A Name

So Ben was messing around again and talking about more kids, with our kids. He asked Delaney, "How many more babies should mommy have?" Her reply might be my favorite ever, "I think not all of them" LOL Then he said, "I think mommy should have at least one more boy for me and we should name him Searq" (Which is some old Irish name that is pronounced Shark) Delaney said "SHark??? That's just silly!" So Ben asked, "What do you think we should call the baby?" She sat for a second and then said, "Um, I think a name would be good" LMAO!!!

Gaga

So the kids and I sitting and watching Lady Gaga perform on Good Morning America. Delaney asked me who she was and I said, "That's Lady Gaga" So we are sitting and watching her for awhile when Delaney turns to me, after her third costume change and said, "Goo goo gaga wears silly stuff" LMBO!!!

Clean Up Time

So this morning I was running around trying to straighten up the house before my in-laws came over, and in the process I asked Delaney to take her blanket and pillow pet upstairs, When she answered me with "I'm sorry I can't, I'm just too tired right now" I got annoyed. So I told her that she now needed to take them up and clean up her room. She said no again because "There's too much of everything in there" Now, I was on a warpath...so it was 'do it or lose toys', 'do it or you don't get to play later', etc. I got so many excuses, including "Why can't you clean it?" "Its too hard, its too messy" "Why are you being mean to me?" "I've already told YOU to help me!" and my personal favorite of "I'm having a hard time being with you right now if you're gonna throw my stuff away" Needless to say, I can out stubborn any child or adult for that matter and she did in fact clean up...but only after my in-laws came and said they were sorry they couldn't play with her since mommy said not until the room got cleaned....LOL I will win damnit!

Tantrum

We had a hard core meltdown this afternoon...Delaney gets so tired and when that happens, she becomes someone else...Well, she started hitting me with her pillow pet and throwing it on my laptop while I was trying to do work and so I got mad and took it away and I guess I sort of pushed her when I did because she started crying and told me, "You pushed me on purpose" LOL Well she went and got it....so I sat on it cause there was no way she was pulling it out from under me...but she did try and failed...so she started flipping out and crying and then she looks at me and thru her teary eyes, she says, "People shouldn't take people's stuff!" LOL That one made me laugh soooo hard!

Tricky

We walked down to Dormont Park tonight and soon after we got there a 6 year old boy named Maurice asked Delaney and Donovan if they wanted to play hide and seek. They were so happy and immediately jumped at the chance. So Delaney counted to ten and he took off thru the castle maze...well, Delaney did very well keeping up with him and Donovan did exceptional chasing behind Delaney, but she could never catch him...and he just kept going...after about a half dozen times thru, she finally stopped, looked at us and said, "I think I'm tired of chasing him now. He's a tricky one!" And when we all packed up the leave, she yelled "I love you" to him....LOL Please, reserve the I love you's for family right now....

Beautiful

So last night while I was tucking Delaney into bed (and she actually stayed in there all night, amazingly), I told her that she was such a funny and smart and sweet little girl....She got all bashful on me and smiled and looked down like I was embarrassing her with my gushing...and then she smiled and said, "no"....I thought, aw, she's being so humble, until she looked at me and said, "No mom....I'm beautiful" God help us all!

"C" is for....

So Delaney looks at me and says, "Mom, let's sing the 'C' song, ya know, 'C' is for cookie, that's goodie in a tree...C'mon"

Lost

Well, Delaney just lined her little Princess figurines up on the coffee table, Snow White, Jasmine, Mulan, Belle, Sleeping Beauty...then she looks at me and says, "I think I was playing with Cinderella outside and might have lost her"....then she got a thoughtful look on her face and said disappointedly, "We loose stuff a lot huh?"

Jumping Rope

Delaney has this little crafty project where she can take these cutout animals and learn to sew by stitching the poked holes with basically a shoe string...needless to say, it has resulted in random shoe strings around the house...Well, after school today, she saw one and grabbed it...she held the ends in her hands and started swinging it, kinda like what you would do with a jump rope, just much smaller. Well, she actually thought she WAS jumping rope...She told me she knew how and that I should watch her, so I did...She starting jumping in the air, swinging the rope and counting, "One eleven, twelve, seventeen!" Then she fell on the ground and lay there, breathing hard. She put her arm up to her head like she was exhausted and then said, "Man I can jump rope good! Did you see that?" I don't know what was funnier, the bad counting or her 'worn out' act....

Can't Stop

So we were driving tonight, the whole family in the car, and we were singing and dancing with the kids, totally kills time and keeps the kids from getting restless...well, at some point Ben and I started talking and stopped dancing and singing...behind me I could still hear Delaney doing something but I wasn't paying attention...suddenly out of no where she yells, "Oh man, I just can't stop doing the Hokey Pokey...and I'm just so tired!"

Pretty Mommy

So while sitting and watching Grey's Anatomy, Delaney brings down her little bin of necklaces and bracelets and hair stuff and just starts decorating me...That's how it felt too, like I was a Christmas tree gettin all prettied up! After she was done, she looked at me, smiled and ran over and gave me a hug. She said, "You look beautiful! I made you..." LOL I Should've taken a picture but I had a sequined headband on, several bracelets and necklaces, about 7 barrettes...

Batman

Last night when I woke up around 1am from Tenley yelling in her sleep, woke up to the HUB on TV, which was playing old Batman shows, got up to pee and on Ben's side of the bed, Delaney was sitting, Indian style, just watching TV....LOL....I asked what she was doing and she smiled innocently and said, "I'm watching this show, they're trying to get the bad guy" Then she went back to watching....I totally was a horrible mom cause I said, "well I'm glad you didn't wake us up"....and I went back to bed....When I got back up around 3 she was in her bed....I gave up and don't care anymore...she goes to bed when she's tired enough....as long as everyone else sleeps and doesn't get disturbed, I'm okay with it....

When

So I have a giant basket of candy from Easter that I have up on top of the TV Armoire, for obvious reasons, but I took it down today and of course Delaney went crazy, eating so much candy....So after a half a dozen different chocolates I finally wised up and put it back and she got all upset and said, "Why are you putting it up there?" So I answered her by saying, "Because you don't know how to say when" So she started screaming, "WHEN WHEN!" I realized my mistake and said, "No, you don't know when to say when, you obviously know how to say it" So she keeps asking me if she can say when now....LOL

My Game

So Delaney got a new princess ball for her birthday and she and Donovan have been sitting and rolling it to each other, we toss it back and forth and she has discovered that if she throws it up herself, she can catch it herself....so she had her ball in her hands and she said, "Excuse me mommy, you need to watch me and learn! This is MY game!"

Tattle Tell

So Ben and I double teamed the house today....he organized the kids while I scrubbed the bathrooms and then once nap-time hit, he weeded and pruned and cut grass while I swept and vacuumed, dusted, folded clothes and did the winter/summer swap out...So, short story made longer, while I was inside, I heard Delaney ask for a drink from Ben.....He of course was working hard so he said, "Go ask your mother"....I of course was also working hard, so I told her to let me finish what I was doing and I'd get her one....A few minutes went by and I hear Delaney outside, "Daaaad, can you yell at mommy, she still hasn't gotten me a drink yet" Tattle Tell!

Hide and Seek

My poor Delaney just ran in all excited and said, "Let's play hide and seek togever!" Unfortunately I was feeding the baby so I told I couldn't at the moment, I was busy with Tenley....So she put her head down and started to walk out of the room, when suddenly she turned and looked at me with her sad face and said, "You know, it was my idea to play with you in the first place" And then she turned and walked away...

Scissors

So Delaney and I were reading a Cinderella book the other day and in one of the scenes, obviously, the mice were making her a dress and there was a mouse with a pair of scissors. They are just learning to use scissors at daycare so she got very excited and said, "LOOK, those are scissors!" So I said, "They sure are, what do you do with scissors?" She smiled and said, "You cut with them and make stuff, cut paper, not kids, (INSERT her little pointer finger in my face) they are NOT for cutting kids" LOL

Floating Monkeys

Delaney walked into the living room tonight and asked, "Mom, can I have a floating monkey for my room?" I said, "You want a floating monkey for your room?" She said, "Yep" So I asked why....to which she replied, "To watch it float"......Makes sense

Sandwich

Delaney just brought me a jar of grape jelly, sat it down on the coffee table, looked at me and said, "I need a sandwich" I said, "No you don't, go back to bed" She then told me, "I need one, no one made me a sandwich today" ???? Can you believe she went the whole day without a sandwich? God Forbid!!!

Hard Times

Wow, Delaney just asked me, "When Is daddy getting home?" I said, "very soon why?" and she said, "I'm just having a hard time with you right now" Totally confused because we are sitting and watching DWTS together, so I asked what that means and she said, "I just need some time with someone else."

Hey Good Looking

So we were driving out to see my mom yesterday for Mother's Day and Donovan was sitting in his seat, pointing out the window at stuff and he just looked so darned cute with his crazy blonde curls and big dimples...So I looked at him and smiled and said, "Could you get any cuter little Bugga?" When suddenly, from behind me, Delaney says, "Um, yeah, I think so"