Breanna's thoughts on knives

As I unloaded the dishwasher:

B: Sharp knife, mom. Don't touch!!

Me: Okay, I'll be careful.

B: I don't want to touch a sharp knife.

Me: I just touch the handle.

B: Even when I'm a grownup, I don't want to ever touch a knife.

Me: Then who's going to make your dinner?

B: Remember when I said I'm going to marry somebody named Terry? Maybe he can make my dinner.

:-)

New stereo controls

Listening to the speakers go in and out in the car, I said, "Wow, it's getting really crackly, isn't it?" Breanna replied, "Yeah, can you hit the uncrackle button?" Um, I would if I could, dear.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Breanna's New Lyrics:

"Like a bridge over trouble waters, I will lose your mind."

Snow Day!!!

"Daddy canceled school today!" Wail, wail. "I was going to learn something new today!!" Tear, sob. And after clarifying that Daddy didn't cancel school, "Why don't they ever cancel work?"

Ballet terminology

Breanna's new ballet move learned this afternoon: the "arabasket" And yes, I somehow, with no dance experience, knew what she meant to say. But I like her word better!

At least she knows!!

The scene: Katelyn in the hallway wailing because I won't let her go in the wet bathroom post-bath because she's already dry and in jammies, Breanna in her room naked and wet and fidgeting around while I'm trying to get her dried off, and the phone rings, and it's probably Shane.

I said, "Uh-oh. I'm not going to get to the phone."

Breanna replied, "Because you have two whiny children!"

I said, "Yup."

Sisterly arguments

Breanna: She's hitting me!!!!

Me: Katelyn! What is this all about? Why do you keep hitting your sister?

Breanna: She wants in my personal space!!!

My little helper

Breanna was unloading the silverware from the dishwasher and putting it away last night and there were other things like spatulas in there. She got to a flat wooden spoon-type thing and she asked me where the Bunswatters go, and she proceeded to pretend to spank her own bottom and skip all the way to the drawer. Obviously she's not too traumatized by the swats she's gotten if she can laugh about it like that!

At least she's being honest!

Breanna and I were doing some door-to-door candle selling yesterday and we were talking about being God's representative as well as her school's. I explained that we need to always be polite and respectful, so we weren't going to cut through anyone's yards and we were going to say Thank you, and Have a nice day, even if people didn't want a candle, etc.

I asked her some other ways she could think of to be polite and she said, "Like if I want something and you say no, then after I'm done arguing about it, I can say, 'Okay.'" I said, "Or we can just skip the arguing part. How about that?" But I don't think she went for that idea.

What did you say????

Breanna called her pacifier Hanin. Yup, that's right - Hanin. It was attached to a clip on a ribbon and one day I walked in and it was hanging on the rail of the crib, so I said, "Hey, look it's hanging!" From that day on that was its name. When she couldn't find it, she would cry, "Hanin!! Hanin!!" and it was funny and pitiful all at the same time.

Now the time has come for Katelyn to name hers, since she's starting to say more words every day. Well, I have been referring to it simply as her pacifier and she knows this word, but it's a little long for her to say yet. So sometimes I say paci, which she also understands. Now keep in mind she doesn't always say all the consonants at the beginnings of words. For instance, fish is ish, shoes is actually oosh, etc.

So can you figure out what Katelyn is calling her paci? Sadly in times of longing, joyously when it appears, any time, any place, at any volume? It's a three-letter word. Yup, that's right, you guessed it! I suppose if she starts yelling it in church, we can just hope the lesson involves Balaam.

I once was lost...

I just found the Original Sweet Puppy. He was curled up in the fetal position underneath Breanna's mattress waiting for help. Yes, I've changed her sheets since he was "lost," but I guess this was the first time I've lifted her mattress to pull the dust ruffle back toward the wall side, and that must have been how he got under there in the first place. So I thought he'd been taken somewhere and lost when it was all my fault in the first place!!! We'll keep him as a spare in case the imposter Sweet Puppy gets lost. :-) Oh, and I guess Breanna's not a true princess (by fairy tale standards), because I'm sure that puppy is bigger than a pea!!

And NO, she will not be shown this site (or the printed postings) until she's all grown up. :-)

AH, AH, AH!!!!

At dinner, Breanna and I were having a conversation which resulted in one of us saying, "That doesn't count!"

Katelyn promptly shouted, "Ah, ah, ah!" as in the Count from Sesame Street as interpreted by me while reading. :-)

Well, we know what's important

We sat down to dinner a few nights ago and Katelyn didn't have her cup. I spotted it over on the end table by the couch. I told Katelyn, "Go get your cup. It's on the end table." She went in the general direction of the family room because I was pointing there, but she just wandered around. I said, "On the table by the couch." She looked on the coffee table, but didn't spot it on the end table. I said, "On the table by the red chair." She was still lost, so finally I said, "It's right next to the remote." The she looked right at the remote and got her cup. How bad is it that she didn't get all the other directions, but she sure knows what a remote is!!?!?!???

Duck!!!

The other day I took the girls in their wagon for a walk by the pond. We saw lots of ducks and some geese and really enjoyed it. Then on the way home, we walked on the sidewalk with trees hanging ridiculously low due to someone's negligence, so low that I have to bend over double to walk under them. Breanna felt it necessary to warn me before each tree, saying, "Duck!" so I wouldn't hit my head. But Katelyn misunderstood, because every time Breanna said "Duck!" Katelyn chimed in with "Quack!"

Good dinner!

Breanna at supper: "Mom, sometimes I don't always say thank you for what you make, but sometimes I try it and it isn't gross."

inventive printing

I said, in response to Breanna writing a bizarre sort-of enclosed e-shaped thing where an a should be: Honey, That's not an a. Breanna: That's my a. Me: But no one else will be able to tell, b/c that's not what an a looks like. Breanna: Well, I can tell everybody!

How to pray

When I asked Breanna why she wouldn't close her eyes when we prayed, she said she just can't close her eyes very well. She said, "See?" and proceeded to scrunch her face up and sort of flutter her eyelashes. Then she said, "I'm just not very closey-eyeish." Oh, well that explains it. It would indeed be difficult to close my eyes if I were not very closey-eyeish.

Explaining Death

Breanna asked me if I had any Papas. I said, yes, but they're both in heaven now. She wanted to know how they got there - not what allowed them to be there, but physically how they got there. I said, trying not to scare her since she just got over being sick, that they were old and they got sick and their earthly bodies just quit working. So their spirits went to heaven to be with Jesus. This seemed to satisfy her, since it sounded better than her idea:

"Did they just disappear like magic? Or melt or something?"

Kiss it all goodbye

Our house is Ariel-free till Sunday - Long Story. Breanna brought me some Ariel pencils today and told me we forgot them when we took away all the Ariel stuff (so that was very honest of her). She then kissed each one and handed it to me and said, "Daddy said I could kiss all my Ariel things goodbye, so I am."

Pillow Pets

During one of the everpresent Pillow Pets commercials on Sprout (she wants the unicorn and tells me every time), I heard from the other room, "Mom!! They're even machine washable!!" So glad she's keeping me in mind.

Behavior Monitor

Breanna just told some inanimate object or another that it could not have any candy because of its behavior.

The Gospel According to Breanna

Once upon a time, there was a man named Abraham. He lived in a land called Abraham's Land. He had 99 sheep and they were pink. One got lost and he went to find it because that was being a good shepherd.

What?

After watching Joseph for months and months, Breanna recently asked me what an 'Ijistbin' is. Since this was not preceded by anything related to Joseph, I had no idea what she was talking about. This was first thing in the morning. So after lots of questions, she said, "The people who dance like this," and she proceeded to walk like an Egyptian. So funny the roundabout way kids think of things.

New Scripture references

Breanna has a craft foam egg decorated from something at church that says something about Jesus being our Lamb, and she insisted to Daddy today that it said, "Jesus is here every day. Matthew 23:17-8"

Mother's Day

First thing this morning, Breanna walked into Katelyn's room and said, "Happy Mother's Day!!!!" I thanked her and she followed up with, "I want to make Mother's Day special. I'm going to take a trip to Kroger to pick up some flowers." I said, "Oh, that's so sweet, honey," and then she said, "Because that's what the commercial said."

She hadn't watched TV for two days as of this morning, so I'm not sure when she saw a Kroger commercial, but I guess she just tucked the info away in her little memory from a few days ago. Love it. :-)

Sweet Love

Yesterday, Breanna actually cried because she doesn't want to go to Pre-K because she'll miss me too much. This is heartwarming after all the times she has yelled at me just in the last few days, not to mention the last 2 years! I told her it's not for several more months yet, and that she's going to love it and have lots of fun. For some reason there was just no consoling her about it yesterday. I'm sure we'll have more ups and downs about it, but the bottom line is: I think she needs other people to teach her, but I will definitely miss my girl - she's just growing up so fast. And Katelyn's not far behind. :-(

Going boating?

The other day the church where BSF meets was also a voting precinct center. On the way out, after I'd already explained it on the way in, Breanna asked if I was going on a boat trip. I said, "Huh?" She said, "Are you going boating, too?" I realized she had misunderstood and said, "No honey, VOTING, not BOATING." This got a good laugh from all the campaigners out in their lawn chairs with their signs.

Every mother's fear

I lost Breanna in the mall for the first time today, but found her quickly, thanks to a security guard and a nice lady in Merle Norman (next to Payless, which Breanna ran out of, wearing unpurchased sandals, when I was around the corner of the aisle and she couldn't find me). See, this is why I don't take my children places.

I was irritated at first, because I never would have imagined she would leave the store alone. I thought she was still in there (tiny store - 4 aisles) and just hiding around a corner or something. She had just been there trying on all the purses and backpacks and stuff. Once I was sure she wasn't in there any more, and I stepped out and looked around the mall hallway and saw all the busy people but not her, that's when I got scared!! I approached the 85-year-old security guard on his wheely thingy and then I heard his walkie talkie say "We have a little girl who has lost her mom at Merle Norman," so I found out that was right by Payless, turned around toward it and saw her coming out holding a woman's hand. The lady commented that she figured she had been in Payless since her sandals had the tags on them! So, yes, we're glad to be together again, and hopefully she'll stay closer to me in stores from now on!!!

Barking?

Breanna got the idea somewhere that barking at bees/wasps/flies will scare them away. This is very funny, but hopefully the neighbors don't think we're total weirdos.

Swirlies

The other night after a bath, Breanna wanted to put lotion on herself. I gave her a little bit that looked like a "C", or the start of a swirl on her hand. To skip to the end, this soon degenerated into a fit with her screaming, "I want a BIG swirlie, NOT a little swirlie!!!!!" repetitively at the top of her lungs and me laughing at her ignorance of swirlies.

Fairies and Princesses

We had little princess stuff as party favors for Katelyn's 1st birthday celebration tonight, and after the party, Breanna wanted me to wear the jewelry with her. Alas, I have a big head, and the very small necklace wouldn't fit over it. Shane has a rather small head (his hat size is 1/2" smaller than mine), so I suggested she try it on Daddy. She replied, "Okay, Daddy can be a fairy!" Um, no. But he is secure enough in his masculinity that he did wear the necklace (and the bracelet, and some lip gloss)!

The stool at the table

Breanna can't sit still at the table, so I said she would have to stand up to eat, but she wants to stand on a stool. The footstool nearby is very rickety, so she said, "I'll go get my bathroom stool. It's handy and standy."

Breanna's thoughts on Easter

"Easter isn't about candy. It's about Jesus & God. But candy makes it fun."

Bedtime Conversation

Breanna: I want you to be in heaven with me someday.

Daddy: I hope I go to heaven, too.

Breanna: Why?

Daddy: Why do I want to go to heaven??

Breanna: No, why do you hope you go to heaven?

Daddy: Because I want to be there, too.

Breanna: Well, do you believe in God?

Daddy: Yes.

Breanna: Then you'll be in heaven, because if you believe in God, you get to be in heaven!

Who would have thought?

Whose baby has ever thrown up all over the clean laundry they were carrying? And whose 4-yr-old has ever made up a song about how she wants to keep her potty seat, sung to the tune of Step by Step (O God, you are my God, and I will ever praise you...)? Maybe just mine.

Yummy.

The fun never ends around here. Breanna decided the jars of spices from the rack would make a good toy. I thought this was okay (stacking towers, etc), and she was sharing with Katelyn. Many are still sealed (like I know what to do with coriander seed), but somehow Katelyn got one open and she and the couch now smell very Italian. Okay, moving on to another toy...

Thanks for the heads-up!

I just went to put a load of laundry in, and everyone was getting along, so I decided to go to the restroom, too. I mean, you have to take advantage of those golden opportunities, right? Then I heard, "She spit up on your carpet.......And she's playing in it!!!!"

Ouch!

January 21, 2010

Breanna pinched her finger in a drawer today and came to show me, ever so carefully holding down each other finger to stick up only the affected one. The result made me chuckle through my sympathy.

Army Men

Breanna is picking up all our VHS tapes that Katelyn has decided to constantly pull out in a big pile, and she just got to Man in the Iron Mask. She said a couple of them look like Joseph's brothers (from the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat movie), I guess just because they have beards. Then she said, "The rest look like army men. Army men are mean." (They all look pretty serious on the movie cover.) I told her army men aren't all mean - Uncle Jerry is in the army. She said, "Yeah, he's a nice army man." :-)

Constructive Dinner Criticism

Tonight I made Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie from the back of the Bisquick box. It was quite tasty, but Breanna, who generally vetoes anything I make, said, "I'm not feeling this."

Christmas Toy Shopping

I took Breanna to ToysRUs today to spend some of her Christmas money. Out of the whole store, she picked an Ariel (surprise!) kickboard (and asked if I'd put a pool out on the deck so she could swim). But the funniest part was that she kept picking up toys from the bottom shelves that had tipped over. I told her it was okay if they laid down, but she didn't want to leave them that way. Whose child is this anyway??

Breanna's thoughts on cheerleaders

Breanna and Shane were discussing the Colts game and Breanna randomly stated that, "Cheerleaders are angry. And they don't like God." Um, not sure where that came from. :-) And I think the Woods would disagree!