Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
This is another infomercial-related story was relayed to me by Heather. After she quit laughing.
Yesterday Emma and Lexi went to my Mom’s shop where Heather works as well. Lexi is eating ice cream at Heather’s desk and drops it down her shirt and pants and then on the floor. She tells Heather:
“You need to get that stuff that will deep clean the carpet. It really works!”
I wrote last night’s post on my Mac and it did not have the pics on there. This is my lazy at work but here are a few pictures from the weekend:
The girls are fighting over lotion samples they found in an old purse. They both want them in their new purse.
Lexi: Emmmaaa! You’re giving me a headache now.
Since Emma started 1st Grade Lexi has been counting down to Preschool. Last night we met her teachers and were ecstatic to find that her best friend from her last class was there. This morning Lexi woke ME up at 6:55 holding her clothes. I went to the bathroom and came back in and Lexi says with a bit of embarrassment and regret, “I woke up really early didn’t I?”
So yeah, Lexi is doing A-OK in preschool today.
If you remember, Lexi had issues with her life jacket last week. Well this weekend we’re supposed to go visit an elderly couple who live on the lake. They really want to take us out on their boat. I really want to go out on their boat. Lexi really didn’t want to go out on their boat. Scott told her he would go buy her a life jacket if she would wear it on the boat. Also, the girls wanted a fishing rod. So last night we took the girls to Wal-Mart and got them Barbie fishing rods. They had no life jackets so Scott took them to Target today and got those.
And today Scott taught them how to cast it. I think that’s what you call it anyway. I’m clueless about fishing!
Emma really, really…
got into it.
Then they got serious. It was time to try out their life vests and try it out at the pool.
As green as our water is right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually caught something.
I think they eventually got the hang of it though. That looks about right…
Here are a few videos. If you can’t see them, in one the girls are practicing in the front yard and the other I try my hand at it and utterly fail. I’m a lot of things but a fisherman is not one of them.
Videos might not be done processing but I need to get to bed!
This has got to be one for the books. One that I may regret posting but it’s just too funny not to share. The girls have found my lingerie drawer. They’re trying stuff on. I told them they were my other nightgowns. Emma found an *ahem* nurse outfit and *loved it*. I looked up to see in her in it and chanted “this is not happening” to myself.
Emma: Mommy, I didn’t know you used to be a nurse! Why didn’t you tell me?
I was going to ignore her but I imagined her saying Did you know my Mommy used to be a nurse!? to be father in law and decided to somehow explain.
Me: I wasn’t a nurse. I just…
Emma: dress up?
Me: Yeah…
Emma: Oh, I know! You wore that for Halloween!
Me: No, um…
Emma: Oh I know, you used to dress up like a nurse when you were a little girl.
*crickets*
Emma: Oh, I *love* this red dress
Lexi: Oh, man, this one is showing my boobs!
Emma, holding up an untied th*ng: Mommy, what is this?!
Me: Uh, not sure
Emma: I think it goes on your head.
Oh my word, this is hilarious!
On the way down the interstate a few days ago we were discussing trucks and what those trucks might be hauling. The U-Hauls were for furniture, the round ones were for gas but the big rectangle ones, well, I don’t know, stuff like what Wal-Mart sells.
Emma replies in her teacher voice, “Mommy. Wal-Mart has their own trucks which have the Wal-Mart sign on the side.” Heavy emphasis on the phrase ‘which have’. OK, smarty pants.
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Emma: Mommy, I want to go to our old church Sunday
Me: Sorry, honey,we’re not going there
Emma: But they don’t have a snack
Me: A snack is not what’s important about church.
Lexi, very intent on getting her point across: Mommy, yes it is because we might get hungry and they don’t have ANY FOOD!!
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This is the only thing I caught from my bedroom listening to Lexi from their bedroom:
Emma, when I get to heaven and I can talk to Jesus and I can talk to Mommy and Daddy…I’m going to tell on you!
Scott picked Emma up from school today. Even that sentence is so much different than last year’s first day of school. The simple fact that I didn’t go with him to pick her up should tell you how not worried I was she had a good day. But of course the first question I asked her was how it was. She gave me a hug and a big smile and said “Wonderful!”
So there you have it. First Grade is a hit.