Slice of Life: Who needs a pet?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Who needs a pet?

Lately, Evan and Sarah have been asking more frequently for a pet. I, however, can't bring myself to add more clean up duty to my life (and I'm not naive enough to convince myself that I wouldn't have to nag, nag, nag to get the kids to care for it). So, in the mean time, the kids are "making do". A few days ago, Evan had Hannah crawling around the room, chasing a toy on a string, very much like a kitten would.

Unlike the kitten, Hannah eventually started shrieking, because she WANTED the toy, not just to play chase. Oh, well!

3 comments:

Leah said...: That's so cute! How adorable. Poor Hannah!; April 21, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Dawn said...: How fun that she's such a good crawler!
As for the pet, I'd stick with the pretend kind, myself (speaking from experience here) LOL; April 21, 2009 at 8:51 PM
sarah said...: I finally gave into the pet thing - we've been the proud owners of a Beta fish since July. I thought the kids wouldn't be as excited about it, but they love the fish! Grace (who insisted we get a female) tells everybody she has a baby sister, her FISH! Jimmy loves to watch the fish swim around and eat. When we're out of town for a day or two the fish is just fine. And if we're gone any longer than that it isn't too hard to find someone willing to have a fish bowl hang out in their house and occasionally add fish food to it.; April 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM

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Little Humor

A few funny things the kids have said lately...

Nathan: "Evan says he's going to destroy me!"
Sarah: "I'll protect you, Daddy! Evan told me what Karate is, so I know just what to do!"

(While explaining why he could do something the way he wanted-) "Well, because I'm the new emperor of the Roman Empire..." (3.28.10)

While appreciating a fun new word Hannah had learned, Evan said, "Hannah is worth more than a hundred bowls of golden mush!" (2.7.10)

When am I going to be in pre-school? I am un-patient for it!"

(9.1.09)

Because Sarah didn't brush her teeth on her own when asked this morning, I brushed her teeth with my toothpaste, which I know she doesn't like. As I scrubbed she said, "Mom! Your toothpaste is torturin' me!"

After hearing that Nathan's car battery was dead and needed jumping, Evan said "How could a family have such bad luck? Well, at least we still have the Williams (our next door neighbors)!"

Evan: (while eating dinner) Can you get a guy some meat?

Nathan: "What's keeping you from watching your morning video?"

Sarah: "My conscience!"

Evan: (after I made a decision he didn't like) "You know, Mom, if I could, I would control you!"

(8.20.09)

Evan: Mom, my love span for you grows and grows each time you say nice words!

Sarah: "Can we talk about protozoa?"

Sarah: "I'm fighting a war, you know."

"I have a wheel as a shield."

"My shield is a real dealed."

"That's a rhyming couplet, you know!"

Later in the day, after having seen a peace sign:

Evan: "Mom, can you draw that chicken-foot-with-no-heel?

(5.22.09)

Evan: "Do bad guys shave?"

Me: "Well, some of them do" (trying to decide if I should launch into an explanation of the differences between organized crime and independent thugs, and opting against it.)

Evan: "Well, this bad guy didn't..."

Sarah: "Do frozen peas grow in the winter?"

While playing with Sarah, Evan commanded: "Get up this moment and fight like a man!"

In her high pitched voiced, Sarah replied: "Okay, I will!"

Seeing me in a new skirt, Evan said, "Mom! You look GREAT!"

"Yeah? You like my skirt?" I asked.

"Yeah! I bet God is so happy with you when you look so good!"

Most breakfasts at our house involve waffles, and Nathan is usually the one to make them. One morning recently, I was going to make waffles, while Nathan slept in. I looked in all of the usually places, but couldn't find the waffle maker. When I commented on this she said:

"Silly, you can't find the wafflemaker, because he's still in bed!"

(1.18.2009)

Me: How was your first day of Primary, Sarah?

Sarah: It was gold and shimmery! 1.4.2009

While watching the animated Book of Mormon video about Helaman's Stripling Warriors, Evan said: "Sarah! Look at this battle! I am learning some new fighting skills!"

(Which is just what I had in mind, right?) 12.28.2008

Lately when Evan was presented fish for dinner he said, "Dad, I go through stages. I'm going though a "don't-eat-dead-things" stage. Except maybe breaded chicken!"

When someone did something that Sarah didn't like, she told them,"That really burns my beef!"

Sarah- "Princesses always wipe their nose!"

"Does ham come from hamsters?" -Sarah

Today Sarah got in trouble at nursery for tackling the other little girls. Nathan was telling me about this on the way home, when Sarah said, "Dad, don't say a word about it. I learned my lesson!"

Sarah, "Yum! My mom made us maggot pancakes!"

I said, "I was scared out of my skin!" and Evan replied, "Yeah? It was just your organs runnin' down the path?"

While digging around under and behind his bed,which we hadn't cleaned out in quite a while, Evan said, "Dad! There are lots of old memories back here!"

Evan said, "I would rather Dad go (to the swimming party) than you go, Mom. Because Dad is more fun. He sometimes lets me do things you don't let me do."

Speaking to Nathan, Evan looked at me and uttered these wise words: "She is always right!"

Evan: "Was Snori (an Icelandic ancestor of Nathan's) a Viking pirate?

Nathan: "I don't know- we can ask Nana"

Evan: "Oh! Was she alive back then?

Nathan: "Well, no...But everything I know about Snori I learned from Nana."

Evan: "I guess Nana knows more than you do, Dad."

Nathan:Well, about some things..."

I overheard Evan talking to 2-week-old Hannah today:

Evan: "Hannah, look! It's a flintlock pistol!"