Fun with my friend

Submitted by Eliana on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 10:38pm

Today my friend Katie came to play. We went to the grocery store together to pick up food for a picnic at the park. It was our first picnic of the year! We were very patient while our moms got a coffee. The lady at Caribou was very busy, but we know how much our moms love coffee, so we waited. We loved driving the car cart, bumping into each other, and hanging out the windows. It was very funny!

Then we went to Wilson park where there was a great playground luring us away from our lunch. I ate my cheese [no surprise there] and most of a peanut butter and jelly. But I was too busy to touch my cookie. My favorite things about the park were running and swinging. I also wanted to help clean up the park. There was still a lot of trash around, even a broken sled, and I wanted to pick it all up. Mommy kept telling me, "No. Ick."

I didn't want to go home, but we had to go home and take naps. When we got up, William was home from school. We all had snack and played in our yard until it was time for Katie to go home. Our goodbye hug turned into a tackle hug. I was sad about that until Mommy got out my Elmo ice pack. Elmo always makes me happy. I waved goodbye to Katie until I couldn't see her car anymore. I can't wait to play with her again.

A collection of shorts

Submitted by Sara on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 1:31pm

I often post funny things the kids do in my status updates on Facebook. For those who don't have Facebook, or if you want to indulge in a recap as I do, here are the past six weeks worth of kid related posts starting with the most recent:

3/29 - While I was making lunch, a hungry Eliana was looking through the cupboards to find "big yummy." But everything she was finding was "eew yucky." She finally settled on a raw potato and two cans of kidney beans. (Mini pizzas are in the oven.)

3/26 - I still can't get over hearing our two-year-old say "yours." What a sweet sound! :)

3/20 - The fire alarm went off during swimming lessons today. A wet Darren and William had to stand outside in the cold - Brrr! At least it didn't happen during Ellie's lesson with the 6-month-olds!

3/18 - We had a fun playdate with Katie and Michelle this morning! I realized it was Ellie's first playdate. And both moms forgot their cameras. We have so much in common!

3/17 - I'm always disappointed at this time of year that I'm only 1/8 Irish, but my son is 3/16ths!

3/12 - I'm watching the babies while my kids go to work. They're spies. It's another fun Friday night as a parent, or should I say, grandparent :)

3/11 - I'm writing the number googol, I draw the line at googolplex!

3/8 - I am listening to Eliana banging on the bathroom door saying "Baf!" and "'iana!" It's William's turn in the tub tonight. He tried to put it off another night, but we weren't falling for that AGAIN :)

2/21 - We have a future nurse on our hands. She brought her ailing big brother a pillow, a blanket, a stuffed animal, and a Transformer book then proceeded to "read" to him by laughing loudly at the robots battling on the pages.

2/20 - Oh, the good versus evil that rages inside a two-year-old. She can go from taking the dog's bone, looking the dog straight in the eye and saying "Mine!" to picking up 150 rubber bands all by herself to ripping a two page spread in a library book, within minutes.

2/15 - I just got beat in Uncle Wiggly. Tromped would be more accurate.

That puts us back as far as trivia weekend when all of my status updates for weeks were about getting ready for the contest. The Uncle Wiggly game was one of the 3rd place prizes and luckily we were the only ones with a child the right age to play it.

Saint Patrick's Day Trap

Submitted by William on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 4:00pm

The other day my friends at my school wanted to catch a leprechaun. So we built a trap in the bathroom. And then the next day was St. Patrick's Day. And then when we came in, and we looked in the bathroom, our trap was gone! And instead of our trap, close to the corner of the bathroom, there was a pot of *gold!

*Note: The gold was our snack - crackers you could dunk in cheese.

The end. That was a true story.

'Iana

Submitted by Eliana on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 8:55pm

Mommy and Daddy try to get me to say my name all the time, but when they go around the table asking who everyone is, I usually point to myself and say, "me!" Or else I call myself "baby." But listen to what I said when I saw myself in the camera's screen...

Clips of our goofy kids

Submitted by Sara on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:30pm

Apparently Eliana likes mangos enough to sing about them.

William finished his painting set while he was home sick on Friday and wanted to photograph the finished product. On one picture he had written the number 3,000,000. When I asked him how he knew how to write 3,000,000 (he had the right number of zeros) he told me that he knows almost everything. He tempered his self evaluation when I asked him for the camera, but he definitely knows he's smart :)

Mew, mew

Submitted by Eliana on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 4:46pm

Let me tell you a story about playing with my kitty, as I just told it to Mommy.

"Mew-mew, mew mew mew mew. (Clap, laugh) MEOW! Mew, mew mew mew mew. Yep. Mew mew. Mew, mew, mew mew, mew, mew, mew. Oh, no! Mew, mew, meow. Mew-mew? Mew-mew, Mew-mew!"

Would you like to hear more? I can tell the longer version.

[Editor's note: I believe this translates roughly, "The kitty was on my bed. I was petting her. Then I hit her. Then she ran away. I chased her, but she got away. Now she's hiding somewhere. Do you know where the kitty is? Kitty, where are you?]

Survivor Challenge

Submitted by William on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 2:40pm

At trivia, when they were getting ready, I did a Survivor challenge jumping over the mats and running through the legs of the table. And then when Michael came home, I was running across a mat and seeing how long I could stand on the rolling mat without falling. Oh, and by the way, I was holding out my arms. The End. That was a true story.

Trivia in 3D

Pull-start Diesel won 3rd place!

Lunchtime antics

Submitted by Eliana on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 12:21pm

You don't want me to spin my bowl
You take it away
Then I'll spin my cup
You don't want me to spin my cup
You take it away
Then I'll spin this green bean!
I'm so funny!

No worries

Submitted by Eliana on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 10:11pm

My doctor's appointment yesterday was very interesting. The doctor came in, shined a penlight on my bump (which lit up like my pink night light bulb), and sent us home. He did take a couple minutes to say that it was a fluid-filled ganglion cyst and I will probably just bump it sometime when I'm playing and it will go away. But if it doesn't go away and someday I decide I don't like it there, then we can come in and have it surgically removed. I can't imagine I will want it gone that badly!

Another thing I learned about my body yesterday... I can't lick my elbow!


Can you lick your elbow?

Having fun in January

Submitted by William on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 7:59pm

There is snow outside and I said, "Yay! It's January! We can play in the snow!" I hope that big hill is still here. We can sled down it and I think we can build jumps on it. And we can run and then jump in the sled and then I will start slidding down! Dad ran and jumped into the sled and then he started heading down. And he hit a crack and the sled flipped and the sled landed sideways and Dad landed kneeling holding the sled. And that's the story of having fun in January!


Ugh! She's heavy!