Post-it #182

Owen lost his first tooth. He planned it well too, so that he lost it at his mom's house, which earned him $10 from the tooth fairy, instead of the meager $1 he'd get here. His other bottom tooth is getting ready to come out too. He was showing me how it wiggled the other day and I noticed that he had the same thing Morgan had with the shark teeth deal going on. His permanent teeth are already coming in quite a bit! 

117th Passage

Lydia is so unabashed. There is a man we sometimes see at church who doesn't have arms. Lydia walked up to him in the hall and said "why you don't have hands?!" He replied nicely with something like, "oh, I guess I forgot them. I left them in Nam." Lydia accepted it with an "oh."

Lydia: where is Jesus?
Me: He's in Heaven.
Lydia: I wanna go to heaven with Jesus!

William just asked me a question during school, and while I was answering him, he tapped my shoulder and interrupted with the exact same question I was in the middle of answering.

In a pouty voice, Lydia: I want Jesus, but he won't come back today!
Me: nope, not today, but we will see Him someday.
Lydia: He's my Jesus.

Lydia: mommy, can I help you put on your makeup when I'm bigger?
Me: sure. When you're bigger you can help me with my makeup. That will be fun.
Lydia: okay! Tomorrow we will go to bed and wake up and be bigger and I will help you!

Morgan: you're the most annoying person I know.
William: then you should get rid of me.
Morgan: how?
William: set a trap for me and put me in a box and sell that box to somebody.

William: I don't think I'm going to scream if I get kidnapped, because I scream like a girl and I don't want everyone to know.

Owen came to me with tears in his eyes and a giant pouty face and said: Lydia won't stop helping me with my chores and I don't want her to help me. 

Me: Lydia, you've been much nicer to the baby lately, thank you.
Lydia: yeah, she's my favorite friend!

Owen just told me about his imaginary friend named AirySmell who likes to fart in Owen's face. Oh, and he's a giant.

David: "Morgan come downstairs. It's time for dinner."
Morgan: "Daddy, I forgot what I was doing when I went upstairs so I accidentally took my clothes off."

Post-it #181

I made this video for Valentine's Day, and tried to upload it here to blogger, but I couldn't get it to work. Now I did, so here is a late Valentine's Day video.

Post-it #181

Morgan watches the new version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The new theme song is rappish. He thinks he can rap the whole thing. :) He's listening to it in the headphones.

Post-it #180

Because it's so cute! Not my part, but Allison's.
Side note, as I watched it a couple of times and got the video ready for upload, Allison, who is sitting in my lap, laughed at herself laughing. It was adorbs.

Post-it #179

David is pretty proud of this trick.

116th Passage

We got a new washer and dryer with tax returns. I remember as a child having so much fun with giant boxes. Like, so much. So we had a family home evening lesson about the attributes of the temple, as found in D&C 88, and talked about how that should be how our home is too. Then we cut the boxes into a house and the kids decorated it. They haven't played in it nearly as much as I thought they would. Oh well.

Post-it #178

Flowers from David, March 14, 2014

Post-it #177

Recently, Allison stopped hating bathtime. It happened when I took the sling out of her baby bathtub, letting her sit in the tub and be more submerged. Now bathtime is happy playtime. Yay!

In other news, I finally moved Allison out of our room. I put it off for so long because I didn't know where to put her. Eventually she will share a room with Lydia, but at this point, quite frankly, I don't trust Lydia to be with her alone. But we did some rejiggering in the music room, and now the cradle and glider are in there. Two nights, and she's already sleeping better. I think perhaps David's snores had previously disturbed her slumbers. :)

Post-it #176

We went to the new park near the lake the other day. The weather has been improving oh so much, so we took the opportunity to play.

Post-it #175

Allison likes her bumbo particularly for eating. 

Post-it #174

My pretty daughters got these dresses for Christmas, and I just now got around to taking a picture of them wearing them. I imagine it won't be the last time they wear matching clothes. 

Post-it #173

I often say and think that none of my children look anything like me. But as Lydia gets older, I'm seeing a little bit of similarities. What do you think?

Post-it #172

Yesterday I finished reading Pollyanna to the kids. I loved it. The boys really liked it too, and often requested a second chapter. I love it when we can find a book that we all really enjoy, especially when the book has such a good moral and message. The boys talk about "the glad game" and I've even heard them playing it without prompting. I give it a five star rating.
We watched half of the movie tonight, (we'll finish it tomorrow.) It's the 1960 movie that I remember loving as a child. But it's disappointing how different from the book it is. We are all in agreement that the book is better, as these things always go.

Post-it #171

Earlier this year I read Howliday Inn to the kiddos for school. It's a sequel to Bunnicula, but instead of a vampire bunny, it's a couple of werewolf dachshund that the main characters, (which are a dog and cat) are worried about. The boys seemed to have difficulty keeping the different characters straight. They didn't know if it was a dog, cat, or person who was talking. But they liked it. It wasn't my favorite, but I've read worse for sure.