Almost Thanksgiving, Really?

I can’t believe we’re approaching Thanksgiving this week. Time is just flying by. Did I mention Brett has gained 4 lbs since his surgery?! Here are some pictures and quotes from the kids!

Brett: ‘C’mon Mom! We don’t have all day!’

Brett has to ask Daddy every night ‘What did you have for breakfast and lunch?’ and ‘Did you see Terry?’ He forgot one time when Rob went to wrestling and it bothered Brett until Daddy came back.

Brett was getting a little too concerned with what Bailey was doing. I told him, ‘You worry about you and I’ll worry about Bailey’. His response, ‘Fine and then I’ll worry about you Mommy’

Every once in a while Brett will decide to not nap. One day I went to check on him after I heard some running around. When I got to the top of the stairs Brett said his face was bothering him…it was covered in white. I said, ‘Probably because you put Destin on your face…which is supposed to be for your bottom’

During prayers one night Bailey said she was ‘Thankful for her pink pants’. The girl loves pink.

To expand, for a couple months I was concerned because Bailey refused to acknowledge any other color. She said everything was pink!

Bailey was playing dolls, she tried to saw off poor baby Emma’s face with a Handy Manny tool.

Bailey pretended to be Brett after he was in timeout. She very dramatically pouted and then threw herself on the couch.

I asked Bailey if she was ‘Mama’s girl’. She said ‘no, papa from Ohio’s girl.’

Bailey still loves to sing songs…for a month it was Happy Birthday to Uncle PatPat now it is Old McDonald had a farm.

Brett announced one day that ‘Uncle Pat Pat probably likes Chucky Cheese, you know the mouse who has games’. I said he was probably right.

Kids love picking out shapes in their food during meals. Brett typically finds a boat or a truck out of his sandwich and Bailey almost always magically finds a Cinderella.

Bailey told me to ‘Be quiet, my baby Emma is sleeping!’

While cleaning up from lunch, I told Grace that we weren’t going to get more toys out because we were going to read books and head up for nap. She said ‘Ok, Don’t’ worry Kelli!’

Brett and Bailey (and now Grace and Colin) yell ‘Go Buckeyes!’, then immediately yell ‘Go Blue!’ just to tease me. Unfortunately Grace has taken this home and her family is wondering why she is cheering for Ohio State and Michigan instead of the Bears!

One of these days when Brett was yelling Go Michigan repeatedly…he said we needed to call Daddy to tell him. I said ‘No, I will not comply with such a silly request’. Brett then told me that I was being ridiculous. Because of his nice vocabulary usage, we called daddy.

Brett said ‘maybe when I’m older, I can do the t.v. remote!’

I told Brett we were out of cookies. He asked ‘did Daddy eat all of them?!’ I said, ‘yep’. He said ‘we forgot to hide them AGAIN!’

Occasionally I take all 4 kids to the grocery store in the quad stroller. The stroller just barely fits through the door; it typically takes a few attempts to line them up. I always tell them to keep their hands in so they don’t get pinched by the door frame. Bailey has internalized this as ‘arms up’, and every time we go through the doors. So literally any time I enter or leave the local Jewel, Bailey looks at me and throws her hands up over her head like she’s riding a roller coaster.

Bailey has become very dramatic; she often insists that you need to carry her to the hospital so she can see her doctor.

Brett is loud. All the time. I routinely ask him to use his inside voice or to make the ‘truck softer’. He told me one day that the truck doesn’t want to. I said ‘oh well the truck listens to me and mommy says to be quieter’. Without hesitation, he said ‘no the truck listens to me and he wants to be loud.’

The kids were playing while I was finishing up dinner. All the sudden Brett tells me Bailey has a bucket on her head and they couldn’t get it off…after many attempts, I was also unsuccessful. Thankfully our neighbors were home and had metal clippers strong enough to cut it off. When they answered the door I handed Bailey over and said help please. The husband doesn’t speak English that well and apparently thought I meant to cut her hair off. I’m glad we cleared it up before our little Bailey got a buzz cut.

The next day, Bailey was trying to climb the stove and the stove opened, sending her crashing to the floor. Nancy keeps saying, Bailey’s the one we’re going to have to watch out for!

We've been working on manners. Now that they can all express their ‘wants’ and do so with repeatedly with volume, I often remind the kids that they have to be patient. They use to yell ‘I want milk! Get my milk! Milk Milk Milk!’…mind you this is times 4 little munchkins. One day after my efforts, they said...'look I'm being SO patient for my milk' then this was repeated until they received their cup. It’s slightly passive aggressive, but it’s progress!

In discussion of patience, I told Brett I can only do 1 thing at a time. He said, ‘Ok but you have 2 hands…’. Well played sir.

Brett has become fascinated with heros (Captain America, Batman, Spiderman, etc) he told me ‘I don’t fight with other kids, I fight with bad guys!’

Bailey has become fascinated with wallets…more than once, she has pulled my wallet out of my bag and try to get money and ‘coupons’ (i.e. credit cards) out. I’m mysteriously missing some cash…we have yet to find.

Bailey dropped her cup and it fell right on Colin’s head. Rightfully so, he was upset and not pleased with her. When trying to apologize, Colin was turning away. Bailey said, ‘Colin, look at me…turn your head around’ When that didn’t work, ‘Colin, you LOVE me’

Brett asked me one morning, ‘Am I Tebowing?’ apparently he was watching ESPN the night before with Daddy.