How to Get Around Clean Up

Leila really wanted to play dress up with her dolls.  But to find the items she wants she would have to dump out the box of things...which also means cleaning up the box of doll things when she is finished.  Leila's way around it:

"Dad, could you dump out this box of doll stuff so you can clean it up after?"

Not very discrete.

Sunday Fit Bit

Eden looks at dad's fit bit to see how many steps he's taken today...

Eden: "Dad, that's way too many steps for a Sunday."
Dad: "What are we? Jewish?"

Apparently, we need to all wear fit bits on Sunday to make sure we keep the Sabbath Day holy and don't take too many steps...

Zootopia

After our "family fun night" to the movie theater to watch Zootopia...the girls were scared to death.  Leila's prayer tonight...

"...and please bless that we won't have nightmares from Zootopia tonight."

Molly's Bad Dreams

Molly on occasion has a bad dream. I thought I'd write them down.

One night Molly woke up scrambling to the front of her bed yelling "There's a frog in my bed!" I had to take her out, relax her, and assure her there was no frog in her bed but she had a bad dream. When returning to bed she double checked just in case and said, "oh he's gone."

Another night she was yelling when she woke up and when I went to get her she said, "Dad had a whole cupcake and wouldn't share with me!!"

She had another bad dream about dad one night. She was yelling "Dad!" So dad went in to see her. He said "What's wrong?" She eventually said, "I want mom!" He came and got me and I came in and she told me "I wanted to play a game and dad wouldn't play with me

Molly's Toothbrush

I often tell molly to not take her toothbrush out of the bathroom. Tonight she took it out of the bathroom and set it next to her at the kitchen table while she played. 

I came in and she knew I would take her toothbrush and put it away so she said to me,

"Mommy, don't touch my toothbrush. It's fragile."

Happy Snowman

One of Molly's big things is "happy snowman".  She wants me to draw pictures of "happy snowman" all the time, she loves going to Costco and seeing the blow up "happy snowman" preparing for Christmas....

But she also creates her own "happy snowman".  I wish I'd have taken pictures of all the things she's done to make the "happy snowman" appear.  Stacking three cans on top of each other, stacking multiple LEGOS (the top one of course has an eyeball on it because we have a few LEGOS with eyes on them), and she's learned to draw circles and when they stack up nicely she calls it her "happy snowman".  Most anything you can stack up in parts becomes a "happy snowman".

She LOVES her "happy snowman".

Deeply Offended

Leila had bad dreams last night that I had left her behind.  So, I promised to sleep with her all night and I slept in her bed.

Later that night...

Eden woke up throwing up.
Molly woke up and didn't go back to sleep for hours.

When daylight came Leila begged me to wake up with her when I desperately wanted sleep.

Mom: "Leila, can you let me sleep in a bit longer?"

Leila: "No.  Please wake up and be with me!"

Mom:  "Eden woke up throwing up and I had to take care of her and clean up and Molly woke up and didn't go back to sleep for two hours.  I'm really tired."

(Leila's head turns...obviously deeply offended.)

Leila:  "You mean you broke your promise and didn't sleep with me all night?!?!"