Night night

Shane: Goodnight, Sweetie.
Katelyn: Goodnight, Daddy.
Shane: Sweet dreams.
Katelyn: Sweet dreams, Daddy.
(as Shane left the room) Katelyn: Don't let the bites bug ya!

Awkward!!!

After our fabulous first all-family trip to Holiday World, the girls were too tired to pose for even one more picture.  Note to self: make the children pose with the giant Santa Claus on the way IN to the park.  So I was still whining about it on the parking lot tram, and Breanna said, "It's not the real Santa anyway.  It's made of wood.  It would be awkward."

Handicapped people need cheese, too!!

When a block of cheese fell out of the fridge today, and Breanna replaced it, she informed me that a friend of ours doesn't have the little lifting "handicap door" so "handicapped people can reach their cheese."

I wasn't aware that the cheese had an accessibility problem.

Mommy Tax!

Many of you know there is a "Mommy Tax" in my house.  Many times I get my kids things I don't get myself (an ice cream cone at BK, a piece of candy, etc), and I take one bite/drink off the top and call it the Mommy Tax.  They are used to it by now, and know it's coming.  :-)

Well, today, we had homemade Orange Julius shakes for breakfast.  Katelyn volunteered to carry mine to the table, and on the way she took a swig and grinned at me and said, "Katelyn Tax!"

Role Reversal

I asked Katelyn today if she was excited to start school soon, and I told her it would just be a couple more weeks.  She said she wished it was today, and I said, "But I'll miss you!"  And she replied, "But I'm come back!  Every day!  Not on the bus, though."

More of Katelyn's Mispronunciations

Clementine oranges are "Valentines."
The little stuffed Aflac duck Grammy gave her is "Afquack."

I always tell her she cracks me up, or that she makes me laugh.  So today she told me, "Mommy, you laugh me up!!!"

Wednesday of this week was a particularly hard one with Breanna, and after she had stomped off to her room, I went to talk to her and Katelyn followed me.  She then told Breanna to "Get on the program!"

One more:  "stample" = to staple, OR to stamp, separately

Piñata = "peeyata"

Spelling Practice

As a spelling exercise, I laid down on my stomach and told Breanna to write her words with her finger on my back.  She said, "Where do I sit? On your bottom?"  I said, "Yes."  Then she said, "Oooh.  It's cushiony!"

How do you spell...

Katelyn teaching me to read before bedtime:

K:  If I put a T here (gesturing to an area on her wall), an E here, an L here, and an I here, and you put it all together (claps hands), what is it?
Me:  Teli?
K:  No.  (Shakes her head and makes the face only she can make.) Clock.