Little Miss update!

 Little Miss is growing so quickly.  I wish I could post some cute and fun pics, but it just does not bring me any peace to do that.  She is talking a mile a minute and has the cutest voice.  I was having trouble getting her to do school with me...that was before I discovered that she LOVES the ipad.  She smiles and lights up like crazy when I hand it to her.  Today she even wanted to give up a sucker to play it.  She still loves her bike and being outside riding her four-wheeler.  We went to the beach one more time and she loves playing in the water and digging in the sand.  Yesterday when she rode the horse she wanted to trot like her bros and I thought I would watch her face turn to fright when Daddy started running.  Instead, she lit up with delight.  This girl is NOT afraid of a thing!

Both the littles, as I call them, started "school" last week at a local church.  They love going each week and when I told her she was going this week she replied, "I like my teacher!"

You are quite opinionated about what you want to wear and you are still a great eater!  I have found that you eat most anything with some sour cream girlie!

You don't love loud toilets and you tell me, " They scare my ears!!!"

You still love to do lots of flips and handstands and swinging on things...you can do a mean split as well. I think you might be a budding gymnast!

I love you and love to hear you tell me "one more thing" every night.  Your one more thing usually involves asking if we can go to the pool or the lake...after nap or in the morning.  You love to swim!

Farming and Little Miss

 

Little Miss could tell that I was feeling rough and having some back pain. She leaned over and kissed me and said, "I love you."   Then, I added I think you're going to be my little nurse.  She said plain as day, "NO, Momma, I am going to be a doc-TOR."  

Having free range chickens is like game playing every day. For the past 2 weeks, they have won the game...alas, today I found 20 eggs. Score!

 

 

Verbal Snapshot 2012

Verbal Snapshot-Nov 2012

As this year comes to a close and since I have not blogged about my family in months, I thought that I should jot down some words that sum things up quickly.

Us

 

LOUD

Funny

Full of activity with friends

Chasing

Running

Fighting

Demanding

Loving

Helping

Hurrying

Snuggling

Tired

Happy

Knothead

Funny

Sporty—soccer, baseball, football, tennis, biking—he loves it.

Beach bum

Growing…a little…finally.

Eating sometimes

Loves cereal, burgers, milk

Smart …crazy smart.

Big vocabulary

Rough houser—busy hands.

LOUD…

LOUD…

Game player

Snuggle bug reading Story of the Word

Reading Wimpy Kid

Mr. Popularity

Silly yet sometimes shy? It is strange for me?

sometimes teenagerish

Rooster

 

Generous

Rhyming most anything you say

Can work the remote therefore loves TV: Duck Dynasty/animal stuff

Thinker

Writer---handwriting is amazing!

Loner

Hard worker

Funny

Kind

Impatient and sometimes angry!

Pretend player

Loves Lily

Obsessed with Daddy

Camo man

Always has a gun/knife/hat/boots…ALWAYS 2 of 3.

Riding REAL 4W so proudly

Love pizza, pizza, pizza like things, brownies and fruit.

Skeeter

Enjoys singing  esp…Zaccheus…all the time, every day…

Dancing

Flipping

Jumping

Running

Giggling
Loud

Reading Maisy books

Hands always busy…usually not good.

Opinionated…about clothes, bows, only wearing jeans

Loves helping, cooking, being outside on her 4W

 “choc –a-milk” first words each morning

Loves people and runs to everyone shouting his/her name

Tolerates baby dolls more often: Trudy, Vanessa, Lindsay –and Sassy, her fav.

LOVES KITTY…when will this ever change?

Little Monkey

Tucking in like a hot dog

Telling me “one more thing” or “sumpetin”

Curly, wild morning hair

“wants my Daddy…” mostly when she is in trouble with me…loves Daddy like crazy. 

Does NOT like to be cold. 

Strong-willed

Talking like crazy!  Lots of words! 

Changing clothes all the time

Good eater: lima beans, black eye peas, spinach , and “smoovies,” sour cream dip for everything!

 

Summer fun

Catfish catchin!

rope swing fun!

Fishing boy!

This girl loves to ride the boat.

Chillin'

When he is mean to sister he writes what he loves about her!

When a girl has a brother sometimes babies are in danger.

Another one bites the dust.

Fun summer; I miss you today!

I love our lake couch in the pic!

Now that is a watermelon! Our largest one yet. Each year something different is great and something different fails in our garden. This was the year of watermelon and okra.

Skeeter girl!

We were watching home videos and you have amazed us!  You are talking with about a million more words, and your little feet that once turned in are running and jumping strongly with no turning at all.  You like me to call you my baby-girl and we also call you Skeeter-girl!  You love it.

 You still love to run, jump, flip, twist and hop around on the trampoline!  You love to dance and sing.  I think you were born to cheer even if I don't really look forward to that!   

 AND, you love people. I don’t think there is one person in our lives that you don’t run up to and give a big hug.  You find some way to connect with everyone and you really seem to miss them when you don’t see them again the next day.  

You and I have some good times singing in your bed at night, but you mostly still love Zaccheus. 

You really enjoy saying, “my dooes it.”  “No, my don’t!”   You also are fond of, “I nose it”—you “knows” a lot of things to be three girl!  

I wish you were still sleeping later, but you kicked that habit.  You still take a great nap though so I can’t complain.

You like your nails painted, but you still play with guns as much as the boys.  You and Daddy have been playing baby dolls at night (and I play some during the day). I still think you are going to be a little nurse.  You love taking care of boo-boos and rubbing backs when someone is hurt.  

I am amazed at how well you can swim! You can jump off the diving board and swim to the ladder these days all by yourself.  If I push you down you can get rings off the bottom, and you love doing that.  

You make a lot of funny faces!  When Daddy is dirty or you smell something stinky you make the most disgusted face.  It is really comical.

Then, when you are frustrated and I am trying to teach you something, you roll your eyes back in your head and sometimes cover your face…it is cute…but not funny to me at the moment.  

You prefer counting to reading and words any day; this is going to be tough for me!  

I love to hear our giggles and you do it often and much!  This is the best part of having a girl.

You love to ride the plasma cars with the boys.  

You love going to church.  You are in Cay’s class now and he says you are being really good!  

You love the new boat sister! 

You LOVE to ride your Minnie Mouse bike, but you are not loving learning how to brake.  

You know how they say something that isn't funny at the time will become funny. Well, J and I have both had exhausting lessons on teaching you how to use your brakes.  Despite falling terribly today at the park, you are not interested in listening to us teach you how to ride!!!   Daddy worked on teaching you and had sweat pouring down his face and even dug a hole in the ground to put your tire in so you could see it spin and then try to stop it!  I am laughing now b/c I have already done some extensive pointless lesson myself, and I bet one day one of us is going to experience the joy of seeing you stop yourself!  

You like broccoli and you LOVE tomatoes.  Amazing!  Still, you like just about everything dipped in sour cream.  You don't like meat too much, but you love a " smoovie," and boy you love my smoothies!  

We battle for about a month over the openness of your door at night, but now you are going to bed so peacefully and we are so thankful!  You look adorable in your sweet pink and purple butterfly room!

You were following Cay around the other day and he told you to go away.  (Now, when Cay follows Je-je I usually say...let him play with you...he loves you and wants to be with you.) So, when Cay told you to stop following him I died laughing when I heard you shout, "I LOVE YOU," in this pleading voice.  

I love you.

Jeopardy games with J

fun times this summer at our fav mtn lake! 

 I am embarrassed to confess, but feel it is worth recording for posterity that J and I have really competitive Jeopardy matches at home. We play where each person gets a point for each correct answer, no deductions for wrong shout outs (we are terrible so guesses are allowed), and then we can wager whatever on the daily doubles.  We sometimes fight and argue about who shouted out first, so I think we are going to get Wii Jeopardy for ourselves soon!  J gets all the ones that are common sense unless they are plays on words (I get some of those).  I am slow to get the catchy titles of the categories, and he reads ahead to beat me to the punch.  I have realized that I am not too quick on my feet and he can beat me to the answer.  Still, usually we have a close game with one person only winning by a point or two and it is usually funny.  I have stormed out of the room during our sessions, I must confess! 

Cay is ALWAYS fishing.

Skeeter catches a catfish! 

 I am embarrassed to confess, but feel it is worth recording for posterity that J and I have really competitive Jeopardy matches at home. We play where each person gets a point for each correct answer, no deductions for wrong shout outs (we are terrible so guesses are allowed), and then we can wager whatever on the daily doubles.  We sometimes fight and argue about who shouted out first, so I think we are going to get Wii Jeopardy for ourselves soon!  J gets all the ones that are common sense unless they are plays on words (I get some of those).  I am slow to get the catchy titles of the categories, and he reads ahead to beat me to the punch.  I have realized that I am not too quick on my feet and he can beat me to the answer.  Still, usually we have a close game with one person only winning by a point or two and it is usually funny.  I have stormed out of the room during our sessions, I must confess! 

Oh the joy of Cay!

 

This little doll never stops smiling. He lives for fishing.  He always has a gun...no longer calls them "a bun."  He eats quite adventurously.  He loves animals.  He brings me JOY.  He makes me laugh.  He thinks the strangest things are sooooo funny.  He plays by himself a lot.   He is in love with ONE girl and really thinks she is perfect and that he is going to marry her.  He always has a hat on at home: coon skin, camo, ball cap, cowboy hat.  He adores his daddy.  He says "Thanks for taking us ....."  He can swim like a fish, dive, do flips, and go to the bottom of 9 ft. at barely 4.  He keeps us in stitches.  The other day he and big bro were talking about their "balls" for some reason. Sister said she had those too and he said, "No, you have a pouch."  I THOUGHT I WOULD FALL OUT OF THE CAR.  You are growing up too fast and I can't wait to spend our last year together at home.

Millie and Cay

What other cat would allow this?

First summer swim 2012

Loves to fish at the creek with his minnow trap and nets.

He loves his pups.  Can you tell?