Off with her head!

My son decided to cut out pictures he drew of my husband, himself, and me so that he and his sister could play with them. After about 15 minutes I hear, "MOMMY! Tala ripped your head off the doll of you! Tala, you shouldn't not have done that! Now she'll have to be dead the whole time!" Oh yes, I feel the love. lol

Tidings of Comfort and Sweets

(YESTERDAY) ME: Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains, and the mountains in reply, echo back their joyous strains.

TALA: OOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-reo, in ex-sell-sis deo, OOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOreo...

ME: *snickering quietly* Tala baby, it's not Oreo, it's Glo-ri-a.

Tala: Ohhhh, I fought dey were saying Oreo. Oh well.

Forget the stork

Oh, this is fun! Earlier Alex was trying to say his lungs were in his stomach (brought on by me explaining I was congested, had too much mucus in my lungs), so I showed him a diagram of where the lungs, heart, and stomach were...

Well he decided to continue the discussion of anatomy after Tala was in bed by asking me where a baby comes out when somebody's going to have a baby. I told him where a woman has a uterus, way under her belly, but then he of course had to give a guess on where the baby comes out, which was correct but just about had me cracking up! He said "So the baby comes out where it's all black and hairy?"
(He's had it explained before that when people get bigger they get hair in places like his Daddy's hairy all over) It caught me off guard so I tried my best not to laugh or smile and just said, "Yep."

Well, forget the stork. :-/

She reminds me of myself, hehe

Tala singing to Alex: "I love you, cuz you're my fa-mi-ly, and I jush love youuuu. I love you so muuuuuch..."

Alex: "Tala, be quiet so I can concentrate! I'm building something!"

Tala still singing: "I love youuuuu, and I jush love you, and I won't be quiettttttt when you're building somethiiiiiiing..."

Catnippers Anonymous

My mom: My friend suggested I feed Jasmine (mom's long-haired cat) some catnip to calm her down so I can cut her hair.

Me: Mom, you know that makes them high, right?

My mom: Well, if she gets doped up I can definitely cut her hair, can't I?

Ribbed by a 6-year-old

Me: *spot Eclipse cup from Burger King on the floor* Alex get that cup off the floor before it gets chewed up.
Alex: I have water in it.
Me: Well I want to keep it nice because it has my movie people on it.
Alex: Oh yeah, and Jacob. 'Cause you loooove Jacob. *puts cup on the table and walks away grinning*

New for Summer: Talas and Alexes

Tala, speaking to Alex: I'm drawing a map of our house, and Abby's house, and Taylor's house. *gasp* TAYLOR'S PARTY! I forgot, I'm invented to it, and you're invented too!

Bad Mayor?

June 9, 2010, Wednesday afternoon:

Alex: "Oh Mommy, Mayor Blueberry - I don't like her, she tastes disgusting."
Me: *briefly confused, then realized his fruit snacks are Veggie Tales* "Oh, well, I'll eat the ones you don't want."
Alex: "No it's ok, I don't have any Mayor Blueberries this time."

Practice, practice

Tala is getting better at typing her name with less occurrence of "TAAAAAAAAAALA" and she has taken over the space bar as well, which used to be my job. Now instead of a few spaces between the Tala's there are a line's worth, lol. "Mommy I need MORE space. I need THIS much space. *holding hands far apart*"

Potty Wars

Me: "Kids, go to the bathroom and get ready for bed!"
**Tala runs past the bathroom, Alex runs in, then Tala runs in too**
Alex: "Tala get out of here I have to go BAD!"
Tala: "I have to go Badder!"
**Alex comes out of the bathroom carrying Tala, sets her down, goes back in and shuts the door**
I just sit here thinking, "I guess it pays to be the big brother sometimes?"

You know you're adequately educating your 3 year old when

...she tells you from the bathroom, "Mommy, there's poop in my intestines." :-)

Oh yeah, we're nuts.

Random (and scary) quotes from the kitchen:
"They must be DONE!"
"It's mine, my precious..."
"While you were getting flush-happy you missed something."
"Whoa you're touching my Food. No touching!"
"I need healthier buns."
"This bun smells like armpit."

Alex Logic

Alex's latest response after losing yet another battle of wills: "I wish God never made grown-ups, just kids, because then kids could get hurt and do whatever they want and other kids could make them better. That would be fun. This isn't fun."

Logic of sharing

setting: Tala on the couch eating from bag of chips, the puppy at her side waiting patiently for food with those pitiful eyes following every chip
Tala: "Now if this chip falls, it's yours..." *moves chip to mouth* "but it didn't fall so it's not yours, it's mine." *crunch*

Tala humor

The kids finished watching Super Why on PBS; there's Wyatt, Princess P, Little Red Riding Hood, and Pig (yes, he's a pig).
Alex: "I bet when they grow up Super Why (Wyatt) marries Princess P and Pig marries Red."
Me: "Pig can't marry Red, they're not the same species."
Tala: "Mommy, I'm hungry. I want species. I like those Mommy, I want species!"
Me: lmbo

- Later, making a list of a few groceries we need-
Hubby: "More fruit."
Me: "No, we have lots of apples and oranges left."
Hubby: "I want to get some more strawberries."
Me: "You guys need to eat what we have first."
Tala: "It's ok, we'll buy you some more strawberries in the morning, ok Daddy?"
Hubby: "Ok baby."
Tala: "Right Mommy?"
Me: -trying not to laugh- "Noooo."

On the 12th day of Christmas...

Happiness (HAP-ee-ness) - Noun. 1) A rosy-cheeked girl sipping cocoa after playing in the snow with her mother 2) A woman with wet, dirty shoe-prints on the floor she just mopped yesterday, wet gloves & shoes blocking the heater, cold legs, and a wet butt, who doesn't care a bit because she has a joyful heart at being the mother of that rosy-cheeked little girl.

We threw snowballs at each other, slid down the little hill on our backsides, made snow angels, and built a teeny tiny baby snowman. Depending on what Alex wants to do and whether or not he had recess at school, we may all 3 go out after he gets home.

The Taper saves the day again

Tala comes out of the bedroom from her nap, climbs on my lap and says "Mommy I fixed the cord." I go into uh-oh mode... "Did you mess up a cord?" "It's ok I taped it." "You taped a cord?" "Yeah because the other piece fell down on the ground."

Somehow the AV cable connecting the DVD/VCR to the TV in my room (she was napping on my bed, and it's my old college TV so the AV connection is only in the front, thus access to the cord) cracked in half clean through. I've never seen that happen before. She took a piece of scotch tape and sort of stuck it back together, lol. Time for a new AV cable and to try finding a better way to keep the cord out of the way.

A note from a little later: Charles says it looks like the cable cracked from age when something tugged it hard enough, so maybe Tala hooked an arm in it? Who knows...