Pine...something!

Went grocery shopping today and got tons of fruits and vegetables as Ryan and I are tying to improve our diets. Avery runs in the kitchen, sees a pineapple and says, "Oh Yum! A pine cone! I love pine cones!"

Ballroom pants

I stayed home sick today from church, and Avery and Madisen came home and told me they were invited to a Ball. There is stake family dance coming up. Avery said, "I am so excited, I am going to poop my pants!"

Bum Cracks?

We had a friend come over for a play date the other day. This little girl has been over many times, but today she turned to Emily and said, "Emily I see your butt crack! haha-ha!" I was shock that this little girl said this, but then Emily turned to her and said, "I don't have a crack!"

I then told the girls everyone has a bum crack. Emily then said, "But where's my bum crack? I can't see it!" 

"It's there, it's small but it's there." I told her. Emily said to her friend, "Don't look at my bum crack!" 

Never thought I would ever say the words, bum crack to my kids. There's a first for everything I guess!

"O-kay" times 3

Avery didn't know where her balloon was, and Emily told her it was upstairs. Well, Avery complained and said she didn't know where, and Emily annoyingly said, "O-kay. O-kay. O-kay! I'll show you. Come follow me Avery." As she proceeded to march up the stairs in a huff. Emily has been doing this a lot lately, and sometimes it just cracks me up. I should probably put a stop to it as she even does it to me when I tell her to do something. Like put on her shoes..."O-kay, O-kay, O-kay!" haha.

Very Formal

 Madisen came into the house after school today and I hugged her and asked how her day was like I do everyday but today I thought I would record our conversation.

Me: How was your day?

Madisen: It was good.

Me: What did you do today? Would you like a snack?

And then this is part of the conversation is what made me smile because she was so proper and funny when she said it...

Madisen: Well, there's something I need to tell you Mom. Uh, maybe not right now.....

Me: What's that?

Madisen: For specials today I had music. It was great. And I didn't get passed "N" today on rocket math, but I was close.

Me: Uh, that's ok, you will get it. We will keep practicing. What is it you want to tell me?

Madisen: ....Well, I couldn't find my lunch bag after school. I think it's lost!  But I have a friend that lost hers too and she got another one....

Me: Ok. Well that's ok. We'll find it eventually. And if we don't, no big deal. Is that what you wanted to tell me?

Madisen:  Yes. Well, anyways. Let's get back to that snack you were talking about. May I have one of those fruit snacks? Not the Tree top kind, the other kind, please?

Me: Uh, sure. (Kind of taken aback at first. It was so funny! I guess it was another one of those moments where you had to be there. It seemed to me she had just finished watching Pride and Prejudice the way she said everything! haha!)

Super Hero Emily to the Rescue!

Emily has been really into Super Heroes as of late, and I didn't know why until last week when we were over at our neighbors house for dinner and she dressed up in Caden's Spiderman outfit. She loves super heroes because Caden does, and I think she has developed a little crush on him. For Christmas she took her gift card to the store and wanted none else than the Super Hero Grover. She loves it! And just the other day she was saying how she wants to be a Super Hero for Halloween and even wants a Super Hero for Christmas.

Whatever she likes I guess, but then today while shopping at a craft store she picked out, what else, but a Super Hero coloring book and stickers.  It took some time getting used to playing and being dinosaurs with Madisen through the years, and now super heroes?? I just assumed my girls would like playing with dolls as I did. But no, it's all boy stuff. (Well, with Avery it's not. But 1 out of 3 is odd!) Not obviously there is nothing wrong or bad playing with boy stuff, not at all. It's just different than what I expected when I gave birth to my girls. I love them more than anything and maybe not having Ethan with us it gives me a glimpse of what it could be like having a little boy around. So thank you girls for being you and playing with whatever interests you.

Compassionate

Yesterday I asked Avery to go and pick out 2 books to read to me. Avery quickly said, "I want to read with Daddy!"

"That's fine", I said, "just go pick out 2 books then."

After Ryan took Avery into the other room to read, Madisen came up to me and quietly said, "Mom, did it hurt your feelings that Avery didn't want to read with you?"

I said, "Ah, no Madisen. It's OK. I know she likes to read with other people sometimes too. I am OK. Thanks for asking. You are always so good at noticing when people might have their feelings hurt. That is such a good quality to have."

Disappointment in Full

We decorated the tree last night and and set up everything for Christmas in our house. The next morning I watched as Emily was coming down the stairs super excited yelling, "Santa came, Santa came!"

I had to be the bad guy and tell her that Santa wasn't coming for several weeks, 25 days away! I had to explain to her that we decorated for the Christmas, but that Santa wasn't coming for a few weeks.

The look on her face was pure sadness. She was so disappointed and also embarrassed that she hit her forehead with the palm of her hand and cried. It was the saddest thing ever! Poor Emily. She was crushed.

Yummy snacks I can't make.

I had just picked up Avery from school. She was beaming with excitement and enthusiasm (like most days) and couldn't get the words out fast enough to tell me how preschool went and all about snack time (her favorite part of the day. Go figure!)

Avery excitedly said, "For snack time today mom, we had the most yummy snacks that their mom made!"

Me: Who's mom?

Avery: Anna's mom!

Me: Did she MAKE it, or buy it at the store?

Avery: She MADE them! You can't make them mom, because you don't know how to. It's not in your cook book and we don't have that recipe.

Me: Hmmp! (oh really?! haha... just kidding!) Ok, well that's nice. Glad you liked them.