Me: "It is so hard to eat when you're sick"
Lillian: "Chew really hard"

Lillian's prayer tonight: "Thank you for all the birds, except for the Blue Jays because Mommy doesn't like them"

Excuses Already

Last night Lillian was extra whiney, so I had to take her away from people and put her in time out. I was trying to explain to her how she was behaving badly and how I expected her to behave. She started throwing excuses at me;
"I'm afraid!"
"of what?"
"Afraid of thunder!"
"There is no thunder"
"Afraid of lightning!"
"There is no lightning"
"Afraid of RAIN!!!"
"THERE IS NO RAIN! You should be afraid of me!!!!"
"Afraid of you?"
"Yes, because I'm on the verge of spanking you for giving me excuses"

Then today I told her not to step on the clothes that were on the floor getting ready to be washed (she had her big cowboy boots on)
She looks at me and says, "Afraid of airplane"... the airplane had gone by over 5 minutes ago! I told her, "Instead of giving me and excuse, why can't you just say, 'Okay Mommy, I'm sorry'? ARE you sorry?"
"NOPE"

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Then I asked her if she wanted a turkey sandwich for dinner. She said, "Yes, and Micky Mouse cereal" (this is what she calls Rice Krispies since he's on the box this month) I told her, "You've already had three bowls today." Right away she shot back with, "No! Only two!" And she was right.... she did only have two bowls today. Smart kid. Not only can she count, she now knows what the numbers actually mean.

Oh, and last night in her prayer she thanked God for "dinosaurs" and "Yo Gabba Gabba" >_<

"Nice Hair"

This morning I woke up to Lillian stroking my hair saying, "Nice hair, mommy. Like a princess."

This week Emma has been going back to two bottles a night instead of one. For a week she was eating at 9pm and then sleeping till 6am. It was heavenly. Now she's back to eating at 1am and 6am. Last night when Lillian said her prayer I swear she thanked God for "Lilly's Shows" (ie the Noggin channel)

In good news, Mia came home after being missing for 6 days. We had toured the humane society and called all the ones that are full (no kill shelters) but she wasn't there. We found a cat who looked exactly like Mia except she had a curly underbelly. Lillian was so upset when we left the shelter because she thought we were just leaving Mia there. This morning I was in the kitchen getting something and I saw a white ball of fluff in my back yard. She returned!

First of Many

Last night Lillian said her own prayer without my coaching and you could actually understand most of it. She said, "Dear Jehovah, thank you for the day. Thank you for daddy, and his work truck. Thank you for Emma.....(unrecognizable babble in here)... We love you, Jesus name, Amen!"

Today when we were grocery shopping and I was loading the truck with the groceries she started freaking out about her pear. I thought she was just mad that I took the bag from her and put it in the car. But when I closed the Jeep door I saw a pear laying on the ground. She was telling me that I dropped a pear! What a good helper.

Then when she woke up from her nap she came running into my room and said, "I want my fruit please!" I asked her which one and she said, "GRAPES!" then as I was washing the grapes and pulling them off the stock, she proceeded to tell me about the monster that she was afraid of. I asked her what color it was, and she said, "BLACK!" I'm thinking that she must be afraid of shadows in the dark. I was deathly afraid of them when I was little, and slept with a night light on until... well until I got married! HAHA

Today Emma found her big voice. She was talking really loudly and it was so cute. I got a few minutes of video