Things Kids Say

We watched a bit of a special on PBS about the Circus. Flora very seriously informed us that she wants to be in the Circus either as "on of those funny men who paint on their faces" or "on of the pretty girls that get to fly" . She was a little confused when Mamma and Daddy started laughing. Total Fit!

 

 I was sitting on our bed doing stuffed animal surgery on a teddy bear and Andrew comes running into the room carrying/dragging two large trucks and yelling "wait up momma, wait up!" I did know what was more funny, him trying to "catch up" with his trucks or his since of urgency.

 

Clara is a smart cookie. We were driving into town yesterday and her sister said something about the gray clouds in the sky. Clara then gave her a very long lecture on what kind of cloud they were. To summarize they were rain clouds, not thunder and actually (tilt of the head hear) they were very far away, and we could not get any rain for a while. She was right, no rain for a couple of hours. Then when it started raining she was disappointed, even though there was no chance of playing out side.

After out long day in town yesterday, I jumped in the tub while the kids where finishing their dinner. Every few seconds on of them would run in and make sure I was "having a nice bath".

Just a couple of things that have made me smile this last few days!

*Warning: Mushy Stuff and Bikers in the post!

Mush: I am so totally in love with my husband. And am so very much blessed that I get to be with him more then the average couple. He is my best friend and is so easy to be with....and to look at! :) Throw in a chair saw and it's even better! :) 

 

 

 

 

Bikers: Grandpa and Grandma stopped by for a surprise visit yesterday. It was so nice to see them. Since the rode the motorcycle, and Andrew is rather obsessed with anything that goes "voom", EVERYTHING has been making almost the exact pitch of Grandpa starting up the motorcycle, he is rather impressed!

" Me. Help. Dadda. "

Watch Out For Those Blueberry Nets!

 

 

Clara has a very large, wonderful imagination.

She was running around the house, up and down the hall with her flying "sheen" she made this morning. Having forgotten to stick on off button on her "sheen" and it was going and going and going. Then all of a sudden, *gasp* "OH NO! A BLUEBERRY NET!". She was stuck up against the wall! We tried eating her way through the blueberry net, offered a bath to help scrub off the net, but alas, the the only thing that is able to concur a dreaded blueberry net is a Daddy!

So, if you are ever visiting our home, watch out for those blueberry nets!

The Reason We Have To Cut The Feet Out Of Dew's PJ's

on the arm of the very stained chair..it's actually a bit better in person, but I am so done with the off white fabric that's on it.....this is getting a make over soon!

The foot on the left is Andrew's..the one of the right is Clara's. They are the same size. This would explain why Andrew is breaking out of all the feet in his footed PJ'S!

He is going to be a big man!

Boy's and Truck's

Andrew turns everything into a truck

Including his sister's play kitchen!

" Andrew, Andrew! Want to have a tea party with us girls? Come on, Come on......It will knock your socks off!"~ Clara Ann

 

 

Just a little bit ago I asked Clara to look out the window and tell me what kind of weather we were having. 

 

"Just froggy. Maybe to many frogs are jumping and making this happen!"

Different then Expected

This morning, while I was drinking my coffee and the kids were watching Cat in the Hat, I was writing a post of what we are thankful for today. All was peaceful and calm. The day was off to a good start. Then it all changed. After Cat was done, the girls asked very nicely to play in their room. I said yes, but they needed to help me with a job first. They quickly did what was asked and off they went. Little did I know Flora (who LOVES fruit) snatched two apples on her way back. Andrew and I worked on picking up the books on the floor and waited for Daddy to get home from his job picking up the cities garbage. Still pretty good, although I felt a headache coming on.

I checked in on the girls, who were playing nicely together and where in the second out fit for the day.Still not knowing about the apples, I headed into the kitchen and made another pot of coffee.

I sat back down at the computer and looked at a few different web sites for sheets and worked on finishing up the blog post I WAS doing. Flora pops her head into the living room and informs me that she needs to go potty. She goes...then all of a sudden I here this:

"Oh NO! MAMA!!!!!!!!!!!! I need help!"

In my mind I am picturing a mess from not making it in time. I rush into the bathroom and see her sitting on the toilet and eating an apple. After a talk about NOT eating when we go potty (lots of germs, YUCK!) I help her down and tell her to throw the apple away. 

"Yes Mama!", she says with a sweet smile and off I go. In a matter of about 5 minuets Clara yells at me from the bathroom. "Mama! Flora flushed an apple!" OH NO! The headache is really coming on now.

Its about 10am and Daddy should be home soon, Andrew is getting crabby and Millie ate a poopy diaper (double yuck). I pick up Dew and head back to the bathroom. Flora is crying because her OTHER apple fell in the toilet and Clara is very firmly telling her "Don't touch!" 

I get everyone settles down and get the second apple out. Grab the plunger and see what I can do...NOTHING! No water is getting through. I decide to wait until Daddy gets home and let him look at it. 

Daddy walked in the door at 10:20 and was bombarded with hugs and EVERYONE telling him what happened. It was rather noisy. Remember that headache I felt coming on??? Well, its here. Might have something to do with the desire to tear out my hair, but here none the less. 

Next, Daddy takes a look at the toilet and tries to get the apple to either go the rest of the way, or fish it back out the seat area. No luck. It's stuck and because of a lot of minerals in an older toilet, there was a build up. Now, let me give you a "history" of our toilet. I know, not something that everyone wants to hear, but this is my blog, so HA! (Sorry, I am in a mood!) This toilet would back up if you looked at it wrong (ok, slight exaggeration, but you get the point!). Aaron has tired to remove some of the mineral build up with no luck. Well, the apple was jammed as far as is could (of course way out of reach) up against the build up and WAS NOT BUDGING. 

At this point Aaron comes into the living room and tells me we need to get a new toilet. The kids start dancing around and yelling, " Yahoo! A New Toilet!". I on the other hand, was not thrilled. It was money we did not have this month and toilets can be expensive! As we got everyones shoes on I started praying for a good deal. 

We got everyone loaded into the car and were off to town. We just got into town when Aaron felt around at his pants. He had left his wallet at home. Thankfully we has his paycheck from the city and were able to cash it with no problems.  We headed up to the Habitat Restore to check what they had before seeing about a new one. God provided us with a nice toilet (and not pink!) for $20! We then picked up lunch and the wax seal. 

The toilet is now in its new home, the kids are all napping/resting and I am drinking some tea. 

So today's thankful is for the toilet! It would be a pain with out one! haha (again, sorry, it's the moods fault!)

I hope and pray all yours days were less exciting then ours, and that you got a good laugh out of this! 

Dew's Shirt

Nana send this fun shirt home for Dew when the girls went to visit last weekend. It has a truck on it. Dew LOVES trucks. In fact, he is addicted to trucks (or anything with wheels for that matter!) 

Well, for some reason he thinks this shirt HAS a hat (hood) when it doesn't. So, this his how he wears his new truck shirt!

Thanks Nana!

Today

With the kids having colds this week, it threw everything off. This morning we had a nice, slow morning. I threw a stew in the crock-pot for dinner after church with the Les and Kathleen. On the way up to services I remembered that I forgot to add water to the meat, potatoes, carrots etc, which was at home, cooking nicely on HIGH. So, back home we went, added the water and headed back to church.

Part way up the second time, Aaron looked back and noticed that Clara was bear under her dress. When asked where her ponies (panties) where, she gasped and said, " Oh no! I lefted them at home!" When asked WHY she took them off she said that she wanted them to stay clean for church. The removing of the ponies happened with in 10 mins of putting them on, after a bath and putting on her dress. Thankfully, so she was modest, we had an extra diaper, not making us even later for services!

I am still chuckling over today. What a joy our children are!

Flora's Funny

All the kids keep us in stitches with the funny things they do, but Flora has got to be the one who makes us laugh the most. 
Today, like every day, she laid down for her late morning nap. We told her to stay in bed, like we do everytime. She never fell asleep, but she did have a good rest. After lunch was done, I opened the door and sent the kids OUT, Aaron cut down the last two branches this morning and so when Flora saw the mess she said "DADDY MADE A HUGE MESS!" with a very important look on her face. Aaron walked over, looked at the branches and said, " Who me?". Flora then piped in and said, thus telling on her self, "Yes, I sawed you! Through the window!" So much for her staying in bed. When Daddy asked how she could see him though the window, if she was in bed, She got a smirk on her sweet little face, shurgged her shoulders and said " Just 'cus!"

After she was outside for a couple minutes, she started following Daddy around. Saying the whole time, " Please please please pick up you mess!" 

Of Course, Aaron was already working on it. Flora then said " " I be very proud of you for cleaning up your mess", "Then I marry you!"

Oh that sweet girl makes us laugh.

Some times we wish we could just wear a tape recorder to catch all the fun things these kids say!

Kids Songs

We are a little odd. We like kids songs. Call us crazy, but Veggie Tales make us want to sing along. The Alphabet Operetta gets stuck in out head for days. We sing along and are always on the look out for more.

Today I found these:







ENJOY! :)

Spiders

Clara is our animal love, anything from bugs to bears. She loves it.
This morning there was this big, awful looking, ugly spider on the wall. This is what happened:

Clara: "Mama! A spider!" said pointing to the ugly thing on the wall.

Mama: "Oh, lets have Daddy squish it for us!", resisting the urge to leave the room until the beast is dead.

Clara: "NO! Its beautiful!"

Mama: Put hand up to her head, sighs and shakes said head. What to do with a girl who loves ALL of God creation, even with it belongs outside.

Clara: " Its just saying "HI!"

Mama: " How about we put it outside, where it belongs" still thinking it needs to be squished.

Clara and Flora: " Yeah!"

Aaron was laughing the whole time. Guess he thinks spiders are funny, or maybe it was what was said.....haha
I am still shaking my head, and getting over the hives the yucky thing gave me. But I have two happy girls, one life saved in the spider world and maybe one less fly. Here's to hopin'

Sing to the Lord with Cheerful Voice...

My girls LOVE to sing. Today when we ran down into the small town just south of us, Flora started singing a song. This is how it went:

I love God, I love Daddy, I love Sissy
I love Mommy, I love brother.

I like My teeth. I like Sissy's teeth, I like Brothers teeth.
I like MomDad's Teeth.

I like my hands.
I like me feet!

*With hands up in the air*

THEY MAKE ME HAPPY!

Any of you who know Flora, know that this was done with great enthusiasm and VERY loudly! Made my day brighter for sure!

Kid Funnies

Here are a couple things the kids did today that cracked us up! What they think of!

Clara and Flora were playing, one would pretend to fall down and get "hurt" the other, unhurt, one would run over saying "OOOOOOOOHHHHH" is a very dramatic, pretend, sympathetic voice and "help" the hurt player to the couch were a pillow and "blank" were waiting. The hurt player would moan and groan while the unhurt one would "write something on a piece of paper" Then would say to the hurt player...."Do you want me to cut it off?" Or " You will live!"


Aaron is digging out the old sewer line and adding in a better one for our landlords, also his bosses and friend of ours! Yes, small town....oh Charlene is also the Mayor, making is seem even smaller! But thats not the point. The hens and kids were enjoying the fresh dirt and bugs to eat, well the hens were, and Flora kept yelling for the WHOLE world to hear. " Look at these wiggly worms!" With a lopsided smile. 100% Flora's personality showing though!

We ate dinner early tonight because the kids were "tarvin". While I was cooking, the kids were all hoovering in the kitchen, since I had hot oil, I shooed then into the front room, suggesting that they read some books or color. Flora's response was " I don't want to color......I want to EAT!" Said with the most pathetic look on her little face, you would think we never fed the poor dear.

Ok, maybe it was just the girls who were funny. Come to think about it, Andrew as been Sir Crab this afternoon. He is already in bed and its just 6!

Kid Funnies

Flora: I bonk my forth head, its very hurt. ~ Talking about her forehead.

Clara: My eyes take a little rest. ~ After her rest this morning before church.

Flora: Zerrt my favorite. ~ Self explanitory! That girl lover her desserts!

A Funny

A little tib bit to make you chuckle this morning.

The girls were talking about our recent trip to the zoo with Aunt Karen. They were remembering all that lived there. The sharks, tigers, fish, peacocks and Aunt Karen in her Car! :)

Happy Sabbath!

Good Laughs!

A friend on facebook sent me this. Its funny!

Have you tried the Nestle Crunch Hotline? I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!! "Call the Nestle Crunch Hotline, 1-800-295-0051. After it gives you the option of English or Spanish, don't push anything. Just wait quietly for about ten seconds and you are going to crack up. Push 4, ...then push 7. This is the greatest hotline ever!"