She said it...

"Mommy, I know why Berkley wears night time diapers... that way she will know it's night time and she wears day time diapers so she will know it's day!"

Lindsey: "Oh Kenadie, I wish I wasn't so sleepy."

Kenadie: "Well Mommy, that's just how God made you!"

"Mommy, you're the best mommy I've ever had!"

"The reason I got louder while I was saying my prayer was because I wanted to make sure God could hear me."

"Mommy, remember that time Berkley was in your tummy and you let me pick her to be a girl?"

"Please tell me that dogs don't eat people!"

Mommy, remember that time you were cutting that string off my shorts?  Well, I was scared you were going to cut my leg and then I would bleed.  Ya know, bleeding is just not one of my favorite things to do!"

Lindsey talking to Aaron on phone: "You will not believe!  This lady in Walmart, who was severely overweight, COULD NOT get over how fat Berkley was!!!  Can you believe that?  She's always in the 50% on weight, it's not like she's THAT big!  And really, if I'm being honest, I have seriously never seen a larger gluteus maximus than hers!"  I use the term gluteus maximus so that Kenadie won't know what I've just said...

Kenadie from backseat: "Mom, did you know your gluteus maximus is your bottom?"

She says...

Not too much going on around here, which isn't a bad thing...  It's 10:00 a.m. and I've already put in a full days work :)  We three girls took Annie to the vet to be spayed, and can't wait to go back and get her.  I've washed 2 loads of clothes, washed dishes and helped Kenadie with a little crafting.  I was only kidding about the "full days work!"  There are still sheets to change, because it's "change your sheets Friday", floors to be vacuumed, more clothes to be washed, a treadmill to be ran on, oh yeah, and children to be taken care of :)  If only someone could do all that other "stuff" and just let me play with the kids... 

We had a big "first" this week!  School picture day!!!  Not to make it sound like a holiday, but just something we had never participated in :)  Here is how my little jewel looked, followed by some recent funny things she's said lately :) 

After telling her about a fun day planned for "tomorrow."

"I love tomorrows!  They're my favorite days!"

Aaron and I hear a LOUD crash from the playroom and give each other the "look", and in a low kinda talking to herself-like voice we hear: "Silly me, I forgot to be careful." :)

Kenadie: "I like your jacket, Mommy."

Lindsey: "Awww, thanks Kenadie!"
Kenadie: "Well, I don't like the color, just the shape of it.  Yeah, I only like the shape of your jacket."

Trying to decide what she and I would play next, and it was my turn to choose, only after she told me that friends had to take turns when picking what to play next, and I was her friend.

"Mommy, I'll give you your choices because you need choices.  You only have one choice though.  Cooking in my kitchen is your only choice!"



What she says...

Just need to record a few more of Kenadie's funnies...

"Mommy, I just told Berkley that we were going to be friends forever!  And when I'm four and she turns four, we're going to be twins!"

(At Christmas)

Kenadie: "I want to help you decorate the tree."

Lindsey: "Well you can, I just have to get it ready first."

Kenadie: "Well, what part can I help with?"

Lindsey: "You can help me hang the ornaments."
Kenadie: "Ok, well I want to hang the breakable ones."

(At bedtime)

"If you don't yawn, that means you're not sleepy, and I didn't yawn today."

"Mommy, I want Berkley's birthday to be boy-like and lady-like, and that way it will be pretty.  And then, everyone in the city will know that they are invited!"

(Playing I spy)

"I spy something on one of those two pictures that's sitting next to Berkley."  She gave it away, just a little, huh?

"Do you know what I'm going to give Daddy for his next birthday?  A BIG grown up princess cup, and that way, when I drink out of mine, he can drink out of his, and we will be the same!"

(At bedtime)

Aaron: "Do you want to sing a song?"

Kenadie: "Two songs"

Aaron: "One song"
Kenadie: "Daddy, do you want me to give you a kiss in the morning?"

Aaron: "yes"

Kenadie: "Well, if you do, then we've got to sing two songs.  That's just what we've got to do!"

Kenadie: "Mommy, do you like me just the way I am?"

Lindsey: "I love everything about you!  I love your brown eyes.  I love your brown hair."
Kenadie: "I don't have brown hair, Mommy.  It's tan."
Lindsey: "Yeah, well I guess I should have said light brown."
Kenadie: "No Mommy, it's just tan.  My hair is tan.  Tan is what color it is."

(First thing in the morning after telling me about her dream...)

"You should have dreamed it too so you could have seen it!"



What she says...

Aaron: "Kenadie, can you keep an eye on Berkley while I take Annie out?"

Kenadie: "Okay Daddy, but I'll also keep an eye on my show to make sure I don't miss anything."

"Mommy, the next time you want to wear the red bow with the white polka dots, I will let you."

Kenadie: "I love you, Mommy!"

Lindsey: "I love you more!"

Kenadie: "We love each other the  most!"

*Lindsey fixing Berkley's bottle*

 "Mommy, I have a deal!  I will put my plate in the garbage, and you can put my cup on the counter.  Come on, and when we finish my deal, you can go back!"

*Kenadie coughs a BIG cough*

Lindsey: "My gooooodness!!!"

Kenadie: "It was just me, Mom,... your daughter."

Kenadie: "Mommy, can we not roll my hair today?"

Lindsey: "Well, we really need to because it helps it to not look all crazy from how you slept on it."

Kenadie: "Okay, tonight I'll remember to not sleep on my hair."

More of what she tells us...

"I don't have a runny nose anymore.  I ran out."

Kenadie (mumbling gibberish)

Lindsey: "I don't know what you're saying."

Kenadie: "I'm trying to tell you that Berkley dropped her cracker, in Spanish."

Lindsey: "We will blow your nose as soon as we get to school."

Kenadie: "No Mommy, no Mommy, I already blowed it back up."

Kenadie: "Could I have some lotion please?"

Lindsey: "Why sure you can."

Kenadie: "Oh thanks Mom!  You're the sweetest girl I ever saw!"

The Things She Tells Us

"This morning, I woke up and recognized it was day time, so I got up!!!"

"Mommy, what shirt am I going to wear when I go to heaven?"

"When your tummy hurts, it's called electricity, and you have to go to the electricity doctor."

"Mommy, I colored the stool blue.  I colored it goodly."

Kenadie's prayer at bedtime, after reading We're Going On a Bear Hunt:

"Dear God, thank you for our family and thank you for keeping us safe and please help a bear not to get us and if one gets in our house, please turn it into a statue.  Amen"

"Mommy, look at Berkley, she's sitting like a gorilla."

After picking her up from her Sunday school class and asking what her story was about:

"Kay Kay, see, Jonah was swallowed by a BIG fish because he said NO to God, and that was wrong, Kay Kay.  He should have said NO sir!"

Lindsey: "Oh Kenadie, you're such a big girl drinking out of a big cup.  That makes me sad that you're growing up on me."

Kenadie: "Oh Mommy, I'll be okay.  I'm just trying to be big like you.  Can I be big like you when I grow up?

Lindsey: "Why sure you can!"

Kenadie: "Oh yay!!!"

"Berkley, when you grow up, you'll be bigger than me, but I won't mind.  I'll still love you when you're bigger than me."

Lindsey: "Would you like for me to paint your toe nails?"

Kenadie: "No thanks.  My toe nails have  faces, and when you paint them, they can't see!  That's why."

Lindsey: "Oh Kenadie, I'm tired of washing clothes." (actually was saying to myself, kinda)

Kenadie: "Well Mommy, if you're tired of washing clothes, then just stop washing."

The way she writes her name:  Kenadie ZumwaltHx  When I told her there really wasn't an "Hx" in her name, she told me "Oh Mommy, I just like to pretend that those letters are in my name."

"Mommy, come quick!  I see a spider!  It's a mean one."

(I stomp spider)

"Awww... Mommy, why did you stomp him?  He was just a mean, friendly little spider."

"Mommy, are you going to recycle me?"

The Things She Tells Us

After she put a toy butterfly on Berkley's head:
Kenadie: (laughing hysterically) "Momma, come look at Berkley!"
Me: "Awww, let's don't laugh at her, she can't help that there's a butterfly on her head."
Kenadie: "I wasn't laughing at Berkley, I was just laughing at what I did." :)

When asked why she made a flower at church:
Kenadie: "Because it was flower church day."

Kenadie: "I'm good at listening.  See watch, ting ting ting... that's how you listen in Spanish."

"Momma, do you know what Berkley just did?  She put her little finger right in my nose."

When feeding Berkley baby food for the first time:
"Oh, does she have teeth now?"

"Mom, Berkley almost pulled off my hammer jammers." (What we call pajamas that Kenadie use to think was hilarious, but now just very nonchalantly calls them that :)

Kenadie: "If Berkley gets a hole in her teeth, she may lose all her energy!"
Me: "Well, she doesn't have teeth just yet, so that couldn't happen."
Kenadie: "Oh, well then she will just turn back to normal and move again."

What she says about Berkely's babbling:
"Mom, I think Berkley's speaking Spanish."

About 20 minutes after showing her the following picture of what Lola would look like when she got bigger:

Kenadie: "But Mommy, I don't want Lola to turn into a different animal."
Me: "Oh, she's not going to turn into a different animal, she's just going to grow like Berkley is growing."
Kenadie: "Oh, so she's still going to have her antlers?"

When a fly was on Aaron's shoulder:
Kenadie: "Look Daddy, there's a fly on your shoulder!"
Aaron: "Shu fly, don't bother me."
Kenadie: "Shu fly, don't bother my Daddy."
Aaron: "Look, there's a fly on your shoulder."
Kenadie: "Shu fly, don't bother Daddy's daughter."

The things she tells us...

"Oh My Mercy!!!" Her response to me totally jumping the BIGGEST curb I have ever seen in my life! with much emphasis on the word "Mercy!"  Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction too, Kenadie :)

Kenadie: "Mommy, does Lily (our dog) have ear lobes?"
Me: "Hmmm... I'm not real sure on that one." I pause to come up with a better answer...
Kenadie: "Okay, I'll just ask her."  To which she proceeds to ask Lily if she indeed does have ear lobes...
Kenadie: "Nope, she says she doesn't have one."

Me: "Kenadie, please don't throw sand."
Kenadie: "But Mom, it's just pixie dust, that's why I have to throw it."

"Don't worry Mommy, my lip will get better all by itself."  Her response to me telling her I was so sorry she hurt her lip.

Words she mispronounces that I enjoy hearing :)  Remener (remember), bachine (machine) and Conchilla (chinchilla)

"Mommy, that's strange too!  How did all this stuff get strange?"  What she thought about my paper trimmer and trimmings :)

The scene:  Aaron is watching TV
Kenadie: "Daddy, Daddy, I want to show you something."
Aaron: "It's hard for Daddy to hear the TV when you keep talking." (sounds harsh, but said it nicely) :)
Kenadie: "Daddy, do you know why I keep talking?  Because I have to show you something."