Lights

C1 told his dad the other day that the light in our kitchen that has been going out is "glitching".

C4's new anthology

C4 has been studying poetry this week.  Every day he comes home and tells me about the new form of poem he has written then practices writing more.  He is making a collection and has been begging me for a notebook to keep them all safe.  We finally went down this morning and got his notebook for him.  Here are some samples of his work:

Cake
Unlike pancakes
Put'em on a plate
Crumbly
Addicting
Kids love it
Everything you could want
      ~02/06/2018

R-2

small, gray

rolling, beeping, flying

he was pretty good

robot

               ~02/08/2018

Acrobats are arching answers

Baloney bumps beneath blurky blue blobs

Crying cupcakes carry cats carrying coyotes

Dragons dong dive daisily

Elephants eat eggnog

Flying fish fly flaply

Gurgling gorillas grab gumbo

Happy horses honk happily

I'm iglooing independantly

Jello jumps jittery

Kitties kick kangaroos

Leopards lick loudly

Many monsters may mingle

Knights nail nowhere

Octopuses operate onions

Platypuses poke printly

Quadrilaterals quack quietly

Raptors roar riply

"Several silly sharks swim somewhere sadly." said Sean.

T. Rexs triumphantly taunt

Unicorns unearth uneasily.

Vampires vanillaly vanish.

Weeds whistle wacky.

Xeroxes x-ray xylophonely

Yaks yank yams.

Zebras zip zinnias.

       ~02/07/2018

C2, C3 and baby dolls

So my two older girls have been WAY into being Mommy lately.  They carry around baby dolls (C2's is named Baby Rose and C3's is named Baby Bell).  They get their babies dressed, put them down for naps, and feed their babies - by "nursing" them.  Also the day after C4's first birthday we had a party for C2's baby and the following day was C3's baby's turn.  C2 even got her baby all dressed in a necklace and a tutu and picked a nice sunny wall so we could do a smash cake photo session with her baby doll.  They are the sweetest little things!

You'd forget your head!

Today during breakfast C3 told me that her head was super heavy and it wouldn't come off..."Because Jesus taped it on!"  She said she was so lucky "He taped it good or else it would fall in the garbage!"

Other fun things about C3:  she says all of her /r/ sounds like an "ee":

door - doeee

more - moeee

she also says gararage like "bagwadj".

And yesterday when C4 was getting her iron tested C3 patted her arm and told her to be brave and that she would be ok in her mommy voice.  She has been just delightful lately!

Poetry

C1 came down and read me some poems he wrote this morning:

Lemonade Stand

If you go out to play

On a hot summers day,

And you haven't' had one drink all day

And you're willing to pay,

One dollar sixty five each,

Then go and get a drink!

(Glug glug) Wink!

Silly Day

If a clown comes out to play,

then a hound comes out to play,

"Then" said the clown,

"We will call it a silly day!"

Then the hound only said "arooo!"

Spring time sayings

Here are a few funny one-liners from this weekend:

C2 told us that the "trees are dancing" while we were in IFA's parking lot during a windy afternoon.

After C3 got in trouble Saturday morning she was talking with her dad about it being hard to do the right thing sometimes...she replied "I don't like hard things".

C1 has been into writing and illustrating little books, mainly about our family being awesome Jedi knights and taking out super monsters or robots or both.  As he was showing me his latest story he got to a picture of him "teleportating" onto the spaceship that his dad was flying.

Dad asked C2 to go get C3 to help clean up a mess downstairs.  He hear C2 tell her little sister:  "Daddy commands you to come downstairs!"

C2 lately

So C2 has been on a roll lately for saying funny things, here are a few examples:

At dinner a few weeks ago:  Daddy told C1 to use his fork because he was not a barbarian.  A few seconds later C1 asked..."Dad, what is a barbarian?"  Then C2 pipes up and answers "you know that!  Barbarians give you books at the library!"

Then tonight at the dinner table, we were eating ham bone soup and C3 was picking out all of the different kinds of beans.  She would comment with "here is a bean!" each time she found one...then she couldn't find any more and told me "I don't know where a bean is!"  To which C2 answered "You don't have a penis...you aren't a boy!"

I am Moana!

Moana has been a huge hit at our house this spring.  I have 3 little kiddos who spend entire days singing "How Far I'll Go" and "Your Welcome".  C3 in particular loves the songs from Moana, she can sing pretty much the entire soundtrack but favorites are "and no one knows how far I'll go!" and "Moana...make way, make way!" and of course "I am Moana!".  The girls dress up in grass skirts and make boats out of blankets and chair and then act out scenes.  Last week I painted rocks for each of them so they can have their own "Heart of Tafiti".  C2 likes to watch the movie and copy all of Moana's motions, her favorite part is walking slowly along with Moana and then putting the heart back in Tafiti (or on our entertainment center in her case).  We also hear a lot of "You will board my boat!"

At C1's soccer game C3 stood at the top of a set of stairs down to the park, held onto the stair rail and sang Moana songs at the top of her lungs, it was way more entertaining that the soccer game...

Babyisms

Cute things my kids have said in regard to our new baby:

C2:  while watching our new baby fall asleep - "Mom, her eyes are starting to wilt"

C3:  every day, about 100 times a day:  "Oh, that's my baby, she's so cute!  She loves me, she loves me so much!  Oh, she's so sweet!"  "Sweet, sweet baeba"

All of the kids LOVE holding, rocking, and feeding our new baby.  Before holding the baby the kids are pros at sanitizing their hands (a skill they had to perfect because we were all super sick the first few weeks after the baby was born).  They are constantly running to check on her.  When the baby goes down for tummy time the kids know to get out a blanket and then set up one of the baby board books for her to look at.

Dress Up

C3 is in full dress-up mode these days.  She loves crowns, fancy shoes, and tutus.  This week she came downstairs wearing a crown and a bib.  Then she said "Mom!  Look at me, I am a clean princess!"  It was adorable.  There is nothing better than a little toddler running around in princess shoes and a crown...and sometimes a bib!

C3 at Christmas

C3 can really enjoy Christmas this year, she particularly loves Rudalph the Red Nosed Reindeer and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  C3 runs to the Abominable Snowmonster on our Christmas tree and says "Monster! Don't Eat Olaf!" (Which is what she calls Rudolph).  She calls the Grinch the "Binch" and loves wearing her "Binch shirt".

20 things about C1

So C1 woke me up this morning with a list of twenty sentences he had written this morning all about himself.  I want to save them because they are awesome:

1. I love my mom.
2. I love my dad.
3. I love my sisters.
4. I love my dog
5. I like Star Wars.
6. I like to play games.
7. I like soccer.
8. I like to read.
9. I like school.
10. I like Legos.
11. I am six.
12. I was born in 2009.
13. I like chocolate.
14. I like the colors red, green, and blue.
15. I like to build.
16. I like Halloween.
17. I like to go to church.
18. I like to play with my family.
19. I like to play with my dog.
20. I like my watch.
21. I like to look at my watch.

The way we do cold cereal

C2 was enjoying a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios last week and then turned to her Dad and asked if she could have another bowl..."Stoned Up Please?".  What?  "Can I have my next bowl stoned up?"  She meant that she wanted the cereal sans the milk.  No, I have not been slipping something extra into our second bowls of cereal!

Golden Nuggets from C1

Every morning my family recites a special scripture from our weekly family home evening lessons.  One day C1 told me he had a new "scripture" for us to quote.  He said "Jesus gave us his life so we should give him our love."  It was very sweet and we talked about what a very good quote that was to live by.

Then this morning C1 told me while we were eating breakfast that "Life is like a puzzle.  And when you make a mistake that is like putting a piece in the wrong place.  But you can always repent and take that piece out and try again.".  Then we talked about his idea and how when you are putting together a puzzle you always make a few mistakes but that doesn't mean the puzzle is ruined, you just try again, that is part of the fun of the puzzle!

There's a million things I haven't done..but just you wait!

So tonight Dad and I were eating dinner (the kids had all already finished and we were nearly done as well).  I had big news to share but we had kept getting off topic.  So finally we get back to my big news and I say "Guess What? Hamilton is coming to Utah in 2017!".  Then C2 responds..."But he's DEAD!".  She had overheard us on her way riding her stick pony down the stairs from the playroom.  It was funny.

My best little helper

For a long time C2 has been really into "helping" mom out around the house and yard.  We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday and now her helping has moved to a new level of cuteness.  Yesterday before she helped me sweep up a big mess of cereal that C3 had poured out she started singing the happy working song and saying "Ah Ah Ah" to call to her imaginary animal friends so they could help out too.

The Discovery Kids Effect

So C1 got a rocking gift from his grandma last week:  a huge stack of Discovery Kids magazines that they were cleaning out of a 6th grade classroom!  He has been in heaven.  It is funny to hear the things that he takes away from exploring these magazines.  Yesterday on the way to school we were listening to the song "The Farmer in the Dell" and at the end he says "The cheese could take matter and then matter could take an atom!" Which was then followed by a lengthy discussion about why atoms are the smallest units of matter...and I honestly wasn't sure about how to count electrons and other particles...

My kids and the truth

So this evening Daddy noticed that the kid's bathroom mirror had a huge watermark all over it.  Like someone splashed as high as they could go and then rubbed soap all over the bottom part.  Neither child wanted to fess-up so after a quick talk on telling the truth here is what we got...

C1:  I was brushing my teeth and the water hit my toothbrush and slipped out of my hand and got on the mirror.

Plausible...but it is hard to imagine a 6 foot water splash from a toothbrush.

C2:  Maybe someone was smoking in here?

Ummmm....maybe not...

After that Dad and I both cracked up and let it go.  Tomorrow we will clean the mess up and try again.

Let Sleeping Lions Lie

The other day I was getting my baby to sleep.  I asked Cindy what song I should sing and so she turns to me and tells me to sing the "Baby Lion" song.  I don't know any songs about baby lions...so I asked her what the "Baby Lion" song sounds like.  She responded by singing "What ya' gonna be?"

Then it dawned on me, she was talking about the Christmas song about Christ that Donny Osmond sings: "Baby, What You Goin' To Be?".  The song starts out like this: Baby, Lying in a manger, Slumbering so sweetly, What ya gonna be?  But Cindy must hear: Baby, lion in a manger, which makes the song much less about our Savior and more about the odd sleep habits of lions :)

Captain Literal

My 3 year old takes everything very literally which can be pretty funny.  Last week when we were headed out she asked what we were going to do about dinner.  I told her we would probably pick something up on the road.  She thought about this for a few minutes and then replied...we can't eat dinner on the road we will get hit by a car!

Then that night we were playing music and she asked the name of a song...which happened to be No one Like You.  She got very sad and then asked: Why does nobody like me?