The Insider

I had a doctor's appointment today and all seems to be well with the wee one.  The girls have never been to an appointment with me, however, I'm considering bringing them later on so that they can hear the heartbeat...so tonight we had this conversation:

Me:  Mommy needs to take you to my doctor's appointment so that you can hear our baby's heart beating and hear it moving around.

Emma:  Inside your tummy?  How can we hear it?

Me:  Yeah.  The doctor will put a little machine on mommy's tummy and we'll be able to hear it.

Madelyn:  We'll hear his heart and hear it talking to us?

Chad:  Yeah.  It's going to say, "Hey, let me out of here.  Pleeeeaassseee let me out.  I wanna get outta here.  Pleeeeeeease.  Maddie, give me your blankie....I want your thumb...give me your thumb....I want that thumb!"

She laughed but the look on her face said, "You must be crazy.  You ain't gettin' my blankie or my thumb."

City Girl

Tonight, while Chad worked on a sight word reader with Emma, I had Madelyn in the bedroom working on a deck of Brain Quest cards.  We flipped to one with a picture of a barn and farm animals and the question was, "What is this place called?"  She answered correctly by saying "a farm."  On the next card were three pictures and it went something like this:

Me:  What is this animal?

Madelyn:  A cow

Me:  What is the farmer doing? (he was milking the cow)

Madelyn:  (pause, then pointing to the final picture that showed an empty can and a can full of milk) That's pee-pee milk. 

I guess we should get her out of the city a little more often.  And, yes, being the parent of the year, I laughed! 

Money Lesson

We started reading a few new books about money that I got through the school's scholastic book fair.  I started with pennies and nickels.  After reading both books I asked Emma and Madelyn questions about the them to see what they had picked up on.  

I found out that Barack Obama was the president on the penny and Andrew Jackson's house was called Montijello.  

I guess we'll need to keep working on that.

Growing in the Garden

I am always amazed at what my kids say, but Emma has come out with some of the best things that I've heard in a while.  Yesterday, I went to Walmart, alone after having been with children 24/7 for the past 13 days, and Emma noticed the vacuum cleaner sitting where the Christmas tree once stood.  Chad took the tree out of the house on New Year's day and vacuumed the fallen needles.  

She turned to Chad and said, "Daddy, are you finished with that vacuum?"

Chad said, "Yes, I am.  Why?"

Emma then said, "Then daddy, are you gonna let it sit there forever?"

I MUST add that I haven't mentioned a WORD about that vacuum and, honestly, had forgotten that it was sitting there!  

Also while I was at Walmart, Chad and Emma were playing outside when she said, "Daddy, I want to grow a baby around here."  

He told me this when I got home and I asked her questions about who would carry the baby in their tummy and what kind of baby it would be.  She decided that mommy would have the baby in her tummy and that it would be a pig baby.

Little does she know that that wish will come true in July!!! 

Happy New Year!!!

Wishing everyone a 

HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

meeting a real Rockette!!!