I fooled you!

This story is compliments of my babysitter (Thanks Nikki!) So I'll do the best I can at retelling the story.

So I guess Brooke was at Nikki's the other day and she did or said something that made Nikki think she had peed in her underwear. Nikki asked her and she said she peed and pooped in them. Apparently Brooke even started tearing up, real tears. Nikki took her hand and started the appropriate lecture on how Brooke has been doing so good at going in the potty and shes a big girl and big girls go in the potty. Brooke was walking the way she does when she goes in her pants and had her head down like she knew she shouldn't have done it. Nikki got her upstairs, took her pants off... They were clean and dry. Nikki said to Brooke "You didn't go in your pants."

Apparently Brooke smiled at her and said "I fooled you."

yep, that's my daughter.

Oh, the words they use

We have been on Brooke lately cuz she lies. So we are constantly telling her to tell the truth.

Today, she was playing w/ her dolls and talking to them. Hunter asked her what she was telling her dolls. Her answer was "I'm telling them the truth." Then she looked at me and said "I am, I'm telling them the truth." She would even tell her doll she was telling it the truth. Maybe she is catching on...

Its also funny what our kids pick up on that we say.

Brooke kept telling her doll to "stop jacking around." I say that alot.

The other day in the van Hunter was saying words that started w/ different letters. When he came to D he said a few then he said "mom, dang it starts w/ D." Guess I say that alot too.

rocks out the window

So Hunter collects rocks. Not necassarily good rocks, whatever he can find, sometimes gravel even.

Tonight we were at Nick's soccer game and Hunter was getting rocks. When it was time to leave we let him put a few in his pockets to take home. I can't remember what he was doing on the way home but he wasn't minding. Scott told him that if he didn't mind he was gonna throw his rocks out the window.

Hunter sat there for a second then said "dad, if you throw them out the window, you might hit a car. Then what are you gonna do?"

shoes

Tonight I had told Brooke to take her flip flops upstairs and get her pjs. (Keep in mind, these are her favorite flip flops, she wears them everyday.) She was taking her sweet time in getting upstairs so Scott told her if she didn't get up there he was gonna throw her shoes in the trash. Remember, we can't threaten things w/ Brooke that we aren't willing to follow through w/.

So when she still didn't get upstairs Scott took her shoes and said he was going to throw them in the trash.

Brooke yelled after him "Its ok. I don't want those shoes anymore, they are too small anyways."

sleepy head

Yesterday I took Hunter to gymnastics then Brooke and I ran to Target to grab one thing real quick. Brooke fell asleep on the way there, so when I got there I got her out of her car seat assuming she would wake up. She didn't. Keep in mind, she is 37 pounds and long. I carried her into Target, got what I needed, got in line, got my purse off the arm she was on and paid, all the while she was asleep. I ended up just having the lady put my change in the bag.

Now I know what your thinking, she was probably faking. She wasn't. She snored some while we were in Target. Then when we got out of the van, I sat her in her seat and she (of course) woke up then. She looked a little confused while I was buckling her in. She asked what I was doing. I told her belting her so we could go get Hunter. With a very confused face she looked at me and said "Then why did you unbuckle me?" She had no memory of being in Target at all.

naked girl

I let Hunter and Brooke go sit on the front porch to eat popsicles this evening. Brooke came back in after a little while and she was saying "I'm having trouble,I'm having trouble" AND carrying her panties in her hand (she had been wearing just panites and a shirt). I asked her why she wasn't wearing her panties. She said "oh, I just had to pee so I peed in the grass." I was like "what?" Brooke then said "Hunter said I could." Well, geez, if Hunter siad it was ok.

Oh, and Kylie was here. That was great.

good lord

So I thought bedtime went great last night. Actually bedtime did go well. I put both kids in bed and came downstairs. I never heard another word from either child. A little after 10pm I went up to bed. I checked on Brooke first, she was out in her bed. Next I went to Hunter's room. He was not in his bed, which really wasn't a huge surprise. Problem was, I couldn't figure out where he had gone. Then... I heard noise coming from his closet. I went to his closet and he was sitting in there playing w/ his knex. Just sittin there, building a boat. I didn't handle it very well. I asked him what in the world he was doing. Then I just walked out of his room, into my room and shut my door. I couldn't even talk to him.

Heres the thing. He had started the boat earlier in the day and I know he was probably laying in bed and couldn't stand that it wasn't done. Do you know how i know this???? HE IS JUST LIKE ME!!!! Just OCD enough to become obsessed w/ things. I often stay up way later than I should because I start something and I just can't put it down. (Scott is nodding and laughing right now, or he's crying, who knows)

There aren't even words

There aren't even words for my life....

Bed time....again

Ok. So bedtimes are bad. That's nothing new. Last night I was a little excited. I really didn't hear much from them after I put them to bed.

However when I went up to bed I found out why. First I went into Brooke's room and she was curled up on the floor. I'm pretty sure she didn't fall out of bed, apparently it just sounded like a good place to sleep.

Then, I found Hunter on the floor in the hallway. He had brought out a blanket to lay on and one to cover up w/. Then he had lined all his stuffed animals around him. And to top it off he brought his CD player out and had it right at his head.

Good lord.

eye for an eye doesn't really work

So Brooke and Hunter were wrestling. Brooke pulled Hunter's hair then ran off to the bathroom. Hunter, of course cried. When Brooke came out Scott called her over and told her its not nice to pull people's hair. He said "Does it hurt when someone pulls your hair?" Brooke said "I don't know."

So Scott pulled her hair. Brooke said "that didn't hurt."

So Scott pulled it a little harder. Again she said "That doesn't hurt."

Scott pulled even harder. This time she laughed and said "That still didn't hurt."

Needless to say, that point was never proven.

again, where does she get it

This morning I was fixing her hair for school. She asked me what was taking so long. I told her that beauty takes time. She gasped and said "mommy, don't say a bad word." I'm really not sure which word was bad.

It was time to go get Hunter from school. I asked Brooke if she wanted to take the stroller or wagon. She said immediatly "I want to take the stroller, that way Hunter has to walk. Nah, nah, nah, nah." Sad thing is, I went w/ it and we took the stroller.

easy sale

So I've mentioned before that Hunter is an easy sale. If he sees and advertisment on tv he can often repeat the whole commercial. The other day Hunter, Brooke and I were wrapping a birthday present for their friend. As we were cutting it Hunter said "mom, they sell something that you canuse to cut the paper and it cuts straight lines." Then when we were taping he said "mom, they sell tape that you put on the back of your hand then its just right there to grab when you need it"

I see visions of him being addicted to home shopping network

Packed and ready to go

So we have been talking about going to Disney World for vacation next summer (although that is out the window now) and the kids have been included in the conversations. Well last night we were discussing it alot and Brooke started running w/ it. She was ready to go. I told her to go pack (I know it was kinda mean). She came downstairs w/ her suitcase. It was packed w/ all her Disney Princess dresses. Then this morning when she got up she asked if we could go to Disney World today. Poor thing, shes gonna be so disappointed.