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I spent the day yesterday with a pressure washer cleaning the patio. It was noisy and wet. While the kids liked the water they hated the noise. So Annalise kept asking when I’d be done. At one point I explained that I was almost done with the patio but that I had to clean the eaves next. She was disappointed and went inside yet again. A little bit later Tracy comes out of the house laughing. Seems like Annalise was reporting back to Tracy and said, “He’s cleaning the Fs next. Oh I mean the Es.” “eh, uh, uh, no00!!” Just thought I’d share what Secily told me recently… yeah.. a little over 2 years old and still grunting… com’on kid… TALK!!!!!!!! Tucker is our cat. According to Annalise, he had his eyeballs on me the other day. He was watching me intently from the living room as I worked in the kitchen. After Sunday we usually ask what the kids learned in class and reinforce things. It seems this Sunday was about how God protects us and we have guardian angels. Here’s how the conversation went as we were driving home: Annalise: Did you know we have guardian angels all around. Tracy: Oh yeah, what do they look like. Annalise: Silly, they’re in visible. That means you can’t see them. Tracy: That’s right, they watch over us. Annalise: Yep. And when we’re not safe, I think they do karate! According to Madeline, “You’re boo-boo is lost.” Annalise has gotten into wanting soft scratches before going to bed. And I don’t do them right so it’s always up to Tracy to do it. The other night Tracy was getting a little busy with other things and couldn’t spend much time with it so Annalise made a deal with her. She’d give Tracy soft scratchies if Tracy gave them to her. As Annaliase was doing the soft scratchies say slyly said, “I’m going to give you soft scratchies so soft that you’ll turn into an ice cube!” We’re going on a big trip… several hours in the car… and it is a sort of a surprise for the kids so we haven’t told them much. We want to get an early start… so our plan is to just take the kids from their bed and put them in the car without doing anything at home in the morning to get out of the house quick. Well… that part worked great. We’re on the road for a bit and we’re telling the kids what we are doing and that we’re going to see the mountains and goto a zoo and all sorts of stuff. We bought little dollar store presents to give them throughout the trip as well, kinda like mini-distractions, and we told them all about this. So they are all happy and excited. After we stop telling them all this and the kids questions have died down. After a little bit of silence. Connor asks thoughtfully, ‘Did you pack my clothes?’ He’s still in his pajamas and he didn’t know we spent all night packing everything and he just figured out that we are going to be gone for a couple of days… I guess he didn’t want to be in his pajama’s the entire time. Secily Jayne Lander…. born at 2:03pm on 2008-01-18. 7lbs 15.2oz. 20″ Tall. New gallery and a few pictures added. Tracy and the kids were cleaning up a bunch of the stuffed animals today. We have far too many and they make a big mess sometimes. As Annalise was brining them to be put away she would ask Tracy stuff like ‘What’s this ones name?’ She did that with Shrek but didn’t catch the name so she asked again. When she didn’t repeat the name Tracy asked, ‘Can you say Shrek.’ ‘No, I too little to say that,’ was her matter-of-fact response. |
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