Tramp. "Hey kids want to go outside and jump on the tramp?". I guess that's how rumors start.
All tuckered out from jumping on the prostitute...
Caleb coming over to correct the paparazzi...."No pictures please!"
Instead of a funny story, I thought I would explain Caleb's nick name for those who don't know.
His name of course is Caleb, and when he used to be babysat by a particular individual she would call him Kolib. Now we never tried to outright say his name phonetically to her but we would say things like "Come on CALEB, let's go home. Say good bye CALEB. Say thank you CALEB." Anyway after a few times of this I kind of got frustrated and couldn't figure out why she kept calling him Kolib.
I remember talking to Renee about it in the car and kind of poking fun at the situation by saying "Geez why doesn't she just start calling him Kolorabi (the vegetable) or Calamari".
So we started calling him Colobari (call-a-bar-ee), A hybrid of the two aforementioned.
This was short lived since he started to drop things and began making noises that sounded like "Uh-oh Bo Bo" We later figured out that he was trying to imitate Renee when she would say Uh-oh Spaghetti-o's".
So we started calling him Bo-Bo.
There you go.
Okay I'll stop now fo' sho'.
Alright no mo'.
So I thought I would take a break and post some pics of my favorite funny things I have found over time.
This reminds me of what my kids would do if they saw me on the back of a milk carton.
Pretty much the cat we adopted
My special way of showing you all how much I love you guys
Why I do not play in my children's toys
Yes my brother is special...
On with the funny story.
This one happened yesterday...
So Brayden has not been feeling well lately and I went upstairs to check on him around 7 pm since he had been sleeping for about 3 hours. As I approached the bed he woke up and started to tell me that he wanted to wake up and go down stairs. As I picked him up he said that he needed some carrots. Now I thought this was very surprising and it became very clear to me just how sick he was. Imagine a kid asking for vegetables. So I inquired why he wanted carrots, he told me so they would help his eyes. It took me a second but then I realized his eyes were adjusting to the light because he had just woke up, but at any rate I took him up on his offer to have carrots which unfortunately lasted to about the bottom of the stairs when he asked for pop tarts.
Ah well, can't win 'em all I guess.
So, for those family members that ever wonder why I am so crazy...
Take a look at the faces in this picture for example. Me, I look like I am "in the zone", Gary looks like he has never seen a camera before, My mom is trying to explain how the camera works, My step dad looks like he just got caught with a coffee and then there is my brother...yeah. Can't wait for a family reunion...
Don't know what else to say about this picture except for "AHHHH giant baby head!"
Now the family is starting rub off on me. I think my wife is being caught trying to hide.
Oh yeah, the whole point of this post. Here is my brother shortly after he graduated with a friend of his or not or something. High school relationships are/were difficult. Anyways it was a good picture even though her eyes were red and the fact that it says it is November when it was really June. But on the bright side it will be fun to talk about years from now when I am senile and can say "See back in my day we used to graduate in November", not that it would make any sense anyway.
Funny Story:
So awhile back when Caleb had just turned about a year old, Brayden was playing with him in their room. Santa had brought Brayden this toy that you sit on and ride around on that looks like a rocketship. It has a few buttons that when pushed say things like "Let's go retro!" and "Ready..3..2..1..BLASTOFF!" Well I guess the two of them were fighting over it and Brayden had decided to pick up said rocketship and fire it on over to Caleb's vector. Thank goodness his trajectory was off and it sailed harmlessly into the wall creating a divot. Enter Renee;
Mom: (in a stern motherly voice) "Brayden you cannot throw toys period! You could have hit Caleb and hurt him!"
Brayden: "Geez Mom, it's just a rocket ship"
The fact that the tone of his voice was like it as no big deal made the situation an instant classic.
We were invited to go to a birthday party at a friend of ours. This is Jenna , Brayden's self proclaimed girlfriend.
Here are the two of them playing in the water on a hot summer day.
It was a great day to be here. Usually on a hot day, the park has tons of people. I remember there only being a couple other families there that day. Maybe it was because the party was on a Weekday, I can't remember.
Brayden enjoying a cupcake..
In fact he is enjoying it so much I think he is actually trying to eat his own hand..nomnomnom.
I just realized that I forgot to do a funny story last time. Oh well.
I don't know how funny this is going to be, because it was a "had to be there" kind of story.
We were at Church for a meeting. Renee was helping out in the nursery watching kids for the meeting. Brayden told her that he had to go to the bathroom, so she flagged me down and had me take him. As we walked in he said he had to go poop. So off to the stall we went and prepared the throne with a gasket and sat him down. Instead he went pee and said "all done!" Now after several times of this in the past I always ask "are you sure?" "Yep" was the reply, so I took him back to the nursery.
About 5 minutes later Renee calls me over again and says that I need to take him to the bathroom again because he has to go poop. Well of course partially annoyed I said " I just took him and he said he didn't have to go". Renee simply made a hand waving gesture in front of her nose and said "yes he does".
So I grab his hand and ask him "Do you have to go poop this time?"
He replies "yeah, I guess. I farted and it didn't stink, but everybody else told me it did."
It was a good thing I was in church cause I almost died laughing, would have been a short trip for the funeral.
This was a funny day...
Here is Mr. B all prepped and ready to eat his very own...
Oh baby, that cake is bigger than him!
It was a finding Nemo cake, he started using the plastic fish as a spoon. So resourceful.
"No words can describe how I feel"
After a quick bath and a rigorous present opening session, he becomes a deer in headlights.
It's a shame we haven't posted these pictures before. I have so many of all the kids. It is a challenge to actually post them and stop reminiscing about the days gone by.
