Conversations With Emily

Emily and I were driving in the car this weekend and she announced that she was really tired.  I didn't want her to fall asleep in the car, so this is what I told her. 

Me: "Ok, you can take a nap when we get home.  I think that's a great idea."

Emily: "I don't want to take a nap."

Me: "But you just said you were tired."

Emily: "But Mommy, I'm like a stapler."

Me: "Huh?

Emily: "You know how a stapler is full of staples, well that's how I am.  And even when I'm not full of staples, I always have enough in there to make it feel like I'm full."

Me: "Hmm, that's an interesting analogy, Em!"

Conversations With Evan

Evan wakes up soo early every morning.  He has a clock in his room that changes colors when he can wake up, but he pays no attention to it.  So we tried a different approach and we told him when the clock points to the 6 then he can come out.  One night just a few minutes after we put him to bed he comes out of his room.

Shawn: "Evan, you need to get back into your room."

Evan: "But my clock is pointing to the 6."

Shawn: "But you haven't even slept yet."

Shawn and Evan go into his room and Evan proudly shows Shawn where the hand is pointing to the 6.

Shawn: "I guess we should clarify, the little hand has to be pointing to the 6."

It was 8:30 pm.

Emily Lost a Tooth!

Emily woke up with one less tooth yesterday morning!  It came out sometime while she was sleeping.  We haven't been able to find it, so we're wondering if she might have swallowed it during the night.

She has been anxiously awaiting losing her teeth.  So many of her friends have lost some and she didn't understand why it was taking so long for hers.  When she went to the dentist just over 6 months ago, the dentist said she would probably lose one before her next visit.  Well fast forward to her next visit over Christmas break and let's just say she wasn't too happy with the dentist.  After all, he said she would lose one.  During her checkup, they discovered that she did have 1 loose tooth.  So surely it wouldn't be too long by now.

Fast forward a week or so and it was getting looser by the day.  Yesterday she came home from school and it was literally hanging by a thread.  I did everything I could to convince her to let me pull it, but she was too scared.  She was hoping to lose it at school because they get to go to the nurse and get a special tooth box necklace to put their tooth in.  Of course, selfishly I wanted her to lose her first one at home, so I could see it.   She went to sleep that night and I assumed it would fall out at school the next day.  We were all surprised when she woke up and it was gone.

That night Em put out her tooth fairy pillow and hoped the tooth fairy might still leave some money even though she didn't have the tooth.  Luckily for Emily, the tooth fairy must have still known she lost it and she left her $5.  She came running out of her room this morning so excited about her money!

I'm still getting used to her new smile.  She seems so much older to me with her new grin.  I'm sure it won't be too long before she's losing more. 

Conversations With Evan

Back on New Year's Day, I walked into Evan's room to clean it up and noticed pretty quickly that there was fish food all over his dresser.  I quickly looked up and realized that Evan must have poured the entire container of fish food in his fish bowl.

Me: "EVAN!!  Did you feed your fish?"

Evan: "Yes, Mommy, he was hungry!"

Me: "Bud, you poured the whole container in there."

Evan: "He was really hungry.  I love animals."

It's worth mentioning that Evan's fish is on the middle shelf of his hutch, which means he climbed up and was standing on top of his dresser.  Thank goodness we latched his dresser to the wall just a couple of months ago! 

And you will all be thankful to know that I must have noticed the food fairly quickly because his fish somehow survived!  The food is no longer kept in his room.