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?

It's a Bug Life

We have been into bugs here at our house lately and my kids have said the cutest things: Cyrus rolled himself up in a blanket and proudly proclaimed that he was "as snug as a bug in a chrysalis" Cindy woke up the other day and told her dad that she had "ladybugs" in her eyes"

Consonant Clusters

This Sunday we were deciding whether to have oatmeal or cereal for breakfast.  Cyrus wanted oatmeal so that was the plan, but then Cindy piped up and told me that she wanted cereal because "Crap-n Crunch" is her favorite.  Not only can my little girl say her /r/ sound at three but she can also use it in (completely incorrect) consonant clusters.