How was your day?

Tonight I picked up Gillian, in the car on our way to John's school, I asked "How was your day?" She said "I can't talk to you now." I asked "Why not?" She said "I can't talk to you now. I'm talking to my bunny." And she didn't talk to me. I could hear her whispering to Clovee. But she didn't say anything to me until we were almost to John's school. 

We picked up John and once everyone was in the car, I asked "John, how was your day?" John said "Good. I guess. I don't remember. Gill? Did you hear mom?" She said "I'm not talking about it now." And that was it. I never officially heard about anyone's day. 

Sweet dreams

I always check on the kids before I go to sleep. I give them an extra kiss and make sure they are covered with their blankets. They are so innocent and sweet when they are asleep. Here are some of my favorite recent sleeping pictures. 

 

In the hall

Gillian wanted to watch Frozen again this weekend. We have been singing the songs ever since. Tonight at dinner, we were listening to Pandora and "Do you want to build a snowman?" came on. The kids faces lit up and they sang along.  It came to the line "Do you want to build a snowman? Or ride our bikes around the halls?" Gillian said "That's bad. You have to ride the bikes outside. Not in the hall!"

Tee-Ball

Daddy signed John up for instructional Tee-Ball.  This Saturday was his first session.  We got there early.  John and Gillian had plenty of time to play on the playground and make a few new friends.  Aunt Betty arrived just in time for John's first session.  We went to the field and John met his coaches and teammates.  They started by running all the bases and learning all the names of the bases.  Then each kid got a chance at bat.  When John went up to bat, he hit righty and had a hard time. 

Next they got split into two teams.  John was on the orange team and his team got to go up to bat first.  The coach lined up four tees and each kid stood by a tee.  We made sure that John told the coach "I'm a lefty!"  John had a much easier time hitting lefty. 

He hit the ball three times and as you can see at the end of the video, he was really impressed that one coach kept catching his ball.  Then they switched and the other team got to hit the ball.  John was very patient and well behaved in the dugout. 

 

Then John's team got up at bat.  And this time, the other team was in the outfield.  They were each given one person to watch and they had to catch their partner's ball.  John did great in the outfield.  He knew exactly which ball to watch and went running for it. 

    
The last thing they did was my favorite.  Everyone got a chance up at bat.  Once they hit the ball, and put down the bat, they had to run the bases.  Then the coach would motion to the kids in the "dugout" and they would chase after him. 

Daddy got the best video of John in slow motion.  Check out that form!

We had a great time at tee-ball.  I am looking forward to next week.

Tuesday

Tonight, Gillian said to me "I want to go back to GiGi's house." I smiled and said "Maybe we can go back this summer." Gillian said "When?" I said "This summer." Gillian asked "When? Tuesday?" I said "No. Not Tuesday." She said "Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? The next day?" 

When Daddy got home, he asked Gillian "I heard you want to go back to GiGi's house." Gillian said "I want to go yesterday!" She cracks me up. I love that they had such a good time and want to go back again. 

The magazine

Gillian got her National Geographic Little Kids magazine in the mail today. When John and I got home, she ran across the living room, grabbed the magazine, and said "No! It's mine!" She made sure no one would take her magazine. 

Before bedtime, John reads to us. While John was reading tonight, Gillian was looking at her magazine. She flipped through the pages and Daddy stopped her on a page with a bunch of pictures  of animals. 

Daddy asked "Can you name these animals?" Gillian pointed at each picture starting at the top left and said "Llama, llama, llama, lama, llama, llama, llama, llama and llama!" We giggled and Daddy said "You know the animals!" Gillian then named all the animals correctly. She continued looking through the magazine and was excited to find a llama! She said "Look a llama! It's a white one!"

The kiss

I picked up Gillian from school yesterday. She came running to me and said "Dorlisa give us all kissies!" I started to say "That's nice", but I was interrupted by her teacher. She said "Hersey kisses. Dorlisa gave everyone a Hersey kiss." Gillian and I said goodby to her friends and went to her cubby. I said "I put your kids in your backpack. You can have it for dessert." She said "I want it now!" I repeated, "You can have it for dessert." We got her sweatshirt on and walked outside. Again she said "But I want it now." I said "I know. But you can't have it now. You can have it for dessert." She fell to her needs and sat on the sidewalk. I had to carry her to the car. The whole time she was saying "But I want my kissie!" She was screaming by the time we got to the car. I buckled her in and said "Because of this tantrum, you lose Clover tonight." Well this didn't make things better. She screamed the entire car trip home. 

At home, she calmed down. She came over to me after dinner and hugged my legs. I picked her up and gave her a big hug. She said "Do you still like me?" I explained to her "I love you. I am not happy about your behavior and your attitude." She said "I don't got an attitude." She is a fiesty little lady, but I would never change her.