My Crazy Life...

Bad Luck...

Ok...LOL...I'm back again today, because in a house with four little ones, there is always something funny being said (and when there are so many things,  I forget very quickly).

David just came home for a minute, and I asked him to check on Lily and Kate. They were in Kate's room playing dress up, and David knocked on the door and then opened it up. Lily yelled at him and slammed the door. "It's bad luck to see the dress, dad". I think she's been watching Say Yes to the Dress on TLC with Grace...LOL!

Where Does Water Come From???

Breakfast conversation this morning:

Lily: mom, where does water come from?

Mom: I don't know, I guess Heavenly Father makes it.

Lily: How does he make it?

Grace: 2 parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.

Lily: Nuh-uh...I think He squeezes it out of watermelons.

Thats a deep converstaion for an early morning...

I'm just pretending...

Lily has a passion for make believe, but she also has a passion for disobeying her mother. When I tell her that she can't do something, she just tells me that she is pretending. I told her not to bring a kitchen bowl outside to play in the dirt today, and she kept telling me that she was just pretending. I assumed that she was pretending to get a bowl. When she brought the bowl out, I got upset..."I am just pretending", she said. Pretending to disobey? Pretending I am not your mother? I don't get it...

Copy Cat...

Russell loves to write and draw. He is always copying words out of bookes and magazines. His current love, is the new CAT brochure that his dad gave to him...he has been super busy over the past week copying down all of the technical tractor info out of the book. Last night, I caught him straining to see in bed...he had snuck it into his bed after bedtime and was trying to write in the dark. He even takes it on the bus and copies the words on the bus ride home (it is a good way to keep him out of trouble). I may be a little biased, but isn't his handwriting just adorable? I think I should have it made into a font!!!

 

Eyebrowls...

I'm sure that my little perfectionist wouldn't like that I'm posting this, but I want to remember :) Grace always comes home with a 100% on her spelling pretest...even on the challenge words. She came home from school the other day with red markings on her pretest...when I saw that she had written "eyebrowls", I was confused. She is a master speller (she won every spelling bee in her grade last year), and I asked why she added the L. She explained that her whole life, she has thought that the word was eyebrowls...she had no clue it was eyebrows. HAha...that made me giggle. She has always had her own way of saying things as a kid: wiperdipes (diaper wipes), dambaids (bandaids), squaws (pom poms)...but I thought she had outgrown it!

 

Prayer...

Kate has a current personal obsession with prayer. This is a good thing...but she wants to pray all the time. Tonight, she had to have a pre-dinner blessing on the food (she couldn't wait for the actual blessing). It went like this:

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day...thank you for church. Please help us to be good and to not fight and punch each other. Amen."

Her preschool teacher informed me today that prayer is happening often in school with Kate...she even prayed for help for her teacher to teach all the kids. So cute :) 

enjoying whats left...

 the weather has been beautiful the last few days...we've been working outside and trying to enjoy whats left...because we know that it won't last...

 

I actually created something with scrapbooking paper (it's been a while ;) You can check it out over at the Melissa Frances Blog.

 

Halloween 2009...

 
 
We survived yet another crazy week of Halloween festivities...it was fun, but I'm glad it's over for another year. Andrea and Casey joined us for the evening, and it was tons of fun like it always is when they're around, so thanks again guys! The kids loaded up on candy at Trunk or Treat, and we we just hung out and ate way to much food.

Dressin' Up...

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I think it because we have such a drought...there aren't any big holidays between Fourth of July and Halloween, so I think that sometimes the Halloween holiday gets thrown a little out of whack. This year, there have been (in my opinion), way too many parties and carnivals. The kids had some sort of Halloween activity every day this week...lots of dressing up...which luckily, we like to do :) The girls are being Little Red Riding Hood again this year...

my mom went to a lot of work sewing these outfits last year, so we're using them again while they fit. I'll get more pics of Grace and Russ tomorrow. The kids aren't the only ones who enjoy dressing up...I like the excuse to wear one of my old dresses and jewelry, and this year, I am even wearing David's grandma Coral's old glasses...I just love old glasses!

I hope you all enjoy your Halloween. We're looking forward to homemade chili, breadsticks and pumpkin cake, followed by Trunk or Treat at our church.