Cute Words

Yesterday I picked the kids up from school and took them to their home.  During dinner Carson was munching on a kiwi and must have found something a bit hard that was white (probably part of the kiwi).  He took it out of his mouth and said
 "Is it my tooth?  Did I lose a tooth?" 

"No honey, it isn't your tooth!"

He is so eager to lose his first tooth, since sister has already lost two. 

 "Grandma, my friend at school told me that if I go to the refrigerator and get out 3 carrots and eat them, then my tooth will come out!" 

"Buddy, your tooth will come out when it is ready!"

 

About 20 minutes after I had put the kids to bed, I hear one of them coming downstairs.  Carson came down with both of his blankets in tow and said "Grandma, I didn't tell you good bye and I might not see you again!"  (Ah, great excuse  to get up!)  We hugged and I took him back up to bed, where Ruby was sawing logs.  He said to me

"Grandma, I hope you have a good day at work tomorrow at the doctor's office.  Grandma, do you get to play with the doctor's instruments?" 

"No, honey, I take care of their money!" 

Oh my gosh -- that wasn't the response he was looking for.  It completely caught him off guard, as if I said something like "I take care of the doctor's pet alligators!"    I guess he didn't think that doctors and money went together in the same sentence --  Why yes, they do! 

 

Katharine stopped by to pick up something from me while I was at Kristin's since she works about 3 miles from there.  She has been fighting a cold so I told the kids they couldn't hug her and I also told Kat she couldn't really stay.  Ruby was in the bathtub, so Kat poked her head in the door and greeted her.  Ruby began kissing all up and down her own arm and then flung it towards Kat. 

 "Here is a whole armful of kisses and smooches!" 

SO CUTE!  

Making Valentines For School

I found a really cute idea in a children's magazine about making Valentine cards for their class.  I got a package of 36 crazy straws and we made heart-shaped cards to attach by punching holes in the card and fixing it on the straws.  The cards say

"CRAZY 4 YOU"

 

 

In the photo below, Carson is actually instructing his  Mommy how to put the cards on the straws  "Mommy, you have to put the heart on the longer section of the straw!" 



  All the "kids" got in on the action. 

 

Carson asked if he could write  "Cars"  on some of the cards, since that is what a lot of the kids and teachers call him.  So cute! 

 

It was a full afternoon.  After making 30 crazy straw cards, we baked cookies, using the new cookie cutters that Aunt Stephanie gave Carson for Christmas -- a train engine, race car and airplane.  He did a great job. 

 

  Ruby frosting the cookies.  

 

Carson knows how to get to my heart -- he said to me a few weeks ago "Grandma, you never serve us pizza when we come to your house."  So I ended our day with one of my famous home made pizzas, to which the kids announced
"This is the best pizza ever!" 

GRATITUDE

Saying "Thank You"

I have been pleasantly blessed lately by the prayers of Carson and Ruby at the meal table.  They both love to pray before we eat, and sometimes forget that it is OK for someone else to say a blessing and will even have a fuss if they can't have a turn.  (we're working on that!)

 I love that they both seem to be filled with GRATITUDE when they talk to God.  Their prayers before meals usually consist of first thanking Jesus for their Mommy and Daddy.

 Thanking Jesus for their other family members and asking Him to keep them safe.

Thanking God for the roof over their heads and the food on their table (even asking Him to make a delivery from the Organics-To-You truck to the homes of people who are hungry, because they receive a delivery every week at their home).

 Thanking God for their beds and blankets to keep them warm. 

I love that they thank Jesus for "all the people who take care of us." 

 

When the twins are at my house for an over-nighter, I usually take time to trim their nails.  I was doing that with Carson on New Years Eve and he very spontaneously looked up at me and said

"Thank you Grandma Julee for always cutting my nails!" 

(Ahhh, it gave me tears in my eyes to hear his sweet gratitude!) 

 



Holidays

The last time Ruby was at my house, as we snuggled together in my bed in the morning hours, we were having a discussion about holidays.  Miss Ruby LOVES holidays and was asking me what the next holiday was going to be. 

"Well, honey, that would be Martin Luther King Day"

(I was sure their school would have the day off since it is a legal holiday and they would probably be talking about it in school as well.) 

"What's Martin Luther King Day, Grandma?"

"Well, honey, that's when we celebrate a great man named Martin Luther King who did a lot of good things for his people, the black people." 

"Oh! What's the next holiday?"

"That would be Valentines Day"

Ruby loves Valentines Day and we spoke about how we made their Valentines last year and how they each received a little mailbox full of Valentines from their friends at school. 

 

Apparently the next day Ruby was having a similar conversation with her momma about what was the next holiday.  Kristin said
"I think it is Valentines Day".

"Oh no mommy.  It's. . . . it's. . . . it's. . . . (Kristin could tell Ruby was thinking)

"It's when we give a big party for the black people!" 

 

I LOVE IT. . . 

PINK

Ruby asked me today if I would make the blog PINK.  Over the 5 years I have had it many different colors and designs, but this is the first time I made it PINK.  But for her, anything! (once)

Enjoy PINK. . . .