Out of the Mouths of Babes

I know I'm a little behind in blogging but trust me...I've been busy. Busy with my workout routine, busy enjoying time with the kids, busy sleeping again and busy reclaiming my house after three months of ignoring everything previously mentioned and instead spending time at the office. Nonetheless...I am hoping to get some pictures posted soon because a lot has happened in the last month. Here's just a few teasers....there are two new cars in the mix and I had oral surgery. So yeah...we've been busy.

Conversation #1

Lauren's learning about so much at school and this week is all about nature - in fact tomorrow is a field trip to the Indian Creek Nature Center.

Lauren: Mom...do you know that we breathe out what trees need?
Me: Yes! It's called Carbon Dioxide.
Lauren: YES!!! You're right!!
Me: Did you know that trees breathe out what we need?
Lauren: Yes! It's called Oxi-clean!

I seriously busted out! You can tell we use a little bit of Oxi-clean around this house, eh?


Conversation #2

 I'm sure some day Ella will want to kill me for telling you all this...but she has a bit of an issue with constipation. We've tried everything to help the poor child and yet pooping is a big stress for the poor, little thing. Tonight she was on the potty and had a rather large...um...bowel movement. It hurt her a bit and I told her it would be okay.

Ella: Mommy....I have a big poop...and a wittle butt, wight? Too cute.


Conversation #3

Larry and Toni are completely gutting their house and having a total remodel done. We went over there to help in some of the deconstruction a few weekends ago and Ella was just in a tizzy.

Ella: Why you guys breaking Gamma's and Gampa's house?!?!?

We made another one of our weekly stops tonight just to check on the progress and she is feeling much better about their "new" house. :-)

Conversation #4


Lauren has experienced her first crush...and first heartbreak.  Poor Noah at school has been gushed over by her for weeks.  She carried his school picture around with her everywhere she went for a solid seven days straight.  And when I went to drop her and Ella off at breakfast the other day there was one chair open next to him and she asked if she could be separated from Ella that morning so that she could sit by him.

Only to have Lindsey, her best friend, steal him away on Monday.  Utter devastation.  She was crushed and Josh and I attempted to cheer her up.

Josh: Lauren, why are you so hung up on this kid?  I mean...there's gonna be like 500 boys in Kindergarten! You won't even remember who this Noah kid is anymore!
Me: He's right Lauren!
Josh: And besides...she's not even that cute.  You're way cuter!
Me: **intently listening**
Lauren: **starting to smile**
Josh: And besides...boys are bigger babies than girls so why ya wanna hang out with em' anyways?

I seriously just soaked up that entire conversation we had on the way to workout on Monday.  I got to see Lauren's big brother give her some "older, more experienced" advice.  And Lauren listen to it.  It was just the cutest little exchange and I had a flash forward to about ten years from now when one of Josh's friends from school breaks Lauren's heart and he consoles her and tells her what a loser he is anyway.  I hope he always defends her and sticks up for her like he did on Monday.  And I pray for my sanity if this is how boy crazy she is at four.