There were so many options for the title of this post. I just couldn't decide which was most appropriate. The peanut gallery has been busy once again. Here are some of the latest and greatest.Anna learned a new song in class and has been singing it all weekend. Her version goes like this:
"Head, flo-rax, abdomen, abdomen.
Head, flo-rax, abdomen, abdomen.
Eyes and mouth, and antennae, too
Six legs and that's an insect for you.
We went bowling with the grandparents during their visit. The kids were both using the contraption that aids the kids when getting the ball headed down the lane. Everytime Lauren put her ball on and pushed it, she would turn around and run back to us while saying, "DO IT!!" to her ball. On her last turn, she decided she wanted to bowl unassisted. So, she took a ball, walked over, stood sideways and launched the ball. Believe it or not, she got a STRIKE!! It was amazing.
Doug asked Anna what she wanted to be when she grew up. She responded, "Meatloaf."
Anna was reading the cereal box and said, "Mommy, I know how to spell "Great Vol-u". It's G-R-E-A-T V-A-L-U-E!"
Lauren kept asking why there was macaroni on the roof. I had no idea what she was talking about. She finally pointed it out to me. The "macaroni" was actually a dirt dauber's nest.
Jacob fell asleep while riding in the car yesterday. Anna told me, "Jacob's finally asleep and he's bubbling."
We went for a nature walk the other day to the Auburn Ravine Park. Lauren later told PawPaw that I'd made them walk 9 days to get to the dog park. While we were there, the girls found a bright green caterpillar. Anna said, "Mommy, look at that nature!!" Lauren later found what she termed "Hot Ants" and a "Wood Packer".
Anna was practicing naming the amount of cents different coins were worth. We finally got that down and then I asked her who was on the front of the coins. She looked at the penny and said, "That's Abraham Lincoln." I pointed to the quarter and she said, "George Washington." Then, I handed her the nickel. She looked at it for a second and said, "Ummm....Carl??" I'm not sure where she got Carl from! :)
Lauren asked Anna to take care of her baby jag-water (aka "jaguar").
Anna came running up to me and said, "Lauren's sticking her tongue out at me....ON PURPOSE!" Just wondering how often people stick their tongues out at someone on accident??
We came across some snails today walking home from Anna's school. I offered Lauren a leaf to carry them home but she responded, "It's okay, Mommy. I like slime!!" All afternoon she's had a snail stuck somewhere on her hand or finger or arm. She must get this from her Daddy because her Mommy does NOT like slime. :) Anna was excited about the snails, too, although she did not want to hold them. She said we could have snail "Olymp-gics" once we got home.
Lauren put her snails together in a small wooden box. She came to me and said, "Look, Mommy, the snails are getting married. " One snail was crawling on top of the other. She's seen ladybugs in this position and my explanation for it was that a wedding was taking place. So, now she thinks that for animals and bugs to get married they just need to get on top of each other. After she showed me the snails, I asked her how people get married. This was her response:
"They get next to each other and then dance with one another. They step back and then "forth" and sometimes they go like "dis" and like "dat" (side to side)."
Me: "What happens after people get married?"
Lauren: "They get a baby in their tummies."
Me: "How does the baby get in there?"
Lauren: "God puts it in."
Me: "How?"
Lauren: "Magic. I told God, I said, "God, I want a baby brother and he listened to me and put Jacob in your tummy. Now he's our baby and we have to take care of him because God gave him to us."
Lauren caught a grasshopper with her new net from Granny and PawPaw. She named him "Hopper". She carried him around with her everywhere. Before bed the other night, she came over and tried to hand me something. I paused before taking it. "What is it?" I asked. "Oh, it's a grasshopper leg", Lauren replied. "He's lost two now but I don't know what happened to the other one." Poor grasshopper. Lauren is heck on bugs.
~"Hopper" before he lost his legs~
