*Nelson hearing the crinkle of any wrapper* TREAT! TREAT! TREAT!
Watching the Grinch cartoon. Riley: Cindy Lou doesn't have any legs. She has...something else.
Ben asking me if it's okay to do something that I didn't want him to do, but Riley did. Riley: You don't always have to ask your wife permission to do things. Sometimes you can ask your daughter.
Riley and I were playing a game that I was a cat and she was my owner. We played it for a while and then she went off to the play room to play with something else. It had been a few minutes and I started talking to Ben when I hear a yell from the other room, "Mom, remember you're a cat!"
Riley trying to figure out what happened to all the cookies we had left over from an event. Talking to Ben she said, "If Nelson didn't eat them and I didn't eat them and you didn't eat them....WHO ate them??"
Riley talking to a bug: "Go live your life. Go find a mate and try and see if HE'll like you. Go and have babies and make a family."
Riley: I'm already kind of like Jesus.
When we were visiting Utah and the adults were being a bit loud after I put Riley to bed she came out with her hand on her hips and sternly said, "All this talk, talk, talk, is making it hard for me to sleep, sleep, sleep."
I was asking Riley if she knew the names of the other teachers that help do Prek pick up. She told me a few of their names and then she says, "Ms Jennifer is the really old one that calls our names. I wonder why she's not dead yet." Thank goodness we were in our car for this conversation!
Riley: "I found another weed pretending to be a flower!" We've tried starting a very low stakes garden, but it does prove to be tricky when you can't figure out what's a weed and what is a bud of something we are trying to grow!
Riley randomly while in Utah: "I wish you were Grandma and Grandpa's granddaughter and I could have grown up here playing with the doll house."
Riley: "Welcome to Riley's Restaurant...that's alliteration!" I'm always so excited to hear things that Riley is learning in Prek come out at home. She doesn't seem to remember a single thing they've done once she gets in the van and I ask her about her day, but every once in a while something slips out.
Riley: Do you know my leg hurts?
Mom: Oh I'm sorry.
Riley: But just when I hop on it. (Begins hopping vigorously.)
While watching the original Grinch cartoon, "Cindy Lou doesn't have legs. She has...something else." Haha I explained that she just has a long nightgown and we can't see her legs because yes that would be some weird anatomy if that was her bottom half.
I've never been prouder of my girl than when while we were carving pumpkins Riley asked, "Can we listen to music from the month after November?" Haha yes! We are an early Christmas music family!
Nelson brought the book Love You Forever over to me and asked me to read it. It was not long after Mom had passed and I knew I wasn't gonna get through it without some tears. When I inevitably started to cry Riley asks me what's wrong. When I explained why she said, "Ohhh...but you're going to see her again!" An important reminder.
While playing legos with Riley she begins singing, "You're not better than me at legos. I'm the best at legos. I'm better than you."
This moment was witnessed by a few people on the family call. When Riley first heard the idea to use the name Millie for our baby girl her reaction was, "I agree with that! I will help you tell Daddy to say yes!"
Usually when you go to get your child out of his crib you'd assume his "Up, up!" is referring to him being picked up. Not so with Nelson. Before he request for me to pick him up he insists I put my hair up in a bun. Haha I guess I'm not myself when my hair is down.
Nelson and Riley have entered the stage of being siblings where they will play nicely together occasionally. Usually it's Riley just telling Nelson what to do and him following blindly.
