Pictures on Good Friday

We were all derssed up to go to a party on Friday, so we took some pictures in front of the daffodils and hyacinths.


This was earlier that day and Alice was doing her open-mouth smile that she does right before she starts coo-ing.

I have been trying to listen for funny things that my kids say, because they do, constantly. I love it when they are knowledgeable about something and share their knowledge in an expert way. On our way to the pool yesterday, I over heard Ariel explaining to her younger siblings about chlorine. "Public pools have chlorine in them, but if you have a blow-up pool in your backyard, you don't have to put chlorine in it," Then Adriana, very interested asked, "Why not?" Then Ariel, thoughtfully, "I don't know."

Then Annika exclaimed, pointing to a bird sitting on a telephone wire, "I didn't know a bird could sit up there!" Then Adriana explained in an expert voice, "Yes, they can because their feet are very strong."
Annika "Oh, they just sit on their little feet."
Adriana, "And they hold on to the wire with their feet."


Sometimes they say things to me that I just don't know how to respond to at all. Like at dinner yesterday Adriana asked me if you can eat a drink.. The best I could come up with was that you could if it was frozen.
Then Annika said, "Mom, I know a good rule we could have. Don't chop Tazie's head off." Tazie is our cat, so, a little perplexed I said, "Yes that is a good rule."

Whenever we ask Annika to say the blessing on the food she says this line, "Thank you that you could BLESS the food." Because for a while she would just say thank you for the food and we would try to emphasis that we need to ask Him to BLESS the food, so that is how she prays now. Yesterday, Ariel tried to correct her (for the 100th time) so I said to Ariel that we should probably just wait until she is older and understands better, to which Annika said, "Yeah like 78." She has been so cute with numbers lately.

Dallin (2) still needs help with prayers, but the other day he tried to help Adriana (6) when she paused to think of what to say next, he said in a helpful voice, "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." As if she had forgotten how to end her prayer.
It made us all giggle.