Not funny? Yes...it was

Steve was in the garage today with Kenny working on Kenny's car and had Derek out there sitting in his wagon..well, true to form, Derek started making this noise over and over and over..Steve gets all excited and says "Derek, come here quick"...like it was going to be something cool..he leads him to the door that goes into the house..then he keeps up the excitement and says "Come here and look"!!! He pushes Derek into the house and shuts the door!!! Derek yells "That wasn't funny Steve"!!!
God, so funny.

About died laughing at this one

Derek had cut a banana in half to share with Kenny. Steve says he had cut it in half and held one half up and said "this is Kennys, and this is mine", then Derek's half dropped on the floor that he had designated as his own, and Derek says casual like "oh, Kenny's dropped on the floor"!!! OMG...Steve and I were dying laughing..wasn't gonna be Derek's half was it?!!!!

Cheese

Derek asks for some cheese a minute ago...then he says " I like cheese like rats" lol

Nose

Derek woke up with a bit of a bloody nose. He say "my nose was moving too much, so it got bloody". Funny
New nickname: Random Randy...when he says stuff that is totally off the subject we are discussing.

Captain Sneaky VS The Warden

Sunday morning: 6:24am and I get up in anticipation of Derek waking. Steve is sleeping on the couch and I want to let him sleep in. I know Derek will be up soon. I go back to bed after turning the baby monitor on so I can hear Derek in the downstairs area. About 7am, I hear him. I go to the middle step and sit..and there I see Capt. Sneaky over by the crafts bag in the dining room. I say "What are you doing Derek"? He says "Going over to Cora". I say "What are you really doing"? He says "Going over to see Grandpa". I say "I know what you are doing, so now tell me what you are really doing". He says "Getting the Glitter Lava". I knew that was what he was doing of course. Last night we broke out an xmas gift of this gooey Lava Glitter and he was told not to touch it without adults...but, by God, he WANTED it. I am realizing, and always actually knew, that children at young ages want want want and know many times it is wrong to get things without permission, but they have no self-control at all. This will change with age..but it is hard waiting!

We went upstairs and had a talk about wanting things and breaking rules and being sneaky. The plan was to have him upstairs watching TV until Grandpa woke up..and that is what we are doing.
Another sneaky story: Steve caught him some months ago in the goodie drawer. Steve approached him and asked Derek "Are you being sneaky"? Derek had replied "No, you are being sneaky, sneaking up on me doing something inappropriate". Nice vocabulary...and it is always growing. Also, this morning Derek says he is going to Disneyland tomorrow....lol

Gift of Fields

"Bring him and they will come". Our Field of Dreams came in the form of our daycare family with the last name of Fields. In early 2008, Derek started living with us and I had to find daycare. For four months he was at a very populated daycare in town. It was just too much stimulation for him. I thought, what am I going to do now? How am I going to find the perfect in-home daycare for Derek that will meet his needs. I called a few homes offering daycare. The first two were awful, like Robin Williams pranking his wife on Mrs. Doubtfire. They sounded stupid on the phone and one of them DHS said "no"...prior issues with them. And then it happened. I called the home of Mrs. Fields. The first sentence out of her mouth I knew instantly...this is the one. She sounded loving, caring and experienced with all types of kids. Steve and I visited and were sold. This was a home with just a handful of daycare kids and they had two teenagers of their own. Derek was in the best home we could have hoped for.

Mrs. Fields took wonderful care of Derek for a few months and then I heard they were moving to Hillsboro...thought I was going to crawl in a closet and curl up. Then she tells me her son and soon to be daughter-in-law were moving in and taking over the daycare business. After meeting the next family of Fields, I was at ease. The transition was over about a month where the first Mrs. Fields left and the new took over. Perfect. Derek stayed in the same house, had the same rules etc. He was fine and I love my Jenny and Nathan so much. They are like our kids and we would do anything for them. Jenny does preschool for the wonderful small group of kids and they take the kids to all sorts of places: OMSI, parks, Cheese Factory, ZOO. I love my text and video messages from Nathan while I'm at work. So funny. They also have two sweet children of their own, Sammy who is about 15 mnths and Adrianna who is 3mths. How could we have been so lucky. I am positive that any other daycare couldn't have given Derek what he needed. We love our Fields.

You Weren't Listening

So Derek had to go to bed around 7pm...no nap day...and he did the major meltdown....he was super overtired..and it didn't help we had a houseful of older boys playing the Wii loudly. He finally finished the meltdown...we read a couple of books...he was happy and hugged and loved before I put him to bed. Steve had been in his office and I was upstairs watching TV..kids on the Wii. It's been about an hour..Steve comes upstairs and tells me as he was in his office Derek kept calling "Grandpa, Grandpa" for a few minutes from his bed...he had heard some messing around noises too..Steve ignored the calling. Then he hears the voice coming from under the door "Hey Steve I need a drink"..OMG!! Funny shit...he did get a drink....from "Steve"...and then Steve tells him "my name is Grandpa" and Derek say "Well, you weren't listening". He is clever huh?

Just a little something funny

So at breakfast this morning Derek wasn't listening to Steve about getting in his chair..jokingly, Steve says "Get in your chair or I will knock your lights out"! Derek says "No, the lights are going to stay in my body".

This morning Steve went into Derek's room and slept on the bottom bunk. Derek wakes up and whispers to the lower bunk "Hey, Kenny, Kenny". Steve says "No, its me Grandpa" then Derek says "No, only Kenny is sleeping on the bottom bunk".