This is just a small taste of what happens every time we get in the car or go somewhere. Every time. Every day. Always….
Nick: “Porcupines can shoot their quills through glass.”
Cooper: “No they can’t.”
Nick: “YES! THEY CAN!”
Cooper: “MOM! Can powcupines shoot der qwills twu gwass?”
Tiffany: “No honey, they can’t”
Cooper: “See Nick, I TOLD YOU!”
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Nick: “Hey, Mrs. Nevil! There’s a SPIDER IN THERE!”
Tiffany: “Oh yeah, I won’t go in there then.”
Nick: “It’s ok, I squished it and blood came out and I threw it in the toilet and then I peed on it!”
Tiffany: “Awesome buddy!”
Nick: after exiting and running over to Amy… “HEY MOM! There was a spider in the toilet and I splashed it with my tinkles!”
Amy: …”much laughter”
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After Nick’s 5th consecutive day on post here at Ft. Lewis he said:
“HEY! LOOK! ARMY GUYS!”
to some soldiers at Ikea: “I like your Army clothes”
upon seeing one of the many soldiers in the commissary: “Hey! Army guys!”
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Nick: “Are we in St. Louis?”
Cooper: “NO!” (snotty tone)
Nick: “Yes, we are in St. Louis!”
Cooper: “No, we’re not, we’re in Washington”
Nick: “No, WE ARE IN ST. LOU-IS”
Cooper: “MOM! Are we in St. Louis?”
Tiffany: “No, we’re in Washington.”
Cooper: “SEE NICK! I TOLD YOU”
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Nick: “Are we on the highway?”
Tiffany: “Yes”
Nick: “Why?”
Tiffany: “Because this is the way to get to….” insert whatever place we are going that day.
Cooper: “You’re going the wrong way Mommy.”
Amy: “Mrs. Nevil took a very difficult test and now has a piece of paper to prove that she is highly capable of driving this vehicle. Neither of you have your drivers licenses, so until you do, stop talking.”
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Nick: “I’m gonna draw a triangle.”
Cooper: “No you’re not!”
Tiffany and Amy in unison: “BOYS!”
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while playing, Nick accidentally bumps into Cooper.
Cooper: “OW! You say you’re sorry right NOW!”
Nick: “Sorry”
Cooper smacks Nick
Nick cries….
Nick: “Cooper hit me!”
Tiffany-while nursing Chase : “Cooper, did you just hit Nick?”
Cooper: “Yes…”
(um…discipline followed)
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Nick did something obscure…
Amy: “Nick, did you just”….<whatever it was>
Nick: “Um….maybe”
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Nick: “Your dirty baby just got slobber on my pants!”
Cooper: “No he didn’t!”
Nick: “Yes he did, he just touched me with his slobbery drool!”
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Nick, to me (Tiffany) every time Chase cries, “Um, you’re baby’s crying”.
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Chase sneezed in the back seat…
Nick: “YOUR BABY JUST SPIT ON ME!”
Cooper: “No he didn’t, he just sneezed.”
Tiffany: “Nick, honey, he’s just a baby, he doesn’t know any better honey.”
Nick: “THAT’S DISGUSTING. I DON’T WANT A BABY SISTER!”
Cooper: “He’s not a dirl! He’s a boy!”
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Cooper to Nick: “Let’s tolor when we det home.”
Nick: “What’s tolor?”
Tiffany: “He means color Nick, he has a hard time saying “c’s”"
Nick to Cooper: “It’s K-K-K-K- COLOR!”
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Tiffany to Amy in reference to the kid’s behavior: “Are you ok? I’m sorry.”
Amy: “Yeah, I’m fine, I just wish you had a live-in nanny so that we could go out and watch a movie and have some fun! Next time I’m coming alone!”
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Wrestlemania
Amy and I are pretty sure that Nick and Cooper are just acting like brothers. It’s a love-hate thing. In the next 20 years, we’ll be opening the Nevil Svolopoulos Ministries, specializing in conflict management. 
Or so we tell ourselves.
I’m telling you…you’ve got an amazing memory to recount all these classic interactions.
It’s nice that just when I start to think that my 5 year old boy is uncommonly rambunctious, untactful and exhausting, I am reminded that, fact, every 5 year old boy is this way.
Maybe one day you’ll have a girl. They are SO different! Of course, if you don’t, you’ll have a blast raising your boys. Never a dull moment!
Carrie, we started writing them all down because they were cracking us up so much! We actually have a few more we might add to the list before Amy and Nick leave to go home to STL. It is SO NICE to hear that someone else has these “boy” moments. I tell ya what…words come out of my mouth that I NEVER thought would come out. Things like “DO NOT touch that monkey!” ha ha ha ha!