Dinner time conversations

Chris and I were laughing about something...
Anna-Kate: haha. What?
Chris: Mommy is funny.
AK: O, mommy funny. Daddy funny?
CH: Yes, daddy is hilarious!
AK: Anna-Kate is funny too.
CH: Yes, you are hilarious!
AK:, no, I Anna-Kate, not hilarious.

Later, Chris was making fish faces (for some odd reason??)
AK: Daddy a fish
JH: Is he?
AK: No.
JH: Is he a fish like Nemo?
AK: No, his name babe (which she will randomly call him since I call him that all the time).
CH: Great, like babe the pig?
AK: Yes daddy.

At dinner's end Anna-Kate burped quite loudly. She's usually pretty good about saying "excuse me", but not tonight.
CH: Anna-Kate, what do you say after you burp?
AK: Thank you!
CH: No, what do you say after you burp?
AK: I full.
CH: after you burp...
AK: All done.
CH: Anna-kate, what do you say after you burp?
AK: I need to go potty now!
CH: No, you say excuse me...
So Chris got her up to take her to the potty and she starts saying "hurry, hurry!". A second later I hear, "did you just pee on me?" "Yes daddy, yes."

Can I please tell you how I burned off my entire dinner by laughing? :)

A mom by any other name.....

Well, it's officially happened. I am no longer Janelle....I'm "Anna-Kate's mom". At church...birthday parties...there it is. :)

Anna-Kate did great singing at church today......forgot my camera, so I'm waiting to get pics from a friend that I took on their camera. She was PRECIOUS. She sang and remembered most of the hand motions too. She was by far the littlest one, but was on amazing behavior and had the front couple of rows laughing.

Funny from today...Anna-Kate reached her hand in her pants to scratch her bottom, came up with a piece of hair and immediately turns to Chris, "here-go daddy, for you". Ha. Chris' hand never left his pocket!

Tomorrow I am taking Anna-Kate to get her first haircut. Unbelievable how nervous and sad I am about this. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures!

Pictures from VBS

Well, this is just Ryan last night after his bath...isn't he a doll? :)

Here is Anna-Kate the first day. She cried a little, but ended up loving it:

Here are Adam and Anna-Kate after closing ceremonies:

Here we are with Adam and Leigh-Ann this morning. Could not get the kids to cooperate to get a good picture.

Enjoying a snack (possibly her favorite part...sadly...)

Here she is with Miss Sally. All of her "coaches" (the theme was Olympian and the kids were all "athletes") were so kind and excited about being with little ones.

A girl just like her Mama....loving some pizza! :) We've been talking about pizza party all week. On her way to get pizza she said, "pizza? a party? a pizza party?". Couldn't have been happier. :)

More gems from vbs

Anna-Kate's best friend, Adam, has been sick all week, but finally today was able to go to vbs with us. They were inseperable all day! After a rocky start, (she wouldn't let any of her teachers take her to the potty because she needed privacy...finally Leigh-Ann took her because I was busy) she settled in to help Adam get the swing of things. He was acting a little shy at coloring time and she handed him colors to help. He then started to pick his nose and she grabbed his hand and said, "o yuck-NO!". Ha. I've started asking our pastor's wife what exactly she says to the little ones in their Bible story time so I can help reinforce/draw it out of Anna-Kate. Yesterday Sharon didn't teach, so I had nothing to work with except that it was about Joshua...
Janelle: "Anna-Kate, what do you do today?"
AK: "sing Jesus, play balls, color".
J: "ahh. So fun. What did you learn about?"
AK: "God."
J: "O really? What about God?"
AK: "God."
J: "...that He protects us and wants us to obey?" (isn't that a principle from Joshua?)
AK: "yes."
I snuck up to get some pictures during the closing ceremonies and saw her singing...she doesn't know all the words--but she knows when the word "mountain" comes and sings/shouts that one really loudly. I love it. Pictures coming tomorrow. :)

VBS

Pictures will be posted soon......I've not gotten any amazing ones yet, I'll be on it tomorrow and Friday. This week has been Anna-Kate's first vacation Bible school! I could cry thinking about how cute she is in her little t-shirt (that absolutely swallows all the little ones!) and how she talks about going to sing to Jesus. It's so weird dropping her off every morning. Her teachers are so sweet with her and report back that she plays so well with the other children and is so well behaved-thank you Jesus! Today her teacher was telling me about an incident from earlier in the morning: Anna-Kate found a pretend camera and gave it to her teacher and said, "take picture please". So her teacher obliged and said, "say cheese"....at this point she said Anna-Kate flipped her hair with one hand and stuck her other hand on her hip and totally struck a pose! Ahhh, if only the camera had been real to catch that picture! She is already talking about the pizza party to come on Friday (after the kids sing all their songs for the mamas). These little ones are so precious!!

Here is Ryan sitting up by himself! He's been trying for a long time now, but yesterday (2 days shy of 4 months old) he sat a few different times for about 1 minute each...I figure it counts now, right? :)


Here is Anna-Kate...her new favorite thing to do is see herself in pictures ("see An-kate, Mama take picture"), so she is constantly asking to be photographed...here's one from yesterday:

Here are my boys watching the Braves play:

Patient means.....

"...waiting and waiting for the cookies to be done. Waiting so nicely." Well, that's according to Anna-Kate's favorite book, affectionately called "the cookie book", says (P.S., if asked what patient means she says "waiting nicely mommy"). Patience is a big thing we are working on in our house these days. I am only one person after all and can't do everything for everyone at the exact moment they would like it done (nor would I if I could...patience is a virtue afterall...).

Anyway, I've tried to be really good about not only making Anna-Kate wait for help, but having Ryan "wait" as well. If he's fussing while I'm making her lunch, for instance, I'll tell him (so she can hear) "Ryan, you need to be patient so mommy can help Anna-Kate first". I think it's good she doesn't feel like she's the only one waiting. Well, she's started "helping" her brother learn patience. Now if he's fussing she tells him "just one second Ryan" or "mommy's hepin An-Kate". Ha! Thankfully, he's a pretty laid back kid (to balance her not being laid back...hmm, like me??) so the transition to two hasn't killed me. :) Patience is something I guess we all need a little more of.