{"id":400,"date":"2009-10-30T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/10\/how-john-deere-brought-my-sons-closer-together.html"},"modified":"2009-10-30T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:22:00","slug":"how-john-deere-brought-my-sons-closer-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/10\/how-john-deere-brought-my-sons-closer-together.html","title":{"rendered":"How John Deere Brought My Sons Closer Together…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve quite a queue of potential blog posts in my mind…mainly things that have been happening in our lives, and every once in a while something happens about which I think “That would be a fun\/funny\/silly\/insightful blog post.” I think I’ll be improving in the next week or so, as the boys’ soccer seasons wrap up for the fall, and I have my week of 12-hour shifts at my new AF Reserve job behind me.<\/p>\n

So here’s one of our lives’ vignettes from this fall…<\/p>\n

Lately my sons haven’t been getting along so well. Jacob is in this smug phase, where he feels his lot in life is to constantly correct his little brother about everything!<\/span><\/p>\n

Timmy: “Mommy, may I have shredded wheat for breakfast?”<\/p>\n

Jacob: “Timmy, we don’t have shredded wheat! We have frosted<\/span> shredded wheat!”<\/p>\n

Timmy: “That’s a lie!”<\/p>\n

Jacob: “Fine…don’t believe me…go check the pantry yourself…you’ll then see that I’m right. I’m always right!”<\/p>\n

I’d love nothing more than to ignore these little jabs, but it’s also happening at school too so I want to continue to work this one out of his system. That’s for another blog…for another day when I can look back on this and laugh…<\/p>\n

Anyway, even though my boys aren’t the friendliest towards each other these days, there is something that bonds them like nothing else: tales of death, maiming and destruction! Moms of boys, I’m sure you understand completely! They’re all giggles, truly enjoying each other’s company! It’s hilarious, even though there’s a part of me that wishes they’d be happy with each other over butterflies and puppies instead of how they can kill flies slowly and pour salt over slugs (which Timmy recently learned about).<\/p>\n

So here’s a photo gallery from our day at the Nebraska State Fair back over Labor Day weekend. I’ve been wanting to share this and tell the story of how seeing these caution labels on the John Deere equipment was our boys’ favorite<\/span> part of the State Fair. They begged me to take pictures of their favorite labels, then wanted me to print out the pictures. I talked them out of printing the pictures, thankfully. I didn’t want to have to explain that <\/span>one at school…<\/p>\n

So here are my boys in front of one of the HUGE pieces of John Deere equipment at the farm equipment “museum” at the fair:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The boys scoured every square foot of this equipment that they could, as if on a scavenger hunt for caution labels such as these. They’d run around frantically, and one of them found one, you’d hear “I FOUND ONE! OVER HERE!” You’d have thought they found the Holy Grail, they were so excited!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I call this one “Mr. Twisty”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 09 04 NE State Fair<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

Coming soon — Major Mom’s first forays into true “Mom’s Taxi”-hood. Balancing school, soccer, scouts, and piano lessons!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve quite a queue of potential blog posts in my mind…mainly things that have been happening in our lives, and every once in a while something happens about which I think “That would be a fun\/funny\/silly\/insightful blog post.” I think I’ll be improving in the next week or so, as the boys’ soccer seasons wrap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[68,4,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2501,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/09\/first-day-of-school-pictures.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":0},"title":"First Day of School Pictures","date":"09 September 13","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so I'm a little behind. A couple days after the boys' started school, I had to go for a 10-day trip to Nebraska (more about that later). In an ideal world I'd have loved for the boys to dress up some for the first day of school, but (a)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"first day of school\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/994912_10151834123448428_345123608_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":561,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/05\/the-runner-girls-spawn.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":1},"title":"The Runner Girl’s Spawn","date":"09 May 11","format":false,"excerpt":"You can say I tried. I think Jacob might have a future in long distance running...Timmy probably won't. At a Mother's Day function this past week, one of Timmy's classmates' Moms tipped me off to a 1-mile\u00a0kids' fun run in Navarre Beach\u00a0last Saturday. \u00a0That night I headed over to one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"parenting\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HHoFOYAZFyc\/TcdEr7U2hpI\/AAAAAAABVgI\/2xveyqEnig8\/s640\/IMG_4715.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3064,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2014\/03\/chugging-along.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":2},"title":"Chugging Right Along: Baseball, Skiing, and Scouts","date":"18 March 14","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, I've been scarce. I've been spending more time on my Facebook fan page than here, because I can pop up quick discussion items and engage with friends and fans that way. That's because baseball has started at the Vollmer house. And as the boys get older, their practice schedules\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"baseball\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1613957_10152316760133428_311943119_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4578,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2016\/08\/denver-zoo-red-pandas.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":3},"title":"Mother’s Day 2016: The Red Pandas at the Denver Zoo","date":"03 August 16","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost exactly one year after Timmy and I spent the day at Denver Zoo to celebrate his stock market contest win, I took both boys up there for Mother's Day in May. Dave was in Pennsylvania visiting his own parents, and as I've said for many years, I only ever\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"denver zoo\"","img":{"alt_text":"As my sons get older, their posing together for photos is becoming more and more rare...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-05-07-Denver-Zoo-Red-Panda-01-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":654,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/10\/our-beyblades-adventure.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":4},"title":"Our Beyblades Adventure","date":"06 October 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Those happy kids are creeping me out.It all started with a neighbor's birthday party...not long after we moved here. \u00a0One of Jacob's new Cub Scout den-mates invited both Jacob and Timmy to his birthday party. \u00a0It was a Beyblades tournament.Our sons weren't familiar with Beyblades at the time, I had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"kids\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pHd3cA-i01g\/To0O63M1nTI\/AAAAAAABaKI\/yszpD31Rykk\/s400\/IMG_9717.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":258,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/10\/timmy-the-tagger-strikes-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":5},"title":"Timmy the Tagger Strikes Again","date":"26 October 08","format":false,"excerpt":"This is what happens when Jacob starts spelling and decides to help his brother leave hints that it's snacktime. Since Timmy didn't eat his lunch, I was making him wait till 2:30pm for his yogurt snack.","rel":"","context":"In \"parenting\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}