Sounds of a Tuesday night

As I'm in my bedroom folding clothes:

Josie "(singing) . .. lay me down on a bed of roses--take me to the river at dawn. . . "

Annabelle: "That was great! You are going to VEGAS!!!)

Kizzy comes running into my room. "Mom, mom--if we do great we get to go to Regas!" **hopping up and down and tugging my shirt** "That is a place where we go and have LOTS of friends"

Conversation

On the way home from the kid's music concert we stopped at our Favorite Lenny's Burgers for 60 cent ice cream cones:

Josie:  "Mom hold my ice cream cone while I click my seat belt . .. . DON'T EAT IT."

Me:  "Ok. I won't."

***Click**

Me: "Here you go Jos"

Josie:  "Did you eat it?"

Me:  "No. I just kept it from dripping."

Annabelle:  "Josie--that means she ate it."

IT's funny because it's True

Watch this with your spouse if you have kids.

It's funny. I promise you'll laugh.

This is funny

This is probably only funny to me. But I needed to write it down before I forgot them.

Yesterday Josie told me that her leg hurts in the morning, so I told her it was probably because she was growing. She said, "It's probably because my taste buds are growing", to which I inquired, "Do you know where your taste buds are?", Josie said, "I have NO idea".

This morning she said: "I think Dad and I are related to Zebras, we can run fast, except we can't kick people's heads off."

This is Funny

Someone randomly posted this when I was nerding out on the Dave Ramsey live blog.

Just thought it was funny.

You are a Mammal

Just in case any of you drop by anytime soon, I just wanted to give you a heads up.

It's just possible that Kizzy might want to engage in a conversation about mammals, sparked by her older sisters library book

She will say "You are a mammal because you have hair"

And then she might gently press on your boobs and say "and because you get milk in your bosoms"

If this occurs, just go with it and act normal.

That's what I do

I'm thinking it's just a phase.

7:06 a.m.

7:06 a.m.



On carpet.

by my bed.

I didn't even hear him.

This morning, during breakfast Annabelle pointed out the window and said

"Piggy back rides!"

Land O'Lakes

What 1 year old could resist the chocolatey temptation of Land O' Lakes triple chocolate hot chocolate, while mom was busy?

Certainly not this one.

Tooth Fairy

This kid. I tell you. Is always a good time.

She lost her first tooth, and the tooth fairy came and even left some fairy dust (pink sugar cookie decorating crystals)

She came to me the next morning,

"Mom, the tooth fairy came and brought money. And there was fairy dust"

"But there is a problem. I sprinkled some on me, and Annabelle sprinkled some on me and I STILL can't fly!"

(which reminded me of when I encouraged her to try harder when she was trying to fly once)

And then when she came home from school today she said, "Close your eyes . . . now open your mouth . . and don't peek"

Then she put a sticker on my shirt. Why she had me open my mouth??? No idea.

A Capt peed in my shoes

A cat peed in my shoes. Well not really, at least I don't think so. But I have been randomly smelling cat pee around my house. Not on permanent objects, just illusive air. I hate cats, so it's really pissing me off. There are stupid cats that come in our back yard and poop if I don't throw rocks at them first. If I can catch the little jerks.

So I can smell it--and it's driving me BIZONKERS. So the other day I took off my sneakers, and there it was. THAT SMELL. What the crap? So I took a wiff of my sneaker. There it was. How the? What the? So it's been ME this whole time? What is SERIOUSLY WRONG with my body chemistry that my foot smell is cat urine like? G-R-O-S-S.

Just thought I'd share.

Antidotes are welcome.

Sunday Post

I'm Mormon, and for the sacrament we have bread and water. The bread is broken into pieces and placed on a tray that is passed down the aisle.

So today, during the bread passing, Annabelle says "I wish there were whole slices of bread instead of them broken into pieces" And I'm thinking--ok teaching moment here. So I respond, "We have the bread to remind us of Jesus, we just need a little piece to remind us to think about Jesus."

She looked at me and said, "I'd think about Jesus more if I had a WHOLE piece of bread."

She may be onto something.

Princess Bride

We don't have cable in our house so our kids watch a lot of movies. One of their most recent favorites being the Princess Bride. So while in Utah, we were walking around the Provo Temple and they wanted to roll down the hill. We thought that was inappropriate, so we walked off the grounds to a big green area that had hills. And ON THEIR OWN, Josie and Annabelle recreated this scene from Princess Bride. Then of course I made them recreated it.



And no matter how many times we tried to coach Josie to say "Oh my sweet Wesley", she always says "Oh my sweet Nestles, what have I done?".

I love my kids. Truly, entertaining at all times.

Adventures in The Beehive State Part Deux

*The night after we arrived Josie was up at 2 a.m. . . . PUKING. She's a superstar and makes it to the bathroom each time, then goes back to sleep. Still sucks though

*I let the girls play out in the FRONT YARD at my Sister-in-law's house, without me watching.

*By "without me watching" actually meant that I was peaking out the window every few minutes. Can't help myself.

*Provo is like living in the 1950's. You can let the kids run around all willy nilly in the neighborhood

*We saw two little girls cruising down the street barefoot on a banana seat bike with basket. Watching them took me back to my childhood summers

*We ate some yummy shish kabobs with Hyrum's mission companion and his wife. It's fun to see them and their new baby

*Crenshaw melon(sp?) is really good covered in fresh lime

*Provo has an awesome farmer's market on Saturdays

*The kids got their faces painted, except for Josie, she was trying to barf in the public bathroom (Cicily, I bet your cringing)

*I got a cool headband from a girl who also has an etsy shop. I'll find it and post it later

*I got a toe ring, I haven't had one of those since college

*Provo is the healthiest city, people are always running and biking

*There are tons of mom and pop hamburger shops that are soo good. Nothing like a toasted bun

*I got yummy corn on the cob for 10 cents a piece.

*Kizzy does rotten things no matter where we go

*Annabelle is spending lots of time with her cousin, which she loves

*I got to see my brother-in-law perform. He teaches at BYU and is an AMAZING musician. Unbelieveably creative.

*His wife (Hyrum's sister) is a gifted writer and performer. Ridiculously talented.

*Utah Wal Marts carry food storage food and contraptions

*You can by a 24 pack of Cactus Cooler here. Awesome

*I realized I could live here . . .

* Then I realized it gets cold in the winter . . .

* So I realized I could live here for summer

*My girl's randomly did a hilarious re-enactment of the Princes Bride. Video will be posted when we get home.

*We had another good dinner with anothe mission companion and his wife and parents and family. It's become an annual thing, and we love it

*On the way home from aformentioned dinner, we were cruising down the interstate, windows down, wind blowing in our hair, but it was loud and Josie was trying to get my attention:

Josie: "Mom .. . Mom .. . Mom .. . Mom .. .Dad . . .Dad . . .MOm"

I turned around and said: "Yes Josie?"

Josie: "Annabelle had to go poop. And when she did, it was shaped like mushrooms."

I then looked at Annabelle and her grin was from ear to ear and she was nodding in agreeance.

It's great to have the Jos back to her healthy self.

Fun on a Budget

We don't spend a lot of money on entertainment around our house remember this post?
Well our family is full of fun and free ideas.

This is a two for one--chore and fun.

I catch this girl doing this all the time.

Attention all parents

Red had a friend come over and teach her how to make paper dolls. While she was making it she said

Red: "Mom what's that shirt that is short like this (puts her hand up right about her rib cage)
My reply:"I have no idea"
Red: "You know mom--what are they called?"
Me: "Immodest?"
Red: Yah, that's it, I want to make an immodest paper doll.
Me: (in my mind)--What the crap?

Here she is---her immodest paper doll.

Let it be known--that I am not a stickler for modesty. At least not at this age. I grew up in the latter part of the 70's and all little girls wore those itchy, spaghetti strapped, belly showing little numbers---and I turned out alright (mostly)

So I figure, she's little--who cares. Although I don't let her show her stomach, I do let her wear spaghetti straps and sundresses. She also gets tankini's for summer, because it's easier for her to go to the bathroom--it's not that I don't like one pieces, it's for ease of use, and she usually just swims in my friend's pool.

But somehow, she has got some sort of fascination with immodesty. The other day, she said---I like it when my stomach shows (as she was getting into her two piece swimsuit), and so I kind of prompted her as to why. She said she likes to do it like "those moms---at least I think they are moms". I said "What moms?" She said "The ones on TV".

Ummm, we don't have a TV. She mostly watches movies--disney movies, and occassionally tv shows at other's houses. But really---who is she talking about?

Anyhoodles, so this will be the last summer she gets a two piece. But seriously--do I just let her make immodest paper dolls? I am torn between not paying attention to it, and letting it slide by as a phase, or mentioning that immodesty is not a good thing--and those moms she sees on tv are trashy.

Oh, and i think her immodest doll is funny

So other parents---what you got for me?