Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Green Beans, bananas, and French fries!

James got to taste his first French fry this week (McDonald’s, of course!) courtesy of his Gran.

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He’s a fan, to say the very least.  :)

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And there’s just nothing better than a fry in one hand and a banana in the other, right?

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Turns out the giant hunk of banana was a little much for James.  He’s a shover, like his biggest sis.  :)

I steamed some fresh green beans last night, and James loved ‘em!

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He did a good job of eating them too.

His absolute favorite food still remains Cheerios, but he’s pretty good about trying new things…as long as it’s not pureed.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Running list of funny comments and conversations


Natalie and I are sitting on the couch. Everyone else is still asleep or asleep again. Natalie’s holding this little piece of cloth that she has decided is a doll baby wipe.


Natalie: (saying something about changing the baby’s diaper or checking for poopy)


Natalie: She’s not listening.


Me: Who’s not listening?


Natalie: You.






Natalie singing:


Mary had a little man, little man, little man…






Joanna: Sometimes the light is too bright and it hurts my ears.






Me: Auntie Kathryn is coming tomorrow.


Natalie: And her hold me a lo-ot (two syllable version of lot). It’s fun to me.








Natalie calls toilet paper “privacy.” I’m not exactly sure how that started; I just realized it. You know she has to be so confused when we ask her if she needs privacy, she says yes, then we back out of the room. She grabbed some toilet paper the other day to give to Matt so he could take care of a bug. She tells someone (I think Mindy, maybe?) sitting on the couch that her daddy needs privacy. That’s when I figured it out. I find it so hilarious I’m having a hard time making myself correct her.








Joanna just got this toy from McDonald’s named “Penny.” She keeps going, “Hey Coin!”

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

I’m clearly craving bacon.

And not just bacon, but bacon wrapped around beef.

Again from Pioneer Woman, big fat bacon sliders.

Be still, my heart.  I can think of only one thing to do.

Get bacon.  Get ground beef.  Get/make some rolls.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

It’s only Tuesday?

Hee hee, just kidding.  We’ve had a good week.  :)  It’s funny though, the kids are already asking to go back to school.  They could feel on Monday that they should have been getting ready for school on Tuesday.  At least one of them asked where their lunch was.  Natalie’s been asking for Miss Anne and Miss Joan. 

I’m trying not to take it personally.  :)

I’ve been collecting some “school” or quiet time kind of activities for the girls.  I have a few that they both like, even though they may be more “developmentally appropriate” for one or the other. 

Here is Natalie sorting her colors

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and matching heads and tails of animals.

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Joanna is counting and marking her answers with clothespins.

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She’s a genius.  :)  I need to print the next set, with higher numbers.  She’s got these single digits down!  She had fun with it.

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Today Joanna (with her buds Anna and Emma) started her next set of swim lessons. 

I did not take one single picture.  Oops.

Afterward we went to Lisa’s for lunch and playing.

My Joanna sure knows how to dress up.

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Lisa said she could borrow this costume, so we brought it home and she spent most of the afternoon in it.  :)

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Natalie trying on the pretty pink sparkle hat.

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And tonight we had enchilada night!!

I brought Cheerios and some pureed food (carrots, rice, and applesauce).  James was all about the Cheerios, of course, but only would tolerate a few bites of the puree.  Oh, well!

Grandma had just opened a can of peas though, and I let him have some.

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They were a hit!

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And yes, that’s a big ol’ blob of snot coming out of his nose.  Ew, right?

It was a fluke that I caught Matt with his mouth open so wide in this next shot.  He told me to take another, but I said I could crop it.

I did not say I would crop it though.

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I still think he’s handsome.

Meatloaf

I was browsing through Pioneer Woman’s site (my Kindle is in the room where James is napping), and I saw this:

It’s meatloaf (which I already love anyway), covered in strips of bacon.

I cried a little when I saw this.

And now I want it so very very badly.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Hokey Pokey

Conversations

Natalie: (dressed in jammies, dress-up shoes, and a ratty cowboy hat) I a cowboy.  Bee haw!

Me: Yee haw!

Natalie: No, you not a cowboy.


Natalie: I don’t want to put my pillow in the time machine.

Me: You don’t want to put your pillow in the washing machine?

Natalie: Yeah.


The girls were watching our Cedarmont Kids Sunday School Songs DVD, and there is one where the kids are singing “Jacob’s Ladder” and they’re at a gym and swinging on a ladder.

Joanna: I want to swing on a ladder like that. (she says this a few times through the song)

Natalie: (patting Joanna) My sister wants to swing on the ladder.

Me: Do you want to swing on a ladder too?

Natalie: nods, eyes wide

Me: Well, I guess we’ll have to find one like that.  I don’t know where they are.

Joanna: Are they on Amazon?