kisses

The other day, I was putting sunscreen on this face---
I grabbed him by the shoulders and said ever so seriously, "Luke, you have GOT TO STOP getting so cute. If you don't stop, girls are going to fight over who can kiss you on the lips!" Luke smiled slightly and shrugged while saying, "Mom! I can't help it!"

Kissing has been a big part of our family conversation lately. For FHE a couple of weeks ago, we were eating ice cream cones around the table and we started practice kissing on our ice cream. Zack was making a mess of his and got ice cream all over his face (watch out, ladies!) Daddy made us all laugh by attacking his cone and eating in one bite. After all the fun and games, Aaron explained to the boys that if they are good, they will probably get a pretty girl. If they aren't nice and don't follow rules, they will end up with someone not-so-pretty. About an hour after this conversation, Zack was breaking some rule or another. Ben said rather strictly, "Zack, you are going to marry an ugly wife." Zack turned around, smirked and said, "Oh yeah, Ben? Well your wife is going to marry an ugly husband." I don't even know if he understood what he was saying, but that's going to go down in the books as one of Zack's best quotes ever.

Little Simon has been obsessed with kissing too. He is making the CUTEST kissy-face with a loud pucker sound. He does it a lot when he's eating and sometimes after one of us give a kiss, he will make the sound over and over (he's not quite puckering when you try to kiss him... just after the fact.) I've tried to grab the camera when he's in the kissing mood, but I have yet to capture it on film. This short little clip has him doing it once, which is not enough. I need to get it before he grows out of it (which could be any day now.) He's also started the big spitting phase. He's goes from spitting to kissing and then back again, which makes for an awesome combination. Oh, how we love this big boy!