Isaac loves to read.  He enjoys reading books in bed, reading scriptures at night with the family and pretty much any words he sees.  He has started reading billboards and signs everywhere we go.  He’ll read the name of a restaurant or other such place and ask me what it is or say something like [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte announced one morning that she had three dreams last night.  One was good and two were bad.  The bad dream was that ants would turn her socks into “sticky socks.”  The good dreams were (1) watching something change colors that is not sticky and (2) sleeping in a downstairs room.
One day Isaac excitedly [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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For some reason, Charlotte has advanced the following theory more than once, but this last time that she said it, I wrote it down (maybe two weeks ago).
“Ila thought I was a boy when she was in your tummy and when she was born and saw me walking, she was so happy to see [...]

Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte dubbed herself “The Trophy Giver.”   She was building with blocks and built a  trophy for me.  I asked her what it was for and she said it was for “cleaning up.”  Then she asked me to make trophies with her. I made a yellow one which she said was for Ila for “wiggling.”  [...]

Posted on June 27th, 2010 by Kathleen
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“I have a frown because I have my favorite cup, but not my favorite, favorite cup.”
“Do you know that carrots like to be food?” (the picture below is of a carrot on a toothpick, referred to by Charlotte as a “Carrot Popsicle”)Last week we were at the park for a High Priest social, when Charlotte [...]

Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac ran in suddenly from riding his bike and announced that “it looks like black bear  weather!”  He asked if he still needed to put his bike away since black bears might come.  When I told him he should, he wanted Charlotte to come with him to protect him.  After coming in, he remembered that [...]

Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Yesterday Isaac was in one of his creative moods.  This means he gets an idea and wants to talk about it. . .continuously.  He’s gone on for hours at a time, following me around the house as I do chores.  Here are the lines that I wrote down from today’s brainstorming session.  "What if [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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2.22.09 "The new Grandma sings!" Charlotte upon hearing her grandma Bunny sing to Nicole
2.28.09  If Nicole spits up ever again, you should hold her over the toilet so the spit up will go into the toilet. Then Nicole would ask "where is my spit up?"  Isaac
After reading Richard Scary’s Busy, Busy Town, Charlotte wants [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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“I would like my own pet ant and I could open up it’s cage and put it in the bath and it would swim.” Isaac
“Mom, is Orem attached to Provo with screws?” Isaac

Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Kathleen
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As we were watching a pre-recorded episode of Sesame Street today an Amber Alert came on.  I explained to Isaac that a girl was missing .  Isaac ran to the window to look  for her.  When he didn’t see her he asked if this was happening in ‘our world.’  I told him that it was [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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Isaac saw this kitten through the glass door in the kitchen and asked if he could pet it.  I told him it wasn’t a good idea since we didn’t know the cat.  He told me that he wanted to name the cat Eustace.  I said ok.  He asked "now I pet the cat?  Because [...]

Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Kathleen
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On election day we walked in the house after voting and Isaac announced with great concern that "the naughty don’t want Obama to vote." We’re not Obama supporters and we haven’t really been talking politics much around the kids (that I can think of) or listening to much political stuff so I was surprised by [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Kathleen
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Charlotte has become more independent in her prayers lately.  Instead of just repeating the same phrases over or waiting for help, she has started adding new ones.  Here are a few favorites from this week:  "Bless us to have good dreams.  Bless us to have another good dream."  "Bless that all my dreams will [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Kathleen
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We invited our good friends the Kelsons over for family night.  The lesson was on how  Jesus taught us to be kind and love others.  I shared a story during the lesson about Jesus healing a blind man.  The lesson ended with a paper puzzle covering a picture of Jesus.  The kids were required to [...]

Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Kathleen
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This is what the sky looked like this morning.  When Isaac saw the sky he said "Mom, I can see Africa. . .Lets watch for the penguins."

Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Kathleen
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So here’s a few more comments from this morning to go with last night’s post:
"It’s snowing!  It’s snowing!  It’s Christmas!!" –Isaac said this as he excitedly danced around the house just after viewing snowflakes falling this morning.
"I want stinky underwear!!!"  Charlotte cried this over and over upon having her soiled underwear changed.  Given the [...]

Posted on October 11th, 2008 by Kathleen
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I’m sure it’s not often the wish of many to be a fly on the wall in our house (although  there have been a few flies in the house entertaining cats, but my hand-held-battery-powered-tennis-racket-shaped-fly-zapper seems to have alleviated that problem).  Here are some of the things you might have heard if you were that [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Kathleen
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This morning Isaac told me he couldn’t find his water bottle and asked if we could pray to have Heavenly Father help him.  So we said a little prayer and almost as soon as we said ‘Amen,’ he found the water bottle.  Later when he was putting on his sandals he said "Should we [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Kathleen
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Here are some definitions from my little ones:
Hinges = elbows or knees   Context:  Just before dinner he told me that his tummy was full because elevators in his legs had carried salad up past his hinges to his tummy and filled him up.  When I told him we were having tacos, he said the [...]

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Kathleen
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I’m not really sure why Isaac has chosen tigers as his main fear, but he has.  Each night he has to check all the locks before he goes to bed to make sure tigers can’t get in (because tigers don’t have keys).  He whispers so the tigers don’t hear him until the doors are locked [...]

Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Kathleen
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