My Goofy kids

This was one of those, "Mom! Come take a picture of us!" moments. I wanted to write down some of the funny things I have heard them say lately.

Annika asked, "Mom, do candy canes wear tights?"
I didn't know how to answer it at first but then, after some follow up questions surmised that she wanted to be a candy cane, in other words, wear her red and white striped dress, and had to know if candy canes wore tights because our rule for her changing her clothes 20 times a day is that in the winter she has to have her legs and arms covered--either in pants or tights and long sleeves or sweaters. Later when I was trying to get her to put a long sleeve shirt on under her short sleeved dress she said, "But mom, candy canes wear sweaters, not long sleeve shirts."

As we were driving home from dance class I was trying to listen to the news, but Ariel had an urgent question. She wanted to know if giraffes gave birth the same way humans do. She doesn't believe me that such a large baby giraffe could really fit that way. I'm going to have to find her a nature video or something. Maybe horses giving birth would suffice, not to mention elephants.