Tubes

Now, my youngest lives in his own world.  I think it'd be a fun place to visit...  :)

So, his latest antics?  Ben has declared he has tubes.  Tubes in his "froat".  Each tube represents a different type of food.  Now, on the surface this doesn't seem like a big deal, right? 

Imagine shopping at the store.  Not the fun kind of shopping.  This is the wait around to pick up your prescriptions because you didn't realize you were out of refills kind of shopping.  Know what I mean?  It's the, "Shoot, we need to go to another store after this because we don't have milk for cereal in the morning, and the kids are already going crazy!" kind of shopping.  We wander around the isles.  I think I'm amusing the kids.  The kids think I'm giving them some new form of torture...  Benjamin is on the verge of a breakdown...  But Moooooo-oooooommmmm...  I'm SOOOO firsty!  Can't I just get some water???  Please????  Then I'll be able to walk more!  Reawy! I will!  After 30 minutes of this, I see a little cooler by the checkouts.  Full of water!  Perfect!  Even more fun, it's all varieties of flavored water!  Benjamin!  Go pick out any flavor you want!  You get to pick!  Woo hoo!  All happy right? 

We check out and pay.  I open the water and Ben gulps greedily!  We hop in the Jeep to go get milk and Ben starts to cry.  Frustrated, I ask what's wrong now???  Ben declares, "Mom, I SAID I wanted water."  What?!?!?!  I just got you water!!!!  "But Mom.  You got strawberry water.  That filled up my fruit tube!  Not my water tube!  My water tube is still STARVIN'!!"  Ugh!  How do I compete with that?  Clearly I'm at fault here!  :) 

This is also a very convenient at dinner time!  "But Mom!  My Besghetti (Spaghetti) tube is all filled up!  All the way up to here!"  (As he lifts his hands to the very top of his head.)  Here's the twist to keep it fun...  We clear the table.  Clean up supper.  And, Ben asks for a treat.  "Benjamin Dayne!  We JUST ate!  You were too full to finish!"  "But Mom, that was my besghetti tube.  My candy tube is EMPTY!!  All the way down to here!"  (Showing off those cute toes!)  Funny how that works!  I've been so confused all these years!!  I just didn't realize my chocolate tube was bigger than my other tubes!  It explains everything!!  :)

Curiously enough, Ben does have one tube that can never get full!  Any guesses which tube it is?  You'll never get it!  I'm going to stall while you ponder... 

I told Forrest I was hungry for his ribs on the grill the other day.  Said I couldn't wait til it was warm enough for him to grill!  (Also have to wait for the checkbook to fill up a little to get the ribs!  Haha!)  The kids all drooled a bit thinking how good they are...  Ben pipes in, "I'm only eatin' that if we have watermelon with it!"  The tubes must be connected!  :)

Okay!  Ready for the un-fillable tube?  It's a specialty tube.  Caters only to Circus Peanuts!  Not real peanuts.  Those orange candy thingys in the shape of a peanut.  Do you know what I'm talking about?  We found out this tube can never be filled around Ben's birthday.  Grandma and Grandpa gave him a bag of circus peanuts for his birthday.  When I tried to tell Ben he'd had enough, he assured me had plenty of room is his circus peanut tube.  Said the highest it can ever get is about chest high.  Never any worry of over-filling that one!  :) 

I adore his imagination!  (Until his teacher tells me he tells non-stop stories...  Especially when coloring.  The whole time he colors he's making up stories.  She says she loves to listen to him, and tries to find time to sit by him a bit when the class is coloring, just to hear what he'll come up with next!  I can't help but cringe as I wonder what he's telling stories about!  I'm sure there are ninjas and dinosaurs.  Battles and super heros.  Blood and guts.  All that good stuff in a school setting!  At least she laughed about it, and didn't recommend an ED referral!  :)

On a side note, I yelled at Benjamin earlier in this post.  You always know you're getting yelled at when Mom uses your middle name, right?  Well, I wrote Benjamin Dayne.  I stand corrected.  Ben has officially changed his middle name.  His is now:

Benjamin Captain America Dayne Bock

Has a little ring to it, doesn't it? 

Have a wonderful night!  Hug the ones you love.  Even the ones you don't!  :)  

And...  Now that I've rambled on about Ben, I think my next couple posts should be about Jess and Luke.  Perhaps even a Forrest one.  Everyone gets their turn!  (Insert evil laugh here!  Hehe!)