All About Daddy.

Little to well known facts about the man we love the most around these parts.

1. He has an obsession with cars. (Of course you know this) Yet, I don't think you understand how deep this obsession runs. Until you live with him, you can't know.

2. He does what he wants, when he wants. Sometimes I think we are just along for the ride.

3. He's the fun one. Yep. Hard to believe, I know.

4. He lives and breathes projects. Which is a good thing. Usually.

5. He loves me when no ones looking. If you know us, you won't believe this.

6. He does an amazing front/back flip on the tramp. When he's not about to break his neck anyway.

7. He's the funniest man I know.

8.He can accomplish a large amount of anything in a very short period of time. This stems from his unusual ability to procrastinate until the very last moment, then he becomes obsessed with finishing whatever it may be.

9. He doesn't know what NO means.

10. But mostly, he adores his girls. AND I MEAN IT. He truly is the best Dad in the world for our children. He plays, teaches, disciplines, and mostly loves them both dearly. We are the luckiest girls to have such a great Daddy around. ♥

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You Know It's Time To Potty Train When.....

You find diapers all over the house, and a nakie butt running around because your daughter doesn't want to wear them anymore.

But mostly cause your child brings you at least two poopy diapers per day.

(And by bring I mean hand delivered.)

Yuck.


P.S. Wish us luck. Because thanks to Paige's new favorite movie Look Who's Talking Too, my little cupcake is deathly afraid of Mr. Toilet Man. She won't wear her diapers, but she afraid of getting her tush bit off. Bad combo.

A New Heart

Tonight ater bathtime we had a bit of a challenge with the oldest daughter. She is sweet as pie and sour as........well.......something really sour.

Daddy and I were trying to get everyone ready for bed and she was having a hard time listening and following directions.

That's when I learned that it's all from the heart.

Daddy : " I love you to death Paigey, but you really need to work on your attitude."

Paigey : " Well it's because I need a new heart!"

Mommy : " Uh.....why do you need a new heart?"

Paigey : "Cause this one is always telling me to do naughty things!!"

Awesome.

Life Lessons: Pride

The following conversation happened randomly while watching Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the OG) last night..

"Mom. Do you know why I'm proud of you?"

"No.......why?"

"Cause you went back to college."

"Awww........... Thank you Paige!"

I Don't Know If You Know.........

But I do this too. Right now it's just a collection of quotes I happen to find amazing. But someday I hope to find the courage to post my own stories, quotes, etc.

Someday.

Life Lessons: Cause & Effect

Doing this all day:
(with no nap to speak of)

Leads to this :

(Ha ha)

Chores and Punctuation.

This evening while discussing the possibility of earning her own money, Paige agreed to start doing daily chores.

So after dinner we all sat down as a family and brainstormed.

We came up with a chore list. Or, Paige did. But we agreed to it.

While writing down above mentioned chore list I realized my daughter is receiving quite the education in her kindergarten class.

First of all she made me label the paper with ~Chores~. Which I thought was just cute.

After the list was completed, I explained that the list was a preliminary one and I would re-do it to make it look all spiffy. But even knowing this, Paige insisted that I use proper punctuation.

You see when I wrote the list it looked like this.

~Chores~
Clean Paiges room
Pick up the toys in the living room
Clean Lillies room

But Little Miss Smarty Pants insisted that I put commas (apostrophes) on Paige and Lillie. To make Paige's and Lillie's. I have to admit I was a little shocked. I had no idea that my 5 year old knew anything about punctuation.

Now I know that she said comma instead of apostrophe, but I think we can let that slide. The fact that she knew the correct placement and that something belonged there in general is pretty awesome to me.

Pretty awesome indeed.