Andy & Jessica

“One of our lady bugs is a baby.  It only has 2 dots.”

“I’m so mad at you because you told me to put one of the lady bugs outside and dad said it would freeze out there.”

“I need some new shoes because these shoes are slow and Levi keeps beating me with his shoes.”

To me at bedtime, “Why did you take your make-up off?  You could have totally worn that tomorrow.”

After working with Jude on his spelling words and multiplication facts tonight, Jude yelled out, “Stop!  Stop!  Don’t do anything!  You’re ruining my life!”

Jude hasn’t practice his ukelele all week.  I wanted him to practice for about 15 minutes.  I knew he would talk me down so I started high.  I told him I wanted him to practice ukelele for 30 minutes.  He said, “Let’s make a compromise.  You want me to practice for 30 minutes.  I want to practice for 15 so let’s do 15.”  To which I quickly responded, “Deal.”

“Mommy, I love you so much I don’t want you to die.  That’s going to be my quote of the day.  Write that down on the computer.”

“You make good tacos.  Mommy, can you write that down, that’s going to be my quote of the day.”

So, Andy and the boys and I went ice fishing yesterday through HopeKids.  We had our own little tent with 5 holes cut along the sides of it.  The boys each had a miniature fishing pole.  Asher was totally uninterested in fishing and seemed more interested in sticking his foot in the hole.  I had a nice save where Asher almost fell into the hole, but I grabbed him just in time.  Levi wasn’t really interested either and kept trying to talk me into holding his pole.  Jude was interested in the fishing, but equally interested in hot chocolate refills and snack runs.  For what seemed like half the time, I was holding at least 2 poles.  We didn’t pull any fish out of the lake, but I did pull Asher out of the lake.  He slipped in the hole and had one leg in there almost up to his hip.  We thought we’d have to leave early, but instead went to a warming tent and I camped out with him by the heater and dried his leg and boot while the other boys kept after those elusive fish.  After giving up on fishing, the boys played musical buckets with the other kids and Jude and Levi were equally awesome.

Asher to me: “Is it a stay at home work day today?”

Me: “No.  It’s a church day.”

Asher: “Awesome!”

(I did feel a little guilty saying it’s a church day since I will be working most of the day today, like everyday lately.)