May funnies

May 1--Ryn: I'm He-man!
Elle: and I'm the guy who sings He-man! duh-duh-de-duh, de duh-de-de-duh, de duh-de-de-duh-duh, duh-duh (theme song)

May 3--Elle was once again gracing us with the He-man opening song, complete with narration this time--"....defend against the evil horses (original lyrics--forces) of Skeletor!"

May 7--Someone was at the door and Elle came to get me in my room, "Mom! Someone is ringing the Dora bell!"

May 8--Ryn asked me at breakfast, "Mom, is it OK if I do exercises?" I didn't know what in the world she was talking about until I looked at her arms, covered with goose bumps. "Sure, Ryn."
She jumped out of her chair, ran into the family room, did 20 jumping jacks and returned to her cereal a little warmer.

May 9--For Mother's Day in her class at church, Elle made me a card that had a little bag of Hershey kisses attached to it. When she brought it to me, she said, "Mom! I've got a treat for you! ...and for me, and for Daddy, and for Ryn and for Eden!"

Yep, she is one treat-driven gal. So we have tried to get them to stay in their own beds every night by offering a treat the next day if they do. Elle had a sure-fire plan to get two treats on this day. Kev had given her one and she came back, asking, "Can I have a treat for staying in my bed?" "I already gave you one." "No, that was for Elle. I'm Jaydna."

May 13--I was pushing Elle on the swing in the backyard and she was closing her eyes for quite a while. "Are you sleeping?" "No, I'm just making funny faces so everyone will laugh and come out of their houses and it will be a big party! I like parties."

May 16--Elle: Dad, I'm going to do something nice for Jesus. It will make Him happy and He will give me his Spirit.

We were over at the Linkous' walking around in Carma's amazing garden. Elle tried to put into words how she felt about such a beautiful place. "Mom, this is a good land."

May 18--Kit: How about oatmeal for breakfast?
Elle: No! I want suckers!.... Suckers and eggs!

May 19--Ryn: Are you a princess?
Elle: No
R: A queen?
E: No. I'm a....people.

Elle had a blister on her foot and Ryn asked what caused blisters. I told her that they come from your shoes rubbing your feet the wrong way. She put it all together--my explanation, plus the fact that she didn't have any blisters on her feet. So when Elle asked Ryn one more time, "What's a blister?", Ryn gave her this: "You put your shoes on and it started scrubbing you the wrong way. My shoes are scrubbing my feet the right way."

May 23--Eden's favortie word is 'Daaaaaa-ddy'. I had her with me in Relief Society and she did great for the entire hour....until I started putting everything back in our bag during our announcements (our RS does them after the closing prayer). She assumed it was over and headed for the door, calling loudly in a 'I'm coming to find you' voice, "Daaaaa-dy......Daaaaaa-dy!"

May 24--We played a memory game for FHE and Elle picked 2 different cards on her turn. "Let's pretend it's a match," she suggested.

May 25--After drinking her OJ, Elle thanked me for the good juice. "I liked the orange feathers in it."

I love the teaching moments that happen any time and anywhere. Ryn asked me, "What am I doing here on earth?" as we were driving home from the store. Can anything in the world be more wonderful than teaching the gospel to angel children?! I LOVE THIS!!!!

May 26--We were making cupcakes for Elle's bday party (yes, I promise to post pictures soon :)) and I only have one pan. Thankfully, sweet Marcene had 4 more she could lend us. As she was leaving I thanked her for saving us from the "ten years it would have taken to make all those cupcakes with my one pan." A few minutes later, Ryn was filling Elle in on our situation "....it's not going to take ten months because of the things Dee and Marcene gave us..." I hadn't even realized I had said the 'ten years' part until I heard Ryn say that :)

Later on, Ryn and Elle were trying some new tricks on the couch that Ryn knew I wouldn't be too keen on. So she asked me not to look--"Mom, don't see me do such a thing!"

May 27--You know you're going to be in for some tricky teenage years when, at 2.98 years old, your daughter calls to you with this, "Mom! Come in here and watch how I kiss Hercules!" There was Elle, falling over trying to kiss her imaginary hero with one tiny foot lifted up behind her.

May 30--The girl who never sleeps gets lonely for her big sister during the night, so we were bound to hear this at some point, "Ryn! Obey me now! Wake up!"