Mimi Watches Hockey Highlights

Mimi was watching NHL highlights with me.

Her comment was, "That guy wasn't watching where he was going."

Storm cooking

Thank Heaven, we still have power.

We are keeping busy with some baking. In the past few days we have made sugar cookies, cinnamon rolls, chocolates, and Rice Krispie Treats. Maybe even some fancy popcorn with our new popcorn popper. All good news for the taste buds, bad for the waist-line...

What are some things you do keep busy in the storm?

Camouflage

This was such a terrible week, it made me want to hide. Maybe when I recover I'll go into the details.

(This is Mimi pretending to be a dinosaur and eating leaves. I nearly wet my pants laughing at this. I'm sure she didn't realize how perfectly she blended in, but it made me laugh, so I'm sharing. Also, she dressed herself. I find that when her clothes look like they almost match, then grown ups will know it's my fault, but if it looks like this, well, then everyone will know it was her creative genius at work.)

Just as a hint of sorts, here's Greg showing the kiddos his stitches. They were fascinated.

And so this isn't the worst post ever, here's Baby Yoda doing something cute.

I found some old quotes and I can't remember if I posted them or not...

So here they are...

Me, while helping Mimi with her shoes:"These shoes are too little for you."
Mimi:"My feet are growing NOT my shoes are little"
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Me, while helping Mimi get dressed:"Why do you keep getting so big?"
Mimi:"'Cause I ate so much food and I growed!"
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Parker, while hunting Turkeys with my dad back in 2009:"When are we going to destroy the Turkeys?"
*Later, when they didn't see any* "The turkeys won again today, let's go have dinner"
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Parker, while dropping a pile of paper:"Is it just me, or are these papers falling out?"

playing in the snow

Parker:"It looks like Yoda is the cowboy, and you're the horse."
Greg:"I am the horse"
Parker:"It looks like Yoda is on a one-horse-open-sleigh and you're the horse."
Greg:"I am the horse."
Mimi:"It looks like Yoda is a baby Santa and you're the giant Reindeer."
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Parker to Mimi:"It's not smooshball, it's smootball!"
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Parker:"When I grow up I'm going to have a blog and call it Pizza with Pasta and Sauce."
Greg:"How often will you write in it?"
Parker:"Every time my "kids" (he did air quotes) say something funny."

While playing Spiderman:Friend or Foe on the Wii

Me:"Did Mimi get a pretzel?"
Greg:"No, she got the entire bag of Craisins!"
Mimi:"This is like a party!"
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Mimi, talking about a bad guy on the game:"He's mad of us!"
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Greg:"Do you need help, or are you good?"
Mimi:"I'm going to be good."

Back to Blogging

Me:"I'm on my way to book club"
Greg (altering a quote from the movie Fight Club):"The first rule of book club, don't talk about book club."
Parker:"Oh! You just broke the first rule!"
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My sister Jill, as she got in the car and there was football on the radio:"Oh, we're listening to football."
Mimi:"My dad loves football, but my mom says:'football, smooshball'"

Quiet Book Poll

Quiet Books keep entering my life. A few years ago I made a sad, little one, that was fine, but nowhere close to what I had envisioned. Then 2 years ago my friend forwarded this blog to me and I got all excited, but I did nothing about it. Nothing, that is, until this Thanksgiving. I went nuts and worked like crazy -- staying-up-until-1-am-crazy. I also mentioned it to everyone I talked to. Then I talked with a women who had never heard of a quiet book. How could this be? Were there really children who didn't grow up keeping busy (and quiet) with quiet books? So now I'm curious, what are your quiet book memories? Or take the poll...

things

Greg:"Hello, Thing 1!"

Mimi:"Nothing 2!"

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Mimi:"Here, you eat the candy canes, because they taste like minty peppers."

Birthday

Greg says that in actuarial terms Baby Yoda has made it through the toughest year, because he just turned ONE!

Nana, Grandpa and Aunt Rebekah braved the snow to come and sing to him. He really enjoyed it.I purposely made a chocolate cake because I wanted it to show up in pictures, but

he barely touched it! Crazy. Reminiscent of his sibling lack of mess making.
Mimi's first birthday.
Parker's first birthday.

Super fun.
As soon as I can figure out the videos again, I'll post his little dance with all the toys that play music.

Pictures

Parker:"Mom, do you want to do a blog post? Here take a picture of this!"

Pay back

Parker, yelling at the TV, as an on-screen opponent did something mean to him in a video game:"You'll pay for that!"
Mimi:"How much?"
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No pictures this week, yikes! What's wrong with me?