Kidisms

After watching Liam play soccer for three weeks:

Esther: Why are they always kicking the ball?

With a full mouth during dinner:

Miriam: I can’t answer you. My mouth is full.

Dinnertime games:

Miriam: I have wings, a circle head, a small body, and small legs. What am I?

Me: (after several wrong guesses) What color are you?

Miriam: Whatever color birds are.

Me: Are you a bird?

Miriam: Yes!

On a breakfast date with Daddy after eating half her food:

Miriam: You’re not going to cook anymore for the rest of the day, right?

Bill: We’ll still have lunch, supper, and maybe a snack.

Miriam: (looking worried) I can’t eat anymore today! My belly’s already way too filled up with food!

Bill picking on me regarding a time I locked the kids in the van (which Liam doesn’t remember):

Bill: What would you think if someone locked their keys in the car?

Liam: That would be kind of dumb.

Bill: What if they locked their kids in their car?

Liam: I’m not allowed to say that word, but it’s spelled s-t-o-o-p-i-d.

My Wife Cracks Me Up, Part 4

“I have to eat one more bite. This one should be my last bite, but I wasn’t prepared that the last one should have been my last bite.”

Kidisms

*We couldn’t decide which blog these should be on. They reflect fun parenting moments and are sweet memories for our family, so we’ll be double posting these each time.

Ariana and Liam were being competitive one day trying to get their school work done first:

Me: You two don’t need to race.

Ariana: Yes, we do.

Me: Why do you think you have to race?

Ariana: Cause when we mess up, we have to race.

Bill: Do you mean erase?

Ariana: Oh. Yeah.

Big announcement:

Miriam: My favorite colors are black and green, cuz that’s the color of my poop.

That makes sense:

Bill: Should you disobey Mommy?

Ariana: Uh huh.

Bill: What?

Ariana: Uh huh means no.

A child’s observational skills:

After Esther held Josiah in the bathtub so Bill could give him a bath, she observed: “Daddy! Josiah has a tail like you and Liam do!”

We obviously still have much to learn with time concept:

Liam: How long will it take you to drive to Florida?

John: About 18 hours.

Liam: Whoa! That will probably take you 4 days! Maybe even 12 days!

Locks of Love

Our two oldest girls had been growing their hair out for quite a while and we had been talking about the possibility of donating their hair to Locks of Love.  Well, we finally decided to do that a couple of months ago since both Ariana and Esther easily had more than the required ten inches to donate.

Many tears were shed when the time came. By me.

Apparently, I was the most attached to their hair. Anyway, we were glad to use their ridiculously beautiful hair to help out kids who don’t have any for various medical reasons.  Enjoy the picturefest below (with a few token shots for Miriam who went for a haircut as well even though her hair wasn’t nearly long enough for Locks of Love).

Ariana first:

        

        

   Then Esther:

        

        

And finally Miriam:

The donations:

Before and after shots:

My sweet girls:

My Wife Cracks Me Up, Part 3

Court had just drawn a crocodile that she thought didn’t look much like a crocodile. As the kids were disagreeing with her and trying to convince her that it looked good, she replied, “I obviously need to show you all real art. Your standards are too low.”

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Using a magic eraser for the first time, Court exclaimed, “Oh my gosh! What is in this? It really is magic!”

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Courtney was singing along with a song from the 60′s when she stated with pride, “So, I just want you to know that before getting together, I didn’t really know any Beatles songs. But now, not only can I identify Beatles songs, I know some of the words, too. Like this song.”  My response, “That was 25 or 6 to 4. By Chicago.”

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“I know physics: I play Angry Birds.”

Ariana’s 6th Birthday

My oldest little girl is feeling less little all the time.  She’s an amazing helper around the house, eager to serve and try new things.  She rocks out her schoolwork, killing 1st grade even though she’s technically too young to be in it.  She’s a sweet, smiley child who still loves dancing around and being a regular little cutie.

I find myself especially grateful for her since she’s a trailblazer in our home.  When it comes to trying new things, there isn’t much that scares her.  This morning as I was toasting bread, I asked her if she’d ever buttered toast before.  She simply replied no and when I asked her if she’d mind doing it, she didn’t ask how.  She just grabbed a knife and went to it.  That’s my little Miss Initiative.

She’s got big grins and sweet giggles.  She loves fashion accessories and hourly applications of lip gloss.  She loves high heels with shorts and changing shoes multiple times throughout the day.  And even though she’s getting bigger, she’s still so little.  I have an impressive pile of the cute little drawings she does all the time, saying “To: Daddy, From: Ariana”.  I love that girl.

On a wooden horse at Conner Prairie

Playing historic games at the Feast of the Hunter’s Moon

Jammin’ out at the Rhythm Discovery Center

Ariana with her very pretty and colorful castle

In case you couldn’t tell, opening gifts on her birthday

Her requested strawberry Strawberry Shortcake cake.  Or would that be Strawberry Shortcake strawberry cake?

Happy Birthday, little Squasha