Friday, April 13: As Daniel was making his favorite meal, Corn & Mac Bake, in the "Corn & Mac Bake Dish", he said to me, "Mommy, when you die, can I have this dish?" Better watch my back!
Thursday, April 12: Daniel: "Nexus is hyperlink in Latin." (I don't THINK they had hyperlinks back then, boy!)
Saturday, April 7: If I hand Elizabeth a book and say, "You should read this," or "I thought you'd like this," or even simply leave it on her stair, she won't read it. But if I leave it lying around the house, she will inevitably snatch it up and read it. She's currently reading "The Smart Girl's Guide to Boys."
Daniel asked, "Is there a "Smart Boy's Guide to Girls"? Cesar just laughed and said, "Boy, you have no idea what you're asking. It's not possible." So Daniel announced that he was going to "reverse engineer" the book and try to learn about girls from what they try to say about boys. LOL He later said that he had learned, and I quote, "Girls are weird!!"
Tuesday, April 3: I just spent an hour helping Elizabeth clean out her binder and backpack. Rocks. She had rocks in her backpack. Oh, she also had an advertisement for a landscaping company, 57 broken pencils, 6 notebooks full of a story she's writing and drawings of dragons and dinosaurs, a deck of Pokemon cards, and 5 books for leisure reading "just in case." That doesn't include the books, notebooks and papers that were actually school-related. I can appreciate wanting 5 books for leisure reading "just in case" though. I mean, you never know when you might have the chance to pull out a good book. She comes by that honestly, at least. Rocks though? Like chunks of gravel, not even pretty rocks. "I like them." Allllllll righty. But at least there were no live critters (or formerly live critters) this time. I consider it an improvement!
Friday, March 23: Rebecca asked about the sparkles in my hair. I thought, "Did I somehow get glitter in my hair?" She said, "Those sparkles!" She was talking about my gray hair. I like it. :)
Thursday, March 22: She needed several new clothing items, so I gave Rebecca a clothing allowance. Suddenly, those shoes that she HAD to have are not so important after all. I'm liking this!
Wednesday, March 21: I asked Elizabeth how her room looked. "Good." I said, "Whose definition of good?" She said, "You can walk through it." I said, "How do the parts that you CANNOT walk through look?" She hung her head, and went to go REclean her room. She came back 2 minutes later. I asked again how her room looked. She said, "Better." And I couldn't help it; I snorted. She said, "I think I feel a little bit insulted!" So be it. LOL
Wednesday, March 21: Rebecca made her own parachute out of belts and a trash bag. I was like, "Oh, that's neat." She said, "It's for you. When you jump off the roof." I'm not so keen on any aspect of this idea.
Tuesday, March 20: Rebecca told me she would forgive me. Unless I had stolen from someone or robbed a bank. "You haven't robbed a bank, have you??" she added. The next day as we dropped Cesar off at work amid several customers going into the bank, she yelled through the open van window, "Make good choices! Don't rob a bank!!"
Wednesday, February 22: So I was talking to the kids about Lent being a time to prepare for Easter, to get rid of sin, etc. We talked about how some people "give up" things for Lent or add things like prayer. Then I asked them what they were thinking of doing special for Lent. Daniel said, "I don't want to talk about it in public." I find that a little frightening. LOL
Saturday, January 28: Me to Rebecca: No handcuffing!
Rebecca: Aw, he likes handcuffs!
Cesar: That is just a phrase no father wants to hear about his child. There is no good way that could be taken.
