January 24, 2010

We went to Barnes and Noble and as we approached the kids' section my children (the nine and almost seven-year -olds) squealed and jumped up and down and cried out,"Cool!  Look!"  I saw that they were talking about an entire stand full of Brain Quest cards and activity books.  The stand was taller than I am, so there were a lot of different sets.  They were like,"Those are like the ones we have!  Look, here are new ones!" 

I am so, so glad to be raising such little nerds.  They love to learn.  And I love it.

January 24, 2010

Some thoughts on Shirley Temple...

Michaela:  I can't believe Daddy has never seen a Shirley Temple video!  They're so good!  I love Just Around the Corner!  I want it on my iPod!  (They have just learned that videos can go on an iPod-uh oh.)  No!  I want A Little Princess!

Christian:  No!  (He was under the impression that whatever Michaela has on her iPod has to go on his iPod, since they pretty much have the same thing on there.)

Michaela:  You don't have to have the same thing.

Christian:  I want Susanna on the Mounties!  (I'm hoping this is not the R-rated version, but rather he switched out the "of" for "on".)

Michaela:  That's so violent! 

This conversation just made me laugh.  You probably had to be there, but they were so Siskel and Ebert about it.  Cute.

January 23, 2010

We were driving to the store, and the kids were being a little crazy, kicking at one another's feet, laughing hysterically, saying ridiculous things.  Up on the right, a police officer had pulled someone over.  The lights on his car were flashing.

Michaela said,"Look, Christian!  A police car!  Let's act like normal people!"

Quite the lofty goals that girl has.

January 22, 2010

Eliana says so many funny things these days that I cannot write them down fast enough, and then when I try to do it later, I've forgotten.  I need to carry around a recording device.

Just now she was holding a tiny, plastic teddy bear (it's a math manipulative).  I heard her say,"Look at me!"  Then after a couple of seconds she said,"Do you have eyes?"

The more I think about it, the funnier it seems.  She's too much.

January 21, 2010

I had just gotten out of the shower and was drying off when Eliana came into the bathroom.  I don't know why, except that she's two, but she said,"You have a booty?"  I laughed and said yes.  She laughed, too, and then followed up with,"You have a big booty."

Well.  Thank you.  I'm hoping that she means relative to hers.

January 14, 2010

Christian was looking at the paper that came home from school regarding aid/relief for Haiti.  After reading for a minute he looked up at me and said,"I'm willing to give some of my money..."  I thought he meant some of his money that he has in his piggy bank, which isn't much!  He went on to say,"You know, my money from Nana and Wayne."  He received a generous gift from Mike's grandma and her husband, and he wanted to give some of that to the relief funds.

January 9, 2010

Some funny things from the funny people I live with...

Christian:  I'm keeping sidetrack!

Eliana to Grandma (on the way to the airport):  You're going to miss me!

Mike:  Oh, man!  All these specials are ending today...JoAnn Fabrics, Michael's, and Hobby Lobby!  I really wanted to go there!   (And yes, he was being serious.)



January 4, 2009

Eliana said at dinner, as she leaned over to my mom, "I want to kiss you."

Of course, my mom loved each sweet, little smooch.  Then she said,"A hug!"

Can I just say that my mom was just about in heaven?

December 21, 2009

From my dad the night they had the car accident...

"Next time, your mom is driving...we would have been ten minutes ahead of that accident!"

December 14, 2009

As Christian sat down at the dinner table he said,"This is what's our dinner?!  Meatballs?"  He sounded so disgusted!

I was in the kitchen, and I heard Michaela's response,"Well, at least the table looks nice."

About fifteen minutes later he looked at me and exclaimed,"These are the best meatballs I have ever had!"

That would be my fickle child...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

(I did have potatoes cooking in the microwave, but everything wasn't ready at the same time.)

December 11, 2009

We were driving down the street tonight and Eliana was enjoying the lights and the trees, and even the blown-up snowmen.  She said all kinds of cute and funny things, like,"Whoa!" and "Wow!" and "Tool!" (meaning cool, of course).  But our favorite was,"Look at that big Christmas tree with the lights on it!  It has lights on it.  It's a new tree with lights on it!"  She sounded so big!  Redundant.  But so big!  (I don't know where she gets the redundancy from.)

December 3, 2009

Today I was helping Christian practice the piano, and it had been a while since he had.  He was getting frustrated, and I told him several times that he was doing well, and that it would take a lot of practice but that soon he would be able to play the song better.  I reminded him that all things take practice in order to be good at them.

He said,"Loving Mommy doesn't take practice."

Well. 

November 27, 2009

Eliana said a couple of funny things tonight.  I was getting her ready for her bath and she was sitting on the potty just before she got in the shower.  She was looking around the bathroom that we were in, which used to be the bathroom for the master bedroom in this house.  Now it is the guest bed/bathroom.  This bathroom was just remodeled not too long ago and has a pretty shower, tile floor, and marble countertop.  As she looked all around she said to me,"It's nice in here!"

Eliana's word for Nicholas (her cousin) and for necklace sound exactly the same.  After her bath she was asking where everyone had gone since Aunt Wendy had gone home after dinner.  She asked about Nicholas; she said,"Where is It-o-ness?"  I told her he had gone home to bed.  She paused for a couple of seconds and said, as she fiddled with my necklace,"Here is a it-o-ness!"  It was pretty cute.  You probably had to be there to get just how cute...but maybe you can imagine it.

November 16, 2009

Earlier today I ran into someone I've gotten to know as she also has a child in Eliana's co-op class.  She has been very sweet and encouraging to me from the beginning, since I shared a little about my germaphobia, and fears about letting Eliana go (finally!). 

She had a daughter that was very sick with a rare disease and eventually passed away because of it.  In spite of this terrible loss, she is a beacon.  She and her husband learned a lot about health/diet/living environment issues during their daughter's time here with them, and desire to share the information with others, if others want to learn.  She has offered to give me info, and so far the time hasn't been right, but I'm hoping to pick her brain soon. 

I stopped her in the hallway in order to say that we would not be able to take advantage of a meeting that she was going to have, and we talked briefly about it.  She again shared how much she wanted to tell people all the things that they learned, which they did not know before; one of the things she mentioned had to do with the products we have in our homes in order to clean them.

I laughed and said,"Yes, well, I don't really clean our house!  So we're all right there." 

She laughed too, and said,"What?  You, the germaphobe?!" 

I told her,"They're our germs, so they don't bother me as much."

She laughed again and said,"You are a germ snob!"

I busted out laughing and said,"I guess I am."  I thought that was pretty funny.

November 15, 2009

I gave Christian and Michaela a painting project this afternoon.  As he began working on it he said,"Mom, can you take a picture of us and make a blog about it?"  Michaela of course corrected him with,"A blog post."  He continued,"Then send it to other people's computers."

Man, that would be a fast way to raise my readership, huh?!  Annoying, I'm sure, but fast.