Car Convo

Lots of our best conversations happen in the car...
Lily, "I've decided to invite you to my wedding Mommy"
Me, "Thanks Lil, I'm so glad"
Lily, "WAIT, won't you be dead then?"
Me, "Ummm...I don't think so"

The next day...
Lily, joking says, "I'm going to unbuckle my seatbelt"
Me, "No, no you're not"
Lily, "What would you do?"
Me, "I would pull over, make you buckle, take away your movie time"
Lily, "What if I unbuckled again?"
Me, "Then I would put you back in a baby car seat"
Lily, Well, I know how to unbuckle the baby car seat too"
Me, "You know, Lily it's the law that you have to be in a car seat. Mommy could go to jail if you don't sit in a car seat"
Lily, "How long?"
Me, "How long what?"
Lily, "How long would you go to jail?"
Me, "I don't know, why?"
Lily, "Well, if you go to jail for like a week & Daddy's at work, we can do whatever we want. We can eat sandwiches and watch movies all day"

Says it better than I can...

Another blog I read is a Mom with quadruplet boys...different from our house but I think every mother can relate. She put words into feelings that I have so often.

"Yet they still remain impressionable, which is both comforting and terrifying at the same time. There is so much I long to teach them while they remain teachable. Often I feel inadequate and overwhelmed, but there is much joy in the invaluable moments that we just live life together."

"We may not be able to provide them every opportunity or experience, but they are loved. And they are loved well."

We have made a very conscious decision to not have the girls try every sport, take every class, have playdates scheduled every weekend, etc. while they're still so young and once in awhile, I feel bad that we don't do Disney every year or have dance 4x a week. We want to spend these years WITH them, taking advantage of the time when they think we know what we're talking about. To enjoy lots of time to play, use their imagination. This was a great reminder that the best thing we can do is LOVE them, be there as much as possible to show them that. And Lord knows we try.

Going to Charity

I let Lily wear my scarf to school the other day and of course she lost it. I've told her to check the lost & found.
Lily, "I checked & it's not there. They take everything to charity"
Me, "I know but they don't take it everyday, usually just when we have a school break"
Lily, super dramatically, "It's not there, it will never be there, it's already at CHARITY!"
Me, "Well, just keep checking Lost & Found, it may be there"
Lily, "It won't, where CHARITY anyway? Can we just go to Charity to get it?"
Apparently, our efforts at teaching charity have fallen on deaf ears!

Tooth Fairy Sister

The girls are always saying, "I think my tooth is getting ready to fall out" because they want a visit from the tooth fairy but Lily wants more than just money from her.
"I wish the tooth fairy could become a sister"
Me, "What would you do with her?"
Lily, "Well, I would keep her in a little jar but I would poke holes in the top so she could breathe"
Good thing none of her actual sisters could fit in a jar.

Spoke too soon

I just mentioned to a few people how lucky we've been because we've had like no sickness in our house over the last few months. So, of course Lily gets sick this week and here's some of her quotes over the past few days. I swear, I'll never know if Lily has a ruptured appendix or she bumped her toe because the DRAMA is probably about equal.
"This is the worst day of my life"
"My throat feels so nauseous"
"Here Mommy, here's my bowl of throw up" this was said at 3 in the morning after she walks downstairs with the bowl of vomit and wakes me to give me it.
"Harper keeps staring at me"
"Can I eat pepperonis on the couch?"
"Can you hand me my drink?" her drink is literally two inches from her hand.
And this is my favorite...went to take a shower this morning and I told Lily to have Harper come get me if she really needed me. While I have shampoo on my hair, Harper runs in and tells me Lily really needs me so I grab a towel and run out to the living room AND
"Mommy I'm feeling so much better!" Awesome Lil.

Empty Chair

One night at dinner, Jason mentioned we should be at the head of the table and then two girls on each side since right now we each sit next to one of the little girls to help. Well, actually I never sit for long but ANYWAY. He said this to the girls and here's how it went:
"Mommy & Daddy should sit at the head of the table since we're the leaders"
Lacy, "But we have an empty chair"
Lily, "We should get another sister to go in that chair"
Jason, "Where are we going to get another sister?"
Lily, "We should just adopt a new sister from...Gurnee Mills"
Gurnee Mills is a MALL! We cracked up. Several people we know are doing international adoption so I guess Lily thinks you can also pick up some kids at the mall too.

Never lonely Harper

It has been snowing ALL day and Jason is out of town and Lily had a birthday party to go to tonight that she did not want to miss soooooo I dragged everybody out in their snowboots to drop off and pick her up. I told the girls to please not talk to Mommy so I could focus on keeping everybody safe.
Harper, "Mommy, what can I find?" We play a game when we go places for her to find stuff like a brown tree, a green sign,etc.
Me, "Harper, please don't talk to Mommy right now, I need to drive"
Harper, "Well, who can I talk to?"
Me, "Talk to Lacy"
Lacy, " I don't want to talk to her"
Harper, "That's Ok, I can just talk to myself" And she did.