August in Review

Sydney asked Keresa about aliens. She said they were kind of like monsters or ghosts. We just talk about them to feel kind of scary and excited, but really there's no such thing. Then Sydney said, "Ok, so there's no such thing as Indians?"

Jackson has been getting in trouble for saying 'bathroom words' when we aren't in the bathroom. We tell him he is only allowed to talk about that gross stuff when we are in the bathroom. Before we ever leave to go somewhere, Keresa tells the kids to go to the bathroom. He gave her a devious look and walked in the bathroom. Then he unleashed all the words he could think of, "PP!!!! POOP!!!! my BUM!!!!"

Keresa made chocolate chip cookies, but substituted part of the chocolate chips for chopped up Andes Mints. The kids said, "Yummy Mom! These taste like toothpaste!" I thought it would be a good trick to tell people that we ran out of baking soda, but we had plenty of baking soda toothpaste, so we added it instead. Then watch their reaction. Keresa said I probably wouldn't be able to do that.

Sydney has been having nightmares. So she has started saying things like this in her prayers at night, "Bless me to have good dreams, like birthday parties, pizza, going to the library, playing with lots of little doggies..."

Jackson suddenly has an Appalachian dialect. He has been saying things like "I will put on my pay-ants. I don't want to go to bay-ed. Will you push in my chay-air?"

Sydney's sentences get mixed up sometimes, and she gets really frustrated about it. She told us in the car, "What are going we to do toda--..." Then rolled her eyes at herself, then made a face like OMG my day is like totally ruined! Then started over, "What are WE going to DO today?" She also started saying 'like' alot. "Mom, like, I had, like, a dream. And it was, like, about a, like... Fish. And, well, it like..."

Baby 3 seems to be going fine. Keresa is starting to get sore hips, and I am starting to get a sore back. So yes, everything seems like it is moving along normally.

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