Avery's Prayer

I had Avery say the prayer for lunch and she said the sweetest prayer I wanted to make sure I recorded it.

...Please bless Daddy will drive home safely to our house for lunch. Please bless Emily can learn her reading eggs really good, too. And please bless Madisen is having a good day at school right now and is learning her math. And Please bless I can learn my sight words. And help us choose the right and listen to our mommy's and daddy's. Help us be good and have a good day....and then she closed her prayer.

I thought it was really sweet. I love that they our so honest with their prayers and say exactly what's on their minds.

Mosquitoes at School

I went to pick Avery up from preschool and this was our conversation on the way home...

Avery: Mom, I never want to go camping! Ever.

Me: Why?

A: Because Mosquitoes will suck my blood!

Me: Did you hear that in school?

A: Mom, Mosquitoes don't go to school!! Ha, you're funny.

Me: (what?!?)(She must have thought I said, did you SEE THEM* in school?)

Lunch

Today I asked Avery and Emily what they wanted for lunch because mom and Madi were off school shopping.  Emily replied, "Marshmallows!" Avery quickly added, "with syrup!"

Annoying

I was driving the van with Avery and Emily in the back and I was singing to the radio.  Avery very calmly said, "Dad, you are annoying me and you're making me freak out like crazy."

"Yes, sorry your highness."

This Look Mom?

The other night I put the girls in the bath for a quick bath before my visiting teachers were to arrive. I told the girls if the behave and don't run around and ask me a million questions while my visiting teachers are trying to visit with me then I would give the them ice cream. I told them if I have to warn them just once then they get nothing! haha. I am mean, I know. Madisen asked me, "well how will you warn us?"  I said, "oh you will know by the look I give you!" Madisen then says, "This look mom!?" As she says this she gives me this crazy face, one eye is opened so large with the eye brow raised, and the other eye squinting with her mouth in a growling scowl. I laughed so hard!!

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."