Cute Sayings

The past month we went to Krispy Kreme a few times because we were given some Valentine coupons for free doughnuts. I usually take the kids during the day, so we can eat our doughnuts and watch the workings for a little while. It's a fun, free, outing that we greatly enjoy!!
Well, lately when E talks about Krispy Kreme, she has been calling it "Christmas Kreme." (Maybe it feels like Christmas to her?) :) It's really cute to hear, "Mommy, may we go to Christmas Kreme today?"
Kids are so fun!

Differences

I am fascinated by the differences between little boys and little girls! It is at times interesting, fascinating, annoying and at other times, Hilarious!

The kids and I were packing today to go to Grandpa and Grandmommy's house in Dothan (a 2 1/2 hr drive) for the weekend (left P'cola on Thursday after lunch, and leave Dothan on Sunday after lunch). Well, when L and E find out we're going to "Grandmommy's" house, they both have to pack their own "suitcases" (bookbags). I always make sure I go through them and discuss things with them and try to guide their choices.

The Difference:

L (our son)

• pajamas
• 1 pair underwear
• slippers
• book
• coonskin hat
• favorite car
• favorite stuffed animal
• toothbrush/toothpaste
• new toy phone

E (our daughter)

• pajamas
• slippers
• 2 dresses
• 3 skirts with shirts (of which only one matched :) )
• 3 pairs panties
• 3 pairs socks
• 3 pairs shoes
• hairbrush and comb
• misc small toys
• 3 baby dolls
• two extra little bags of baby doll accessories (blankets mostly and 3 bottles)
• baby doll bed
• 2 barrettes
• toothbrush in toothbrush holder
• and she wanted another bag to put one of her babies in

It just makes me laugh. And yet it really shows their personalities. L would wear the same clothes all weekend and it not phase him in the least, whereas E enjoys changing her clothes a couple times a day (although as she's gotten older, she's gotten much better with that). (although there are still a few days when she goes down for a nap in one outfit and when she gets up from her "nap" she is in a completely different outfit)

L also keeps one pair of clothes on the floor of his bedroom and that's what he wears each day until I specifically tell him to put it in the hamper ( which is usually every day, sometimes he's allowed to wear it more than one day in a row if we didn't do anything that day). E has all of her outfits that she has worn recently and pajamas (which are different every day) strewn about her room. Most days look like a tornado has gone through her clothes and left them laying about (we're working on it) :)

Anyways, I just think it's fascinating and quite Hilarious! They're so funny about it, too. We did discuss their choices, and we added several clothing options to Luke's bag and weeded out a few from Emily's bag, although she did still have an extra bag for her baby's stuff (and a spare pair of shoes) and she was allowed to bring her baby's bed (because we had room, and it's just sooo cute to see her play with it).

I love my kiddos!!!!!

Yay for T-BALL!!!!!!!!

T-ball

I love t-ball! Our church has an in-house t-ball league that they've done for two year, now, and it's so much fun for the kids to be able to get together with their friends and play. We practice once a week and all our games are on Saturdays. This year L is in the 6-8 year old age group and E is in the 3-5 year old age group. In the 3-5 year olds there were only enough kids signed up to make three teams, so about every third Saturday she gets to play two games in a row! They love it and I am so glad that we are able to have this opportunity for them to learn how to play with a team and to learn to have good sportsmanship!

Their numbers correspond with their ages.

Lunch time

The kids are eating lunch and L just told me, "J has freckles on his arm." I said, "He has what on his arm?" (I thought he said sprinkles, but they weren't eating anythings with sprinkles on them) L: "He has freckles on his arm, like he's freezing. "

Kids

I'm sitting at the computer listening to my kids play. I am so thankful that they play so well together. They are playing cars. L is using different voices for the cars and then E throws a little in. Ooops, Now I hear, JOSiiiiiiiAH. (I say, L he just want to play too). (sigh) "He messed up my track." Continued playing....... They're so funny to listen to. I want to bottle the moments up and treasure it, because I know in just a few short years, I'll be missing it.

Don't understand

Ok, so today I went to a consignment sale that is held in town twice a year. It's a huge sale, with tons of children's clothes and other items. You're assigned a consignor number and set your price, pay a consignor fee, print your tickets, put it on your stuff, etc. So, I go looking for good deals, which I would guess most people do, right? As I was looking through the little girl clothes I came across a cute peach shirt with plaid shorts set. The consignor price and description was : $24, (name brand) shirt and short set, new with tags. So, I looked at the tags (from the store), the price on the tags brand new without any discount was $16.99. So, my question is, "How can you take that to a consignment sale and up the price by $7?" I just don't understand.

Handwriting

L - my six year old son was working on his handwriting in school the other day, and he wrote a very nice cursive "a". He often calls me over to check his work, and this time he said, " Isn't that nice? Do you think a 10th year old wrote that?"

Getting Started

Well, I'm finally starting a blog. It has been something I've wanted to do for quite a while, just haven't had the opportunity, or no-how. There have often been times that I've thought, "I should put that as my status on facebook," or times where I had a funny story to "share", or just strange ponderings or rants and raves that I had. So, here I am. We'll see how long it lasts and if I can keep it up. :)