Category: Home Life

Amelie was so excited to return to Museum school for this year. She is in the frog room and it’s a totally new thing for her to be going without Nadia. The first day is part orientation with the parents and part class time.

Meeting the class bunny named Oreo.

Then they learned about small rodents.

Amelie starts *every* prayer with, “Dear Lord, thank you for our food and for having fun.” Just now she added, “and thank you for no bears, frogs, or birds in our house.” And it was said with great sincerity.

Nadia: Mom, when I grow up I want to be a wife. And have babies that I homeschool. And a chef-cooker. And a photographer. And make videos where I show people how to cook and craft.

Me: So you want to be the Pioneer Woman.

Nadia: Maybe, but with no dogs. And I won’t drink all that wine.

I was upstairs collecting all the trash and Nadia walked up and said, “Mommy you…. a gift to me.” I stopped and turned to her and said, “What did you say?” She said, “You are like a gift that was given to me because I got you for my mommy.” (insert tears)

Didn’t make it to the gym today so decided to do Just Dance on the Wii tonight. Amelie says, “Mommy! Are you going to do Go! Dog! Go! ?”

Translation: “Mommy! Are you going to do Who Let the Dogs Out?”

Nadia – Mom, you know when I went to Home Depot with Daddy in your car he said he didn’t want to listen to the Ariel music.

Me – that’s okay honey, everyone likes different things.

N – But why doesn’t he want to sing along really loud like us?

Me – Well Daddy isn’t really into singing soundtracks at the top of his lungs. He isn’t as rowdy as us.

N – Well that’s it, I am only going to have girl babies so they will sing loudly with me.

Nadia – Mom, can we PLLLEEEEEEAAAASSSSSEEEEE pretend the tooth fairy comes our house? I need to buy some stuff. Please?

Me – What is this tooth fairy of which you speak?

N – MOM!!! You know what I am talking about.

Me- Do you have any loose teeth?

N – No, I am just planning ahead.

Nadia while eating – “MOM! Don’t do silly things while I am eating and drinking or it might spew all over the place!”

I was pretending like I was going to take a bite out of Nadia for breakfast and Amelie yells out in a dramatic voice: MOMMY, don’t eat Nadia…. she’s my best friend!

We bought this little hippo pool for $10 last year and it has provided hours of fun for the girls. Mike put it at the bottom of the slide and they have been having a blast making up different scenarios to play out. Here is a short little video of the most fun you can have with a kiddie pool.

On a completely unrelated note I want to mention the duckie you see in these photos. It has lived in our backyard year round since 2009. It has been played with by dozens of children, survived the elements including sun and snow and it just stays intact and blown up. I am starting to believe we accidentally got one made of some secret government test material for the military 😉

Nadia and the Duck in 2010.