Yay for Dad!

So when Madisen was young-er she had problems with #2. She would hold it in so long that a few days would go by when she would finally do the deed, and it wasn't pleasant to say the least. Well, we would afterwards say, Yay for Madisen! She got it out! I guess you can say, we still say that from time to time to her out of habit. Well, tonight the girls wanted to watch a movie and I told them to ask their dad.

Ryan apparently was using the potty, and the girls through the doorway asked if they could watch this movie. He grunted real loud, in a pretend way and said, Sure!

Madisen the said, "Yay for Dad! He got the poo-poo out!"

(Ryan did not want me posting this on Facebook, but he did give me permission for the blog as he thinks no one reads it. He's probably right.)

Prayers for humility.

Avery said the prayer for lunch. I said, "Thanks Avery. That was a really good prayer." She then says, all matter of fact-ly, "Yeah. I know. I say the best prayers." haha! Next lesson: Humility.

Smell something?

We stayed the night in Boise at a hotel the last few nights but as soon as we walked into our room, Avery says, "This room smells bad!"

Which it did. It did have a weird odor to it. But we stuck it out anyway.

Taking Forever

We were reading scriptures last night and it was Emily's turn. Ryan was reading the words with Emily repeating, however, Emily started to repeat the words slowly back with l-o-n-g growling the sounds. It was taking forever and after about 2 lines of it, Avery complained, "This is going to take FOREVER!...ohhhhhhh."

Emily's 2 sides

Emily reminds me a lot of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She has two sides to her, nothing in between. She is either super sweet and cuddly. Or she is stubborn and ornery with looks that could kill. It's a gamble knowing what side of the bed she will get off of every morning.

An example of when Emily is super sweet and cuddly:

The other day after her nap, Emily came happily running up to where Ryan, and Avery were playing barbies together. As she was waving to them, she said, "Hi Daddy. Hi Avery!" Then she sits right besides Avery, gets about 2 inches from Avery's face and says again, "Hi Avery!" and then proceeds to hug her and rub her back. She then turns to Ryan and says real excitedly again, "Hi Daddy!"

It was so cute! Just melts my heart when she does this. We all just laughed and said, "Hi Emily."

An example of when she is stubborn and ornery:

Emily will walk into the room with her head down and dagger eyes that glare straight at us. Eyes that say, "I'm going to make your morning difficult."  A frown strewn across her face as grunting noises quietly exist her lips.    And we know without a doubt what is going to unfold within 5 seconds of this "welcoming"... Emily throwing herself on the ground for attention.

We love Emily so much and will take her in any state of moodiness...yet, we hope  PRAY it's the sweet, cuddly side of  Emily that emerges from her slumber every day.

Our goof ball

Avery has made up her own language. Seriously. She makes up new words everyday to explain things or describe things, or just puts a twist on words that are already words.

For example:

McDonald's= Mickel Donald

Sun Screen= Skun Skeen

scramble= scrumble

She makes up words like, "Gumba",  "Poh-bah", "Zoggie" and says them randomly in sentences. We are like, Huh??

She also says weird phrases like, "please help me learn how to learn." Or "I runned across the kitchen really fast. I did that."

She is a goof and that's exactly like we like her.   We love how she talks and takes a deep breath after each couple of words, like everything she is telling us is the most incredible thing we have ever heard. She is so funny and is always making us laugh with her jokes and quick wit. We love her so much!

Magic Straw

We were all hanging out at my parent's house in Pocatello. My sister, April went to nurse her baby girl, Audrey in my parents room. Something was said that April was feeding Audrey and Madisen asked how does she feed her?

Ryan said, "From the milk her body makes." Madisen looked puzzled and then said, "How does it come out? Through a magic straw or something?"

Everyone looks at each other and Ryan turns to me and says, "Mommy can tell you about it."

Emily had been sleeping along time and I told Avery and Madisen to go wake her up.

Madisen said, I don't think she will appreciate that at all.

I busted up laughing. Guess you had to be there. :)

Rest...something??

Madisen was running into the bathroom and Avery yelled out, Madisen where are you going?

Madisen: I am going to the restaurant!

Avery: A restaurant in our house?!?!

Madisen: I mean, wait, the restroom!

Avery:  Hahaha!