That's what she said

The girls definitely keep us laughing all day long with the crazy things they say!

--We were at the pool a couple weeks ago with friends, and I took the girls to the bathroom to change into dry clothes before going home. I changed Shelby first, and then when I started to get Hadley's swimsuit off she pulled away from me and stated matter-of-factly: "Me need a changing table. Where's my changing table?" She spun around and spotted the changing table that folded down from the wall and exlaimed in the happiest of tones: "Oh, there's my changing table!" ;)

Kiddie Park in downtown San Antonio

--The girls and I were at the Chick-fil-a playplace with Angela & her boys, and we were all getting ready to leave. Angela was reminding Adam that it was time to put his shoes on, and I overheard Shelby telling Adam: "Make sure you listen to your Mommy because I can only marry good boys, Adam."  ;)

--We were eating dinner at Schlotzky's one night, and the girls' meals came with cookies. We told the girls they could eat their cookies after they'd finished eating their dinner, but of course Hadley literally asked after every.single.bite if she'd eaten enough to earn her cookie. I have to give Hadley credit for her persistence & politeness--she never got upset even though she'd heard the word "no" every single time in response to her very sweetly worded question (she was sure to say "please" every time!) Then finally towards the end of our meal, Hadley just yelled out "COOOOOOKIEEEEE!" and Derek and I both just burst into uncontrollable laughter. It was as if she was thinking "I've asked politely in as many ways as I can think of, so why not give this approach a try?!" ;)

Found this picture from the Fourth of July & just had to share it, love that cheesy grin!
We were at Sea World waiting for a show to start.

--In the middle of breakfast one morning, Shelby randomly said: "Mama, I don't know when my baby's birth is gonna be."  ;) You just can't make this stuff up, people!

--Hadley had been playing in her crib for a good thirty minutes after I'd put her down for a nap one day. so I went up to check on her (sometimes when she's been playing it means she has a dirty diaper). When I discovered her diaper was still dry I reminded her it was naptime before I turned to leave. My last words were "It's naptime, Hadley. Go to sleep." Her response: "I won't." And she didn't. ;) 

--After I put Shelby down for her nap today, I saw her pillow was over her head when I checked the monitor. I went upstairs to see what was going on.
Me: What are you doing?
Shelby: I'm hiding.
Me: From what?
Shelby: {looks at me and speaks in an exasperated tone as if she can't figure out why I don't know what's going on} From you & Dada, you're dragons.
 
--Shelby was telling me she wanted to wrestle with Derek when he got home from work. She said us girls should pretend to be the Isrealites and that Derek would pretend to be Goliath--perhaps we've been spending too much time listening to Veggie Tales?! ;)



And here are a couple snapshots of what life is like with an almost five year old in our house these days....

We'd gone to check the mail one afternoon, and one of Derek's finance magazines was in our box. As soon as we got home, Shelby just sat down, opened it up, and started reading it aloud to us. It was so funny to hear her reading about the IRS & income tax. I thought this would last all of one minute and then she'd get back to playing. But she continued to do this for a good 15 minutes! It was hysterical!

And then we had an encore the next night when Derek came home from work. ;)

And last, but not least...one of Shelby's very favorite pasttimes--swiffering. And I'm totally not even kidding! This girl loves to swiffer!! Our typical floor cleaning routine is Derek will run the Roomba in the kitchen after we eat dinner while we're upstairs bathing the girls & getting them ready for the bed, and then I will run the swiffer over the floors in the morning after I've showered. Well, I've had to start waiting to swiffer until after Shelby comes down in the morning, otherwise my quiet time to get chores done in the mornings will be over in a flash. She can be dead asleep or in the middle of reading a book in her bed, and she can hear me as soon as I get that swiffer out and comes darting down the stairs to "help" me. :)