Ellie protesting that she couldn't get up from lunch until she got wiped off: My hands are too banany!
We were all trying to remember songs/rhymes we used to sing with the kids when they were little. We asked the kids which ones they remembered:
Ellie: Jack.
Carla: Jack who?
E: Jack and the bean stop.
C: What did Jack do with the 'bean stop'?
E: Jumped over the candlestick.
Carla and the kids were driving to the Leopards game the other day and Ellie noticed a green Tahoe in front of them.
Ellie: Hey, Krystal has that . . . that . . . driving fing.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Growing and Growing and Growing
Kurt has been insanely busy with work projects, school projects, and home projects, so I guess it's my turn to post.
The boys had their check-ups last week. Walker is in the 75th percentile for height and weight. Anderson is 90th for height (25.25 inches) and 75th for weight (15 lbs. 9 oz.) Both are very healthy, which is a true blessing! Ellie didn't have a check up, but she's still short.
Walker waiting for me to fix his lunch on Sat:
W: (exasperated) Mom?
C: What?
W: When is it going to be May 3rd?
C: (puzzled) In a few weeks. Why do you want to know that?
W: Cuz I just really want to see what Jack looks like.
We are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of our new and first nephew/cousin!
Another conversation with Walker (after I got home from school).
W: Mommy, I love you! (He came and gave me a hug)
C: (smiling b/c those are the best words to hear after along day of work) I love you, too, Buddy.
W: But I love Daddy more!
C: (still smiling) That's okay, Walker. You can love Daddy more.
W: But I love you more at bedtime because your jammies are the snuggliest!
That's all for now. I'm off to pick up 28 kids from lunch!
The boys had their check-ups last week. Walker is in the 75th percentile for height and weight. Anderson is 90th for height (25.25 inches) and 75th for weight (15 lbs. 9 oz.) Both are very healthy, which is a true blessing! Ellie didn't have a check up, but she's still short.
Walker waiting for me to fix his lunch on Sat:
W: (exasperated) Mom?
C: What?
W: When is it going to be May 3rd?
C: (puzzled) In a few weeks. Why do you want to know that?
W: Cuz I just really want to see what Jack looks like.
We are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of our new and first nephew/cousin!
Another conversation with Walker (after I got home from school).
W: Mommy, I love you! (He came and gave me a hug)
C: (smiling b/c those are the best words to hear after along day of work) I love you, too, Buddy.
W: But I love Daddy more!
C: (still smiling) That's okay, Walker. You can love Daddy more.
W: But I love you more at bedtime because your jammies are the snuggliest!
That's all for now. I'm off to pick up 28 kids from lunch!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Pureed Cauliflower, anyone?
The next foods Walker wants Anderson to try after carrots: Asparagus and Cauliflower.
Walker brought home his preschool class picture yesterday and I asked him all about it.
Kurt: So, who do you like to play with the most?
Walker: Just the girls except Emma.
Kurt: What's wrong with Emma?
Walker: She just freaks me out.
Kurt (after some laughter): Why does she freak you out?
Walker: She has a crazy face.
In other news, Anderson can fit his entire fist in his mouth. He also tries to eat his pacifier and can almost get that whole thing in his mouth, too. I had a dream the other night that he swallowed his pacifier. He was ok, though, he had a bunch more.
Walker brought home his preschool class picture yesterday and I asked him all about it.
Kurt: So, who do you like to play with the most?
Walker: Just the girls except Emma.
Kurt: What's wrong with Emma?
Walker: She just freaks me out.
Kurt (after some laughter): Why does she freak you out?
Walker: She has a crazy face.
In other news, Anderson can fit his entire fist in his mouth. He also tries to eat his pacifier and can almost get that whole thing in his mouth, too. I had a dream the other night that he swallowed his pacifier. He was ok, though, he had a bunch more.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Prayers and Paintings
Every night, we ask the kids to think of something they did that day that they want to thank Jesus for and to think of someone they want to pray for. Walker usually picks Grandma Kandel: "Please help Grandma Kandel's back feel better." Ellie always, every time, picks . . . Brad: "Please help Brad get home safe" or "Thank you for Brad coming home." Seems a little strange but it's up to them who to pick, I guess.
Yesterday, while Carla was driving the kids to the babysitters (I think it was a Jen/Krystal divide and conquer effort):
Ellie: Hey, mommy, look at my painting.
Carla: What are you painting?
Ellie: The window.
Carla: Um, what are you painting with?
Ellie: With my mouth and my finger.
Basically, she was slobbering all over her hands then "painting" the window with her fingers. She's got her molars coming in so we have to give her a pass on the slobbering and chewing on her fingers part but, still, gross.
Yesterday, while Carla was driving the kids to the babysitters (I think it was a Jen/Krystal divide and conquer effort):
Ellie: Hey, mommy, look at my painting.
Carla: What are you painting?
Ellie: The window.
Carla: Um, what are you painting with?
Ellie: With my mouth and my finger.
Basically, she was slobbering all over her hands then "painting" the window with her fingers. She's got her molars coming in so we have to give her a pass on the slobbering and chewing on her fingers part but, still, gross.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Birthday Boy
Walker's four years old today. He's growing up fast and has really been acting twice his age (usually) for a while. Last night, Carla told him he could have anything he wanted for his birthday breakfast. He said, "Really? Even peanut butter and jelly?!" Yes, Walker, even peanut butter and jelly. Carla got her cookie cutters out and cut his pbj into letters that spelled his name. He was pretty excited about it.
We had his Ohio State themed birthday party on Saturday and he had lots of fun. We had beautiful weather so we all got to play outside, which was good because he got a new trampoline and a junior sized set of golf clubs, which he loves. He also got Guess Who, a hand-held V-Smile and some games, an inflatable person-sized hamster wheel, a map of America with all the quarters to go along with it (he already has quite a few states memorized, of course) and some other stuff I know I'm forgetting right now. He and Ellie played Guess Who on Sunday morning before we left for church. It was pretty funny, especially Ellie: "do you have glasses?" then she'd flip down people with glasses regardless of what walker's answer was. It doesn't matter, though. Neither one of them can read the names on the cards to guess who the other has. They still have fun with it, though.
We all watched the Prince of Egypt on Saturday night. There's chariot racing in the beginning, which Carla missed. When she came back in, Walker said, "You missed it, mommy. There was horse racing with wheel chairs!"
Ellie was playing on our back porch and her shoes fell off so her socks were filthy. When she came inside I told her to take them off. She tried a couple times but her hands kept slipping off. She said, "Help, daddy. My socks are too smuddy." We're guessing she combined slippery and muddy. She also still says "bictycle, popsticle, and "Ife" (for knife). I think she heard us say we needed "a knife" and it sounded like "an Ife" to her.
We had his Ohio State themed birthday party on Saturday and he had lots of fun. We had beautiful weather so we all got to play outside, which was good because he got a new trampoline and a junior sized set of golf clubs, which he loves. He also got Guess Who, a hand-held V-Smile and some games, an inflatable person-sized hamster wheel, a map of America with all the quarters to go along with it (he already has quite a few states memorized, of course) and some other stuff I know I'm forgetting right now. He and Ellie played Guess Who on Sunday morning before we left for church. It was pretty funny, especially Ellie: "do you have glasses?" then she'd flip down people with glasses regardless of what walker's answer was. It doesn't matter, though. Neither one of them can read the names on the cards to guess who the other has. They still have fun with it, though.
We all watched the Prince of Egypt on Saturday night. There's chariot racing in the beginning, which Carla missed. When she came back in, Walker said, "You missed it, mommy. There was horse racing with wheel chairs!"
Ellie was playing on our back porch and her shoes fell off so her socks were filthy. When she came inside I told her to take them off. She tried a couple times but her hands kept slipping off. She said, "Help, daddy. My socks are too smuddy." We're guessing she combined slippery and muddy. She also still says "bictycle, popsticle, and "Ife" (for knife). I think she heard us say we needed "a knife" and it sounded like "an Ife" to her.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Miss Elizabeth
One day Ellie and I were looking out the window talking about what we saw. There were probably 50 robins in the yard. Ellie got pretty excited and said, "Look at all the chickens, daddy!"
Yesterday morning, while teetering at the top of the steps with her arms full of stuffed animals: "I'm taking all my aminals to church." We got her to say "aminals" a few more times until she realized we were making fun of her. Then, whenever we'd try to get her to say it, she'd say, "no, I don't want to say that."
Yesterday afternoon, after taking a bite out of a cutout cookie shaped like a duck: "I ate his nose right off! . . . 'Quack, Quack. I want my nose back!'"
She also loves matching clothes, now, especially anytime she gets to wear all pink. She's pretty good at picking out stuff that matches, too. Better than me, anyway. Whenever she's in an outfit that matches she says, "I'm all matched up." Whenever she and someone else are wearing the same color she says, "We match together!" The happiest time in her recent memory is the day she got to wear a red dress because that's the same color dress her bunny has.
But wait, there's more (I completely forgot about this yesterday). I took Ellie and Walker for a walk in our woods last week and she kept calling it the forest. I wondered why until I realized she was holding onto my had for dear life and wouldn't let go. She thought she was in the "spooky forest" from Dora the Explorer and she was a little scared. She also told me twice that she heard crocodiles, which are native to Dora's spooky forest. We looked for them but came up empty.
Yesterday morning, while teetering at the top of the steps with her arms full of stuffed animals: "I'm taking all my aminals to church." We got her to say "aminals" a few more times until she realized we were making fun of her. Then, whenever we'd try to get her to say it, she'd say, "no, I don't want to say that."
Yesterday afternoon, after taking a bite out of a cutout cookie shaped like a duck: "I ate his nose right off! . . . 'Quack, Quack. I want my nose back!'"
She also loves matching clothes, now, especially anytime she gets to wear all pink. She's pretty good at picking out stuff that matches, too. Better than me, anyway. Whenever she's in an outfit that matches she says, "I'm all matched up." Whenever she and someone else are wearing the same color she says, "We match together!" The happiest time in her recent memory is the day she got to wear a red dress because that's the same color dress her bunny has.
But wait, there's more (I completely forgot about this yesterday). I took Ellie and Walker for a walk in our woods last week and she kept calling it the forest. I wondered why until I realized she was holding onto my had for dear life and wouldn't let go. She thought she was in the "spooky forest" from Dora the Explorer and she was a little scared. She also told me twice that she heard crocodiles, which are native to Dora's spooky forest. We looked for them but came up empty.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Don't worry. She was going to cut the CHAIR.
Carla called me last night while I was in class. I ignored it at first but she called right back so I stepped out of class and answered. I figured she must be on the way to the hospital with a kid with a broken arm or something. Maybe the house was on fire, maybe she just found out Norm MacDonald was making his return to TV. You know, something that she urgently needed to tell me. Well, here's how it went.
Kurt (a little short because I got called out of class): Yeah?
Carla (near hysterics): I need your saw!
Kurt: What? (because I couldn't hear her because Ellie was crying in the background)
Carla: I need your saw!
Kurt: What? (because I couldn't believe that my wife had just gone crazy)
As it turns out, Ellie had gotten her foot stuck between the slats of one of our kitchen chairs. She was OK and just told Carla that she was stuck. Then, when Carla tried to get her loose and couldn't, even with Crisco, Walker broke down crying and saying, "I just want to play golf with Ellie in the living room," which they do after supper a lot of times. Doubtless, he thought she'd be stuck there forever and they'd never get to golf again. Anyway, that got Ellie started crying and that's when Carla called me. Eventually, I sort of calmed Carla down and told her to call my dad, who came over and wiggled her free. Just how he wanted to spend his birthday - prying a 2-year-old out of a chair. By the way, happy birthday, Dad.
Kurt (a little short because I got called out of class): Yeah?
Carla (near hysterics): I need your saw!
Kurt: What? (because I couldn't hear her because Ellie was crying in the background)
Carla: I need your saw!
Kurt: What? (because I couldn't believe that my wife had just gone crazy)
As it turns out, Ellie had gotten her foot stuck between the slats of one of our kitchen chairs. She was OK and just told Carla that she was stuck. Then, when Carla tried to get her loose and couldn't, even with Crisco, Walker broke down crying and saying, "I just want to play golf with Ellie in the living room," which they do after supper a lot of times. Doubtless, he thought she'd be stuck there forever and they'd never get to golf again. Anyway, that got Ellie started crying and that's when Carla called me. Eventually, I sort of calmed Carla down and told her to call my dad, who came over and wiggled her free. Just how he wanted to spend his birthday - prying a 2-year-old out of a chair. By the way, happy birthday, Dad.
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