I put some pictures up at my blog All Blogs Lead to Rome of the kids playing out in the snow. This is the most snow we have gotten here in a long time. Go check out the pictures.....
Sorry it has been so long since we last posted. I plan to be better going forward, starting with.....
Tonight our family went to a pretty neat walk through Christmas light display with some good friends of ours. Before we met them to head out to the lights we ate supper at the Chick-fil-a Dwarf House in town. (For those of you who don't know, a Dwarf House has a regular Chick-fil-a on one side and a full serve restaurant on the other.) After eating, and on the way to meet our friends, this is the conversation that occurred between myself, my 7 year old son Jace, and my 3 year old daughter Sophie:
Jace: Why do the Chick-fil-a cows say "Eat more chicken"?
Me: Because most fast food restaurants serve things like hamburgers. You know what hamburgers are made of?
Jace: Cows.
Me: Yep. So the cows want us to eat more chicken because then we aren't eating hamburgers.
Jace: I get it. So the cows want us to eat more chicken so we don't eat them.
Me: Yes.
Jace: What I don't get is why do they want us to eat more chicken? Why not some food besides chicken that is not hamburgers?
Me: Because the cows are advertising for Chick-fil-a and Chick-fil-a serves chicken sandwiches so they want us to eat Chick-fil-a food. I guess if they were just random cows that didn't want to get eaten they might mention other foods but since they are Chick-fil-a cows, they say "Eat more chicken." Regular cows could say "Eat more pigs" I guess.
Sophie: Pigs are not yummy!!
So the kids have a new (old) computer in their room now. It's a desktop and they are used to using our laptops so they are still adjusting to the change, especially Sophie since she hasn't ever used one before. She has a Dora game and I turned it on for her this morning and left her to play while I went to feed Maddie Rose. After a couple of minutes she came out and said she needed help because her game turned off. I asked her if she pressed any buttons and she said yes. So I asked her which one? She said "The one that says don't EVER press the button that you just pressed ever again" Really? There's a button that says that? I must have missed that. Turns out it was the power button. Apparently it speaks to Sophie...have to look into that.
You can't really trust anything Sophie says because she tells a lot of stories that are completely made up...but she tells them very convincingly so if you don't know that there wasn't an actual swarm of bees that stung her at Mimi's house you might believe her.
She's also a little confused about what an allergy is. She's heard us talk about allergies since Emma and I both suffer from them and somehow she has decided that she must have a problem too. So when she doesn't want to do something (like put on her shoes or put something away) she tells me that she can't move because she's run out of allergies. (energy?) This excuse hasn't worked for her yet, but she keeps trying. Good news, though...she was standing near me earlier and she found her allergies in her ear. I guess she can do things now.
Jace is funny too. Last night we were watching tv and a commercial came on. Jace got all excited and said "I LOVE those Mr. Moustache man chips" (Pringles) He was also telling me a story about something that happened last year on "Happy Fool's Day" (you know, April 1.)
We are working on potty training Sophie. She knows how to do everything, but just isn't very interested in doing it. We've tried bribing her with m&m's and stickers and a potty chart with little success so I came up with another strategy...I told her that once she is potty trained and we can stop buying pull-ups that she can start getting an allowance like Emma and Jace. So today she asked me "What is that smell?" (never a good sign) and then told me she had to go potty. She was already dirty at this point so I told her that she had to let me change her first and while I was changing her I reminded her about our allowance deal. After she was clean, she went in the bathroom to go potty and when she came out, she said "OK, I'm all trained up!"
Somehow I'm not convinced...but it would be great if it was that easy.
And another bonus Sophie story - we were in the car the other day and she sneezed twice. She said Oh! I had two bless you's in my nose.
Tonight at dinner Emma informed us that she likes to read books that happened a long time ago. Her example: you know, the books that start off like in the 1980's. She felt bad when I told her that was when we were her age. Of course, I guess that does seem like a LONG time ago to her.
Last night we were on the way home from church and Jace told us that he'd had a bad dream the night before and he hoped he didn't have the same dream that night. So, to get his mind off of it, Sheldon asked the kids what the best and weirdest dreams they've had were. Emma started telling us about this very involved crazy dream she had. Then, at the end, she suddenly covered up her mouth and said "You're not going to put that on the blog are you?"
Poor kids these days, they not only have to be worried about their parents embarrassing them by telling stories but also by the stories being immortalized in cyberspace.
We were on our way home after dropping the kids off at school today and Sophie decided she was going to make animal noises. I hear her in the backseat oinking and make an appropriate comment about her sounding like a pig. Then all of a sudden I hear this repeated high pitched squeal. I asked her what it was and she said "a tapir." Oh, of course, how silly of me. A tapir.
Thanks Diego.
So, Sophie got stuck in her pillowcase tonight in bed. I don't know what would cause the idea of taking the pillowcase off her pillow and getting inside of it to occur to her.....but I do know that when she gets in there she can't get out by herself.
Emma was sitting on the couch tonight next to me entertaining Maddie Rose, who was in my lap. She was talking to her and tickling her and Maddie Rose was cracking up at her. All of a sudden Emma said "Oh." I looked down and Maddie Rose had dived down, grabbed Emma's arm and tried to eat her. Fortunately, she has no teeth yet so at this point, it's pretty painless when she tries to eat you. I said, "she tried to bite you" and Emma said, "No, I prefer to believe that she was kissing me." A few minutes later, Maddie Rose grabbed Emma's nose. Emma said that she was trying to hug her. At least she has a good attitude about it all and loves her baby sister.
