Miscellaneous...

I wish I was a great writer like a couple of my friends... every blog post they write seems so eloquent and so well thought out.

Alas, I'm a numbers gal.

So, I'm just adding a post with my random notes about what my kids have been doing lately to crack me up...

LUKE:

• The other night, we were talking about getting a pizza for dinner. I said, "Pizza Hut or Papa John's?" and he replied by saying "papa's in the house". I think he's seen a few of the commercials.
• There's a pesky fly in our house right now. It was on my chair tonight and he said we should try to kill it with the "shoo-fly bugger".
• At the grocery store the other night, Luke's eyes got big and he excitedly asked for some cookies that he saw... I asked what kind... he said, "the chocolate on top and chocolate on bottom with vanilla in the middle cookies". Thankfully, Nabisco figured out a shorter name - Oreos. I told Luke what they were really called, and each time he asked for one after that, he asked for "Wareos."
• When he was younger, he used to call the movie theater the "R" movies. (Not because of the movies we took him too, but because our theater is called "Rave" and has a giant "R" on the side of the building. ) He doesn't call it the "R" movies anymore, but says we should go to the "Movie ahveater".
  

MARISSA:

• Everyone's name is eye-yah. At first, we heard it mostly when she was talking to Luke and we thought it was her way to say "brother". But now, we notice that anyone is "eye-yah" except for Mommy, Daddy, Grandma & Papa.
  
• Her word for blanket is "ah-bet". No matter who you are or how often you're around her, you'll hear this word for sure.
• I may have mentioned this before - but just in case - Marissa won't say the word please. She says the p sound instead... this started because her babysitter was trying to get her to switch from signing please to saying it and was emphasizing the p sound.
• This girl knows no strangers. The other night, I took the kids down to Scott's work to meet him for dinner. She waved at everyone she met and gave a hearty "Bye" as we left... she even blew kisses at one of the workers!
• She still prefers sucking on her bottom lip to a pacifier. That girl has not used a pacifier for a day in her life!

Of course, there are a thousand other things I should be writing down, but that's all I can think of for now... since this blog takes the place of a baby book (I know - it's terrible!), I want to be sure and put as much as I can on here!

Changing Cups

It's silly when you think about it... a trip to the bank usually involves us driving by 15 other banks on the way there. In fact, when we go the "back way" to our bank, there's an intersection where there is literally a bank on each corner.

Luke knew we were going to the bank, and as we sat at that corner, he asked "Mommy, is that the bank where you will change cups?"

Change cups? I admit I was slow on the uptake, but he quickly explained how you pull up to the cup and put your money in and then push the button to change cups.

I love the way he sees the world.