January 4, 2013

So there's quite a market out there for truck videos, apparently.  There are a LOT of them.  I've learned more about trucks in the past few months than I even knew I needed to know.  The other night I actually had a dream that Matt and I were being hunted - yes, hunted - by a helicopter with a cement drum and crane hook attached to it, and it had crazy-long rotors like an air crane (did you even know there was such a thing as an air crane?? It's a special helicopter that performs the job of a regular crane only it lifts to places that a crane can't reach).

One of Levi's videos that is my favorite, but he never wants to watch, is called "Truck Tunes." It's just video footage of different trucks and some guy in Phoenix has probably made at least a few extra bucks from writing a song about each truck.  The songs are pretty hilarious.  One is about a scraper (didn't even know that was a truck till now), and the song goes, "If you have a lot of dirt to move, you know you can count on scraper."  Another line says something like, "When you see him you can say, 'Hey!  It's scraper! I can count on him!"  Matt and I will randomly joke, like when we're talking about something fairly serious, "Well....(sigh)...you know you can count on scraper."

 Last night Levi announced he was going to make Scraper's lunch.  You can hardly count on a hungry scraper, so Levi set to making it right:

 

Three jars of peanut butter, a honey bear, three different varieties of nuts, and some oatmeal.  Now you can REALLY count on Scraper, he's very well fed.

I said to Matt today that I can't believe what a homebody I've become.  I feel like I've become what I never wanted to be ten years ago - you know, the mom who never leaves the house and reads the same books over and over again and never wears makeup and wears sweats.  But I love it.  I never envisioned what I thought being a stay-at-home(ish) mom would be, but this is what it looks like.  I don't have any place I need to be, and the kids thrive on a simple and well-established routine. I love reading the same books over and over again and building pretty much anything Levi asks me to with a small pile of Duplos.  It's the way life needs to be for them right now.  It's hard and demanding and takes nearly everything out of me on some days.  But I'm so grateful.