tales of parenthood

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Recently overheard

It's been a while since I did a post about the things overheard at our house, sometimes the only way I remember these is by blogging about them, I have to write them down or I forget!

Out for dinner at a Chinese buffet, Paul loaded his plate with pizza, fried bread dough rolled in sugar, jello, chocolate pudding, cream puffs and a brownie. He looks up from his plate and said "now this is what I call Chinese". As he was eating his cream puff, he said. "This is heavenly"

Watching tv on Friday night, all of the kids were sleeping but Adeline, she is dancing around the living room and stops and says "ahhhh, diet coke, it just hits you". No one was drinking diet coke nor was there any diet coke in sight and she had water to drink. That girl! I don't know where she comes up with this stuff!

Stella is newly potty trained. A couple weeks ago during our first week of potty training, she insisted on going to the bathroom herself, she comes out of the bathroom with no pants and says "I wipe my butt, I flush the potty, I wash my hands" I said to her "did you pull up your underwear?" She looks at me with a puzzled look and says "where my underwear?" And she ran off to the bathroom.

Adeline is very observant and the other day we were getting ready to leave for ECFE and she looked at Gene and said "Papa Ron is losing his hair! I'm going to grow my hair and give some to papa."

One night I was tucking Amelia into bed and she was telling me about a classmate of hers that hugged her when he was passing out the folders at the end of the day. She followed it up by saying he kissed her hand one day at school and then she said "he sure is a funny guy!"

As you can probably imagine with four kids, there is never a dull moment in our house!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Halloween 2012

The kids got to wear their costumes 3 times this year! And for Adeline that meant 3 different costumes. The first time they wore their costumes was for Trunk or Treat at Grandma and Papa's church, we've never went truck or treating before, but it was fun for the kids, there were about 30 cars in the church parking lot handing out candy. Most of the parishioners handing out candy decorated their trunks with lights, as well as dressing up in costumes to hand out candy. The kids made quite the haul there!

Community Halloween party was held in our church's social hall.

Addie wore Amelia's super cute crayon costume that my mom made when Amelia was almost 4!

Playing ring toss

Dart game. Each balloon had a treat inside it.

We carved pumpkins this year for the first time since Amelia and Paul were real little. The last time we carved pumpkins was when we still lived in Montgomery. Paul was about the same age as Stella is now. None of the kids cared for the pumpkin "guts", but I think over all they had fun carving their pumpkins!

Halloween...before heading out trick or treating. This time Adeline was Princess Tiana from the Princess and the Frog.

They had a great time this year on Halloween and all of the extra festivities! We only went to about 6 houses in town and then I took them to McD's for a quick bite to eat as a treat and then we came home and passed out candy. Adeline is already planning what she wants to be next year!

Thursday, October 25, 2012

cell phone unload

It's been a while since I hooked my phone up to my laptop. I came across several pictures that I had forgotten about. Many of them are from late winter/early spring, it's fun to see how much the kids have changed in just a few months.

Stella and Paul hanging out at the city office while I get some work done.