Why mommy!

Four year olds are full of their own funny ways at looking at things.
1) While sitting at the dinner table the other day, Ansley asked me if Hannah eats Ike James, with his fingers. I quickly corrected her that James uses a fork only to look over at him and see him digging into his food with his hands. Oh well!! I told her that Hannah eats with her mouth that she doesn't know how to use her hands yet. Ansley replies so she eats like a dog.
2) Since Hannah can't be near anyone right now my kids have been in mourning. So when I drop Caroline's two older kids off, she has been bringing Hannah out to the car and letting them look at her. It is amazing how that little bit of grace gives my kids such joy!! Today It was raining so they could only see her from a distance. As soon as we left I got drilled on why Caroline couldn't get closer. Ansley decided to answer the question herself. "Caroline didn't want to drop Hannah on the hard ground.you can drop baby dolls on the ground but not Hannah!" my reaction... What?!?!?

As you can see my child is obsessed with Hannah. Imagine if she was able to touch her.

Helper

James has decided that the refrigerator needs his help lately. The last two nights while I have been cooking dinner I have been finding James pulling things out of the refrigerator and insisting that I follow his lead. Last night it was the milk(dangerous situation). Tonight it was the clementines.
This first picture was of him building a railroad track for his trains. Eventually it turned into batting practice.



Then he decided to eat it!


He found out real fast how great that taste.

"It's ok baby"

Sick day

The funk is rolling through our family. Let me catch you up. Hannah spent two nights in Children's with RSV, Frances and Thomas shared the fever virus, and James and Ansley have shared a nasty cold and light fever. Don't you wish you could come double dip in our cheese dip. Bob kept Ansley home on Wednesday. No fever all day so off to school on Thursday. Her eyes still looked bad but no fever. She was pumped because her class was heading to the Elementary school for breakfast. When I picked her up that afternoon she couldn't stop talking about every detail from the trip! It was so exciting to see her so pumped about the experience. Then 5:30 and she started to get the glazed eyes. The fever was back! It was my turn to sty home. I was thrilled to call into jury duty and be absent from hearing the crime that goes on daily in our county. I keep both kids home hoping to end this nastiness. By 9:00 I am pretty sure James recounted everything that was going on from his point of view. Ansley took ogre his excitement of the day when he took a nap. Her quiet time hit 15 minutes and then she was down stairs with me watching American Idol. nothing like a four year old commenting on every thing. So much for mommy time. Bob reminded me that in a couple years they won't want to talk to me so cherish the time.
Moments from the day:
Ansley: she is a daddys girl not doubt. She wakes up asking about him and falls asleep thinking about him. Today she was particularly interested in when he was coming home. I told her after daddy gets done with work. At lunch, which she calls dinner solely because it is closer to when daddy comes home, she told me that daddy comes home when it is dark out. I said yes most days he does. She responds I think it is getting a little bit dark outside!!
James: Earlier in the day I had made some water for him and put it on the kitchen table. After nap he asked for some and i told him where it was in the kitchen. He ran into get it and never came back. I went in to the kitchen to see what was up to find him drinking from the dogs water bowl!! Gross!! He sees me and proceeds to dip his fingers in and lick them and. shoot me a priceless grin. Never a dull moment. Thank goodness I have a blog to use in a slide show when he gets married!

Baby Hannah!!

For months now we have been talking about baby Hannah. Ansley has been excited. James has had no clue what was going on. Finally, she arrived. Caroline had a good delivery and has had a nice recovery. We stopped by on Friday to let the kids see Hannah!! Ansley had been asking to see her since she was born...so for three days! Believe it or not Ansley was in heaven but James took the medal for the most excitement when seeing a baby. At one point it was time to feed Hannah so Caroline told James. He told Caroline "baby says no!" It was love at first sight for him! I asked him what her name is and he replied baby. It took until we got home for him to believe that her name was Hannah not baby.
This is one of my favorite pictures of the girls!!


It takes a lot to wake up this baby!


Thank goodness Hannah is a patient baby. The kids were exploring her. James was putting on her sock.


He was petting her head the entire time.

Kid moments!!

To start off this post I must give a shout out to the makers of garage door pads!! James likes to help me take Oscar out after dinner. James has not learned how to open doors yet(thank goodness), so he likes to help me open the door and call Oscar. Tonight, I stepped out onto the front porch and called Oscar only to hear James mumble words which included close door and the next thing I new the door was closed and I was outside. Our front door is tricky because you have to press a button on the inside frame for it to be unlocked. Yep I have lived there 5 years and still managed to not unlock it. Trying to tell a 2 year old how to open the door is like talking to a mime. My lips were moving and telling him things but he just continued to have his own conversation on the other side of the door. I give up and go to the garage to open the door with the key pad. Luckily, we live in a culdesac so nobody saw me talking to the door.
It never fails that when we get in the car and head out and get on the main road a little voice from the back asks me to do something. I have tried to explain to the kids that mommy has to watch the road so we can all stay safe. So today we are on our way home from school and Ansley drops her markers. She gets the voice that has a tinge of attitude. I sigh and Ansley states to me "you don't have octopus arms do you!" Yes, she really has been listening to me!!

Go Crutchfield kids!!

Today was a long day at the courthouse. It is amazing how people can do such horrible things to others! I guess that is why I get paid $25 all day. It is also amazing how such a rotten day can do a 360 when you see your sweet babies. I was able to pick the kids up early today. James has had a great week at school. I picked him up yesterday and Mrs. Amanda was so excited because James new all his colors at circle time that morning. Then when I picked him up today she was excited again because he could count to 8. Yeah James!! I have to thank the leapfrog DVD Ready for School. Most of the time he does the cliff notes for counting "1,2,9,10!" I know good and well he can count to 12 but he choses to shorten it. Way to go Tank!
Ansley's class has started to get serious about preparing for kindergarten. When I picked her up today she was practicing some concepts. Her teacher showed me her work on prepositions and left and right. 100% go Ansley!!! This mommy is bragging big time about how well my kids are doing and how Great their preschool is!!!