I had originally written the following last Saturday but obviously didn't get it posted till tonight, so all the days mentioned are from last week.
I knew that there were a few things I wanted to mention last
night…
Fun words - I am all
about teaching the girls to pronounce words correctly but sometimes there are a
few words that I allow the girls to mispronounce until they correct themselves.
Cassidy used to say “fling-a-moes” instead of flamingos. At first I couldn’t
even pronounce how she would say it but I miss that little quirk. At one point
she learned how to say flamingo correctly and then went back to saying
flingamo, but of course she now says flamingo. I wish I would have taped her
saying flingamo. Molly has two right now that Joe and I LOVE. She says “sir-bup”
instead of “syrup” and “juh-bob” instead of “good job”. There are a lot of
other words that don’t quite come out right or we just can’t understand but we
let those two slide and even play along with them. She will figure them out
soon enough.
Yesterday morning
Cassidy and Molly came into the kitchen area carrying toys and a hat. Molly
said she wanted to share with me what was in the hat but Cassidy told her not
to, so of course I wanted to know what was in the hat. I asked Molly what was
in the hat and she said chocolate. I found two Reese’s peanut butter cups, two Milky Ways, and
a Snickers bar; they were all fun size mind you but still… Where on earth did
they get the chocolate? As it turns out the day before, I fell asleep on the
couch for a few minutes and Cassidy climbed up on the counter and got into the
chocolate jar and stashed some in a box in her closet for later. It also explained
what was around her mouth when she came in and woke us up yesterday morning; I
thought it could be chocolate but I thought there was no way that she could
chocolate because I had put up the jar after I found Cassidy in it after I woke
up. So after I confiscated the chocolate and asked if there was more, nope, and
then I asked for any wrappers, three. Cassidy had snuck eight chocolate bars,
sneaky smart girl. Reminded me of the brown sugar episode, a few months back.
This morning, Joe
got up with Cassidy and let me stay in bed a little while. He said by the time
that he came down he couldn’t find her. Eventually he found her hiding in a
cabinet in the kitchen with the bag of Goldfish crackers. I am starting to see
a pattern here.
This afternoon, Joe
and I took the three girls down to the creek behind us. We hadn’t been down
there more than five minutes when Joe pulls a little fish out of the water with
his bare hands. It was dead, but most have died super recently because rigamortis
hadn’t set it and it still flopped like a live fish. For some reason Cassidy
really liked the fish and wanted to hold it, and did until I finally made her
throw it down the creek because it had started to smell, about twenty minutes.
She held onto it like it was something important and kept taunting Molly and me
with it, she would put it down in the rocks while she would play in the water
and then she’d pick it up and continue to play with and hold it. At one point
she held it so close to her mouth that I thought she was going to bite it, on
the head. Yuck.
While the older
girls were playing in the creek Julia was fussing a lot, mostly because she was
tired because Molly woke her up from her nap. I wasn’t able to console her so
Joe took her and she just played koala (I love it when she does that). After
about ten minutes, she was out. It was so adorable to look over at Joe in his swim
trunks holding a sleeping Julia. He was even able to keep her asleep while he
hiked up to the house, got the girls to the house despite all the dirt, and got
the two girls showered and dressed. Juh-bob Joe!!!!
After note: The day following the chocolate incident Joe
found TWO more wrappers in Cassidy’s room. I guess she had even more hidden
than we realized.
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