Funny sayings

The kids often have quite entertaining conversations and such. A lot of times I listen from another room and giggle to myself because they're so funny. The other day, Leigh and Josiah had an entertaining conversation:
Leigh (in the kids bathroom): "Who put all this water on the floor?"
Josiah walks in: "Not me"
Leigh: "Did Luke put all this water on the floor?"
Josiah: "No."
Leigh: " Did Emily put all this water on the floor?"
Josiah: "No."
Leigh: "Did YOU put all this water on the floor?"
Josiah: "No, Timothy did it."
(Note: Timothy has to climb onto the counter to get to the sink and turn it on and then he gets stuck and doesn't think he can get down, so he hollers until someone rescues him. He hadn't been on the counter that night.)
Leigh: "Did you SEE Timothy put water on the floor?"
Josiah: "No."
Leigh: "Then how do know that he did it?"
Josiah: " Because the GROWN UPS wouldn't do that!"
Leigh: " Who are the grown ups?"
Josiah: "You and Mommy, and Luke and Emily and me. That's the grown-ups."
Leigh went on to explain who the grown-ups were and had Josiah help him clean up the water. It was hilarious. It's funny to me how Josiah thinks he's so much bigger than Timothy. Kids are funny!!

Out and about with Kids

When I go out I almost always have ALL my children with me, yes all- all four. I know... it's an enormous amount!! I often get spoken to by people, usually older folks. Lately, I've gotten a lot of "God bless you" 's. I got brave one day and told one person, "Thank you, He has!" They gave me a funny look.  Some to the affect of "God BLESS you", which means "You need God's help", some which come across as "You're crazy," and then there was one nice lady who actually said, "God has blessed you." Which was really sweet, because I do feel very blessed that I have children, and that I have (hold your breath) FOUR children. The Bible says that children are a blessing in Psalm 127:3-5 "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
It's funny because some people talk about four as being soooo many, and then they tell me they had 5, or 7, one man had 10, and I'm thinking, "you think four's a lot??" I just listen and smile and go on my merry way giggling on the inside because it's so funny!
Some people like to comment that I must be busy! I like to tell them, "It's a GOOD busy!"
Today, I had a new one. A lady in Dollar tree stopped me and asked,"Are they all YOURS?"
I said , "Yes, ma'am, they are."
She said, "Doesn't your husband know he's supposed to do something about that??"
I just kept smiling (trying hard not to laugh out loud)...and it was like she knew she probably shouldn't have said that and she went right into "Are there any twins in there?" No, ma'am. So then she asked each one how old they were. She then went on to tell me that she had two children and it was just awful!!
It was hilarious!!! Just makes me smile!!

Funny Sayings

The kids are always saying funny things. I always think I need to go write them down, but by the time I have time, I've forgotten them.
One of Josiah's favorite things to ask is: "Yes, you said?" He'll come and ask a question, and we'll answer him and he almost always says, "Yes, you said?" Even if we say no.

Josiah: "Did God tell Daddy he could go to work?"
            "Where is God's house?"
            "Did God say not to break the cup??"
            "Did God say not to throw the cup on the floor?"
(These were all asked at supper tonight)

Josiah: "What are we having for supper?"
Me: "Lasagna"
Josiah: "NO, It's BITzagna"

Luke while reading his God's World book about bees enemies: "like Winnie the Pooh"

Timothy has started screaming at Josiah, so Josiah screams back and then quietly says, "yourself" to the effect of "AHHHHHHHH,.... yourself."

Tonight Josiah saw a picture of Aunt Rachel on the computer and he said, "That's my favorite Rachel."

Timothy was wearing a shirt with a bear on it (not Winnie the Pooh), and Josiah says, "Him's wearing Winnie the Pooh, Mommy. You gotta be kiddin' me!"

Luke's prayer at lunch today included prayer for Emily to close her eyes, and for Josiah to not eat while we pray.

Josiah: "God said no to get on the cabinet."

Josiah: "Mommyyyyyyy"
Me: "Yes, Josiah?"
J: "Umbrellas don't like dogs. Specially Pongo. But not Cooper... he's a big ole boy!."

After we got home from church today, Leigh got out of the van and when he opened the kids door, he said, "It's gusty out!!" and Luke says, "Wow, it even made your hair move!!!"

New experiences

Saturday we went out on Family Visitation with our church. It was a fairly nice day for it, warm, but not roasting hot - nobody got sunburned. :)  Luke and Emily went with Pastor and his wife, and Leigh and I took Josiah, letting him walk, and pushed Timothy in the stroller. We only had about 4 people open their doors, so in that respect it didn't go very well. The other groups didn't do very well either. The kids seemed to enjoy it and I think it was a good experience for them. Luke was rather timid to start out with, but by the end of it he was participating very well! Josiah was hilarious! We had running commentary the whole time. He got to hold the tract to give to the people - supposedly they'll take it from a kid faster than an adult - and he did a very good job. One of the first houses we went to had a big, fluffy, live cat in the front window. He says: "Is that a cat? I don't like cats. (pause) I not afraid of cats. It has green eyes." Another house had little dwarf figurines and he wanted to know "what are those things called? Can I touch it?" A few houses later we walked up and they had three benches on their porch, and he informs us, "I'm going to sit on their bench." Um, Let's not, they might not like that... "oh" As we were walking up to one door, he says, "It might be a mean lady." I'm not sure where in the world that came from, because at that point the only lady that had opened the door was a really nice grandmotherly like lady who made us listen to her doorbell because it was missing notes. Several houses had dogs and he informed us at one house, that he has a dog, too. I said, "But we don't have a dog," and he tells me, " Well..... Cooper is my buddy." (Cooper is Grandpa and Grandmommy's dog) "He's at Grandpa's house." It was really sweet. The last house we went too had a nasty looking Halloween "dead person" hanging next to the door. It was a head/not quite skull thing with one eye bulging out and the other one either gone or inside (I didn't study it very much) with gray, stringy, decayed?? clothes? hanging on it (no other bones or anything). It wasn't too scary looking, just nasty looking. I tried to stand so he wouldn't see it, but I think he spied it as we were coming up to the house. So he asks, "What is that man doing?" I said, "He's yucky don't look at him." Josiahs says, "He's wearing a dress," and then he gives a little laugh, "that's funny, ... Can I touch his face?" I was like, "no, he's yucky!!" "Is he a mean man??" I don't know.
He was so fascinated by all the new things he saw and experienced. It was really cute and funny to hear him talk so much and ask so many questions.

In other news (possibly TMI)

Josiah is finally completely potty trained!! (and has been for a few weeks) Yay!! I kept putting off potty training him due to different things going on, so we finally got settled enough and got it done! I usually start potty training when the kids turn two. Josiah's birthday is in Sept., so we had just started school a few weeks before, and I was pregnant with Timothy who was due Nov. 30, so the energy and motivatin was completely lacking, and "they" say kids regress when you have a baby or changes, so I thought I'd wait until after the baby came and things settled down. Well, then Leigh gave me the News in October that we would be moving. Ha, How do you potty train a two year old, when you have an infant, and have to leave the house spotless at a moments notice and are trying to school two children?? Wasn't happenin' at my house. Oh yeah, and try to pack and declutter before having house pictures taken and putting a house on the market. Anyways, so he has been the latest, so far. He really wasn't hard to potty train due to the fact that he had full bodily control. It was mostly the training of "put it in the potty" and get there in time. I do have a theory that there is a certain time frame that works best. It would be when the time where sitting on the potty is still new and fascinating and the language and understanding isn't quite there to argue and "not want to" go on the potty and they request a diaper. I decided at one point that he was "to old" to potty train because he asked for a diaper because he didn't want to go sit on the potty. He should have been potty trained by then.
The other night at church I took him to go potty and there was blue water. His response was quite loud and firm, "I DON'T NEED A BLUE POTTY." I told him to just go ahead and go and then he says, "I flush the blue potty." That's fine, you can flush it! I didn't know it would be so traumatizing to have blue water in the toilet! :) One day I took him potty and after he was done (he sits on it backwards of his own doing), he says, "Git me offa here." He is so funny. (I think ages 2 and 3 are my favorite ages-the way they talk is hilarious)

Timothy was walking through the house today pushing his little push toy with wheels. He was so funny because sometimes he would let go and kind of tease us by standing there and then he would hold onto it and go some more. I wasn't sure how he would do with it and so I was very careful when I stood him up to it. I was afraid the wheels would move too fast on the hard floors and he wouldn't be able to keep up with it and would face plant, but when it started getting ahead of him, he had enough balance to pull back on it and not crash. He DID NOT appreciate Josiah trying to help him though. He gets quite vocal with Josiah. It's very funny!

Luke told us tonight that he had an idea to "draw beautiful pictures to sell to help make money until Daddy got a job." So he decided to draw some beautiful pictures anyways even though Daddy already had a job. They range in price from "3 sents" to "6 dollers". It was really sweet. He aslo learned to ride his bike without training wheels the beginning of September. He had to overcome his fear the first day and about two days after that he was doing it!!

I guess I should have put this first, but Emily accepted Christ as her Saviour a few weeks ago!!! I've been trying to encourage her to tell people, but she is very shy and quiet about it. Probably like someone else I know....:) I was so excited. Every time we would talk about Jesus and sin and whether she was saved or not, she would just cry and cry, so I knew she was sensitive to it, the understanding or something just wasn't quite there, and she would say she didn't know how, even though we would have just explained it. This time I explained it to her and she cried and cried, and asked me to help her!!! I was so glad it was her decision and she finally asked!

Funny kid

So, today after I finished my teaching for school, I started decorating J's birthday cake. It was before lunch and since we only had two pieces of bread left, I thought I would let J pick whether he wanted a sandwich or macaroni and cheese for lunch. He has had birthday on the mind this week because E had her birthday last Saturday, and his is the day after (although that doesn't quite register for him yet), and he was excited because I was making his cake. So I asked him, "J, would you like a sandwich or macaroni and cheese for lunch?" He gets a funny look on his face, like he's trying to decide, pauses for a few seconds, and says, "CAKE!!!!"  I told him he couldn't have cake, and asked him again and his answer was "nothing."  After a little more conversation he finally decided on a sandwich. :)

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!

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. "

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?"