I have been an absentee blogger, but not an absentee parent. I've been collecting, collecting their delicious little sayings and verbal mishaps.
Here they are from the past several months.
One of the things I absolutely love about their age is listening to them. The singing. The word games they make up. All the repetition. Elliott went through a phase in the early summer where he would walk around saying "Scratch could eat no patch. Scratch could eat no patch." I am pretty sure it came from "Jack Spratt."
When saying "Jack and Jill," all three of them say "Petch a fail of water."
Mazie, upset and crying: "My socks felled me down."
Mae, asked if she could put sh
oes on, I said no. She said, "I'll just wear my feet."
I couldn't find Elliott. I looked and found him in my chocolate stash. He said, "I was just eating some chocolate for you."
H is on the local fire department. All three call it the Fire Mapartment.
One night Lu got upset because H had to leave during our bedtime routine to go on a fire call. Lu wanted to know why BeeBee had to leave. I told her someone was in trouble and Bee was going to help them. She said, "You know why Bee went on the fire mapartment? A monster is in trouble because he got bleed on his self and he went in the house and got stuck...." The story kept going.
Then five minutes later she was telling her brother and sister, "You know what I think is in trouble? A dolphin is in trouble. He's stuck in a house. He is stuck under a shelf because...."
Elliott will ask, "What's the problem?" For example, when he was trying to pull the drying rack up the stairs and it wouldn't come, he asked himself, "Hey, what's the problem?"
When scooping cookie dough out to make cookies, Elliott asked me about his large clump of dough, "Is this way too much big?"
Lu: "Those are old and break-ed."
One day Elliott asked me, "Can I go check on my baby chicken or none?"
When Elliott was talking to himself one day I asked him who he was talking to. He said, "I'm just talking to my whole self."
Lucia was doing a little number game. I told her, "Lucia, you got two right." She said to me, "And I got two ears."
Lucia and Elliott were playing. Lucia said, "I don't have enough." Elliott reassured her with, "I have some-nuff."
Lucia came into the kitchen one evening to tell me, "A detavarium is a doctor of animals."
Lucia and Mazie were building something and they wanted Elliott to wait until they were finished and then come see it. "OK," he told them, "I'm going to eat my breakfast. Call me when I'm ready."
On a walk Elliott told me, "It's going to rain in eighty-fifteen seven minutes." He is always telling me something is going to happen in eighty-fifteen minutes.
Elliott fell off his scooter. He came to me upset, saying, "Mazie was pushing me way much too fast."
Lucia was playing with her chicken. The chicken gave her a little peck. She told me, "She didn't bit it really able. She just bit it tiny."
Mazie wanted to eat a snack on the couch. She said to me, "I can eat grapes on the couch. Can I do that idea?"
Mazie is always saying, "BeeBee (or Mama), I can't wait to tell you this...."
The three also still have no concept of time. They still say things like "last morning, the other day..." whenever they want to speak of anything that happened in the past.
One Saturday afternoon, Lucia told H, "Bee, look out. There is a gorillagator in our house. Don't wake him up."
Elliott was on the couch, getting frustrated. "I didn't have much comfortable," he told me when I asked what was wrong.
Lucia and Mazie love to color. I have to remind them to only write on paper. One day Lucia told me, "I have marker on me, but it doesn't mind."
I put a sheet over the dining room table one morning to make a fort. Elliott said, "Mama, don't go under the table."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I don't want you to see something," he said.
He had a glass of sweet tea under the table.
Here he is again, telling on himself. They are not supposed to take food or drinks to their rooms.
Coming out of his room, he said to me, "Mama, I need a flashlight."
Me: "Go get it out of your room."
He asked, "The juice cup?"
Me: "Uhmm, well, yes."
At the beach, Mazie, talking about a boat going by, said, "Let's see what it doo-ses" for does.
Also at the beach Mazie pointed to some barnacles and told me, "They are called miracles."
One day at lunch, Lucia asked me, "Can you hot the tacos up in the oven?"
Lucia, talking about noodles, said, "I'm not use the swishes ones because they are pissahtate." (I have no idea what she meant.)
H was whispering something into Elliott's ear. He swatted her away and said, "Quit Bee. It'll come out my nostril and I'll have to go to the dentist."
Trying to help out on evening, Mazie told me that she would "separate the table." (Set the table.)
Lucia is our little leader. One day we were at home, our home, and Mazie said, "I have to go poo poo." Lucia offered up her services, "Do you know where the bathroom is? It is right now the hall by the straight."
One night at bedtime, Elliott said to me, "If I get scared, and you hear me calling you with your ears, come get me." Of course, I said, "I will baby."
One night the moon was reflecting in the pond. Mazie said to me, "Look. The moon fell in the water."
We were at the beach for the Fourth of July. Lucia called it the "North of July." Elliott called it "Jorth of Lye." One day Lu told me not to eat the strawberries, they were for North of July.
I asked Elliott one day during rest time if he wanted me to bring him some trucks to play with. "Just maybe eleven or five," he said.
Lucia pointed to a number on a tape measure and asked me, "Is it this many inches long to Mississippi?"
Lucia picked some flowers for me. She said, "Let's put them on the table so we can join them."
Elliott received a bunch of hand-me-downs. In one of the bags was a pair of cowboy boots that look like ones another boy in town wears. "Look," he said, "I think K was riding with Santa and his tray and he came to put them in my closet."
H was in the bathroom attached to Elliott's bedroom. She was in there one night while he was reading in his bed. He finished reading Jamberry, closed the book and nodded his head and said, "I like it. Absolutely. I like it."
One day we'd been out side. Lucia wanted to come inside and drink. What she was trying to say was that she wanted to drink out of a big glass cup. What she said was, "Mama, can I drink out of a big ass cup." I said, "Sure, Baby, let's go get you one.
The individual shots of the three were some I found on my phone one day. When I showed them and asked what they were doing, they said they were practicing their mad faces.
A different perspective. Through the eyes of a child. Mazie gives these gifts to us often. She is our photographer. She is always hijacking one of our phones to take pictures. She started out preferring her own face but she has learned how to look outward and capture people and sights around her.
The three always want to see the picture after it has been taken.
One of my favorite love songs is "This is Us" by Mark Knopfler and EmmyLou Harris. A couple is looking back through the photo album of their life, reminiscing all the fun, crazy, wonderful times they had. Here are some of my favorite photos from the past months.
Grancy came for a visit and we had a lovely time with her.
Lu was all about riding in the fire truck with her Bee. We tried to get her to march with the baton girls but she thought the rescue truck would be more fun.
We picked out our Christmas tree at our favorite farm over Thanksgiving weekend.
We had a gift left on our fireplace the morning after Thanksgiving. An elf we've named Tucker. Our favorite thing about Tucker is finding him in the morning.
Lu went to a dance camp one Saturday morning and had a great time.
Halloween was fun. We were mermaids and a diver. Everyone did a good job manipulating their costumes.
We have acquired quite a few cats. The children love them to pieces.
My sweet girl Mazie loves fairies and mermaids.
The girls love drawing and all things art. Below Mazie has drawn a picture of "Lucia when she's older."
I loved seeing their personalities. Mazie, who I often think is quite shy, was very much into the performance aspect of the game. Every time she touched the soccer ball, or even got near it, she would run over to us to make sure we saw or turn and wave to us.
Elliott would at times get into the game but he could easily be distracted by an ant hill or an orange cone or the moon coming up over the trees.
Lucia got the game the most. She really seemed to see the big picture of what was supposed to happen. She was intent of doing well but also had fun.
H and I really enjoyed watching them improve during the season. I think we will play spring soccer also.
My sister and her family came for a visit. Isn't this little Landon adorable? He is just as happy as he is cute. He has a lot of my dad and my dad's brothers to his look. We loved getting to spend time with him and getting to know his personality.
If I was to look for a silver lining in the dark cloud that is living so far from my sister, I'd say it would be getting to share novel aspects of our lives. When we visit Avery, we get to experience pieces of her life in Southern California that we don't have. When Avery visits us, we try to give her the Gulf and country experience. Avery really got into collecting cicada shells this visit. She also enjoyed feeding the goats and horses. We planted acorns in hopes that they would grow into big trees. We tried to lure the fox squirrel with a variety of nuts. We can't wait until we get to show Avery and Landon more of our world.
oes on, I said no. She said, "I'll just wear my feet."
