"When was Jesus a baby?"
"Two thousand years ago."
"TWO THOUSAND?!!?!?!? Was that before my nap???"
"How many pieces does this puzzle have?"
"This puzzle has one thousand pieces!!!"
"Whoa!! Is that more than several??"
"Mommy! I'll help you give Noah a bath, because I like to see the circle thingy in the middle of his parts wiggle back and forth when I pour water on it."
"Hey Ali, what would you like to be when you grow up?"
"Um.... I would like to be a shape. No, I would like to be a fairy but a frog that can fly."
When we were on our way to Pratt City to volunteer and give toys to the Tornado Survivors, Ali asked, "Are we going to give the Mommies computers? Because Mommies have to have computers."
"Can God change his clothes all by his self with no help? Because His clothes are very big."
"I bet God has to get a haircut all the time, because He's a boy."
"Will there be lots of beds in Heaven? Because I might be tired when we get there."
"Will there be TVs in heaven? Because I might like to watch a movie."
"Are lambs made out of marshmallows? Because they look soft like them."
"Does God go to sleep? Does he have a huge switch to turn the lights off in heaven?"
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
My Two Kids.
A lot of people have said that Noah looks just like Ali.
I totally saw it in their baby pictures…
Noah
Ali
Noah
Ali
Noah
Ali
But until this I took this photo, I couldn’t see the current-day resemblance…
..yes, there’s no doubt that they belong together.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Practicing The Art of Sitting: A Moving Picture Show.
As captured by iPhone…
Luckily, he doesn’t mind Practicing the Art of Falling, either.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Orphaned Photos – Pre-Spring Version.
Ali, playing on the very same Homewood Park Caterpillar that Chris and I played on as kids:
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On missions night in Cubbies, Ali went as a Chinese girl. I tried to straighten her hair. It didn’t work so well.
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Noah being charming as always.
If I had known how delightful a happy baby was,
I might not have waited four years.
(Sorry Ali. I love you immensely, but in the happiest-baby contest, Noah wins by a landslide.)
(But don’t worry. He’d have to be pretty close to perfect to beat you in the toddler category.)
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Attempts at photographing my two kids…
Eh. Forget it. I’ll just keep photographing them separately.
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Ali got a hair cut. When wet, her hair was all the way down to her waist.
(She wanted to grow it long enough so that she could accidentally tee-tee on it…but I wasn’t too excited about that idea.)
Before and after:
After her salon pampering, she felt quite glamorous…
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We went to the Botanical Gardens last Saturday (along with half of the city – the other half was next door at the Zoo…)
Ali loved all of the “Japanese Cherry Possums”…
And always likes to get her picture taken at the bridge on which Gramamma and Pop got married.
She “allowed” me to take a few more pictures of her…
I wish I got my eyes from her.
And, for the most graceful shot of the day…
Garden allergies, perhaps?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Bracketing Through The Ages.
Don’t forget to enter my Basketball Bracket group before Thursday Morning if you’d like to be entered to win a $110 gift certificate at CSNstores.com! for It’d go a long way in buying fun summer stuff like the wood swing sets and patio furniture I was talking about!
Also don’t forget to let your kids enter as well. Below is the account of mine and Ali’s attempts at creating her personal bracket…
This is the third year that I’ve helped Ali pick her basketball brackets.
In years past, I’ve had to get very creative to get her attention span to last through 63 choices.
When she was two, it started out with me getting her to choose between two post-it notes.
Then at three, I used her map of the United States to help her make geographically based choices.
But this year, at the age of four, I knew it would be simple. She’ll talk all day about any subject if I’ll let her, so the attention span isn’t a problem. Plus, she loves numbers, so she should understand the system. I’d explain to her how it works, and she might even make a great bracket!
So at the breakfast table this morning, I got her blank bracket out.
Me: “Here’s how it works. Teams are ranked by how good they are. So a team that is a #1 is better than a team that is a #16.”
Ali: “But they can’t SAY they’re better than the other team because that would be bragging, right?”
Me: “Right. I’m sure basketball players would never say they were better than someone else. But WE know that they’re probably better, so a #1 team would usually beat a #16 team, and the team with the lower number USUALLY (but not always) wins. Are you ready to pick your bracket?”
Ali: “Yup.”
Me: “Okay. Do you want #1 Kansas to win, or #16 Illinois?”
Ali: “I want Basketball to win!!!”
Me: “They’re both basketball TEAMS. So do you want #1 Kansas to win, or #16 Illinois?”
Ali: “I don’t wanna win any of those.”
Me: “YOU don’t have to win, but which team do you want to win?? Kansas or Illinois?!?!”
Ali: “I don’t want any of them to win unless basketball is in their name.”
Me: “Okay. Do you want Kansas Basketball or Illinois Basketball to win?”
Ali: “Illinois Basketball.”
Luckily, every choice didn’t take that long.
She was too impatient for me to call out all the numbers and her figure out which was smallest, so I ditched that effort. But she was quite perceptive on the skill level of the teams anyway – she nearly always managed to pick the worst team to win. I even tried swapping up the order in which I called them out, but she’d STILL pick the worst team.
So, after she made her 63 picks, her tournament winner-of-choice was the 15 seeded UCSB Gauchos, whom she predicted would beat the UNC Tarheels in the championship game by a whopping score of 6 to 5.
AWESOME.
Go Gauchos!
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