Kate (out of the blue last evening): Guess what?
Me: What?
Kate: The tomb was empty because Jesus is risen!
Amen, Kate!
Natalie recently had the chance to be "Mary" in her school Easter play. Such a sweet presentation put on by the kindergartners!
The kids saw an ad for a humongous inflatable water
slide/pool thing for the backyard. They were talking about pooling
their money to buy it and then realized that even then, they would not
come close to affording it. Kate came up to me and asked, "Can we have
lots and lots of money?" I told her to ask her dad. She found Jon
downstairs and very seriously asked him the same question. :) I have a
feeling this won't be the only time in our lives we are asked for "lots
of money" from this little girl.
What talent! Perhaps playing his songs upside down will come in useful someday.
Sleeping like daddy
Natalie: (in reference to Kate) Why don't you ever consequence her?
Natalie handed me yet another card. I opened it and read it aloud, "I
love you, Mommy!" Natalie said, "That's really the only thing that I
know how to spell that's sweet." :)
Kate was eating a piece of chocolate from her Easter Egg Hunt.
Me: One more, but then NO MORE CHOCOLATE for the rest of the day!
Kate: Then can I just have ganilla? (vanilla)
The kids took it upon themselves to "clean"/organize the food on the shelves one night. It might have been a scheme to stay up late. It worked.
Kate to Scott: We've got to find Natalie and punch her in the face! (Could my sweet 3 year old say such a thing??!)
The older two kids recently brought me their money jars and said that they wanted to buy a new "sleep friend." Scott quickly selected a stuffed John Deere tractor. Natalie searched for quite some time, but couldn't find something she could afford on Amazon. She said, "I keep having enough cents, but not enough dollars." :) Finally, she found a Shopkins plush toy that she wanted to buy.
Kate saw what was going on and asked to buy something too. I told her to bring me her money container. She brought it in, but it only had two pennies left inside. After thorough investigation, I come to find out that Big Brother and Big Sister had something to do with this. They had been selling their old, discarded toys to Kate in exchange for her money! She was a pleasant customer to do business with evidently and never turned down an offer. Moreover, I learned that Natalie had also been charging Kate coins whenever she got out of bed after being tucked in at night. Kate, who frequently gets up to tell me "one more thing" was being fined for this behavior by Big Sister. Natalie took it upon herself to do this and was pocketing the profit!
Opportunist #1
Opportunist #2
Sucker #3- "Poor" Kate
(The kids were all playing well together one day- John Deere tractor giving rides to Lalaloopsy Dolls and Shopkins.)
Scott made these brownies ALL BY HIMSELF. I sat in the other room and listened to him talk through all of the steps with Kate.
*For those (Grandmas) who may be concerned, I did help Scott put the brownies into the oven.
They were quite tasty. I tried to think the best of his egg cracking abilities. Hopefully there won't be any crunchy bites in future snacking. So far, so good!
Jon asked Scott how he learned to do such a thing. Scott said, "I read the directions on the back of the box." (Duh! implied but not spoken)
If this isn't college resume material, than I don't know what is!:)
