You can never say I love you too much.. right?

The other night I was tucking Abi into bed and told her I love her. She said something along the lines of "I know. You've told me that a million gazillion times."

To this I replied, "And I'll keep telling it you all the time!"

She said, "What about when I don't live in this house anymore?"

"Then I will call you on the phone and when you answer I will say, 'I love you Abi. I love you Abi. I love you Abi.' and you will probably say, 'Mo-om, I know. You've told me that."

Then she said, "No. I'll say, 'Mo-om. I'm a grown up. I have babies to take care of."

I thought that was pretty funny.

Lego friends

The other night Abi brought down this group of Lego friends. Then she told me who everyone was. The guy riding the horse is the Forest manager. In the cart are the Queen, the chief, the police officer, the King, the baker , and the robot.

Water of the Earth

Last night Abi came with me to Activity Days. As we were driving there she was looking at the moon because it was low, looked incredibly big, and had an orange glow to it. We started talking about space and planets.
This is when she said, "Mom, when Jesus was creating the Earth I know what happened to make so much water."
"Oh yeah? What?"
"Well, the middle of the Earth was created first into a big ball and then they built land all over it. But they got really tired so they dug some holes and filled them with water."

Manners fighting

Abi and I were hanging out together and she said to me, 

"Mom, sometimes people with manners do fight."

"Really?"

"Yes. Like this: 'Go ahead.' 'No, you go ahead.', 'No, you go ahead.', 'No you go.' That's manners fighting."

Abi

Abi handed me Madeline's lamb pillow pet and told me it smelled bad. I checked it and said, "Nope. It smells fine." I gave it back to her and she smelled it again. She wrinkled her nose and said, "It smells like alien goop and tin cans."

Abi's magnets

On Friday Abi got the magnets out and wouldn't let me come near her while she worked on her 'project'. The top where is spells out "my cente" was supposed to be "my centerpiece" but she ran out of letters.

Obviously she is still working on her spelling but she mixed the magnets up into categories... "nit" (night), "sane" (sunny), "foris" (forest), and "wet" (wet- this one was correct obviously). 

She put the moon and other things she thought were for night in the "nit", all the yellow magnets and the sun for "sane", the green and foresty things for "foris", and the blue for "wet". You can see she also made a boat out of letters for wet.

I thought this was really fun.

Kindergarten Connection

Yesterday Abi had an appointment at her soon-to-be school for a 'Kindergarten connection'. We were told it was for her to be evaluated to see what Kindergarten class she should be in and they have a better idea of her kindergarten readiness.
I thought we would all be together and discussing things and they would test her but a woman came and took Abi and we waited in the lobby. It was kind of funny since I made Doug take off work to be with us.
They had this big list of things they did with her to see where she is. When she brought Abi back out Abi was so happy.
The lady told us that Abi was a very nice girl and very cooperative. That made me happy.
Then she said that of all the things they were talking to her about there were only two things she didn't know/ couldn't do.
So what didn't she know?
1- How to tie shoes
2- Her birthday

That last one made me laugh. She always forgets her birthday and that seems like something every kid knows. She can read a book to me at bedtime but can't remember her birthday! We'll have to work on that.
I am so excited for her to start school. I know I am going to have a lot of anxiety about being away from her all day but I think she is going to love it.

What would you take?

In church on Sunday I was substitute teaching Abi's class. We were discussing showing faith through obedience to God. We were talking about (and acting out) the story of Lehi and his family leaving and going into the wilderness.
I asked the children how they would feel if their parents came home one day and said we have to leave, packed up what they needed to survive, and went to live in the woods. The kids thought that was funny. I said, with all the provisions you would need to take you wouldn't be able to bring all your toys. So if you could only take one thing with you what would you take. Most of the kids said their pillow pets or dolls. One girl couldn't decide between about 5 toys and insisted she could take all of them. I finally got to Abi. I thought for sure she would say something similar to what the other kids were saying. I thought it would be Kirsten or Bitty Baby or a Polly Pocket, or even a movie or book.
She said she would take " the bowl of jelly beans".

Abi brought down two books she hadn't read before yesterday. I dragged out the camera to tape her.

Our crazy girls

Yesterday Abi was upstairs for a few minutes and when she came down she was wearing one of Maddy's pajama shirts, a pair of Maddy's bloomers, Maddy's shoes, and an old baby bib. It was so funny.

Maddy has this thing where she loves to wrap things around her head. Usually it is a pair of Abi's pajama pants or something like that but today it was a damp towel Abi had just used to wipe up some water she spilled on the counter. She pulls them over her head and to the back and then wraps them around her neck. It is so darn cute and funny..

Builder of Towers

Abi loves building towers. She does it constantly. She always wants me to take pictures of them. So, here are two of her most recent ones. 

Todays moments with Abi

One- I went into the kitchen this morning and found Abi with this look on her face like she had just won the lottery. She was clutching her little Minnie Mouse wallet to her chest.
"Mom! I found lots of money! I have so much money now!"
I ask her where she found it and she says "on the floor".
So, what does she have in her wallet?
A few hundred dollars...... of play money.
I had to explain to her that the money that came with the new Operation game is not real money and is just for the game. 
She was quite disappointed.


Next- A few hours later Abi was playing Guess Who by herself. She has told me lately that she likes playing Guess Who and Clue 'against' herself because then "I always win!"

Oh Abi

Yesterday the girls and I went over to the local Blockbuster that is going out of business to see if there were any movies we wanted on sale. Abi quickly latched on to two Max and Ruby Christmas DVD's.
You have to understand that I do not like Max and Ruby.
I mean, where are the bunny parents? Why does Ruby always have to be in charge of troublemaker Max? Why does Max always do naughty things and it's supposed to be cute? Why does Max speak in one word sentences? So annoying. They didn't bug me so much when she first started watching them a couple years ago and then I noticed that every time she watched them she would start speaking like Max.
So, we own one Max and Ruby DVD. A Halloween one. Abi claims that Max and Ruby are her favorite movies. So she looked up at me with those pretty eyes and said "Please."
I had no problem saying no.
She asked why and I told her that even at $5 I could probably get them cheaper somewhere else. I knew this was probably not the case but it sounded good at the time.
Then she looks at me again, hugging the DVD's to her chest and says,
"But mom, life isn't about money. It's about love. And I love Max and Ruby."
Call me soft if you'd like but I tried to hide my laughter as I said, "Ok, pick one. But just one."
She was so happy.

Blog Challenge day 21

A picture of something that made you happy this week:

I have really enjoyed reading this series with Abigail every night. We are almost done with this book and a few days ago we were reading a chapter where a young girl comes to visit the Ingalls home. Mary and Laura have to keep her occupied while their mothers chat and the girl starts ripping up their paper dolls. The girls are distressed and Mary tells Laura to get her beloved rag doll, Charlotte, from their attic room for the girl to play with because she won't be able to ruin it.
This plan works except that when it is time to go the little girl doesn't want to let go of Charlotte. Ma, not knowing how much Laura still loved her little doll, tells Laura to let her keep it.
Abigail was crying! She couldn't believe that Ma was so mean to give away Charlotte! She cried again later when Laura found her in the mud, mostly ruined, at the girls house. But, all was well when Ma was able to fix and clean her up real nice and apologized to Laura.
I am glad that my little girl is tenderhearted enough to feel sad for Laura. And I'm glad that she and I get to enjoy books together.

Zombieland

Abi was upstairs for a few minutes and came down with pants on her body and a pair of pants on her head (no shirt). I was on the phone with my mom and asked Abi to please not be so loud for a few minutes as she was kind of yelling out things.
She said, "I'm not Abi. I'm the Queen of all the zombies! And I have to yell because no one will do what I'm telling them to do."
I said, "Well, you don't have to yell about it. I'll do what you want as soon as I get off the phone."
"I'm not talking to you mom! You're not a zombie. I'm talking to all the zombies! You're a human!"
So, then I'm talking to my mom again and Abi ,who is halfway up the stairs looks down at Maddy at the bottom and starts up again.

"Zombies! Trim the sails! Hoist the anchor! Make way to Zombieland!!"

Maddy just looks up at her and says, "Hi!"

Growl

Just before lunch Abi's tummy was growling.
She asked me, "Mom, how can my tummy growl when it's not even a lion?"

Funny albeit somewhat inappropriate Abi-isms

Today as we are gathered around the dining table with a wonderful spread of Thanksgiving food and our two beautiful daughters dressed in their finest dresses.... Abi decided she wanted to invite her imaginary friends to dinner. I say okay. I'm dishing out some food and I ask her a question. She tells me that she is not Abi, she is blue girl. Then I say, Can I please talk to Abi. Abi tells me that Blue girl is back from pooping in the potty. OH BOY!

Doug says, "Can we please not talk about pooping at the Thanksgiving dinner table."

Abi gets a disgusted look on her face and says, "Daddy! She didn't do it at the table!"

Onto another crazy one. The other day we were driving around and I had a Diet Pepsi. Abi wanted a drink. I told her no. I said, "It has caffeine in it and you can't have that at your age." I know- hypocritical. Whatever. So, she says, "Mom, why can't I have caffeine?"

I say, "Well, you know how I like to drink Diet Pepsi because I think it is good. Some people have to drink it to function. That means they are addicted to it. If you are addicted to something you feel like you have to have it instead of just wanting to have it."

Abi has tasted Diet Pepsi before- just a sip here and there occasionally.

She then says, "Mom. I think I'm already addicted to it because I think it is SO good!"

Abi and dominoes

I love it when Abi plays with things like blocks or dominoes because she always comes up with some really cute things and always wants me to take a picture!

Yesterday she told me to come check out her dominoes.

She said, "Look Mom. They are the things that mummies sleep in."

A green asteroid belt

The other day Abi was doing a Blues Clues computer game we picked up from the library and wanted me to take a picture of her painting- she was printing them out until I unplugged the printer!

When I saw it I said it looked like a green ladybug. She said, "No mom, it's an asteroid belt and lots of asteroids!"

Abi's thoughts

Some of the things that Abi said today:

"Mom, I love you more than anything in the whole world. Even I love you more than... (dramatic pause) PICNICS!"

While drinking some orange juice Abi said, "I think my tummy is really enjoying this."