overheard ~

m1: "m2 can you hand me another grape?"
m2: "yeah, and this time i wont suck on it before i give it to you".
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m1: "hey momma, my granola bar left crumbs on the kitchen floor, i am going to quickly vacuum that up for you okay?"
momma: "yes, please and thank you very much!"

LOVE that girl!
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m2: "the rord (lord) is my helper.  rebews 13:6" (we are not adding books to the bible it's just how she says hebrews).
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m2:  "little man, can you get this booger off my finger?"
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oh my...

"mommy you don't need to check out what i am doing...  i'll just dry everything off and clean it up before you look.  okay?"  that's not a good sign, little miss!  

oh duck

i was driving the children to sunday night ramp up and miss lisa was tagging along (she was early for bible study at our house so she rode with me to take the children up to church).  we were talking about summer plans when this dialogue happened:

miss lisa: oh... duck. (m2 lowered her head).
m2: why did you say to duck?
miss lisa: well, pumpkin there is a duck crossing the road in front of your mother's car and i was just pointing him out.
m2: oh.

i don't know why but this cracked me up.

mommy moments i love

m2 and i ran some errands this morning.  we passed chick-fil-a and i had a sudden hunger for chicken mini's.  so we ran in grabbed some plus a fruit cup and sat for a while.  m2 then asked to play for a few minutes.  she walked into the play area and then immediately walked out and loudly declared "I NEED TO GO POOP BEFORE I TAKE MY SHOES OFF AND PLAY". 

she's bossy

m2:  mommy can i play on webkinz junior?
mommy: yes, but i am fixing dinner so your brother or sister will have to help you log on.
m2: (runs to the front door) hey, mommy said to put up your bikes and come in right now!
once they clean up their bikes and come in (which you might recall i did not say) the conversation continues.
m2: take off your shoes and put them where they belong.
m2: hey, m1 i need you to find the computer and log me onto webkinz junior.
m1:  okay.

katy ~ did we ever do this?

i took the children to kangaroo jac's since it was a holiday and who wants to stay home and do laundry on a holiday? i sat at a table and my three pretty much stuck together and helped m2 climb and slide. four moms to my left were dividing up seven children ~ then they each headed off in a different direction. they then would let the children with them play on one of two inflatables that they were guarding. the children would slide off and run for another slide across the building and the guard mom would shout "these are your two options for right now, we will head over there in a few minutes". after about 15 minutes of sliding they would then rotate counter clock-wise and allow the children to play on the next two slides. seriously, i watched them do this for two hours, barely speaking to the other moms, just yelling at the children that they only had "two options". i remember when the children were really little i would slide with them and as they got older watched and kept track of where they were ~ i am all about knowing their whereabouts and keeping them safe, but i thought this was a little much. so katy, did we ever act like this?

carpe diem

"clearly, carpe diem doesn't work for me.

i can't even carpe fifteen minutes in a row,

so a whole diem is out of the question".

i read this the other day after a friend posted a comment on facebook... so hysterical and so true. to read the entire post head to momastery.

guess who?

little man: i live in the ocean, blend into my surroundings and am small.
m1: shrimp
me: oysters
m2: fish
m1: seahorse (ding ding ding)

m1: i live at the lake, make noise at night and am green.
little man: tree frog
me: cricket (ding ding ding)

m2: i live outside, i am green, i am a frog.
mommy: ummmm, what is a frog?
m2: yea for you mommy you guessed my guess who.

this is her paint wheel

m2 and i were heading out the door to take the children to school. "wait ma, i need my paint wheel". she grabbed the colorful deck of waterproof uno cards and ran for the car. ahh, that's my girl. and yes, she is so busy that she shortens mama to ma... like, little house on the prairie ma. where's my bonnet?

it's not rocket science...

sleeping together

when little man was 4 and m1 was 3 we started a tradition of them sleeping together on friday nights. at first they would giggle for a few minutes and crash. as they have gotten older (now 7 and 6) they still look forward to that tradition and we have extended it to saturday nights also. this is a conversation that took place in the car after school on friday... much like previous friday afternoons.

M: what are we going to talk about tonight? 
S: i don't know.
M: how about what we are doing tomorrow.
S: that's fine
M: what about something that happened at school this week.
S: that's fine
M: do you have any topics?
S: will you scratch my back while you talk?
M: yes

sneak peak

...seriously...

so i call the children inside for dinner and they are having a tiff over who is supposed to pick up what toys in the backyard. after a vigorous hand washing, they start setting the table and i get pulled into the fray...

little man: "mommy, m1 is staring at me and it looks like she is saying i am stupid in her brain"

hide the glitter glue

m1 put blue glitter glue on her lips last night... of course my first response was not to grab the camera so sorry, no pictures. but it reminded me that she is related to my niece mckinley, who hot glued a "google eye" to her forehead because she wanted to know what she would look like with three eyes.

you know you are desperate when...

you find yourself in the children's bathroom with one square of toilet paper left and your only option is asking an 18 month old to bring you more.  you are impressed when (after bringing a bag of wipes first) she actually got it from under the sink and brought it to me!