A New Way To Use Bouncy Balls

Nick's sister was in town for a visit this past weekend. Emilee LOVES Keisha! She gets so excited anytime that she is going to see her. When she leaves there is usually uncontrollable sobbing and time spent all alone to deal with her grief. I'm sure that most of these emotions are valid expressions of Emilee's genuine love. However, I also know that part of these emotions are because Keisha spoils Emilee rotten.

This was the case on this visit. Emilee's birthday was at the beginning of September and Sissy, as we refer to Keisha, had promised a shopping trip to pick out whatever Emilee wanted. So after a dinner out we headed to Wal-Mart to pick out Emilee's birthday present(s). Of course, what trip to Wal-Mart would be complete without picking up a few things that we need. On this journey Keisha had to pick up some underwear for her boyfriend who had forgotten his. Stick with me here. It's about to get good! While Keisha begins her search for the brand, size and color that had been requested Emilee begins to dig through the selection as well. Being the good mother that I am, I left her there to look at men's underwear with Keisha while I went to check for something else. I returned to my precious, innocent, six year old laughing at a pack of men's briefs. (I do not know why men would choose to make these their underwear of choice. They are borderline disgusting in my opinion. Let's go with boxers and leave a little to the imagination gentlemen.) I ask Emilee why she is laughing at these underwear. My precious, innocent, six year old replies . . .

"It looks like he is wearing underwear with bouncy balls in them."

Oh, how right you are Emilee. Needless to say, I will be keeping her out of that section of Wal-Mart from now on.

Sorry, I'm a little behind:(

Sorry to my faithful two or three readers!  I have fallen behind in my blog world.  I will catch up soon, I think.  Until then, here is what I learned from Emilee this week.  

We were in the car talking about various exciting things from their day at school.  Out of nowhere Carter asked me if we were allowed to marry our cousins.  I told him no that you shouldn't do that, brothers and sisters can't marry each other and that boys should marry girls and girls should marry boys.   Emilee very quickly chimed in with one marriage rule that I had clearly forgotten.  In her best serious voice she said that no one should marry Satan! How did that one slip my mind?  I asked her why and she said because you would go to Hell!  Good enough reason for me.

"Things They Said" Thursday

When I read other blogs, I see creative things like Tiny Talk Tuesday or Wordless Wednesday or Fantastic Friend Filled Fridays with French Fries and Finger Foods.  You get the idea.  Well, I hadn't gotten there yet, until today!  So many funny things were coming out of their little mouths that I knew I would forget until Tiny Talk Tuesday.  So, I have now started Things They Said Thursday.  Feel free to copy the idea or come up with your own catchy slogan.  Who knows?  Next week it might be Monday Musings!  

Here are a few of my favorites . . .

Mommy:  Carter, did you have fun at school today?

Carter:  Yeah, but I want to skip the first grade.

Mommy:  Why?

Carter:  We just did the ABC's and like 2 + 2.  It's too easy for me!  

(If you don't know Carter, he can read, spell, add, subtract, multiply, divide and kick my butt at Memory and Dr. Mario!)

Emilee:  I need to go brush my teeth.  I have a big booger stuck in this one.  (I'm not sure which one.  I couldn't look!)

Kaden:  Mommy, do you know about poisonous spiders?  And mommy, I didn't see a poisonous spider.  And mommy, I'm talking about a little cricket.  A baby one.  And mommy, it jumped on me.  And mommy, it tickled!  (I'm pretty sure this was all in one breath.)