Nursery Fun!!

Thomas is just so stinking funny!! I was the Nursery Teacher at church yesturday and the kids were about to do singing time, and when they do this they are sitting on little rugs that are rectangle shape. So Thomas sat on just so -- so that he could bend the edges up around him. He shouted out "Look MOM!! I'm a HOT DOG!" I couldn't stop laughing !!

The other night for FHE, Thomas had the refreshments. So I had him help me make some Peanut clusters for the treat. The ingredients are peanuts and chocolate chips. I let him help me pour the chocolate chips into the bag and then I melted them down in a pot over the stove. Once they were melted I brought the pot back over to him and asked him how it looked?? I then had him pour the peanuts into the pot so that I could stir them into the melted chocolate chips. I asked him if he knew what we were making and he said, " Chocolate chip cookies !!" "Yummy!!!" I just had to laugh because they were actually peanut clusters. But hey, I guess they could have been called chocolate chip cookies.

This looks like .....

Last night for dinner I had a pan with brown gravy mixed up and Thomas and Katherine almost at the same time said, " This looks like chocolate !" Too bad it really wasn't.

I'll get it ....

The other day the kids wanted to have Macaroni and Cheese for lunch. Thomas was so excited -- he ran over to where the pots and pans are kept, and said, " I'll get a pan!" He grabbed one and came back and said, " Here, Mommy, I got one!" I looked at what he had brought to me and saw that it was the "steamer" part of my pan set. Now how cute is that. Totally eager to help, excited about helping, and grabbed what he thought would work. I'm going to be so sad, when he outgrows this kind of "cuteness".

Yogurt Please!!

Just today, Thomas: " Mom, I want some yogurt!" " Can I have some?" MoM: " What are you going to do for some yogurt?" THomas: " UMM" Mom: " I know what you can do!" Thomas: " What Mom? " Mom: " Give me a hug, and a kiss, and tell me that you love me" Thomas: Comes up and snuggles up to me and gives me the hug, then turns to my face and gives me a kiss and then backs away a little and says, " I love you, daddy!" MOM: " Aww, get away you" ( I said that jokingly but as I said that, he came back with this) Thomas: " i LOVE you MOM!!" Aren't they just precious!! Even if he is a stinker sometimes.

You're making mud,

Last night for dinner we had burritos, consisting of tortillas and refried beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and olives. The beans that we were using were really thick and on the dry side, Chris asked howcome they are so dry, and if I had added any water to help smooth them out. I said I hadn't added any and then I proceeded to get a measuring cup with a little bit of water to pour into the beans. Heidi watching close by saw what I was and doing and saw how much water I had poured in, and said, " Now your going to make some mud!" Luckily it wasn't mud that we were eating!!

October 2007 ---- While my children and I were eating dinner, Chris was gone at the temple. We were having hot dogs and tots -- due to their request!! They kept asking for Fry Sauce, (which is something that their Dad makes usually) seeing as how he wasn't home, I tried to make some myself. The kids kept telling me how it didn't look like daddy's and then I tasted it and it tasted fine. Katherine tried it and said well, it's not just like Dad's but it's okay. I said yeah I know it isn't as good as Dad's but it'll work. Katherine came back with a "Dad must have some special ingredient he uses to make it, like spit or something."

Potato Salad and Easter Eggs

October 14, 2007 Yesturday after church, I was making potato salad and my two year old little boy asked me for an Easter Egg. Of course, I was peeling plain white, hardboiled eggs. A few minutes later after I had finished peeling and rinsing off the eggs, he asked me "Why are you putting easter eggs in that bowl, mommy?" So I guess he has associated boiled eggs as being Easter eggs whether they are colored or not. I thought it was cute.

Pizza, Pizza

I was over at my sister in law's house this afternoon, and I hadn't eaten lunch or given my son anything to eat yet either. So I asked him if he wanted pizza? And of course he said Yes -- so I told him we'd pick up one, and take it to his cousins house and eat it over there. He said," Yes, lets get a pizza go home and eat it all!!! " I think he was very eager to eat the whole thing since his sisters were all gone at school still. But when I got to my sister in laws her red-headed five year old wanted some pizza as well. So we let her have a piece. But when she was looking in the box, she saw a piece with a bubble in it, and said, " I want the one with the bubble!!" It being a fairly large piece, I decided to tell her that I wanted the one with the bubble, because it's my pizza. She came back after about 10 -12 seconds and said, "Yeah, but it's my house!" She had me good on that one. I don't even remember who ended up with the piece that had the bubble.

Glass of Milk, Please

January 3, 2007 Heidi asked mommy for a glass of milk. Mommy said, "sure since you asked so nicely." Heidi started to say," I think this was my cup," - pointing to one on the table. I said, " I'm not sure who's it was, so will get a clean one. We don't want to spread germs." " Yeah, cause then I'll have the baby too." ( Because I told her that the cup she thought was hers was the one I had been using, and I was pregnant at this time."

December 11, 2006 For FHE Kaylee was in charge of the refreshments. She wanted to make Chocolate Chip cookies, and she read the recipe and we needed eggs. She opened the fridge and asked which ones to use? I checked the dates and two cartons had 12 -12 - 2006 as the date. She then said, " Two of these are due by tomorrow."

November 2006 Chris took Kaylee, Heidi and Thomas for a little while on a car ride. They went to Office Max and afterwards drove up and around the Provo Temple. On the way home Heidi our the blue says, " I love you Daddy, more than ice cream and cookies!"

October 30, 2006 For Family Home Eveing (FHE) activity we were carving our pumpkins. Katherine asked if she could eat the pumpkin. Chris said, "Of course." So she took a bite and said, " It's good!" So Heidi wanted to try as well, she took a bite but didn't like it as much. Katherine decided to go wash off her piece. Heidi said, " I'll wash mine off too! Maybe it won't taste so yucky!"

What Cereal??

January 2006

When asking Heidi one morning what she wanted for breakfast she said, " Cereal"

I asked her what kind, because we had Cheerios and Kix as options. She simply said, "the balls!" meaning Kix cereal because it's shaped like little balls.