How Not to Alert Someone to Your Presence

So Isaac was upstairs taking his nap and an hour later he asked to come downstairs. I told him he could come down and went back to watching his sisters cackle at each other while semi-reading my book. I notice out of the corner of my eye that Isaac is standing next to the couch. Then he reaches out and backhands me right in the forehead. I turned and said, "Hey, what did you do that for?" and he said, "I was just letting you know I was there." So I then say, "Next time you can just say, 'Mommy, I'm standing next to the couch.'" And Isaac says, "Oh, sorry I didn't know that. I'll do that next time."

Name Calling

So Isaac has gotten into the bad habit of name calling this week. Not really sure where this originated, but he's taken to calling people things like silly head, big head, mitten head etc. So we've been reprimanding him and telling him it's rude to call people names. Yesterday after church he tells me, "Mommy, Bryan and Brianna were rude in Bible class they said, 'Bryan head and Brianna head.'" I then had to explain to him that their last name was "Head" like his last name is "Simpson" so they weren't really being rude.
This follows him having lunch with his friend Anna Guy after which I told him to tell his Daddy who he had lunch with and then whispered, "Anna Guy" to him. He says, "No Mommy, Anna's a girl."

Baby Words and Milestones

So I am terrible at remembering what my kids first words were. Indiana has the advantage of the blog so while I'm thinking about it here are some of the words in her vocabulary.

Mama, Biba (Bible), Pat pat, Night Night. And she has a distinctive scream for "Isaac or Abigail are doing something I of which I don't approve" and another that means "whatever you're eating I want it."

She is also standing by herself as long as she is holding a toy or is near something she can grab on to. She will take a few steps without realizing it, but still prefers crawling as her main form of locomotion.

We are going to the Wilderness of the Smokies Lodge and water park next week to celebrate her first birthday!

A lot of random stuff

Proverbs 15:3 They eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. Was Isaac's memory verst and so this is his application.
Isaac: But I was doing a little evil, but now I'm going to be good and not do evil. I won't say bad words and I will listen.

We like Care Bears in our house and the kids like to play Care bear a lot.
Isaac: What's on your belly badge? Oh you're share bear? I'm sunshine bear.
Abigail: We're driving our cloud cars.
Both: Daddy is grumpy and Mommy is sunshine bear.

Playing restaurant
Isaac: You can have pizza, or water, or whatever you like.
Abigail: How about cucumber or tomatoes?
Isaac: Yep we have that. Here's a cucumber and tomato
Abigail: How about cheese?
Isaac: Nope we don't have any cheese. Well, I do think we have cheese.

Abigail's prayer when Isaac was sick: Father thank you for this day thank you for mommy, and daddy and Isaac and Abigail. Help Isaac's head to feel better and help him sleep.

Isaac: What does cookie start with? Oh, I know "q."

The Birthday Song

Well I think we have gotten everyone now who gets a Birthday text message. Here are this year's renditions:

Aunt Laura March 11

Pipa April 28

Jake May 10

Uncle Peter June 13

Mima August 11

Abigail's new term

On the way home from the gym today Indiana was crying so I was singing her the "I" is for Indiana song. Then I moved on to the "I" is for isaac song. Well somewhere along the way Abigail pipes up and says "I" is for Isaac he's a churcher guy. So I said,"he's what?" and she said,"he's a churcher guy, you know like when he gets up and leads singing at church." so there you have it a churcher guy: a man who leads something at church.