Navy nailed her Singer’s Company performance this year. By the final performance, she wasn’t looking at others to know the dance moves, and she was really fun to watch.
Clearly, her little brother and sister thought so too!
Singer’s Company ‘15
Navy’s Find
When Navy walked to the car after school, with her lunch bag in hand, I knew something was fishy.
When she got in, I told her to show me what was in it. I was sure she had a roly poly collection in there, or maybe a spider.
She was more hesitant than usual, so I insisted — with punishments attached if she didn’t show me quickly.
Can’t you just read “Uh Oh” on her face.
No biggie…just a dead bird.
When I made her wipe down her hands immediately, she said, “Mom, my hands are clean. I just used some books in my bag to pick it up.”
I made her wipe anyway.
Against most mom’s better judgement, I let her keep the bird.
Mostly, because the alternative was to chuck it out the window at school pick up.
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Update: The next day, Navy got in the car to tell me that someone came in the class and called her name. She thought she was in trouble, but then realized that they were just returning some books that were found in the bushes with her name on them. WHAT?! I assumed that she knew to use disposable stuff to get that bird. Little did I know that she was using her library and math book. And then left them! What a knucklehead.
Best Friends Again
Sara and Navy are best friends. But that isn’t always the case. There are definitely ups and downs. But when there are two head strong, stubborn, tough, wants-to-be-in-charge girls…it’s bound to happen.
“I Love You Everywhere”
Dash and I play the “I Love You” game a lot. Lately, he keeps thinking he beats me with “I love you everywhere”.
It goes like this:
Dash: I love you a million!
Me: I love you more than that!
Dash: I love you all the way to Heaven!
Me: I love you around Heaven and back!
Dash: I love you everywhere! I WON!!!!!!!!!
And then he gut giggles.
SuperBaby
This little SuperBaby is my favorite thing lately.
She talks and talks and talks.
Not a single person knows what she is saying.
But she doesn’t care….she talks anyway.
The only thing I can understand…
when she is tattling on Dash!
Megan’s Dress
This girl was a disaster today!
At least she looked cute in Megan’s dress from 46 years ago!
So as much as she cried, I was so in love with the dress, I just held her and cuddled her.
Usually, I would have pawned her off after 30 minutes of on/off tears.
(It looks shorter than it was in this picture.)
After church, we put her down for a really long nap, and she woke up as happy as anything.
I guess this girl needs her sleep….and then some!
Hard Work
Every year, we go down to the Brockbanks to help them with their awesome service project. This was the first year that I was really impressed with my kid’s work ethic. They worked hard cleaning car wheels for three hours straight. There was no slacking, no complaining, and they were happy to be helping. So when we got in the car, I said, “Kids…I am SOOO proud of you. You worked so hard. You just worked and worked and never complained. Thank you so much…..” I was quickly interupted by Scout during my speech with, “No mom….THANK YOU. You are the person who has taught us to work hard!”
I’m not sure if there was sucking up involved, but I may have gotten a teeny tear in my eye.
Cheering Squad
Look who came to cheer on Scout in his basketball game today!
And the great byproduct of Nonnie being there — was Pippi had her best friend’s warm lap to sit on.
Which is a far cry from Pippi running all over the place.
Freezing Chores
This is a rad picture!
It’s a picture of two kids up at the crack of dawn (by themselves), who dressed themselves warmly (by themselves), and started on cleaning the car and backyard (together)!
Here they are deciding what they should do with Scout’s crystal science experiment that froze overnight.
I love these kids.
I especially love these kids when they are responsible.
Doll Face
When I handed Pippi’s dolly to her, she was not happy.
Scout stepped back with his heal, right onto her dolly’s face.
She didn’t know what to do!
She didn’t like her dolly anymore, but she was still the mommy??!!??
I told her to give her baby a hug, and clearly, she wasn’t very excited to.
But like any good mommy, she supported her baby.
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Then Nurse Navy came on the scene.
Can I just say how happy Pippi was, when Navy reformed the dolly’s face!
Pippi literally squealed with excitement.
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