Lover of Sweets: Back to School

Aaaahhhh...the first day of school. I remember when I was a little girl and how excited I was to go school shopping with my mom. My mom always tried her best to accommodate me with the latest styles, unfortunately her secret wish for me to be her twin always won out. Inevitably, there were always a few days when I could be mistaken for my mom. We had the same short hair and glasses. It was very common for my glasses to be broken; being held by a rather large chunk of dried out glue. I will have to experiment with my scanner today so that you may see first-hand what I am talking about.
Thus, it is my mental rule for my kids to be happy with what they look like when they skip off to school. I KNOW, it's not a fashion show and they should be grateful that they even have clothes! Blah blah blah, I say my kids are gonna look cute if it kills me!

I mean, look at this little dude! How happy do you think he was when he picked out this green shirt (his favorite color because of John Deere) with a front- end loader on the front? Very happy indeed!

Cool Things My Kids Say

Gordy: "let's hug everychother"...said when Sweets gets home from work and I'm kissing him hello. Little dude will usually run over to us and want to be picked up and hugged by both of us at the same time. So cute.
Gordy: "What heck!?" Said when Maddie was throwing a huge fit at some hotel we were staying at some hotel.
Gordy: "I'm outta heo (here)!", said when he was fed up with his sisters.
Gordy: "I'm so sick of it"
The other night at the dinner table I told the little guy that he needed to tidy up his room after dinner. He leaned back in his chair, put his hand behind his head and sighed "Aw Mom! I'd love to do that, but I'm too tired!"
A sweet conversation while my girls were bathing (I was in the next room): Charley: "Mom? Do women HAVE to get naked when they have babies?" Maddie chimes in before I have the chance to answer "NO, only SOME women, like Catholics".
Today from the backseat, Gordy said to me "Mom, I don't dream about noodles." This statement was of course in reference to the movie, Kung Fu panda. So then I asked him what he DOES dream about. Well, he proceeded to tell me what kind of trucks and superheroes he dreams about for the next five minutes straight. THAT is a long time for such a little person!
I had to put Treatums in time-out in his room today for yelling at me. I told him that he could come out when he was ready to speak nicely. A few minutes later he came out into the kitchen and very calmly announced "MOm, I'm gonna talk to the police if you don't stop it". So back to his room he went.
Last night while I was at work little dude was in bed watching TV with Sweets when all of a sudden he looked over and asked his dad "are you a woman?". Sweets, taken aback said "No, I'm a man." Then little dude: "Oh, you're a man?"
Chookie yelling "Neva!"; which is to say "Never!"...when badly offended. Later it was "Never never again! HMM!" and then a good slamming of the door. I remember loving to offend her just to see all the tiny drama.
NoniGirl went to a baptism with Sweets, during the hymn NoniGirl turned to her dad and asked "Do you even hear yourself singing, your voice is all low and like blah blah blah".
Chookie telling Nonigirl "Weo, you stink" when Nonigirl announced that something at the dinner table was stinky , informing us that she "has good smells" (meaning her nose is sensitive to smells).
Today I overheard Gordy playing with a little race car made of Legos that Nik had made a long time ago. He was yelling "Steve come back!" I asked Charley who this Steve was and she told me that Gordy named his car Steve. What? I keep wondering where he has even heard that name!
When Charley was 2 she would always tell me she loved me. One day I gave her some chocolate milk in her sippy cup. She looked at me and then down at ther milk and said "I yuh you chochet miwt". Which is to say: I love you chocolate milk.

Inspirational Quotes That Ring True For Me

A rose can say I love you, and orchid can enthrall,But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist is the very best gift of all.
Brick walls are there for a reason, they are there to show us how much you want something.
I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -Mencius
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. -LP Hartley
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.-Author Unknown

6 comments:

Salty Incisor said...: fashion plates all!; September 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Jana said...: You have some very stylin' chillrun.; September 5, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Kass said...: Your whole family always looks soooo cute! I love that Gordy picked out his own John Deere Green t shirt w/ frontloader screenprint! Your girls. . .adorable. Is Nick too old for first-day-of-school pictures? I; September 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Perla said...: so so cute! did you take little dude to the monster truck show?; September 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Catherina said...: Too cute! I just love your girls sense of style! They really are quite trendy:-) Sequin belts and all:-) he he he. Love it!; September 9, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Mugsy said...: O how I love that your moms secret wish was to have you both be twins! Man alive those little neices and nephews of mine are dang cute!!; September 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM

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