- SOME MORE FUNNY KID THINGS (past/present) -

sorry, but with a title like this, i could write everyday & have lots to share - someone (who'll remain nameless for now) decided when she was younger, around 8ish (keep in mind kiara's 5, ruby's 4 & karleigh's 3 now) that she was going to make me breakfast - well, she made me toast - awww, how sweet you might add, but you didn't see it - it was burnt to a crisp (never saw something THAT black), but soggy & wet on the other side, not burnt at all - i said, "(XX nameless, remember), how'd you make this?" - she said, "oh mom, it's the coolest thing, i thought i'd make you breakfast, but to save time i buttered the bread first & then toasted it so when it came out of the toaster, voila, it was ready to eat!" (oh my!!)

another story about (nameless) was recently, like within the past XX months, she decided she was going to make a frozen pizza - well, it was cookin' away & the top got very done, but she said the bottom was still somewhat 'raw' - i went & looked & she'd not taken the cardboard out from under the pizza (oh my!!)

(insert prayer here that before nameless moves away from our home, that our house doesn't mysteriously BURN DOWN!)

today, i was talking to kiara & she mentioned that in school they'd asked all the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up - i asked what her response was & she said, "gosh mommy, i wanna be a person who sells popcorn at the movies!" (you gotta know kiara to appreciate this, this kids lives to eat & she does it well - it's all about food to her from morning until night - at the breakfast table as she's eating, she's discussing what time lunch will be & what's on the menu - at lunch, it's a repeat preformance as it's all about what's for dinner - there's times that we'll do a late breakfast & then have a pretty big lunch & no one's hungry for dinner so we just kind of snack - well, kiara wants her 'snack' at a table as she's all about being at a TABLE 3 times a day!)

yesterday i'd taken ruby to get pics taken & while we were there waiting for our appointment time to come, we were shopping (gotta do something, right?) - well, there was a sale paper in the bottom of the cart that she was looking at & kept pointing at costumes & then making a sign (sign language) that i didn't know - i tried & tried to figure out what she was talking about, but nope, mom wasn't getting it - she was beginning to get frustrated with me so in her frustration, she began rummaging through my purse, grabbed my cell, handed it to me & loudly said, "mommy... HELLO!" - (everytime i don't know what she's signing, i call my best friend angela to help me out as she's fluent in ASL) - even though she never knows 'who' i call, she does know that 'when' i call, i come up with the right answer - i took her advise & called ang & found out she was signing 'WRONG/NOT RIGHT' - after looking closely at the pic she was pointing out, saw a dog in a halloween costume & to that she was telling me, "that's soooo wrong!!" - how funny!

- Lori - [keep smilin']