Awww Man!

We have been learning a prayer/song at school this week for our Friendship Feast. Littlebit has been practicing it at home... A LOT. It ends with Amen, pronounced "ah-men". When Littlebit sings it, she says, "Awww man!"

Don't Eat That Walmart!

"Don't eat that big walmart, Momma! I want it on my pizza!"

Last night, Littlebit kept calling the walnuts on our pizza, walmarts. All I could imagine was a big blue store on my pizza after that.

Umbrellas

Littlebit decided to use her new hat and a broom to make an umbrella. She sat on the couch for at least 10 minutes holding up her "umbrella". Hopefully we don't need umbrellas for awhile. I could use some sunshine.

Things They Say

Last night, while I was pushing the kids on the swings, Lovey said, "Yeah, I have more super powers, baby!"

Littlebit quickly looked over at him and shouted, "I'm not a baby, you old man!"

An Adventure

In December we had a little bit of snow. It didn't last long, but we had hopes that we would have more snow during the winter. (Last year we had snow in April.) We decided to buy the kids a sled, snow pants and snow boots in early January, but the weather never worked out to go sledding. It was either too warm and the sledding hill we were going to go to was closed or it was raining. I wanted to have fun, not be miserable.

This weekend was forcast to be beautiful and we decided we had one last chance to actually cut the tags off the snowpants and boots and go out to the snow. We decided to go to Mt. Rainier. Everything was perfect. We had lunches packed and managed to get out of the house by 8:30. Our plan was to return home in the early afternoon.

I showed Big Daddy where we were going on the computer and we had been to Mt. Rainier together, twelve years ago and since he refers to himself as a human map, I trusted him to get us there. That was mistake #1. We passed signs that said the highway was closed and I didn't question him. Mistake #2. I assumed that he knew something that I didn't and that he knew what he was doing. Mistake #3. All of these mistakes added up to us driving 2 hours to a road closed sign and needing to turn around. Ugh. We had driven towards Sunrise, which is closed in the winter. Apparently this was the only place at Mt. Rainier that Big Daddy had been to and assumed that it was the same place I was talking about.

There wasn't much we could do, but laugh about it and drive back down. After consulting the map again to show him where we were going, we decided that we would drive back around. We finally reached Paradise at 1:30, a full five hours after we had left our house!

It was beautiful with the clear skies and the sun shining. We all took turns going down the sliding hill in our sled. We had a great time. We spent about two hours sledding before the kids wanted to go home. We went home the correct way and it only took two hours. We were all more tired from sitting in the car than from walking up the hill many times.

Our camping adventure

Since the weather has been nice and it was Big Daddy's three day weekend, we decided to go camping over the weekend. Why do my great ideas always turn into a folly.

We actually got out of the house on time, but leaving town was another story. We drove all over looking for the Starbucks instant coffee to take with us, but we couldn't find any.

After stopping at my work and to visit my mom, we finally made it to our destination. There were very few people in the campground, so we had a lot of sites to choose from. We chose the site with the biggest area for the kids to run around. After setting up our tent and getting things situated, we decided to go the general store.

It was at this point that Lovey became stuck in his car seat. Seriously. I laughed and laughed and I am still laughing because really what can you do. One of the latches would not release and he was stuck. We have had this car seat for 4 years because Lovey still fits in it, but I guess 4 years of daily use and crumbs being spilled into it caused it to stop working - with Lovey in it. The nearest store I could think of that would sell car seats was Walmart and it was 45 minutes away. I hate Walmart and this visit reinforced that. I finally left the store with a booster seat even though Lovey is not quite 40lbs, but I wasn't spending $200 on a car seat.

We were ready to cut Lovey out of the car seat and stopped by my dad's for some scissors. Dad was able to free Lovey from his car seat (it had been over 2 hours) and we installed the booster anyways. (Dad later put some WD-40 in the latch and it seems to be working again.)

We finally made it back to the campsite, well after the kids' dinner time. We roasted hot dogs and made smores (or snores as Lovey called them). My mom and Scott came out for dinner too.

After freezing all night long, we went hiking in the beautiful sunshine. Littlebit had to be carried some of the way to the waterfall, but Lovey walked the 1.5 miles.


That night we made hot dogs again, but we were rained on so we didn't make smores. My mom and Scott left early and we crawled in the tent to read books.

By Sunday I was tired. Our air mattress deflated during the night and the ground was rocky. (whine, whine, whine) On our way out of town we had a delicious lunch at my grandparent's to celebrate my grandpa's birthday.

It was a crazy weekend, but we had fun.

Leaky faucet

Yesterday as we drove home in the pouring rain, Lovey yelled, "God, stop the rain!"

I heard, "Mom, stop the rain." So I told him that I had no control over the rain.

Lovey replied, "I told God to stop the rain. You said that God could hear what I was saying and that I could talk to him."

"Yes, God can hear you."

So he yells louder this time, "God, turn off the faucet." Well this caused me to laugh and then that sent him on a roll.

"God, turn off the leaky faucet."

"God, fix the leaky faucet. It's leaking. It's broken. See mom, the rain is like water pouring out of the faucet. Hey, God, did you hear me?"

Talk like a bird

While eating dinner outside Littlebit spotted a bird in a tree. She was very excited about it and kept yelling at the bird to rest. The following conversation then occurred.

Lovey: Nana says that we have to talk in bird language so they will understand us.

Lovey: Tweet, tweet. Tweet, tweet.

Littlebit: Tweet, tweet.

Lovey: Tweet, tweet, tweet.

Lovey (quite grumpy now): I'm talking to the bird, but he is not answering me. TWEET, TWEET.

Me: Hmm, I know how you feel.

Mispronunciation

After putting my new favorite peppermint lip gloss on her lips, Littlebit said, "A aysee Momma." I agree Littlebit, it is very tasty!

"Baa Baa Black Sheep have you any war?" Lovey just can't seem to say wool and I've never thought about asking a sheep if he as any war. Have you?

Littlebit points to her belly and says but. I think she is trying to say button, as in belly button.

How did you know his name?

This story happened last month, but I didn't write about it then. It still makes me laugh until tears stream down my face, so I thought I would write about it now.

We were in the Lowes parking lot and wanted to turn down a row to park. A truck was waiting to turn out of the row, so we stopped so they could go in front of us and we could go down the row. They were not paying attention, so we waited and then started to drive to the next row but then they started to pull out in front of us. Both vehicles stopped and the guy in the truck started gesturing and looked irritated. My dear husband, who was driving, says, "Pay attention, dumb a**!" and moves to the next row. The words have barely left his mouth when Lovey asks, "Daddy, how did you know his name?"

The mind of a two year old

Today Littlebit was riding her big stuffed horse she received for Christmas and kept saying neigh and then flinging herself off of the horse. Then she would say, "Whoa, Horsey," as she got up. She also believes that her horse needs to eat felt hay (which she stole from Lovey's barn) and tonight she wanted me to brush the horses teeth before I brushed hers. I tried to explain that I couldn't see the horse's teeth, so she told the horse to say, "Ahh."

Littlebit also received a baby doll for Christmas. She loves this baby doll and has been known to walk around the house looking for it and yelling, "Baby!" For the past two nights when we lay down to read our bedtime story, she has been adamant that I hold the baby doll so it can see the book too. At least she knows it is important to read to your baby.

Funny things

Today while leaving Lovey's preschool, Littlebit wanted to play in the nursery and I said no. She got down on her knees and begged me. "Peas momma, peas." (This is please in Littlebit talk.)

Then walking into preschool I asked her if she was stinky. She emphatically said no and then held her nose, said p.u. and then pointed to me.