Adelaide just gave me some encouraging news: "I'm tired of being a bad girl. I guess I'll be a good girl now."
Oh my gosh... Josie just completely cracked me up while we were playing ball. She said, "I am not the goal. I am the government. If I get the ball, I am going to KEEP it."
Rabid raccoon in our backyard. Kids are strangely excited. Waiting for police.
Jedidiah is on a steady diet of leaves... He eats them off the floor faster than I can sweep them up. Mmm, crunchy.
Adelaide/AdeTUDE
"Would you like for me to turn this down? You would? Well, I'm not going to."
15 kids, 5 adults, 1 runaway dog, a double rainbow, one firepit, some kamikaze swinging and some hail = the end of the second annual family fun night! Phew.
1,2,3, set, go! - Adelaide
Jedidiah saw his first mariachi band tonight. Of course, Josie and Sadie requested "La Bamba," so he didn't hear an actual song. :)
Sunny Saturday
Snuggling my baby boy
Mommy's heart is full.
Sadie: Stop a-hoverin' over me! It's a-drivin' me crazy!
Adelaide: If I dweam about ice cweam, can we have it for bweakfast in the morning?
Poor Sadie just got conked on the head by a fire truck. She has a huge knot on her head... The child cannot dodge (literally) her mother's influence.
In between coughing fits, Adelaide serenaded me today with that old and beloved but seldom-heard spiritual: "Swing Low, Sweet Cheerio."
Josie: "Never look a dinosaur in the eye."
Adelaide reading to Jed out of her bible: "Once upon a time there was a little old lady whispering hush the naked bear will get thee. Amen."
Sadie, after a discussion about track and field events: "I bet I would be good at the high jump." Adelaide adds: "And I would be good at the low jump."
So Jed is crawling with just one leg, dragging the other one across the floor behind him. He's also drooling. Grandpa Roy (recently had a stroke) walks in, sees this, and says, "Kid, you look just like your grandpa." 9/14/11
