Spiders

RaKell found a spider in her room. She ran upstairs and announced,

"I'm gonna invent spider shock collars! That way, if they bite you, they die! "

I asked,  "do the shock collars go on you or the spiders?"

"The spiders (duuuuh)."

Realistic

Landon asked if I had ever seen The Giant Pear movie.

I said, "No, I've never even heard of it."

Landon,  "Well, it's kind of like James and the Giant Peach but a little less realistic."

Can anyone tell me any part of James and the Giant Peach that is realistic?

Gravity

A conversation that took place between me and 5- year old RaKell:


RaKell: What's gravity?
Mom: Well, if you jumped off this chair what would happen?
R: I would land on the floor.
M: Yes. Gravity is what holds things to the earth. If you drop something it falls down instead of flying up.
R: Aaaawwww. I want to fly.
M: You can,  in an airplane.
R: I want to fly by myself.
M: That would be so fun.
R: Why can't I fly by myself?
M: People weren't made to fly.
R: Yeah,  just fairies.
M: And dragons.
R: Mom,  dragons aren't real.
M: Oh, and fairies are?
R: Ummmmm yyyyeah.

Skinny Dipping

We spent some time with the Parker family at a hotel. Upon arrival, all the kids wanted to go swimming.

Then I remembered.....
"Oh! I forgot my swimming suit!"

RaKell, "Um, that's ok mom. You can just take off all your clothes and go make-ed  (her version of naked [and I won't let my kids correct her]).
You just get off all your clothes and jump in the pool and only have your head sticking out. Then no one will care that you are make-ed."

Learning Expressions

RaKell is looking at a book.  I heard her just exclaim,  "What in the Earth!"

Prayers

As I was helping RaKell say her prayers tonight she was ending with her usual pleading to have good dreams:

"Please help me to have good dreams tonight and not that creepy Jasmine dream again."

I almost burst out laughing!

Definitions

We were in the car driving and Landon was going through his backpack. He pulled out a bunch of miscellaneous items...

Landon: I got these...these... things at school.

RaKell: You call them 'thingymajigs' if you don't know what they are called.

Dinner Delights

RaKell just asked me to turn on the oven light so she could see dinner cooking.

I turned it on.

She looked in the top oven and said the food looked delicious.

Um, dinner was in the bottom oven. I didn't put anything in the top oven.

Spaghetti squash?!!!! How long has that been there!!!????

Turns out Dalan had cooked some last week and forgot about it.

The Jungle

After returning from her room where she spent some time away from her brother to cool down (he also was cooling down in his room):

RaKell:  Mom, where's Landon?
Mom: You don't need to worry about Landon.
RaKell: But where is he?
Mom: Maybe I sent him to the jungle.
RaKell: But you don't know the jungle people's phone number.
Mom: (smile to myself)
RaKell: It is S-M-P-S-E-M-R-E-S-L. See, I knowed it. Call them.

Sure Thing Dear

RaKell opened the fridge to get an orange. . .

"Ooooo! I'm so cold in this fridge!"
"This fridge is freezing!"
"Mom, can we get a new fridge?"

Really? Really?!

Kate brought home a little refresher worksheet from her first day of 3rd grade. It had different topics (math, science, reading) to get their minds refreshed from last year.

This was the vocabulary exercise:

Really?! You really want to start the year by putting this word into their brains??

Side note . . . Katelyn is an awesome stick-figure artist. Who knew they didn't have necks?

Refreshing!?

The kids ran in from playing outside. They were breathing heavily and all grabbed cups and headed to the sink to fill up for a nice refreshing cup of water.

RaKell had her cup in hand when she spotted the pickles on the table. . .

"Mmmmm pickle juice!"

She set her cup on the table and filled it with the juice from the pickle jar and drank the whole thing!

Breakfast Funnies

For breakfast, RaKell tells me she ate:
Rice Scripties
and
Hunchy Bunchy u Oats

FHE

Aunalee gave the Family Home Evening lesson tonight. It was about gratitude. We had to each write something down we were thankful for and put it in a box.
As she was trying to wrap up the lesson through the noise of all the kids, this is what I heard:
"When we write down what we are thankful for and not worry about all the things we don't have, maybe one day we will get some of the things we didn't have before and we can add that to our list of what we are thankful for."
Makes sense.

Sunday Doodling

During church, RaKell took the program and asked Preston for a pen. He got one out and went to give it to her but she said, "Dad, draw my name."
He wrote her name. She took the pen and said, "I will draw your name." She doodled a bit and then asked me to help her. So I did.
She then face-planted it on the program. I waited to see what she was up to. A moment later she said, "Mom, draw my face."

It made me laugh.

Definitions

I was helping my nephew with his spelling list. There were things like honorable, struggle, dishonorable, prisoner, rebel etc.
We got to the word tyrant. I said, "Do you know what a tyrant is?"
He said, "Yeah. It is a babysitter that makes you go to bed before 6:30."

Reverence

Today during Sacrament Meeting a young child let out a yell. RaKell said, just as loud, "Don't scream at church! It scares my mom!"

Smart Girl

I told RaKell to go close the front door.
She ran and closed it. She then turned to me and said,
"I will lock it so spiders won't come in."
I laughed and said, "You're a smart girl."
She replied, "Yeah."

Duh, Mom

Katelyn has a very tender head. Now, I mean really tender. She does not like it to be brushed or messed with at all. If her hair gets pulled it causes anger and tears. She's a bit like her mother in that regard. She likes her hair long, so to avoid tangles her hair is often braided or in pony tails or both.
Today, Katelyn's hair was done in two high side pony tails which were then braided.
Tonight before bed I asked her if she wanted me to take them out so she could sleep better. I even suggested that I could put them in two lower braids so they would be more out of the way for sleeping.
Not wanting to have her hair bothered with again she simply and with a tone of logistics said, "uh, Mom, I can just sleep on my face. I do that sometimes."
Oh, well duh!

LOL!!!

Kate says to Landon, "Let's go play baby. You be the baby at the orphanage and I will come buy you."