What's not seen

Me:"Did you eat all your chicken?"
Mimi:"yes"
Me--knowing she had not yet finished her chicken, and that she would not want me to know:"If I looked at your plate, what would I see?"
Mimi:"Don't see it."
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Me:"Here, wear these camouflage shorts."
Parker:"Probably no one will see my legs."
Me:"What?"
Parker:"Well, if we are somewhere forest-ish."

Mimi's Birthday

The day was action packed! Here she is with her dino cookies for her snack day for preschool.
As she ran up to the school she yelled:"Five-years-old girl coming through! I brought dino cookies!"

Dinosaurs and Dress-ups--that's just what she's all about!
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And because it's fun to look back, here's Mimi on her birthday through the years...
day one
turning 1
2nd birthday
3rd birthday
4th birthday

Bath

Mimi:"One time I had a bath and it was poolfull."
Me:"What does that mean?"
Mimi:"It means my bath was as full as a pool!"
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Mimi:"Can I play on the computer?"
Me:"In a minute."
Mimi:"In WHAT minute?"

Our new addition

Mimi talking to Parker about a vacation they were thinking up:"I love to see the sun shining down and all the sand surrounding me."
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Here's our new piano. Thank you very much Craig's List. Parker has been trying to pick out Mary Had a Little Lamb and here he finally did it. (the piano has since been tuned) Notice that he's using his left hand.

Sick

1) pick up shoes on hands

2) make a silly face

3) drop loudly
4) repeat

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Greg to Mimi who has been pretty sick:"How are you feeling?"
Mimi:"A little good."
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Saturday=lots of Knock Knock jokes and lots of laughing.
Sunday=
Me:"Knock knock"
Mimi:"I'm not answering that."

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'"