Good morning?

This morning Daddy got up and went downstairs. I stayed in bed just scrolling through Facebook. John woke up and came in our room. He immediately asked "Where's Daddy?" I said "First of all, you need to say 'Good Morning' when you see someone in the morning. Second, come snuggle me for a minute." He climbed into bed with me and we snuggled for a minute. He said "Yea, but where's Daddy?" I told him "Daddy is downstairs. Make sure you say 'Good Morning' when you see him." He asked "Should I wake up Gill?" It was 6:45, and I said "No way. Let her sleep. Some people need more sleep. Please don't wake her up." He left me and went downstairs. 

A short while later, Gillian woke up and came into my room. She asked "Where's John?" Again I said "You need to say 'Good Morning' to people when you first see them in the morning time. And come up and snuggle me." She snuggled for like 5 seconds before she asked again "But where's John?" I lectured her and said "You need to say 'Good Morning' when you see people in the morning time. Don't worry, your brother is downstairs with Daddy." She jumped out of my bed and ran downstairs. According to Daddy she ran right past him and didn't say "Good Morning." So much for my lecture. 

Lip Sync

We taught John about lip syncing the other day. We showed him some videos of Lip Sync Battle. His favorite was the Rock "singing" Taylor Swift.

I was able to get John to lip sync to "In Summer" from Frozen. He cracks me up. 

A Million

In the car tonight, Gillian told me "Did you know I can count to a million?" Now I'm intrigued and say "No! Please count for me." She says "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighth, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, one hundred, one million!" And I laughed. Gillian said "Sometimes it gets out of hand!" 

Mother's Day

My kids made me some amazing Mother's Day gifts this year. Gillian made me a beautiful card. 

She wrote so neatly inside the card. I am very proud of her. There was a little box that she decorated and it had a note attached. 

She has told me like a million times "Don't open the box!"

John made me a beautiful bracelet and an awesome card. 

Number 3 is my favorite. 

I'm one lucky Mommy!

Pearls

Aunt Betty has a pearl necklace that she wears for special occasions. She wore it for John's First Communion last week. Gillian saw her necklace and said "I really like your necklace." And that's all it took. Aunt Betty took it off and gave it to her. Gillian wore it for the rest of the day. 

The other night I got Gillian dressed in her pajamas and she insisted on wearing her pearls. 

 

I said "Gilly, I can't believe you stole Aunt Betty's necklace!" She got mad at me and said "I didn't steal them. Aunt Betty gived them to me! She has another one!"

In disguise

Tonight at dinner, Daddy was playing with a Transformer toy. He held it and asked "What is this?" I said "It's a Transformer." Daddy stared at it for a little longer, and then said "Yea, but what is it?" I started to explain that it was from McDonalds, when John said "You know, robots in disguise."

No TV

We have a no TV during the week rule for the kids. We don't have a lot of time with the kids at night and no TV just makes it easier to do homework, eat dinner, and get everyone to be in a timely manner. Most nights TV isn't missed. Tonight was one of those nights. We got all of John's homework done, read books, took baths and got ready for bed with no arguments. After reading John wanted to make a rainbow loom bracelet and Gillian played with her Monster High dolls. Who needs TV when we can use our imagination and be creative?