The Monster Did It

This afternoon I looked outside into the back yard and saw that the metal trellis that Jared had put in the grow box had fallen over. Since the girls had been in the back yard playing I called them and said, "Hannah, do you know what happened to Daddy's grow box?". Hannah looked at me and said, " I think Tootsie did it". I told her I didn't think so because Tootsie didn't have any arms so she wouldn't be able to knock the trellis down. Hannah thought that over and then firmly said, "The big monster did it Mom".

Emma

I was in the middle of sending an email when I realized I was hearing the stove click, which happens when it is trying to light. I jumped up and ran to the kitchen where I discovered Emma standing over the flaming stove on which she'd placed a plastic bowl full of ramen noodles. I quickly turned the fire off and said, "Emma! What are you doing?!". Emma looked at me innocently and said, "I just want to make some ramen". Luckily the bowl hadn't melted completely, just gotten a bit soft. And we had a very long conversation on why it is only Mom and Dad who are allowed to use the stove!

What kind of Mom?

When we picked the kids up from school today Emma grabbed her baby sister in a big hug and said, "Hello my Chunky Monkey!".

After school today Aaron was looking for something to eat. I kept giving him suggestions but he wasn't finding anything he wanted. After asking me for the 8th time what he could eat I said, "Aaron I've given you lots of choices, it's not my fault your being picky and don't want to eat any of them."
Aaron glared at me and said, "There's nothing good to eat! I'm so hungry I'm going to die!".
I said, "Well, if you do we'll bury you in the back yard and try not to let the dog dig you up."
Aaron blew a raspberry at me and said, "Mom! What kind of Mom are you!?"

Mr. Bean

On the way back from taking the kids to school this morning Hannah and her friend got into a snit. Her friend told her she was "old and stinky"! Hannah put her hands on her hips and said, " I am NOT old and stinky! I am MR. BEAN!"

Mysterious

In church today Aaron and I were making up coded messages to give to each other. Aaron wrote one for me that said, "You're mysterious!". I looked at him and said, "Why am I mysterious?". He rolled his eyes at me and said, "Cause you're a girl!".

Not Sharing

Hannah told me the other day that she had two teachers at church. I said, "Wow! Who are they?". She shrugged and said, "I don't know, just some old ladies."

Emma had been playing with the baby all morning, but it was time for Clara to take a nap so I took her and was holding her so she would calm down and get ready for bed. I was sitting on the couch holding her when Emma came over and tried to take her from me. I told her no, it was my turn to hold the baby. She got a grumpy look on her face and I said, "This is my baby. When you grow up you can have your own babies to hold." Emma said, "Fine but I'm not sharing my baby!"

Help

Emma and Hannah were in charge of cleaning their rooms today. This is always a battle because it's not too much fun. I kept having to say, go and clean up... keep cleaning... pick up, you're almost done. Emma finally finished cleaning up her stuff but Hannah still had a bunch of clothes to put away in her dresser.
She kept saying she needed help and I kept telling her she was a big girl and she needed to do it herself. I told her to stay in her room till it was all done.
After a few minutes she came out into the living room and looked at me. I asked her if she was done and she just smiled so I said, "Ok, let's go and check".
I walked down the hall into her room and the pile of clothes was still right there in front of her dresser. I opened my mouth to tell her she wasn't done when I heard the bedroom door slam shut. I turned to see Hannah standing in front of the closed door with her arms and legs spread out guarding it.
"Now Mom!", she said, " I need help!".

Queen

Emma is home sick today. She had a fever yesterday and she's fine now but they won't let you back in school till you're fever free for 24hrs. She was sitting on the couch eating a ham sandwich for breakfast when she suddenly said...

"It'd be cool if I was queen."

I said, "Oh? How come?".

She replied, "Cause then I wouldn't ever have to go to school and they would throw me ham sandwiches, you know, my servants."

I asked her what she would do all day if she were queen.

"I would sit on my throne and eat stuff and play with my servants. And my laws would be to never eat disgusting junk and to never climb down the tower, I would stay up there all the time. And if the people were bad they would go in the jail for 100yrs and they wouldn't get food for a million days. And also if they tried to do it again there would always be creepy monsters there. And the queen would say "You monsters leave them alone, he's not doing anything", and I'd be the princess. The queen could be Hannah and the king was Aaron, and king and queen got eaten."

I said what friends would you have in your castle?

"Princess Aurora, Jasmine and Sleeping Beauty. We would do our nails and have makeup parties. We would ask my mother and she would say yes cause my friends are there and we would go to the mall and to the park and to get my nails done and to do my hair. And every time I went the guards would have to follow me and the guards would get their hair done too.

I would also have this beautiful diamond and I would, whenever someone tried to steal me I would show them the diamond so they'd know I was the princess. And I would rule the land!"

Stinker

I made some oatmeal this morning. When I asked the kids who wanted some the only one that answered me was Hannah. She said she did. I made her a bowl and gave it to her and then Emma started whining and said, "But I want some! How come Hannah gets some and I don't?". I told her that she should have answered me when I was asking who wanted some. She just made a crabby face.
Hannah looked at her sad sister and said, "It's OK Emma, you can have some of my oatmeal", then she pointed at Aaron and said, "but you don't get any, cause you're a stinker." Hahahahah! She knows her brother well. :)

Till I'm 40

So, our dog has learned that if she pushes a chair over right next to the garbage can, climbs up on the chair and pushes on the garbage can lid, it will pop up and she can get into the trash. We've been putting weights on the lid when we leave so she can't do this. But I came home from walking the kids to school this morning and discovered that the dog had pushed a chair over to the counter, climbed up, and snagged the tupperware full of teeny tuna bits from Jared's lunch yesterday that was next to the sink to be washed. It was all torn up outside. Huh, I think we need a new dog.

I let Emma sit in the front seat last evening when we were driving home. Foolish me, I should have remembered that with Emma, you can never be sure what she will do. So as we were driving calmly down a street in our neighborhood, luckily only going about 25 mph, Emma suddenly said... "I want to drive". She reached over before I knew what was happening, grabbed the wheel and yanked it toward herself. Since we were going relatively slow I was able to course correct before we hit the cement fence we'd been driving next to. As I explained to her, while trying not to scream, that you NEVER, EVER do that, I tried to calm down and remember that no one was hurt so no actual damage done. Except of course that I'd had my first heart attack.

The other day we took Clara to the doctor, she'd had a cold for about 4 days and I wanted to make sure she didn't have an ear infection or something. Anyway she turned out to be fine and as we were leaving the doctor told all of the kids they could pick out a sticker to take home. Aaron didn't want one, he is now too old for that stuff I guess, Hannah picked a little Easter chick sticker, and Emma picked a pink sticker with a puppy wearing rabbit ears on it. As we were walking back to the car she said, "I just love this sticker Mom, isn't it cute! I'm gonna keep it forever, till I'm 40!".

Fun

We were getting ready for bed last night and Hannah was having a hard time. She kept whining and fussing because she was so tired. Finally Emma said to her, "Hannah only whiny babies whine. Hot girls don't!". Where she got "hot girls" I do not know.

Here are the kids showing off the Easter tombs we made out of donuts for family home evening.

Yesterday Miss Hannah Bean was having a blast playing dress up. She literally took out about every item of clothing she has and was making up all kinds of amazing outfits for us to see. After a bit I realized she hadn't been out in a new outfit for a while so I went to check on her and this is what I found, Hannah fast asleep on top of a pile of clothes. Apparently having all that fun is hard work!