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Tracy was doing school with Connor and Annalise walked in wanting to tell mommy something. She walked in saying it. Well… not quite saying it but more like mumbling it. She said it again when she had Tracy’s attention. But Tracy still didn’t understand so she said, ‘Say what?’.
Annalise cocked her head quizickly and sheepishly said, ‘what?!?’
At which point Tracy started laughing. Here’s the kicker tho. Connor started busting out laughing too and when he started it made Tracy laugh even more because he understood.
I had to put both kids to bed tonight at roughly the same time. As a result I sat in the rocking chair and read them both a bedtime story and then tucked them in. When I left I half-way closed the door and started feeding the turtle. At that time I hear Annalise saying, ‘knock knock, knock knock.’ and then Connor, ‘Daddy!’.
So I walk into the room and start up my speech about being quiet and paddling and such. Before I get started too much Connor interjects, ‘Daddy, let me tell you somethin… She tells ‘knock knock’ jokes ALL night long!’.
Birthday party at Longleaf Pool…. transformer theme.
We were putting Annalise to bed for the night. Doing the nightly routine of night-night kisses, going to the bathroom, negotiating over how many books to read, etc. However, this night Annalise wasn’t too excited about going to bed. At the end of the story she started asking about not going to bed. I told her that it was time to go to sleep, that we know it’s time to goto sleep when the sun goes down and it gets dark. Well. After getting down off my lap and on her way to get in bed, she detours to the window, looks outside and emphatically says, ‘Wake up sun!!!’.
Connor spent the night at his friends house the other day (Tyler’s). Well, at night before going to sleep Tyler’s mom (Niki) was going to send Connor to the bathroom to do his thing before being sent to bed. You see, Connor had just finished brushing his teeth and we’ve taught him that when you do one, you do the other. So he didn’t need to go. When Niki told him to goto the bathroom, Connor, instead of protesting right away, said something like: Let me ask my penis. You know, sometimes I talk to my penis… and right now its telling me I don’t have to go anymore.
How could she send him after that. I’d have had a hard time holding it together till he got to the next room. I wouldn’t want to bust out laughing (not wanting to embarrass the poor child). Course, why does he have to tell this to someone outside the family first? I’d have kept it quiet. Now that it’s out, I figure he doesn’t mind letting people know so it’s posted here.
Anyways, we’re at Chili’s having dinner and I take Connor and Annalise to the bathroom. Not wanting to let the kids out of my sight we all pile in the biggest stall (I don’t want to turn around and see Annalise washing her hands in the urinal or something). Connor rushes in cause he was dancing in his pants. Does his bussiness. Annalise is next. I start mine (Connor and Annalise are behind me with Connor preventing Annalise from opening the stall door). All of a sudden Connor walks to my side and blurts out really loud, ‘Whoa! You got a big _____.’ (You can fill in the blank I’m sure.)
Regardless of how right he is, it was still a few minutes before I left the stall. Course, I bet that’s why those people were pointing at me when I left the bathroom.
The other day Connor was being sweet and bringing Trace flowers from out of the yard. Annalise started mimicing Connor and doing the same thing. Trace was very touched and said, ‘You know, anyone that brings me flowers gets a kiss.’ To which Connor said, ‘Aww, I thought you were going to say that people who bring you flowers get ice cream.’
Annalise isn’t much of conversatinalist… but she is a tiny little engineer… or should I say de-engineer. She keeps getting herself into things and into various types of troubles. Trace likes to say that she’s our little Tom Sawyer. Up till this point we haven’t really kept track of things… but we’re gonna start now. And have a picture record of it too if we can think about it.
Up till now, what kind of things are we talking about? Let’s see:
- We caught her digging lillypads out of the 55 gallon aquirium. They were all hanging out with water dripping down the side of the tank. Trace wondered if she caught any fish.
- She found our cleaning supplies and was spraying Formula 409 all over the place… on walls, on furniture, etc… Trace even wondered if she had sprayed it into the fish tank.
- She became fond of feeding turtle-man, or ‘Man!’ as she calls him. We HAD two types of food. We only have one now because Trace found a nearly new can of food completely emptied into his water bowl. Man! was hiding under turtle pellet food.
- She got into the sugar or flour and had it spread all over the counters and floor in the kitchen.
- She climbed up on the counters in their bathroom and used the hand sanitizer and lotions all over her body and all over the mirror. (a picture of that will be added shortly to this post)
- She’s gotten to be a little artsy over the past couple of weeks. Too bad it is all over the walls and furniture (just like her mommy usta do).
- She’s opened the door a couple of times and let Jazmin run the neighborhood.
It was about time for Annalise’s nap today so I said to Tracy something like, ‘I’m going to put her down for her nap in just a bit.’ At that point Annalise sighs and goes ‘Uh-oh’.
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