Smells like sickness!

This morning the big girls got up before their alarm which is unusual and Lily comes down just itching to tell me this,
"Mom, I've got to tell you something"
"What's up?"
"Lacy's breath, it smells like, it smells like...like SICKNESS"
"Everybody's breath smells bad in the morning Lily"
"No, this is just like SICKNESS!"
"Well, don't smell it"
Poor Lacy has Lily up in her face smelling her morning breath...

Lacy's new love

Lacy loves her Kindergarten teacher & here are some of the ways I know this....at the dinner table we usually ask the girls to talk about the best thing that happened to them or their (just had to take a break in blogging because the girls were trying to drag a laundry basket upstairs..with Harper in it) very favorite thing and their least favorite thing. Well, over the weekend, Lacy said her least favorite thing was, "It was the weekend so I didn't get to see Ms. Foster" and then she said she loves Ms. Foster like, "a reindeer mommy loves her reindeer babies" Everyday she comes home super chatty, super animated and interrupts Lily while they talk about their day. I even have to say, "Lacy, not so loud." I don't love that she's a little bit less mine when she's at school but I'm so glad she loves it so much.

PSYCH!

So Lily comes home the other day and announces she learned a new game called Psych...it's not a game but she thinks it is soooooo all last weekend we spent saying things like this
"There's a hippopotamus in the bathtub" PAUSE "PSYCH"
"We're eating donuts for dinner" ....."PSYCH"

So, Harper who sometimes still mixes up her colors but has the sense of humor of a 10 year old is cuddling up with Jason watching football last weekend and comes out with this.
"Daddy, what's wrong with your TV?"
"Nothing, why, what do you see?"
"PSYCH!!!!"

Ready or not...

Ready or not, school has started. I dreaded this year when both of my big girls would be gone from me all day. I feel like it's the beginning of end of our peaceful bubble of goodness that we have created for them over the past several years. I hate the thought of not having long, unscheduled hours with them, when we are still the primary influence in their little psyches. Alas, it was time to send them off into the world...
The night before I told Lacy I would walk her to the playground in the morning to make sure she found her teacher. She said, "Can we do car line?"
Me, "Well, if we do car line, Mommy just drops you off and I won't be there to help you"
Lacy, "I want to do car line"
Me, "Ummm...how about we decide in the morning? You might change your mind."
On the way to school in the morning...
Me, "Lacy, do you want Mommy to walk you to the playground to wait for Ms. Foster?"
Lacy, "Car line"
What happened to my little toddler that didn't want to be left in childcare when I went to a Moms group?????
Dropped the girls off in CAR LINE & off the went. At least Lily waved goodbye.
The night before school, Lacy's prayer was, "I pray that Ms. Foster takes good care of me and that I learn amazing things"
So, ready or not...a whole new season for our family has begun.

Motherhood Is a Calling (And Where Your Children Rank)

Motherhood Is a Calling (And Where Your Children Rank)
This article so spoke to me as I get tons of not so positive comments while I'm out with the girls and I know soon they will ask me about it or at least notice. It seems less common up here to have more than 2 kids so GASP 4 girls seem like quite the anomaly. I always answer comments very positively because honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. It seems too quiet when the older ones are at a playdate and too quiet when the little ones are napping....

"I a fairy...."

Harper comes up from the basement after jumping in the jumpee in just her panties and some torn up fairy wings. She then announces,

"I a fairy who needs to poop"

That's our crazy Harper!

So,that's why they put a lock on the fridge water!

So, hanging out in the TV room before bed like we usually do, didn't see Haley and this is where I found her. She had opened our cup drawer, picked a cup, then carried the stepstool over to the fridge, and got her own water...of course most of it ended up on her but I was super impressed with her ability to get what she wanted! I think she knows how much we value independent girls in this house! Of course she used her newfound skills to steal warm cookies off the counter the next day...