Spicy

Well, the finger-sucking battle rages on. The other day I went to the drug store and picked up a bottle of this product which claims to stop thumb-sucking. It lists cayenne pepper as one of the ingredients. Luckily it was nap-time when we arrived home from CVS so I was thrilled to be able to immediately try it out. I slathered 5 coats of the stuff on her fingernails and fingers and put her to bed. A short time later, I began to hear muffled whines and cries coming from her room and smugly thought to myself, "It must be working like a charm." After a couple of hours I went in to get her up and much to my amazement, she had obviously been sucking her fingers the whole time. She sleepily opened her eyes, popped her pruney fingers out of her mouth and said, "Mmmmm...spicy!"

Today we went to Tuttles and picked some apples and green beans







I am actually quite familiar with this scene as I see these expressions on my children's faces on a daily basis. Just happy to have caught it on film




NiNi has been really cracking us up lately with her off-handed comments:


While hiccuping: "Hey, I'm a diet Coke!"

Braiding her hair one morning: "Why are you frenching my braids?"

Putting her down for a nap: "I don't WANT to take a A-S-P"

Feeding the fish: "Oh, he's eating allergies"

"Mommy, you a mean witch" (she heard that one on Dora)

"You a mean mom. You are not coming to my birthday party"

Me: "Do you have any new friends at school?"
NiNi: "Yeah, David."
Me: "Oh, and what does David like to play?"
NiNi: "David likes to play knocking down my stuff"
(I seem to remember that game from when I played with boys!)

Meagan has created a new game in which she imagines terribly uncomfortable scenarios and then asks us which we would prefer (the lesser of two evils). How about you, would you rather...

...Be eaten by a T-Rex or burned by hot lava?
...Be thrown into a pool full of baby sharks or into a lake full of snapping turtles? (apparently the baby sharks DO have teeth, which was naturally my first question)
...Be bitten by snakes or pinched by a crab?
...Be really really hot or really really cold?

Meagan: "Has there ever been a woman president?"
Me: "No, not yet"
Meagan: "Well, I hope it's not because they think that boys are smarter than girls"

I guess a few of my "women's liberation" genes slipped through to her:)