Ruby has begun speaking a lot more lately. When she is in the mood she will repeat just about anything you ask her to. I love it. Her favorite phrase right now is "No way"! It is pretty hilarious. In fact the other night when I asked if she was ready for bed, she tilted her head down and glared up at me and in the most demonic growl I've ever heard, said "no way". So I let her stay up a little longer, mostly cause I was frightened. Fortunately she doesn't always growl at me. On Saturday night when I put her to bed, I said, "I love you Ruby", just like normal. As I walked toward the door I heard the sweetest little voice say, "Momma? I yuv you". And then I melted.
One morning I made pancakes for breakfast. I sort of just feed everybody as I make them so if they want another they come and get one. So this particular morning Kode finished his first pancake and then said to me, "Mom, my body wants you to bring me another pancake". So I said to him, "Well my body says it wants you to get up and come get one from me". He did not like this answer and said, "Well, why don't you listen to my body"? This is so Kode. He has such a unique way of looking at things and almost always cracks me up with his comments.
Kode and Lyda like to pretend to go camping in their bedroom. One day they invited me to go camping with them so I went. I quickly discovered that they had snuck a bag of marshmallows into their room. Kode offered to roast a marshmallow for me and I thought it was so stinkin' cute what he'd come up with. He put a marshmallow on the end of a paintbrush and then then turned on his flashlight to roast it. Very clever I thought. I told Steve about it and he said he remembers thinking that would work when he was a little kid. Guess he thinks like his daddy.
I overheard Lyda say to Kode recently, "There are better things to do than sit around and watch tv all day long. There is something I want you to know, if you just sit around and watch tv all day, then you'll get chunky legs".
Lyda has lost her two front teeth in the last few weeks. So cute to see her with spaces in her mouth. Though I don't think she can afford to lose many more if she wants to continue eating solid food. So here's my bad tooth fairy confession. By tooth number six she pretty much figured out how the old tooth fairy thing worked and stopped talking to us about it. That night I asked Steve if he would check to see if she had put it under her pillow. As stealthily as possible he went into her room and put his arm under her pillow. She stirred and then popped up and grabbed the pillow and said, "Still there". Somehow the fact that Steve's arm was also under the pillow didn't seem to phase her. So the tooth was there, but we didn't have a dollar to put under her pillow. Steve suggested 4 quarters, but I knew she would be disappointed because cash is so much cooler. I remembered seeing a dollar on her nightstand probably from the last tooth she'd lost and suggested we just use that and then put a dollar back the next day. So that's what we did and we went totally undetected but perhaps we are not the most honest tooth fairies around.
