Song Titles

Nothing incredibly earth-shattering here, but I just always want to remember Katelyn's guess for the tune of Feliz Navidad.  The girls were betting how many notes they could guess titles in, and when I played that one, Katelyn shouted out, "A-lees Mah-di-da".  That one made me lol.  :-)  I gave both girls a point for that one, since Breanna knew the correct title.  :-)

That's a long walk

So after Shane's birthday dinner out, we were driving home, and Katelyn was receiving texts on her real-but-not-active phone.  Apparently her boyfriend Ken, who lives in Dakota, and is very in love with her, was texting her because he doesn't have a car and it's a long drive to Dakota.  Shane asked her if he had a job, because dads need to know these things.  She didn't know, so I said, "Does he live with his parents?  In their basement?" and she said, "He doesn't have a mom or dad."  Shane said, "Well, then how did he get on this earth?" and she said, "He had to walk."  (Her story ended up being that they actually lived in Dakota for 5 years, but are in heaven now.)

Different "P" Word

We read an article in a National Geographic magazine Breanna brought home today, and I went through the vocabulary list at the end, alternating between each daughter.  Of course, Katelyn didn't know any of them, since she hadn't really been listening, but on her turn I asked her what a predator was anyway.  She said, "Of the United States?"  Well, I guess that depends on who you ask!  :-)

Still saying it wrong...

This morning, Katelyn told me my panties need more water and sunshine.   Still PEONIES, dear.   Still peonies.

Then during Candy Land, she was worried about landing on the ricolice spot.  :-)

Say what?

Katelyn announced to the family at dinner last night that "Mommy's panty flowers are gonna open up and be so pretty."  Um...took me a minute....PEONIES.   PEONY FLOWERS.

Spanish 101

Breanna is reading the Josefina American Girl books, and a few days ago I told her it was pronounced "Ho-sefina".

Just now:
B:  This book took place when Josefina was alive, when J's sounded like H's.
Me: Um, that's just the Spanish language, honey.  J's still sound like H's in Spanish.
B:  Oh, well then this is from when J's first sounded like H's.
Me: OK, Sure.

A lesson in similarities/differences

Breanna: "Audrey had on a blue shirt today, too. And her hair is the same color as mine! So we looked just the same! Except for our shoes and pants and our faces."

Have to admit, I may have LOL'd at my child today. I tried to keep it quiet, though. 

A healthy relationship with law enforcement...

Okay, confessing my sins to establish the back story...

We bought an old car to have a 2nd front-wheel drive care for these lovely Indiana winters, and um, sort of put the license plate to our old car on it.  We usually put everything in both our names, and we just never seemed to get to the BMV together to take care of getting the registration/title/plate done.

So about 3 weeks later on New Year's Eve, I got pulled over with the girls, b/c my plate was expired, and sort of registered to a different vehicle.  Add to that that while I did have correct proof of insurance, the title I had (no registration, obviously) was still in the previous owner's name.  Then on top of that (and this wasn't my fault), the VIN # was actually registered to someone other than the name on the title the seller had given us.  No idea how to explain that one, but the police determined I wasn't an evil car thief (helped that I had met the officer before and we have a mutual friend), and I got a warning for the expired plate and was told to go straight to the BMV, which I did.  For some reason, the girls were absolutely terrified of the the policemen.  Getting pulled over always gets my heart going, and it's not my favorite thing, but they were almost in tears they were so scared.  So since then I have made it a point to remind them that the police who pulled me over were just doing their job to keep us all safe and they're not scary - they're the good guys.

ANYWAY, yesterday Katelyn and I fishtailed turning out of our neighborhood onto the main drag, and were about perpendicular to the road for a few seconds.  I said, "Phew," and Katelyn's first thought was, "Are the police gonna come?"

Then this morning, I was telling Breanna about what happened yesterday, and after Katelyn interjected, "That was not cool!!" Breanna's first thought was, "Did you get a ticket?"

OK that was a lot of typing, and yes, it was funnier when each of them said what they said than when I look at it in print.  But oh well, at least I won't ever forget it now.  :-)

Handles?

One I almost forgot about...in a Tiana book, her friend is in the background of the pic in a strapless dress, and Katelyn pointed out that, "she doesn't have any handles to hook on!"