forget me not April 2015

Ace

• I don't particularly like peanut butter.  You know this.  One morning after getting Pipsqueak situated with breakfast you came to cuddle.  I told you  "Don't go eat peanut m & ms and then come back and cuddle," which you had just done.  You then let out a huge sigh and breathed peanut butter nastiness in my face.  Someone may have thought this was a sigh of exasperation.  I am not that person.
• This semester!  The last three weeks getting home at 9:00 was an early night.  The last two weeks you were out until 10:00-10:30.  The last week of finals you stayed until the library closed every night.  I don't think you got home before 12:30 any of those nights.

Mac

• You were the only person in your class to pass off your addition, subtraction, and multiplication math facts at the February parent/teacher conferences.
• You were so nice trying to encourage your brother to learn to tie his shoes.  You told him "If you do it I'll give you a dollar. Even if it's not tight."
• A girl that we take home from school saw a boy walking home and said he was a crybaby.  You stood up for him and said, "That's good that he is.  Because he's just being himself and that's who he is."
• One night you sat next to me before we read scriptures.  I told Poppie to come sit by me and you said "No I want to."  That never happens.
• One day in the family prayer "Please bless Daddy to make enough money that when we go to the store we will have enough left over."
• One Saturday morning you gathered princesses and baby toys and told me "I'll take care of the little kids so you can go back to bed."
• I then overheard you on the baby monitor say to Daddy ". . .I'm really the only one, huh? Well, except for Mom.  Unless it's early in the morning and she's grumpy.  She's not really a morning person, huh?"
• During scriptures one night Poppie read two verses then Romeo was in a mood and not reading his verse.  I got fed up and told everyone to go to bed.  You told me "I want to finish Romeo's verse.  I'll read it."
• Crazy bath hair.

• You did awesome at your first pinewood derby race.  Your car won almost all its heats.  It started losing after a little bit but you noticed that a nail was slightly out of place and you pushed it back in and won everything after that.  You were a great winner and a good sport when you weren't coming in first place.  I'm so proud of you!

 Romeo

• "I'm going to live with you forever."
• "Just because you're Daddy's 'Baby Cakes' doesn't mean you can do whatever you want!"
• You don't say it anymore but you used to call a computer a "be-cuter."  I miss it.
• You told your teachers we are moving.  You even wrote a note to me telling me "I need to give Miss Micnel (McNeil) a note saying I'm moveing or moveing to a difnt house and not liveing here."  I don't know where this came from.  Daddy hasn't even graduated yet.
• Poppie complained "Romeo hit-ted me!"  You followed this statement up with "That's because she keeps calling me 'Sweetie!'"
• You are so loving and sweet.  My cousin teaches fifth grade at your school and you look for her.  When you find her you always run up to her and give her a huge hug.
• You love your baby sister and are thrilled any time you can get her undivided attention.
  
  
  
  

Poppie

• "I fink." You fink?  "Yes.  I fink  Fink is a word."
• On taking a nap, "Okay but I'm warning you, I won't like it."
• After falling, "Mom, sometimes brownies make owies feel better so can I have some?"
• You did not want to ride the pony at Baby Animal Days but then you loved it and didn't have anyone walking next to you.
• "Mom yes we are going to live with you forever and even when we're dead.  We're going to be angels."
• You have started growling when you're frustrated.  It's equal parts funny, cute, and annoying.
• The boys were talking about death one day in the car and you got concerned and asked what would happen to you all when we died.  I told you we would be watching over you and you asked "Will Jesus be watching over the kids before their parents die?"  Yes.  Yes He will.
• One night at bedtime, "Awww.  I forgot to play the big computer today."
• Calling out "jumping goose!" every time you jumped to pop bubbles one day.
• "Can we go to the mall if I promise to get my ears pierced?"
• "She just touched me with her little germ hands!"
• As we got in the car after running errands you told me matter-of-factly "Mom.  Kids who were good in the store get a movie" as you opened the dvd player and got in your seat.
• You asked where we were going and when I told you we were going to the dollar store you immediately and excitedly said "to get me a dollar?" 
• I sang "Adam was a Prophet" (aka "Follow the Prophet") and ended with "...he knows the way."  You chimed in with "(singing) back home.  Always sing 'he knows the way back home,' Mom because Jesus know the way. . .when we are lost."
• I told you one night that you could have something tomorrow.  You woke up the next day, remembered, and said "Mom said I could have one tomorrow."  Mac told her it's not tomorrow.  You responded with "Today is tomorrow day!"
• "Mom do you know what makes your secrets?  The brains."
• "Mom when I was a little girl I pet-ted a eagle [seagull] and before it flew away it bit me.  But it was just Shayla [her cousin] in a costume.  Okay.  "No, Mom.  For real."
• Yelling me as I sprayed the ants "Mom.  I like ants.  Don't spray them!"
• milk= milka-milka  I'm disappointed this has recently stopped.
• Crows= scarecrows "because they scare the other birds" and "because when the people are out they just fly away.  That's why they're scarecrows."
• Fabulous= fabalus
• "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe.  Catch a tiger by his tail.  My mom says to let him go and you are not it!"
• When you get in the car you lean out the door and yell "All aboard the choo choo train!"
• "Mom look what I can do."  That's so cool!  (with attitude) "I know, Mom."
• "Mom what are boy kids called when they're babies?" Boys.  "No.  Girls are called 'Sweetie' and 'Honey.' What are boys?"
• You love sidewalk chalk.
• And you got into your brother's lubrication powder for his pinewood derby car.

Pip

• You have started looking sheepish or embarrassed if we catch you doing something.  Hopefully I'll get a picture of your expressions.
• When you had pneumonia you did such a good job taking your medicine.  The first dose was a little iffy but after that you were a champ.
• I gave you some medicine at bedtime for teething.  I got it all measured in the cup and squatted down to give it to you.  You waddled over with your mouth open and your tongue sticking out.
• Your big sister told you "no" one day.  You stood there and stomped your foot then walked over to where your sister was, stood next to her, and stomped your foot repeatedly in protest and frustration.
• If you don't get what you want you will sit on the floor and kick your legs back and forth/in and out and will refuse to get up or move.  Sometimes you'll lie down on the floor and kick your feet to prove your point even more.
• Daddy has been studying super late and usually you kids don't get to see him except in the morning before he goes to school.  You cried out in your sleep one night after Daddy had gotten home late.  I went in to give you a love and a binkie and to put you back to bed.  You heard Daddy say something and freaked out.  You refused to go back to bed until Daddy came in to hold you.
• You are 18 1/2 months old and wearing a 9-12 month dress.  You looked like Shirley Temple

• You watched puppy videos on YouTube one day and told the dog in the video to sit.
• One day Poppie said "let's go jump on my bed!" and you took off running for the bedroom.
• You get hurt and run over to me, bow your head so I can give you a kiss, then waddle off.
• I was putting lotion on you after a bath and asked if you were ready and you shouted "Go!"  I didn't even know you knew that word.
• You were brushing crumbs off the couch.  I grabbed a big crumb and moved it.  You screamed "Mine!  Mine!" until I put it in your mouth.
• When I sit on the rocking chair you come over and want to be picked up.  When I set you down next to me you start rocking back and forth trying to rock the chair.
• You love to put your hands on the dog's back or bum then follow him around in circles.