Bedtime Stories

Bella wanted me to tell her "a snowman story not from a book" tonight.  I'm not feeling great so not having much of an imagination so I asked her to tell me a story, this is how it went.

"There was a snowman that got into a fight with a wolf and he got eaten. The wolf didn't like that he was cold so he spit him out and he was green. Everyone asked why he was green. Then they got in a fight again, but Frosty had a knife and killed the wolf. Than he wanted to be a man so he said, [singing] God make me a man [singing].  God made him a man RIGHT AWAY. The end."

I love this girl. She's so funny!

Pretend Grandparents and Marriage

When we were driving to and from UT for Christmas we had a lot of time to talk to Bella.  She was asking us all about our lives prior to her.

We got into a discussion about grandparents and so we explained to her (as we have previously, but not in so much detail), that my mom is her grandma, my dad (who's in heaven) is her grandpa, and so on and so forth.  Then she couldn't figure out how Grandma Kim and Grandpa Dan (our next door neighbors) are her grandparents.  So we explained that we aren't really related, but we just call them Grandma and Grandpa because they mean a lot to us and we don't have any near by.  She then went to my mom's house and proceeded to tell her, "you are my mom's mom and that means your my Grandpa.  Mommy's dad and Daddy's mom are in Heaven but they are my Grandpa and Grandma, but Grandma and Grandpa Kim are my pretend Grandma."

She also asked us how we met.  We told her we met at a work meeting.  She thought about it for a minute and then said, "Then you hugged and kissed and got married?"  Yep, something like that.

Grayson - 4 Months

I've been meaning to do updates each month for Grayson and it just hasn't happened.  If you want to know what happens daily - join me on facebook.  So I'm going to not catch up and just do his 4 month update - since we went to the doctor.

At 4 months Grayson weighs 17.3 lbs.  He was born 1.5 lbs smaller than Bella but weighs 1.3 more than her at the same age.  He is 25" long.  He's 75th percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height. He is a VERY happy baby.  People will ask me if he ever cries - the answer is mostly no.  If he's crying he's tired - which he does a lot of.  He sleeps 10-12 hours a night and has since he was born and take 2-4 hour naps during the day.  I think we'd all be happy if we got to sleep that much!

He is such a fun addition to our family. Isabella LOVES him and is always wanting to help him and help us with him.

He has found his toes and his voice. He's "talking" and cooing and laughing.  BIG belly laughs and squeals of delights.  You can see his laughing and squealing here.  He is starting to chew and suck on anything within reach.  If he can turn his head to it, it goes in his mouth.

Recycling

I was cleaning out the fridge and putting all the fruits and veggies that were bad into the compost box. Bella asks me what I'm going to do with that.

"I'm going to put it in the compost bins so we the worms can eat it and we can put it on the dirt. That's how we get pretty flowers and big vegetables in the garden."

"That's called recycling," she exclaims.

"Where did you learn that?"

"I don't know, I just knew it"

She never ceases to amaze me!

5-3 is 2 in case you you change your mind

I came down from changing Grayson's diaper and Bella is in the kitchen "cooking waffles" (all pretend).

"How many would you like Momma?" (I love that she calls me Momma).

"I will have 3."

"Well, I have 5 so you can have that many (showing me her 3 fingers) but if you change your mind there is still 2 left."

I don't know about other 3 year olds, but I think Bella is a genius for knowing that!

A Couple of Whiles

Bella: "Mom are you going to stay home for some whiles?"

Me: "Yes, I'm going to be home for a while."

Bella: "A couple of whiles or one while?"

Love her!

Conversation with Jesus

Bella never ceases to entertain and amaze us with the things she says.

Tonight Frank and I were driving with Bella and telling her that it was our anniversary and that we got married today. She says to us, "That was before I was born when Jesus told me, 'Isabella you are a pretty girl and I'm going to send you to live with Frankie and Holly."

This warmed Frank and my hearts. I don't know where she heard this but the way she said it made it sound like she had really had that conversation with Jesus and she remembered it - who knows, maybe she did.