Went up the water spout.
Out came the hand and bamed him down.
The end.
That was the song Lea made up this morning. She also went off to play a fishing game on the computer. She is Dan's daughter today!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
A fun converstaion I'd like to remember
Lea says "You be the lion, I'll be the lion tamer."
Me, "Ok. What do you want me to do?"
"Go get me a fish."
"I'm a lion, where would I get a fish?"
"Go fight a bear and take his fish."
"Where did you get that idea?"
"I just came up with it Mommy!"
Me, "Ok. What do you want me to do?"
"Go get me a fish."
"I'm a lion, where would I get a fish?"
"Go fight a bear and take his fish."
"Where did you get that idea?"
"I just came up with it Mommy!"
Monday, July 06, 2009
As Seen on TV
So we recently got a new tivo that allows us to get the digital channels. We still don't have cable, but we've doubled the amount of channels we received. An added bonus is that one UHF channel has a digital version that is all kids shows. Qubo. It shows very odd stuff, but good wholesome stuff Lea loves. It seems to be a lot of Canadian public broadcasting shows. It does show commercials, however, unlike PBS. But they don't have a lot of advertising. Just "as-seen-on-tv" commercials. So we knew that Lea was watching them, but better that than the newest Barbie ever 5 minutes. Or so we thought.
I knew Lea's favorite was the "Touch-N-Brush." She's talked at length about how great the Touch-N-Brush would be when we are brushing our teeth. But it all hit home one night while she was expounding on the virtues of the Touch-N-Brush. It was a conversation we'd had a couple times until she ended with a random "Gold Paq."
"What, Lea?"
"Gold Paq!"
"Lea, is that something to do with Touch-N-Brush?" (Because I do know it comes in a chrome plated version.)
"NO MOMMY!" And with hand motions and demonstrating with the tube of tooth paste my little spokes model explained, "The Touch-N-Brush is a stick on the wall that holds the tooth paste like this and I put my tooth brush in like this and I would have tooth paste. Gold Paq!"
Laughing, I asked again, "Lea, what is gold pack?"
In great exasperation "Mommy, you put your gold in it!"
"OH... You mean we put our gold in and send it to them and they send us a check?"
"YES MOMMY, Gold paq."
"Well, that's sweet Lea that you want that for the family, but its not for us."
"Ok, Mommy.... Mommy?"
"Yes, Lea."
"Do you want Bumpits?"
Hmmm... maybe its time to limit tv watching.
I knew Lea's favorite was the "Touch-N-Brush." She's talked at length about how great the Touch-N-Brush would be when we are brushing our teeth. But it all hit home one night while she was expounding on the virtues of the Touch-N-Brush. It was a conversation we'd had a couple times until she ended with a random "Gold Paq."
"What, Lea?"
"Gold Paq!"
"Lea, is that something to do with Touch-N-Brush?" (Because I do know it comes in a chrome plated version.)
"NO MOMMY!" And with hand motions and demonstrating with the tube of tooth paste my little spokes model explained, "The Touch-N-Brush is a stick on the wall that holds the tooth paste like this and I put my tooth brush in like this and I would have tooth paste. Gold Paq!"
Laughing, I asked again, "Lea, what is gold pack?"
In great exasperation "Mommy, you put your gold in it!"
"OH... You mean we put our gold in and send it to them and they send us a check?"
"YES MOMMY, Gold paq."
"Well, that's sweet Lea that you want that for the family, but its not for us."
"Ok, Mommy.... Mommy?"
"Yes, Lea."
"Do you want Bumpits?"
Hmmm... maybe its time to limit tv watching.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Easter - just pictures and comments
Is Lea spoiled, hmmm... maybe. Lea's (overflowing) Easter basket.
The Easter Bunny left something for daddy too.
What? I can't hear you some little girl ate my ears.
Mmm... chocolate bunny before 8am.
This was his nose.
Look mommy had a basket too.
Finding eggs the bunny hid.
Easter loot.
Our Sunday best. On our way to church. Even Dan went.
After church Aunt Teresa and Grandpa came for Easter dinner.
Dan and his dad making deviled eggs.
The Easter Bunny left something for daddy too.
What? I can't hear you some little girl ate my ears.
Mmm... chocolate bunny before 8am.
This was his nose.
Look mommy had a basket too.
Finding eggs the bunny hid.
Easter loot.
Our Sunday best. On our way to church. Even Dan went.
After church Aunt Teresa and Grandpa came for Easter dinner.
Dan and his dad making deviled eggs.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
PrEaster Bunny Party
Our PrEaster party, what I named the Funny Bunny Easter Tea party was loads of fun with Anna & Molly. The girls who ran Lea's birthday party puppet show (Mia & Lucy) brought a pet Lucy's Pet Bunny named Rex.
Lea and Rex the bunny, supervised by Mia and Rex's mommy Lucy.
Lea really liked the bunny. We added Rex to our 5 things we talk about each night for a while. "Rex the bunny poops, but not when strangers are around." Its good she learned important bunny facts, don't you know.
We had a few cups of tea while we made sure all our guests had arrived.
We had bunny fun time, made bunny faces out of paper plates and construction paper
Lea was so clever... she told Grandma later this was her "Bugs Bunny." Get it... bug stickers.
Some bunny faces done by the girls.
We wore bunny hats (well ok, really only mommy wore the bunny hat — Daddy had awesome stripy ears).
Then we had an Easter Egg Hunt. I made little "baskets" for the girls out of small paper bags and construction paper handles. We had A LOT of eggs for the girls and they dove into them. Even Mia and Lucy had some fun hunting up some eggs.
Lea hunts up an egg
The aftermath of the easter haul
Dye stained hands and a longing look at a plate of jelly beans that she knows she is about to eat with no one telling "no." It was a childhood bacchanalia, a candy feast! Look at that tummy full of candy!
And as the kiddos went through their haul of prizes and candy we set up the egg dyes. Here are some of the eggs the girls decorated. Decorating went so well this year. I think everyone had so much fun. We had little paint spounges on clothes pins. Lea, Anna and Molly loved painting the eggs. And dying went so well. Last year all Lea's eggs just turned out black because she put each egg in every color... this year she stuck to pretty much one color per egg.
Mia helping Lea and Molly die eggs. This is one of my favorite photos.
Lea dying a blue egg. Lea's hands may have ended up black, but her eggs ended up rainbow colored. Last year Lea just liked to put the eggs in each and every color so all the eggs ended up black. This year her eggs ended up with some artistic value. She seems to be learning restraint. All the little girls had big t-shirts as art smocks with clothes pins to help them fit.
Easter dyed kid
The party then turned into a backyard BBQ when Ann, Able and Leo joined us. Leo and Lea dyed some more eggs and played and played in the back yard. We did some confetti eggs with just the three kids, Mia, Leo and Lea. It was over so quick there was not time for pictures. A blur of confetti and paper. They were harder to break than I imagined so it was good I saved them for the bigger kids to help Lea out. They also went much faster than I imagined.
Lea and Rex the bunny, supervised by Mia and Rex's mommy Lucy.
Lea really liked the bunny. We added Rex to our 5 things we talk about each night for a while. "Rex the bunny poops, but not when strangers are around." Its good she learned important bunny facts, don't you know.
We had a few cups of tea while we made sure all our guests had arrived.
We had bunny fun time, made bunny faces out of paper plates and construction paper
Lea was so clever... she told Grandma later this was her "Bugs Bunny." Get it... bug stickers.
Some bunny faces done by the girls.
We wore bunny hats (well ok, really only mommy wore the bunny hat — Daddy had awesome stripy ears).
Then we had an Easter Egg Hunt. I made little "baskets" for the girls out of small paper bags and construction paper handles. We had A LOT of eggs for the girls and they dove into them. Even Mia and Lucy had some fun hunting up some eggs.
Lea hunts up an egg
The aftermath of the easter haul
Dye stained hands and a longing look at a plate of jelly beans that she knows she is about to eat with no one telling "no." It was a childhood bacchanalia, a candy feast! Look at that tummy full of candy!
And as the kiddos went through their haul of prizes and candy we set up the egg dyes. Here are some of the eggs the girls decorated. Decorating went so well this year. I think everyone had so much fun. We had little paint spounges on clothes pins. Lea, Anna and Molly loved painting the eggs. And dying went so well. Last year all Lea's eggs just turned out black because she put each egg in every color... this year she stuck to pretty much one color per egg.
Mia helping Lea and Molly die eggs. This is one of my favorite photos.
Lea dying a blue egg. Lea's hands may have ended up black, but her eggs ended up rainbow colored. Last year Lea just liked to put the eggs in each and every color so all the eggs ended up black. This year her eggs ended up with some artistic value. She seems to be learning restraint. All the little girls had big t-shirts as art smocks with clothes pins to help them fit.
Easter dyed kid
The party then turned into a backyard BBQ when Ann, Able and Leo joined us. Leo and Lea dyed some more eggs and played and played in the back yard. We did some confetti eggs with just the three kids, Mia, Leo and Lea. It was over so quick there was not time for pictures. A blur of confetti and paper. They were harder to break than I imagined so it was good I saved them for the bigger kids to help Lea out. They also went much faster than I imagined.
Lea and Leo playing around in the back yard. You can see the bits of confetti on the ground... there is still some in our backyard I think.
Able in the bunny spirit in his jaunty ears.
The next day Grandma joined us and we added even more decorations to our eyes. We had stickers, google eyes and pipe cleaners.
Grandma in the party spirit (see the hat sticker?) as Lea and Grandma craft together.
I put the hat on and asked Lea how many eyes it should have and so we ended up with what Lea called the 10 eyed party goer.
Lea's bug egg
Lea's eye ball egg
Grandma and Lea decorating eggs. Putting the finishing touches on the eggs.
Able in the bunny spirit in his jaunty ears.
The next day Grandma joined us and we added even more decorations to our eyes. We had stickers, google eyes and pipe cleaners.
Grandma in the party spirit (see the hat sticker?) as Lea and Grandma craft together.
I put the hat on and asked Lea how many eyes it should have and so we ended up with what Lea called the 10 eyed party goer.
Lea's bug egg
Lea's eye ball egg
Grandma and Lea decorating eggs. Putting the finishing touches on the eggs.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
dad interview
This is a thing from facebook to see what Lea thinks about Mommy and Daddy. These were the instructions:
Ask your child(ren) to answer the questions and type their answers in.
(My comments are in parentheses.)
Ask your child(ren) to answer the questions and type their answers in.
(My comments are in parentheses.)
Well Dan asked the questions to Lea about me, so I thought I'd see what Lea answered for Daddy. Here is the video and questions.
Video has the whole conversation, but answers are below if you can't understand some stuff. Lea got a little distracted at the end and started playing with everything on the desk instead of answering questions, despite me trying to keep it exciting using the microphone.
Video has the whole conversation, but answers are below if you can't understand some stuff. Lea got a little distracted at the end and started playing with everything on the desk instead of answering questions, despite me trying to keep it exciting using the microphone.
1. What is something dad always says to you?
He always gets mad. (not always, just right before we did the interview, unfortunate timing.)
2. What makes dad happy?
Me doing what he says
3. What makes dad sad?
When I poop in my pants
4. How does your dad make you laugh?
He tickles me.
5. What was your dad like as a child?
A little boy.
6. How old is your dad ?
I think he is 15 (I am 7... so I'm younger than daddy).
7. How tall is your dad ?
Really tall
8. What is his favorite thing to do?
Play on the computer
9. What does your dad do when you're not around?
He spends time with Mommy.
10.If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for?
Because he was a prince and he would marry me the Princess.
11.What is your dad really good at?
Asking
12.What is your dad not very good at?
Juggling
13.What does your dad do for her job?
Cleaning the house
14.What is your dad's favorite food?
Cupcakes (coincidentally also Lea's fav. food)
15.What makes you proud of your dad?
That he cleans the house
16.If your dad were a cartoon character, who would she be?
a monster
17.What do you and your dad do together?
We go to playgroup
18.How are you and your dad the same?
We have one nose
19.How are you and your dad different?
we have different hair
20.How do you know your dad loves you?
Because he just does
Dealey Update
We got a letter on Friday saying we are on a waiting list for Dealey, so its more wait and see. But whatever happens we're all fine with it. Perhaps Lea will just get to be 4 this year and that's ok with me.
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