Feed them to the Lions

Isaac and I are upstairs working and doing school when we hear a large crash from downstairs. Turns out Indiana probably with help from Abigail, turned over their bookshelf and spilled all their books. After telling them to clean it up I came and said, "What are we going to do with those girlies?" Isaac looked at me and said, "Um feed them to some lions?" I said, "Okay know where there are any lions?" To which he responds, "I think there are some in Africa." So then I said, "Oh, how are we going to get the girls to Africa?" and he says, "Well, maybe we should just take them to the zoo." So then I asked if he thought the zoo would just let us toss the girls in with the lions at the zoo and Isaac says, "I have no idea." So we've decided against feeding the girls to the lions for now.

Wedding shower

There was a wedding shower for a lady at church who was getting married, since Abigail was awake I decided to take her. As we were getting ready to go she asked me if we are all going to take our clothes off. I then had to discuss that in this case "shower" meant party and was not for getting clean. 

No Hands Snuggling

I know, it's been a while since I posted. Not that the kids haven't done anything to write about, but they have been doing so much I haven't really had time to write. So I decided to break that streak today and take a few minutes to write.
This afternoon Indiana woke up from her nap in a less than chipper mood. She wanted to snuggle me, but she didn't want to be held. So she would climb up in my lap, I'd try to wrap my arms around her like usual and she would grab them and say, "No hands." So we ended up with her leaning against me with my arms out to the side so I wasn't touching her at all. After about five minutes she woke up enough that she wanted to go play, which is good because no hands snuggling is kind of awkward.

Abigail Learns to Read

So Abigail has said that since she is now four it is time for her to learn how to read. The only problem is that she usually doesn't want to stay still and learn her letter sounds or how to put them together. So we've come up with "shower words." When we shower I write words on the shower wall and she sounds them out while she is in the shower. It has actually worked pretty well and she can sound out most of the words I write for her. Yesterday though she cracked me up when she was sounding out the word "sheep." She said, "qeep?" I said, "What sound does 'sh' make?" and she said, "It's like "quiet" right?" That got me laughing, I said, "Well, it makes 'shhh', not quiet." At least she remembered that 's' and 'h' make a sound when they are together.

Abigail's colors

Today Abigail was coloring on the iPad and I said, "why don't you use the pink?" She replied,"I don't have pink, that is magenta. And that isn't green it's chartreuse." Now if we could only get Indiana to become interested in learning her colors, she still calls everything pink.

Who needs a paper shredder?

The local Kmart is closing so Sunday while we had an hour I took the kids to look around. We picked up some tape, scissors, toothbrushes and a few other random things. Well the kids have been very excited to use their scissors. today I gave them all the junk mail we received and they have been happily cutting it into small pieces all morning.

Rainy but warm

What to do on a rainy yet warm January day with three kids cooped up in the house? Open the windows of course. And when windows are open and kids are stuck inside they discover that from Isaac's bedroom window their voices echo off the neighbor's house. So if you live nearby me and have heard things like "echo" "cow" "monkey" emanating from my house now you know why.