singing to clean

This morning 'E' comes down with all the laundry and heads to the living room singing,

"Today I get to clean the bathroom, oh, oh, oh yeah! I get to clean the bathroom, oh, oh, yeah!"

Reminds me of how we are to do everything with a joyful heart! (even cleaning the bathrooms)

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pteranodon's at dinner!

During dinner while my hubby & I were talking I see 'S' flapping her arms yelling, "AWW-AWW"

So I turned to her and said, "Stop acting like a pteranodon and eat your dinner." How many moms get to say that?!

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Star Trek IV Plot

Tonight, L, our oldest daughter asks: "Can we watch Star Trek IV?"
Me: "Sure honey"
L: "That's Mrs. G's [teacher at school] favorite Star Trek. She says it has whales in it and they have to bring the whales back to the future." Pauses. "What does that [back to the future] mean?"
Me: "Well in the movie, they travel back in time to around the time daddy was a little boy [mid-1980s]..."
L: "WHHHOAAAA!!!!!!"

dadFAIL

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Imagination FAIL

E: "Dad, I wish my Barbies would come alive and be real like people so I could play with them."

Dad: "That'd be cool but you just have to use your imagination." 

E: "I do, but it doesn't work."

dadFAIL

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Mom

My daughter just told me 'You are not my mother'

Yeah, if she says this now and next week she turns 3, what will she say when she's 10,12,16,19?

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Smelly Valentine

Since I have four girls, I got them each something for Valentine Days. You know, trying to be the good Dad and teach them how men should treat their ladies, even from a young age.

So last night I set out the little card, ballon and stuff animal with candy that I had gotten them.

This morning they were all excited to see what the got. Of course, they were up and at the breakfast table before I was ready to get out of bed.

S asked me to come and read her card. I was all excited, turning 3 this month this was the first time she was actually interested in reading the card. In the middle of me reading the sweet little note she looks up at me: "Dad, you smell."

Happy Valentine's Day to you too.

dadFAIL

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Growing up!

This month 2 out of our 4 children will have b-days. You can really see the difference between a 1 yr. old 'M' celebrating from our 2 going on 3 yr. old celebrating. Our 2 year old 'S' is SO excited about her sisters birthday and knows her b-day is coming. As we sing, 'S' decided she just can't wait, so she blows out the candle before we even finish the song. Pure excitement for birthdays!

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Curtains!

I was trying to trim my 4 yr. olds hair this evening, I needed to find something at her height to look at to stay still. Needless to say it was the hole that is in the curtain in our livingroom. So we started talking about curtains and how we need new ones. She stated that they should be princess ones. I looked at her and asked if Daddy would like that. Her response, "Well, Daddy can have star trek curtains on the smaller window and we can have princess ones on the really big windows."

Okay, but not too sure if Mom likes that idea.....

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iTunes Fail

I was surfing the web on my laptop and 'E' came down from her afternoon nap. She sat next to me to watch.

E: "Dad, play some music"

Me: "I don't have any music on here"

E: "Yes you do!" pointing to the iTunes icon "It's right there!"

I stand corrected.

So I play the only two songs I have amongst all the podcast. For some reason I have a copy of the theme song to the original Duke's of Hazard and I have the music from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Once that was done, it went to an audio lecture.

E: "Dad, can you get that talking off of there?"

dadFAIL

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Count Down

'S' counts for hide-n-seek: 1,2,3,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Here I come!

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