According to Aubree

The girls were getting all suited up to play in the snow and Ellie had a huge meltdown. Aubree comes over to me and says quietly, "Ellie has a bad attitude once a yeow [year]. She's having one again. I think she has a weally sowe [really sore] bum. It must be weally itchy."
I guess we need to get Ellie's bum checked, cuz she has been having meltdowns a lot lately!

(Just so you know, the way she talks is even cuter in person! I don't want her to have a speech impediment, but I really really don't want her to grow up and learn how to pronounce her R's - it's just too cute!)

The biggest insult according to Aubree:
"Liar, liar pants on fire, hanging on a telephone wire!"

When someone is not sharing with her she angrily sings/shouts:
"Sharing, sharing, that's the thing to do!"

Aubree's "homework" (one of Ellie's extra spelling sheets) - she loves to write letters

I've told Aubree she's not allowed to grow up anymore. I know it's because she's the baby (and she may always be the baby), but I don't want to be done with this stage of life! She told me she has to grow up and go to school, but she'll come home when it's dark outside.

fridge quotes

Aubree: Daddy was in her room trying to get a fly and she asked him what he was doing. He told her he was trying to get a fly, and she replied (a little bit annoyed): "I know. You told me that yestowday." She's always telling me "I know that" whenever I try to answer a question she asks me. She's only 3 but already acts like a teenager - she knows everything! 

Ellie: "I have to hold it in all day at school, so I just fart the whole way home on the bus."

Children should be seen and not heard

We've been listening to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books on CD recently and have really been enjoying her stories and imagining their hard, yet simple life. It's interesting to hear some of the same sayings over and over again, such as: "All's well that ends well", "Children should speak only when spoken to", and "Children should be seen and not heard".

So, lately I've been thinking that those last two sayings aren't quite as harsh as I once thought. The Ingalls were very kind to their kids and still allowed them to share ideas, but they were also taught respect and tact. I think it saved their parents a lot of embarrassment.

When Aaron lost his job two years ago, Carly would often jump into our conversations (uninvited) and tell whoever we were talking to (oftentimes people we had just met) that Daddy had lost his job. *awkward*

And today in sacrament meeting a lady stood up to give her talk who had short hair and was wearing a plain blue button up shirt. Our family was sitting near the front and Aubree pointed at her and asked loudly, "It that a boy or girl?"

More Fridge Quotes

April 20, 2011
Carly had a friend over (Hariet). Carly asked her, "Do you bite your fingernails?" Hariet answered, "Um, not really". Then Carly admitted, "I do, and I bite my toe nails and I pick my nose."

May 2011
While driving in the car as a family one Sunday Carly said, "I feel so sorry for Mommy. Soon Aubree will be at school and me and Ellie. And Daddy will have to go to work. Mommy will be home all alone." (Aaron and I exchange a knowing look.) Then trying to sound more upbeat Carly says, "She'll have a mommy relationship with Mom. She can go grocery shopping." And then it was as if a light bulb lit up in her head. She continued, "We'll come home and there'll be chocolate smeared all over her face, laundry not done, and she'll be drinking a soda."

June 17, 2011
We were watching Oliver and Co." as a family and we watched the part where the little girl is practicing the piano. After the song was over Carly said matter-of-factly, "I don't think she needs to practice!"

Fridge Quotes in August

-I told Carly I would brush her hair like a pony. (That means I brush very softly starting from the bottom and working my way up.) Well, it still wasn't gentle enought because Carly exclaimed, "Do you want this horse to butt you?!"

-As we were driving home from Cherry Hill I was kind of dancing to some music on the radio.
Carly: Mom, stop!
Me: Why?
Carly: Because someone might see you!

-Aubree (18 mo.) had just finished a bowl of yogurt and pushed the empty bowl across the table to me. After spooning out a little more yogurt I slid her bowl back over to her. Without even picking up her spoon she pushed the bowl right back to me, so I gave her even more and gave her the bowl again. This time she pushed her bowl back and tried, "bye bye" hoping I would finally understand that she was done eating.

-Aubree had been walking around the house with just a diaper on, so after finding a random tank top lying on the floor I pulled it over her head. When Carly saw her, she piously called my attention to the fact that Aubree was showing her shoulders. After I explained to Carly that Aubree had been walking around without anything on and that the tank top was the first the I could grab, Carly retorted, "Well, naked is better than immodest!"

Quotes from the Fridge (VII)

(I keep a piece of paper on the fridge for the purpose of writing down the funny/cute things the girls say.)

-A few days ago I was in the bathroom with Ellie as she was going potty. I heard quite the explosion and asked her if she needed some privacy. "Yeah," she grunted, "I'm doing a balleriah".

-Carly and Ellie were watching "The Restoration" movie (First Vision/Joseph Smith Story) last night. At one point in the movie Joseph asks his father, "How does a person know if they are saved?" Carly quickly answered for him, "Well, if you just fall off a cliff and someone catches you then you'll know you're saved." (What a little smarty :))

Fridge Quotes VI

December 4, 2008
Ellie was eating Cheez-its and dipping them in water. She said, “I’m baptizing my cracker.”


December 26, 2008
Aaron was reading a book to Carly and Ellie and about half way through they both lost interest, but Aaron kept reading aloud. While he was still reading Carly said, “Um Daddy? Did you notice that nobody is listening to the book?”


January 23, 2009
Daddy: “Girls, what is something you love about Mommy?”
Carly: “Play blocks with me” (I don’t even know the last time we got the blocks down.)
“Feed my fish with her” (um….what fish?)
“Cuddle with her” (now that’s true!)
Ellie: “When I get her baptized”
“When she writes with me”


January 2009
Carly and Ellie have been really concerned lately with who is bigger than who.
This is Carly’s phrase: “Okay, so let me get this straight; I’m bigger than Ellie, Ellie’s bigger than the baby, and Heavenly Father is bigger than all of us.”

Fridge Quotes V

September 7, 2008

Ellie fell and hurt her elbow. Daddy asked, “where’s your ouchie?”
Ellie answered: “On my kneebow”


September 2008
Carly and Ellie met a new friend here at Peachtree Apartments – Kooper. They had a hard time understanding what her name was:
“Grumple”… “Koople” … “Scooper” … “Kooper!”


September 15, 2008
Carly loves to hear stories about the cute things she said when she was a “little girl”. We were telling her about her poem she made up – “Please don’t sneeze, dance from your knees” (June 28, 2008). Then Ellie came up with this:
“Please don’t sneeze,
cough on your arm!”


October 1, 2008
Carly wanted me to remember something… (a movie, a song … I’m still not sure). I couldn’t figure out what she was talking about, so finally she said, “Just look in my imagination on my head.”


October 6, 2008
Aaron and the girls were waiting in the car while I was looking for a movie at Blockbuster.
Carly asked Daddy: “Are we going to die in here?”
Daddy: “No. Why?”
Carly: “Because it’s taking so long!”

October 10, 2008
I wanted Ellie to take a nap while we were visiting at Grandpa and Nanny Nette’s house. So, I asked Ellie if she would help Grandpa take a nap. She said yes, took his hand, and led him downstairs. But instead of laying down with him, she took him into the bedroom, left the room and shut the door behind her.


October 30, 2008
Daddy didn’t go to church with us this day (he stayed with Ellie because she was sick). When Aaron told Carly that he and Ellie weren’t coming with us Carly said, “Probably everyone will think Mom’s a widow.”

October 30, 2008
- Tithing Settlement -
Bishop: “Are you going to have a new baby sister?”
Carly: “Yeah, she’ll be naked.”
*silence*
Bishop (speaking to the girls): “Are you a full tithe payer?”
Carly and Ellie both: “No.”

Fridge Quotes IV and other stuff

Last weekend we went on a little hike up by the University in SLC. It is getting to be such nice weather now that fall weather is coming! I'm really hoping that my girls learn to appreciate nature and the outdoors.

 

A Nice Picture of my neck:

This is my neck from a couple of days ago. I woke up with what I thought was a mosquito bite on Tuesday morning and by Wednesday morning it looked like this. I went to the doctor on Friday and now I'm on a topical steroid - it's definitely improving!

We had a Family Home Evening lesson on reverence this Monday (much needed - we really struggle sometimes during church). We went to our temple - which is now the Bountiful temple. While we were there looking at the temple Carly said it felt like Heaven - sweet! Speaking of Carly, I never posted a Birthday post for her - she turned four the end of August. I can't even say how much happiness and excitement she brings into our home. She is our little singer. It only takes a few times to hear a song and then she has it memorized.

She is also our little social bug. She LOVES being with friends! We are lucky to have so many
little kids living in our complex here.

Cinderella (Kierra) and Ariel (Carly)

A couple of her cute comments:

She loves to rhyme -
"Hey Dad, I've got a rhyme for ya'-
Please don't sneeze,
Dance from your knees!"

Looking at herself in a mirror - "Hey Mom, look! I have fur in my nose!"

She doesn't like to have things explained to her more than once - well today I did just that. She looks at me and says, "Mom, don't tell me again...it's not complicated."

Carly as Anne of Green Gables - she's a big fan like her Mommy!

A back view of her new hair cut - so cute!!

Fridge Quotes IV

July 11, 2008

While visiting at Nanny Nette and Grandpa’s house, Great Grandpa Johnson came walking into the kitchen and out of the blue Carly says, “Hi Carl! My name is Carly!”
(A few days earlier Mommy had explained to Carly that she was named after Great Grandpa Johnson whose name is Carl E. Johnson.)


July 15, 2008
Ellie didn’t want to say her prayers and so Aaron explained to her that we need to listen to the good spirit that tells us to pray. He explained that there is also a bad spirit that tells us “Don’t pray! Be sad!” (As he said this he put his hand next to his ear and moved his fingers as if they were the devil speaking to him.) Ellie decides she had better pray:
“Heavenly Father, not let Satan say ‘Quack Quack, don’t say your prayers’…”


July 16 2008
Aaron came home from work and said that he’s getting a cold. Carly then observes that we all have colds… “But Mommy, I only like to have my own personal cold.”


July 21, 2008
Carly was getting dressed and Aaron asked her how long she had been wearing her panties (wondering if he should get her a new pair).
Carly’s answer: “6 months”
Daddy’s reply (in a very serious voice): “Okay, they’re probably pretty crusty then, so I’ll get you a new pair.”

Fridge Quotes III

May 2008
Ellie counting: “…eight, nine, ten, be-leven…”


May 4, 2008
Mommy was telling Carly a bedtime story about a family of baby kittens. (Carly loves stories about baby animals.) After the story was over Carly told me, “I just want to kiss those kitties all over. I wish I was in that story so I could kiss the kittens!” She is SO passionate!


June 28, 2008
Carly: “Hey Dad, I got a rhyme for ya! -
Please don’t sneeze,
Dance from your knees.”


June 2008
Ellie’s phrases: “Look at!”
“I not! [I didn’t do it!]”
“Two ones [two of them]”

Fridge Quotes II

March 12, 2008

We are riding in the car, listening to classical music…

Mommy says, “I love this music, it makes me feel relaxed and feel good.”

Carly’s reply, “Makes me feel tired.”

March 14, 2008

Aaron was putting Ellie to bed and couldn’t find her binky.
Daddy: “It’s lost Ellie”
Ellie: “Say prayer. Heavenly Father find it for me… [praying] Father, binky find for me. Jesus Christ, Amen.”
(Of course they found one.)

Fridge Quotes

We were eating dinner at a friends house several months ago and I saw a scrap piece of paper on the fridge with quotes from her kids. What a great idea, huh?! So I adopted it. Here are some of Carly's "fridge quotes" from this year:

February 13, 2007
Carly: “Ellie’s not a Lamanite. She’s a baby sweetheart.”

April 19, 2007
Daddy says to Carly “Are you some sort of genius?”
Carly answers very seriously, “I’m not Jesus, I’m just Carly!"


April 3, 2007
Carly saw a teenage boy dressed all in black with a shiny trench coat. She asks, “What’s he bein’? A garbage can?”


August 31, 2007
When Carly saw the letter “C” she said, “Look! It begins to start with me!”


October  2007
Family Home Evening
Carly: “Faly Hone Eving”

Carly - age 3 (almost 4)

What a little cutie!