Monday Funnies...

I usually try and keep a list of all the funny little things the kids say. Then I type them up here and get a giggle when I go back to re-read old posts.

I happened across a list of them that I had lost. Some are from awhile ago, while I was pregnant, some are newer...and yet, they all crack me up.

Sit back and enjoy the ride...

(While pregnant)...

Lily (with eyes wide open in amazement): Mama, your tummy

is soooooo big and huge!

 

Me: (with forced smile on my face): Thank you, honey.

 

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Lily: Mama, when you go to the hospital,

are you gonna be brave or cry?

 

Me: Both, Sweetheart...both.

 

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(After baby)...

 

Lily: I just can't stop giggling for nothing!!!

 

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Ella: Lily + pizza = a full girl!

 

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Lily: I don't want to be a regular girl, I want to be

a princess....And have a big wand.

 

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Jason and Lily were playing a game one evening. Jason would think of an animal and start giving clues and Lily would have to guess which animal he was thinking of. Lily decided that she wanted a turn and started giving clues about her animal.

 

Lily (her first clue): it's something small that lives in the grass.

 

Jason: A gopher?

 

Lily (with a "are you kidding me?!?" tone): No, Dad. Gophers live in GARDENS!

 

Just some backstory...if you know us at all, you know that gophers have all but completely eaten every. single. thing. out of my garden every year we've lived here. Apparently, Lily, thinks that a garden is a natural habitat for these annoying creatures.

 

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Ben: Hi Hattie! Do you remember the song I sang to you yesterday?

Oh, duh...of course not...because your brain is sooooo small.

 

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After Cora had downed a total of 6 pieces of watermelon for the day, I asked the following:

 

Me: Cora, is watermelon your favorite fruit??

 

Cora: No, cupcakes!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



2 Months Old-Hattie Joy

How the time flies! I can't believe that little Hattie is two months old today.

*sigh*



It's exciting to see all the new things she can do.

Her little personality is slowly emerging and in between all those naps we are getting to know our little girl.

She is such a good baby. A baby who loves, loves, loves her mama. And as long as we are together, this little one is pretty much happy. We eat together, nap together, and sleep together. As you can tell, we do pretty much everything together. (Can I just say that I am so thankful that I have a recliner sofa?)

She is smiling a ton too. This little expression is presented to us multiple times a day. She adores all her sibilings and each of them can get her to smile in their own little ways.

Hattie has just started to find her hands and I am fairly certain we will have a thumb-sucker in the house in the not-to-distant future.

She enjoys baths, being naked, and snuggling in the newborn curled-up position still.

And best of all, Hattie can sleep 6-7 hours at night before waking mama up for a nighttime snack. I am very much enjoying getting more than a two hour block of sleep these days.


Happy 2 Months, Sweet Hattie! You truly are my Joy.

Rite of Passage

t's a rite of passage...

Every parent's nightmare...

It was bound to happen at some point with one of the children...

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I was upstairs, in the loft, holding Hattie as she slept. Jason was downstairs in the office, working from home. And yet...

Ok, so I wasn't just holding Hattie, truth be told. I was browsing on my tablet, when my friend Tricia sent me a message. Oooh, glorious day...some adult conversation! I figured I'd only "talk" for a bit. We sent a few messages back and forth, planned out a "hang-out" session for next week, and chuckled a little bit about occupational hazzards of being a mom. Little did I know what was transpiring downstairs...

I had noticed that it had become fairly quiet, so I figured I needed to investigate. As everyone knows, quiet children are trouble. One of Murphy's Laws...you wish your child would just be quiet for a few blissful moments...but if those blissful moments of quiet are when you aren't around, then trouble with a capital T is sure to follow.

I walked downstairs to find that my sweet little 2 year old yet again had found her wild streak. This girl is such a curious monkey about everything. There in front of me lay a lake of water all over the dining room floor. "Ah bummer" you say, "that stinks, but at least it's just water!" Did I mention that she had dumped an entire container of glitter in said water? Hmmm....can't just sweep the glitter up, it's all wet. Can't just mop up the water, it's full of glitter. Now it requires getting on hands and knees and a lot of papertowels. Followed by sweeping. Followed by more papertowels. Followed by more sweeping. Followed by cleaning the broom out because the wet glitter is sticking to everything.

Oh wait...there's more. God threw this in just for good measure. A little reminder that my job during the day is to watch 5 children, not chit-chat with my friends. A little something extra special just for me.

Cora...oh, sweet dear Cora.

She decided it was high time that she experiement a little. With scissors. You know where I'm going with this right?!?

Viola! A new 'do has been born. Yep, she chopped a 2 inch chunk of hair from the front of her head.  *sigh*

The mugshot...the "I'm fairly certain I did something I wasn't supposed to..." look.


Me: Cora...what did you do?

Cora: I cut my hair!

Ella: Why did you cut your hair??

Cora:  I wanted to look pretty!

Hattie

Such a little peanut...

Mama and Hattie

Hattie's Picture Parade

Here are a few to help make up for the lack of writing lately.

Enjoy the cuteness...

 

...and me with my baby....

More Hattie Joy...

One more for tonight... :)

*sigh*....can't get enough of this little one!