I can't trust myself

Last night Belle called Chris a mean name (AGAIN!) and he told her that he wasn't going to help her to clean the playroom since she used a mean name...and she screamed at him "But I just can't trust myself Dad!"
So true, so true!

I don't want to be boring!

Belle decided to climb into Derek's jumperoo even though I've told her time and time again she is too big...and now she can't get out. So, instead of fussing at her or punishing her, I'm not helping her get out (for a few minutes). I told her that I tried telling her not to climb in but she choose to do it anyway, so now she has to wait.
She started crying saying "But it will be boring in here! I don't want to be boring!"

Granddad, the tin man

So mom and I were discussing Halloween today at lunch and trying to figure out who's going to be who. We decided dad could be the tin man and that it wouldn't be that hard. I said he could just wear gray sweats, and paint his face silver and wear a funnel on his head.
I added "We'd just have to spray a funnel and make it black" (accidentally)
to which Belle replies "what color?"
and I again messed up and said "We'd have to spray his hair silver"
to which she (without skipping a beat) replied "Why would we paint his hair silver? His hair is already silver!"

Elmo visits dinner

So, I was feeding Derek some sweet potatoes when he kept trying to suck his thumb every time I'd go to put his spoon in his mouth. So, I started talking in my Elmo voice to get him to stop doing it...

"Derek, get your thumb out of your mouth! Don't eat your thumb! Elmo doesn't want you to eat your thumb and go your whole life without a thumb!" Etc, etc, etc.

Belle of course chimes in "We'll just have to take him to the hostiple"

Elmo replies "Where do you think thumbs come from? Do you think they grow on trees?"

"They do"

"Well, I've never seen one. Have you ever seen a thumb tree?"

"Yes"

"Where? Do you have a thumb tree in your back yard?"

"No"

"Then where did you see one?"

To which Belle casually replies "Tendy (twenty) miles back!"

who's going to the beach

So today Belle says "Mommy is grandmom and granddad going to the beach with us?"
"No" I say.
"Is Nonni and Pappaw?"
"Yes"
"And Aunt Tracy and Uncle Brian?"
"Yes"
"And Meme and Poppop?"
"Yes"
"Yey!"
"And Dennis and Penny will probably be there too, do you remember them?"
"Who's Dennis?"
"Pappaw's Brother"
"Dennis?"
"Yes"
"Isn't that like a ball?"
I couldn't stop laughing! "Well, no that's Tennis, his name is Dennis with a D"

Uh-uh!

So today, I was nursing Derek in the front of the house (front of playroom) and Julie was across at the back of the house (back of playroom). She has 2 ear infections so I've been letting her have her binky a lot. Anyway, she's got her binky in her mouth and looks at the floor and starts screaming "Uh uh! Uh uh!" I kept trying to figure out what she was saying, but I just couldn't with the binky in her mouth. So I told her I just couldn't understand her with her binky. So, she goes over to her music cube toy, pulls on the itsy bitsy spider so it starts vibrating, and points to it, screams "Uh uh!" and when I said "Julie, are you saying spider?!" she ran back over to that spot, pointed again and screamed "Uh uh!". It was a dead fly, but close enough! What a smarty!

Woops, did I just toot?

Belle asked to play VSmile, so I got it all set up for her and looked at her with that "OK, now what do you say?" look. She looks at me, says "Excuse Me", sniffs, and adds "But I don't smell it!" I said, "No Belle, I was looking for a thank you" LOL!