Girls' cute sayings

At 4 am I heard little Ellie calling, "Mama, Mooommmy". I went into her room and asked, "what do you need?"

"More candy"

"Candy?"

"Oh water"

This morning Isabelle says to me, "Mom, did you know that most of the world is not earth?" I asked for clarification and she said, "like, there's way more water than earth". I asked "oh, when did you learn that?" Thinking maybe it was discussed in Sunday School. 

"Just now, this movie has a spinning world at the beginning and I could see it."

Smell funny?

Elijah went running past me and I caught a whiff of a familiar odor. I said "Elijah? Do you smell funny?" 

He stopped midstride, looked at me and breathed heavily through his nose making a sniffing sound.  

Counting

Isaac was practicing "one, two, free..."

I asked "what comes after three?"

With no hesitation he exclaimed,

"Spank your butt!" 

She's so young!

Isabelle "How old is Grandma?" 

Daryl "oh, shoot, sixty-"

"SIXTY?! But she looks so young!"

Defiance in the first degree

This morning Ellie was walking around with a snack cup of cereal. She started dancing and accidentally spilled some. I said "uh oh, we better pick it up" 

"No!" Was the response

In tried gently coaxing her but she was adamant.

"No!"

I finally said "you need to pick this up with me our you're going to get a swat."

Her response?

She walked over to the spot where she had spilled and dumped her remaining cereal. 

"I'm almost a grown up"

Last night while talking to me Isabelle announced, "Mom, I'm almost a grown up!" 

I asked how she figured that. She said "after 7, comes 8, after 8, 9, after 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 , 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and then I'm a grown up!"

A Wonderful Weekend

Hubby took us on an Excursion this weekend to explore some local beauty. 

The views were fantastic! We found some places that we may like to camp as the kids get a little older. 

None of the pictures do justice to how high we were or how steep the sides were. I'm normally quite calm while riding in mountain terrain, but I shrieked in terror a couple times on this trip. 

As Daddy contemplated our proceedings, the kids started drifting off for naps. 

Those tracks in the rear view are where our heavy duty 4x4 started sliding sideways on the freshly rained upon clay road! What a spooky feeling to be up so high and sliding! By the Grace of God it was on level ground with bushes and trees lining the sides of the road. 

The days are long, but the years are short. I'm glad we abandoned a boring Saturday of housework for an adventure as a family.

And then we ended our weekend as perfectly as possible with a houseful or potty-training kiddos. You see, for a week the kids' bathroom had been out of order. Our only clue was Isaac had been sitting on the toilet and flushing repeatedly and then told me "I flush it all gone". This is what was found...