One for the books

As Bree was looking through her bookbag Monday she asked:

"Mom!!  Where's my homework?!"

 

"You didn't have any homework last night."

 

"Oh.  I hope she gives us homework tonight."

 

 

Bet you that never comes out of her mouth again.

Guess what?

"MOM!!  I ate all my food so you don't have to work today!"

 

Can you tell we've been talking about the wasting of anything means that Mommy and Daddy have to work more?

Can you not repeat that in public please?

Bree: Mom, Jacob can strip like you and me now, huh?

Me: racking every corner of my brain trying to figure out what she could possibly mean  Umm.. Bree you're going to have to explain that one to me.

Bree: Jacob's cheese.  He can strip his string cheese like us.

Me:  Peel, bree.  The word is 'peel'.

Bree:  Peel what, Mom?

Where are you going?

Bree has been infatuated with her Nintendo DS this week - more specifically the picture taking ability.  Today she yells from the living room:


"Mom!  I need to take pictures of the whole house so when I don't live here anymore I'll remember what it looks like."

She's catching on

To keep the kids occupied while I made dinner I turned the TV on to the Nick Jr (preschool programming) station.  Upon discovering that Ni Hao Kai-lan** was coming on next Bree ever so seriously turns to me and says,

"Mom, Kai-lan's friends always have problems, don't they?"

** For those who aren't so hip to Nick Jr programming, Ni Hao Kai-lan deals with Kai-lan's friends having negative reactions to problems, how to deal with said problems and change their attitude for the better.

And what do you say to that?

After having one of many discussions with Bree about being a good role model for Jacob because he does every. little. thing. she does, Bree came back with:

"But Jacob climbed up on the counter and put the TV remote into the toaster and I didn't teach him how to do that."

Ouch.

Momma had to take a moment of silence on that one.  I wasn't sure how to respond. 

Darn clever 4 year olds.

After my own heart

As Bree was looking out the window, some leaves happened to drop from their branches.

"Momma!  The leaves are falling!"

Be still my heart. 

My daughter loves fall. 

I hated to burst her bubble by explaining the leaves that were falling were dead due to lack of rain, not because its almost the most wonderful season of all.