Happy Spring

Recent Quotes:

NiNi: (rebuking her father) "Daddy, you ate my candy. That was unacceptable"

Meagan: (Commenting on our trip to the zoo) "That was fun, mom. Not NiNi screaming, but the rest was fun"

NiNi: "Mommy, I'm so so hungry...can I have some leftovers?"

NiNi: "NiNi's born in China....Sissy's born in Bak-Obama" (I couldn't believe that she said this so I asked her a second time and she said exactly the same thing!)

2nd Annual Mayah's Fund fundraiser

Mayah's Fund



Check out our Mayah's Fund blog.... this is the sweet little baby we are sponsoring for cleft surgery this year.

P.S. Without my knowing, Meagan got an envelope and put in $12 of her birthday money "for baby Gail"...that's a lot of dough for an 8 year old!

Deep Thoughts by Meagan

"Does God really have hands?" (as in "He's got the whole world in his hands")

"Does the moon float?"

"What color was a T-Rex?"

On Tuesday of this week (St. Patty's Day) Meagan was being really slow to get ready for school. I was trying to hurry her along and was becoming more and more irritated at her sluggishness. Finally she said, all dramatic-like, "Mom, let's not argue on St. Patrick's day."

New Specs

The flu...enough said

We took NiNi to the doctor on Monday for what I thought was a really bad sinus infection. It turned out to be Type A influenza. Incidentally, as I recall, Chris had it this same time last year. We are all getting flu shots this year. What was I thinking? Both of my kids are in school/daycare and I work in a nursing home for heaven's sake. Not to mention that NiNi and I seem to have no immune systems whatsoever. Anyway, NiNi has been absolutely miserable...temps up to 104, vomiting, cough, runny nose, the works... and the doctor said it could last 2 weeks. We are all taking Tamiflu. $60 per prescription. You do the math. Little did I know that they don't think Tamiflu is covering the Type A virus this year. Oh, well. It may have somewhat of a placebo effect because the rest of us have not come down with it yet. Also, Meagan turned 8 this week and I can't believe that I did not do a blog post about it. It's true, I am a bad mom. Or just very tired. Or both. The girls have been very funny lately. Here are more quotes:

Me: "Who is Jesus?"
NiNi: "The brown one"

Me: "NiNi, do you want some ravioli?"
NiNi: "Yes, make mine warm and slicey"

Meagan: "Is God fun or scary?"
I think I replied something like, "a little of both"

NiNi (after Meagan told her NO about something): "Sissy, don't sass me"

NiNi (showing me the booger she just pulled out of her nose): "Look mom, it's a snake!"

Every night when I tuck NiNi into bed I say, "Good night" and she says, "Happy birthday, mom"

Bribery...it works

I don't care what the child psychologists say. Alina was having about a 50% success rate with potty training until we started dangling this big, talking Dora doll in front of her nose. We kept it in the closet for a week and would get it down long enough for her to touch it and drool over it a bit. We told her if she stayed dry for 5 days in a row she could have it for keeps. She earned the doll in no time and now we are foot loose and fancy free in cotton panties!

More NiNi quotes:
I walked in to check on the girls early before work one morning and was suprised to see NiNi wide awake. I whispered, "What are you doing up?" She replied very matter-of-factly, "Mom, I'm soakin wet"

She has a T-Shirt with a monkey on it that says, "I drive my mom bananas" Now she thinks it's hilarious to say, "I drive my mom TO THE bananas"

The girls are really into Rice Crispies right now "Do you want to hear my poppy cereal?"

NiNi was sick and sneezing all over the place. I was trying to show her how we contain germs by sneezing into our elbow. She said, "I don't want to say ha chew on my arm. I want to sneeze in your face."

(Handing me her dirty Kleenex) "Take care of this mommy...it's not heavy"

"Mom, do you love your panties? I love my panties. They are my favorite. They make me happy"