March 2012

March 2012, 5 years, 7 months

March 14

Ells saw my book on the couch, "No Cry Sleep Solution", she flipped the pages, tossed it back, then said all-knowingly "I read the whole thing. It just says comfort her." *Oh, and she hates it when we let her cry at all. (I think the no cry sleep solution is just no ear infections but we'll see..)

March 18

It was so hard to be reverent during church today. Ellie was forcing my arms out straight in front of me, insisting that my HAIR looked better if my arms were straight out like a zombie.

March 19

Tonight after working outside for a while I was blow-drying Ellie's hair. She looked at me in the mirror.

WHOA! Mom, something's wrong with you.

A: What?

E: Your hair.

A: Yeah, it looks fuzzy, huh?

E: Yeah...and just...your glasses with it...it just looks kind of...ugly!!!

A: (Laughing my head off.) Yeah, I don't feel very pretty right now.

E: Its ok! I'll share some of my prettiness with you.

(Looks at me in real life versus in the mirror, winces)

E: MOM! You look even worser when you're not in the mirror!

March 27

Ellie asked what grounding was. I explained it to her. "That's so mean! Just for doing something wrong? Do they ever get them out of the ground?!" Guess she had some preconceived ideas I didn't address in my explanation.

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March 27

Melania knocked over Ellie's lemonade while eating out.

E: All right Melania, that was your last chance.  I don't like you anymore!

(She wasn't being funny.)  

March 28

Ellie asked what grounding was. I explained it to her. "That's so mean! Just for doing something wrong? Do they ever get them out of the ground?!" Guess she had some preconceived ideas I didn't address in my explanation.

February 2012

February 2012, 5 years, 6 months

February 8

Ells was interested in killer whales and wanted to know if one could kill her. I told her yes.

E: I would love it if a killer whale killed me!

Me: What?!

E: Because then I'd go to Heaven, and that's a better place for me.

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A: I'm so excited!

E: Are you pumped?  Are you amped?

(She asked since we normally we say all 3 at the same time...)

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A: If you could go to any country, what would it be?

E: Mississippi

A: That's not another country, that's in the US.

E: Oh.  Do they speak another language?

A: Kind of.

January 2012

January 2012, 5 years, 5 months

When we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s for Christmas:

The boys just get up every day and play the Wii and control people and are lazy--they aren't doing anything!  Its stressful to me.

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I want to put some shoes in the basement--in case we have a tornado and everything is gone, at least I'll still have some shoes!

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Please help Melania to grow up fast so she can be like me...and help her to... (don’t remember.)

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January 4

I think its rude to nurse at the table.

A: Why?

E: I don't know, its hard to explain.

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January 6

E: Mom, did you know that when I'm with Rossi he whispers and asks me to marry him when I get older?

A: He does?  What do you say?

E: I say maybe when we're older.

Mom you have such brilliance ideas.  I wish I had your brain.  I wish we could share brains.  But your brain is too big for my head, and it would be  (hands braced, face made) EWW!!  Yucky!  (Tapping at her own head.)  How would we get it into my head anyway?  I wish we shared minds.  You have such brilliant ideas.

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Jill was leaving at 3:00. Apparently Ellie thought she should stay longer.
Well that's kind of rude!

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...and help us not die before you want us to...and help us to everything we should.

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I didn’t write down the exact thing but  she was talking to me after seeing my Dad do something fast.

Your dad is fast

January 25

E: You aren't my parents, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother are.

(I laugh)

E: Seriously!  You're just my babysitters!  You didn't nurse me, it was Heavenly Mother!

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So we talk in a special voice called "the Melania voice".  Jake was walking up the stairs and slipped into the Melania voice without actually holding her.  Ells turned around in joy:

E: Hi!  (Pause....normal voice)  Oh!  I thought you were Melania!

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(Notes that I wrote but didn't finish, not sure what they mean but can’t bring myself to delete them.)

-My dad beat you up

-Rossi, marriage
-You still look like a prince!