pug dogs and garbage trucks

Hudson: "Mom, when I grow up and move out, I'm gonna get a Pug dog and send you videos of it."  

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Ryan and I are discussing the garbage truck that got stuck in the ditch down the road.  It's midnight. Amelia is asleep between us.  She groggily mumbles "I think I've heard enough of the garbage truck talking".  I ask "you don't want to hear about it anymore?"  She says "no" 

iberostar paraiso beach | day 3

The short version:

Vacation was revived with lots of alcohol all day long and sitting by the side of the pool for 6 hours. Traveling with 4 kids isn’t THAT bad, I guess. 

The long version:

We woke with a renewed sense of…. peace.  Wait.  What am I writing?  Weirdo.   Anyhow… the day started pretty good.   We headed to breakfast and felt confident in our abilities to get around this huge resort.   It’s not really THAT huge once you figure it out but your first or second day it just feels… crazy.  chaotic.    So, breakfast it was.    We had cereal and yogurt and pancakes and french toast and fruit and orange juice.  YUM.   We went back to the room, sunscreened up and then headed to the pool.  

We got the same spot we were in yesterday… perfect.  The boys hit up the swim up bar at 10:05am, just after they opened.  Our friends from Chicago joined us shortly later and we basically drank and swam and relaxed all day.   We think Lulu got sun poisoning… the spots on her back and arms were getting worse as she was out in the sun.   I bought her an overpriced freaking swim shirt from the little shop by the pool.   It worked, though.  

I grabbed a couple plates of food from the little restaurant by the pool/beach and the kids snacked by the pool.  Lulu cracked me up by lounging back, ice cream cone in one hand, hot dog in the other… picking up pieces of noodles off her belly.  Ryan put her in the stroller after she ate and walked her around.  She passed out, and slept in the stroller for a LONG time. 

Amelia told us she secretly peed in the pool.  Awesome.  Though I bet with all the people sitting around the swim up bar, drunk, that many other people drunkenly choose to pee in the pool rather than get out and go to the bathroom. Kind of gross, but likely very true.
 

The days actually seem kind of short here.   By 5pm its getting shady and the sun is setting.   We went back to the room around 4:30 and everyone showered and got dressed for dinner.   We walked to the shopping mall near the resort and the kids played on the playground and rode the merry go round. I bought an ornament for our vacation, and then we went to dinner.   

We watched the kids show after dinner.   Amelia and Angela (her little friend from Chicago) ran back stage to get in on the show.   I about died laughing when they came out.  Clearly the kids who went to kids club and practiced the dance came out first (all dressed like cats).  They sent out Amelia and Angela (who had no clue what the dance was), out later… they had these huge fuzzy hats on their heads, black body suits and Amelia could barely see through the fuzzy hat.  She looked like a deer in headlights coming out, trying to figure out how to see.   I was dying laughing.   

Our kids can’t hang as long as we can, and were asking to go back to the room to go to bed.  Lame.   But whatever.  Earlier today, Ryan and Porter did a quickie intro to scuba in the pool.  Tomorrow they're doing scuba lessons and going out into the ocean on Monday.   They have an actual hand signal for “shark” so…. uhm.  yeah.  That sounds safe.   

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Amelia: mom, what am I allergic to?

Me: nothing

Amelia: I feel like I'm allergic to paper

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Amelia:   "Don't pick that plant. It's a confusing plant.  I mean, it's a poison ivy plant.  But it looks really pretty!!"

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speaking spanish

Amelia (looking at Hudson's Beanie Baby Book): "Mom, look its the cat Hudson has!"

Me: "Yep, its Snip the Siamese Cat."

Amelia: "Oh neat! Siamese! That means he speaks Spanish!"

A brain like Dory

Hudson is writing an informational paper about the Titanic (his current obsession). He's been reading books at the library for weeks. He's looking up facts online and found one that clearly contradicts something he read in a book and he says "is lying!" 

Hudson: "No! The Titanic is at 13,123 feet. Because Submarine Alvin could only go down 13124 feet and it reached the Titanic!"

Me: "Your brain is fascinating. How do you remember all of this stuff?"

Hudson: "I don't know! Your brain is like Dorys"

She still has this BEAST

A little funny from Amelia...

Last weekend Amelia sat on a bee and got stung on her butt cheek. (A little lavender + roman chamomile= all better). Anyhow, she's been fine but tonight she crawled into bed with me and was scratching her butt cheek. I said "What in the world is the problem" She says "I still have this BEAST!" OMG I guess to a 4 year old Bee Sting.... might sound like BEAST-ing? OMG OMG. She kills me. #AmeliaSays

blowing away

Amelia: "MOM! My airplane is still outside in the windy rain!"

Me: "You'd better go run and get it!"

Amelia: "But Mom! I'm too little I would blow away in the wind and you would scream 'Where's Amelia? I guess she blowed away in the wind!' So if I have to go out and get it, well, I guess you'll just have to scream for me because I blowed away!"

Amelia Says

6|24|16
Amelia:  I'm not very good at driving.

Me:  Why's that?

Amelia:  Cause I don't have any directions from driving lesson girl.

Amelia Says

Me, to Ry "there's a light I want for my office at Menards. I might have you swing in there and get t after you drop the boys off at school."

Amelia (eyes huge): "Swing in there?!?! That's gonna have to be a BIG swing!"

Amelia Says

5|26|16
We're at the "Warnival" at Porter's school, and one of the prizes is inflatable animals.   There are some kids carrying dolphins... some pink, some blue.

Amelia:  "I want one of those pink girl dolphin balloons.  Because I'm REALLY loving those dolphin balloons!"

Me: (I repeat what she says, jokingly mocking her)

Amelia:  "Mooooom!  I was gonna say that!"

Amelia Says

3|22|16
"The sun was a little circle with 5 lines and then it was a circle with no lines and that's why I have to draw people with a sun that's big on one side and it has lines.  And it's crazy the sun in the sky doesn't have lines like the [telephone] poles have lines by the oreo cows!"

"I wish it was Christmas eving.   What's taking so long for it to be Christmas eving?"

Amelia Says: December 2015 Edition

A:  Sometimes you say the F-word.

Me: I know.  I shouldn't say bad words. I try not to.

A:  I know.  I shouldn't say bad words either.  But dogs don't even talk!  And Lulu says "dadadadada!"  

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(I had a papercut from an envelope and had showed her and said it hurt)

A:  When I get a bit older, I wish I could cut my finger with an envelope.  What was the thing that cut you, Mom?  

Me:  An envelope.

A:  Oh no, that's so sad!

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A:  Ohhhhh I missed you, Mom!  I wish you could stay here all day.

Me:  But I was here all day.

A:  No you weren't.  You were at the airport!

Me:  That was last night, silly! (I took my mom to the airport the night before)

A:  No it wasn't!  It was 3 weeks ago!  And yesterday morning you were there too!

Seriously Amazing Facts from Amelia

Brainy fact from Amelia today:

"After you eat food it turns up in your belly and then turns into poop. Is that seriously amazing, mom?"

Amelia-isms: October Edition

Picking her up from preschool, she shows me where she accidentally wrote on her sweater at preschool.   She says "It was an accident.  It's okay.  It will come off on Sunday."

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I laid out her clothes for the next day and put some underwear out for the morning.  She said "I already have underwear on!"  I told her she's been wearing them all day and she'll need clean ones in the morning. She told me "But I can wear these tomorrow again! I've only been wearing them a month!"

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Invisible fence guy was here giving me a quote for the yard. He asked the ages of the boys and then Amelia says:  "Yeah, and my brothers pee standing up out of their PENISES in the front!"

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Amelia Says

Today, as she left for school, she was wiping off the fog/condensation from the front door.  She squeals, excitedly..."Look!  I'm windshielding!"   HAHA!  OH my word.  

This girl cracks me up all the time.  I regret not writing down every little thing she says because she is SO. DARN. CUTE.   Right now she LOVES "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten.  We get in the car and she says "Let's listen to the take back my life song!"  And she really gets into it.  I need to record her one day.  

Putting on "doderant" like mommy

"Look!  I did my hair spikey like Hudson!"  (that's a GLOB of hair paste)

Lunch one day after storytime at the library.  She has the best expressions.   

Threenager

SCENE:  Bedtime.   Amelia is having a "sleepover" in Hudson's room since Porter is out of town with Oma. She had a chewed up piece of gum she sat on the night stand to chew in the morning.  Imagine utter attitude and disgust in the 3-year olds voice.

Ryan:  Ok, you need to get in bed and cover up.
Amelia:  But I NEED to find my gum!
Ryan:  I threw it away.
Amelia:  Are you KIDDING me?
Ryan:  I'll give you another piece in the morning.
Amelia:  SERIOUSLY?
Ryan: It was all chewed up.  You can have another piece in the morning.
Amelia:  SERIOUSLY?   (puts head in hands) Dummy. Don't even worry about it.

Lord help us when she's a tween.

Hudsonisms...

This weekend we went to Birch Run shopping.   Hudson picked out this red sweater at Nautica he looooved so we bought it for him.  He bugged us the whole entire day to wear it.   This morning, we told him he could wear it to church if he wanted to.  He was totally geeked.   On the way to church we overheard this conversation in the back of the truck.

Hudson:  Porter, I knit this sweater!
Porter:  No you didn't!  Mom, Hudson is saying he knit his sweater.  Did he?
Me:  I don't know.... maybe?
Hudson:  Yep!  See!!  That's why they call me a "K"nit-wit.

I about died.  Just.  About.  Died.

Then, after church we stopped at Dunham's.  Hudson hopped out and still had on his sticker/nametag from church.  He says "I could be a worker here!  I'm like.... a MINI worker!"  

Ameliaisms

10.16.14
-I cared a wonder (I’m scared of thunder)

-Early one morning snuggling in bed with Porter and I. 
Amelia:  "Poe, you gimme a frog?” 
Poe: "no”. 
Amelia: "dang it all"

-One day I called her Sugar Bear. She said "I not sugar bear. I just a-meeah"

11.6.14
-I was dropping her off at Oma's one morning and getting out of the truck she says "I don't want to scare Oma. She nice"

-She's so bossy to the boys. At dinner tonight she says "stop talking boys. Shhh!" She is constantly tattling on them but it's for the silliest things. Like "Poe say me to stop it". "Poe say me be quiet".  

-Riding in the car today I said "the clouds look like cotton candy!"  She laughed so hard and said "you funny mama!"  I said "I just want to eat those clouds up!"  She laughed harder and said "yum yum I eat them in my belly!!"

what a compliment

Amelia woke me up this morning stroking my hair.

A: "Hair look nice. Take a shower today? Take a bath today?"

Me: "Are you asking did I take a shower or am I going to take a shower?"

A: "Am I"

Me: (laughing)  "Yes, I am going to take a shower today"

A: (grinning, because she knows she's so goofy and cute) "Okayyyyy"

It's a chair for...

Yesterday I had to have some bloodwork done so I took the kids with me.  Its usually an in an out type deal but for some reason, we ended up waiting in the waiting room for 50 minutes before being called back.

Anyhow, in the waiting room they have chairs all around, and one was like a loveseat chair but not quite as big.... inbetween a loveseat and a chair. Amelia climbs up, all charming and cute and says "Its a couch! I'm sitting on the couch!" So, porter sits with her and he says "Its just a double chair Amelia." 

Everyone's smiling at Amelia, who is just being adorable as usual. Hudson, who was super grumpy all morning, says all loud "It's a chair for fat people"

angel kisses

I love freckles. 

I have freckles, so I guess I have to love them, right? 

Porter has had freckles since he was a toddler, and I always tell the kids they're kisses from angels.  I noticed recently that Hudson has some faint freckles spattering his nose and cheeks.  I pointed it out and he was astonished.  I told him they're kisses from angels... that Nina must be giving him kisses!  

A few days later he comes out of his room and says "MOM!  I have another freckle on my wrist!  Oh. My. Word!  Look!  Nina must have given me a kiss last night!"  Melt my heart.   This boy... he has such a childish wonder about him.  

I love him.