Friday, December 12, 2008

Catch Up




This is a catch-up post of all the stories that I haven't shared yet.

Hannah(2)was fishing through the cereal cupboard and pulled out her favorite cereal- Fiber One. She started eating it by the handful and eventually Abby(5)joined in. After a few mouthfuls, Abby explained to her Papa, "This makes you poop hard."

Hannah's best friend is her security blanket. She calls it Mainkie. When she leaves the house she says goodbye to Mainkie and occasionally explains where she's going and when she'll be back. When she comes home, she screams, "Mainkie!" and runs for it before greeting anyone else. One day, she sweet-talked me into letting her take it out of the house. When Hannah got to the grocery store, the cashier asked her what her name was. "I'm Hannah Rae and this is Mainkie." Heaven forbid she should introduce her mother before her Mainkie.

We received a photo Christmas card from some friends. On it was a large picture of Abby's two friends. She looked at it with a smile and said, "Ahhhh. . . . Who's it from?"

To distract Hannah in the car one day, I gave her the cell phone. She chatted away on it, singing songs, laughing, talking. After awhile, I heard a woman's voice say, "Does your Mom know you're on the phone?" She said yes just as I reached in the back seat. Shocked that she had actually called someone, I said, "Hello?" The voice said, "This is Bear Creek Elementary. Did you mean to call us?" She had speed-dialed Mike's work! The secretary had a good sense of humor and I made sure to mention that it was Mike Johnson's daughter that had called her.

We were visiting my brother and his family when Abby and her cousin Jocie (3) started playing with cork pop guns. My sister-in-law Kelli said, "We tell her they're poppers. We haven't said the word g-u-n or told her what they're used for. They're just fun poppers." Not two minutes later, we hear Abby shout, "Come on, Jocie! Let's take our shooters and kill the bad guys! Shoot them! Shoot them!" Always the teacher, my girl.

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