Help!

Ok, I am enlisting the help of those of you who read our blog. As you all know, kids say the cutest things and I really want to record those great one liners to show them later. One friend of mine marks those posts as "(name of child)-ism". I'm looking for a clever way like that to use in my blog. I'm relying on your creativity, since I can't come up with anything on my own! Thanks!!

Best of Friends, really!

This picture is from last spring, but it kind of wraps up their relationship. They are usually the best of friends, but also know how to push each others buttons as only siblings can. It started out with Timothy being the one to pick on Kassie until she screamed. For example, Ben tried to teach Timothy about the expression "getting someone's goat", mainly because he was telling him to stop trying to get Kassie's! A little while later Timothy comes back and says "Daddy, I knock over Kassie's goat!" His version has since become a family favorite!

BUT, times have changed and little sister has now learned how to fight back. Her main point of attack? Timothy's love (and need for) order and logic. Here's their conversation on the way to pick up Ben from the bus the other night.

T: It's dark outside.
K: No, it's light.
T: (with immense patience) Kassie, do you see the stars?
K: Yes
T: That means it's DARK.
K: No, it's sun-shiney.
T: Mama, is it dark?
M: Yes.
T: TELL Kassie!
M: Kassie, it's dark.
K: No, it's sun-shiney.

No matter how hard I tried to explain to Timothy that the more he argued with her, the worse it would get, he insisted on trying to set her straight. And of course she'll disagree with him just to be the pesky little sister and he rises to the bait every time. Interestingly, I remember having these same kind of battles with my younger brother and we are really close now. Maybe there's hope for my two after all!

Holders?!

I am constantly reminding Kassie to take smaller bites. Mostly so she won't choke, but also because she makes a huge mess when she takes big bites. So today as she was eating Spaghetti-O's:

K: Watch this big bite, Mama!
M: Wow, what a big bite! Make sure you chew that really well.
K: (around her mouthful of food) Don't worry Mama, I put some in my holders.
M: In your what?
K: My holders, see?

She then proceeds to show me that she has tucked spaghetti-o's into each cheek. Useful and adorable!
Her "holders" were about all you could see of her when we bundled up to go play in the snow!

It really happened!!

Things that I have done before owning a house:
-been married for 8 1/2 years
-had 2 children
-graduated from college
-taught school for 3 years
-moved 6 times in my adult life
-lived with my in-laws....twice....for a total of 10 months
-watched my husband graduate....twice.....with a total of 2 undergrad majors and 1 minor, 1 law degree and an MBA


BUT it is all over now!! We are under contract for our first home and if all goes well will be closing on it on the 25th of February! Yay!!!!