Funny Things I've Head This Week

It's been 8 days since we've seen the Sun around these parts, but the laughter and the funny things my kids say and do on a hourly basis continue to roll.

Miss M and Miss A take piano lessons from a dear friend. Miss A loves it. She practices without prompting and will often remind her sister that it's time to practice. Miss M just doesn't sit still long enough to see "piano practice" as something to do on a daily basis.

We had our lessons last week and Miss M has been practicing her one song for a months now and has gotten really good. Her tempo, notes, and tone are perfect. You can even sing along with her playing.

This week Miss M got some new music. It follows some of the songs that she's practicing at school for the spring musical performance. A performance in which she will sing with her class and dance with a select group of girls and boys. They are dancing to the music of the original "Fame," you know, the one with leg warmers and lots of hair flowing over dancing bodies. M's piano teacher assigned her the song "Out Here On My Own." It's a fun song, but still needs some work.

On Thursday night, M was practicing while A and I looked at books and Dad was on the computer. After playing the one song over and over again my husband commented on what a nice job she's doing with it. M said thank you, "it was Grammy's favorite song, remember Papa had them sing it at her funeral."

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Miss A said, "Grammy liked Fame!"

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After we all rolled on the ground and A looked at us like we were crazy, my husband calmly said, "No that was 'What A Friend We Have in Jesus.' That's was a little more Grammy's speed."

Finally, we are loving winter Saturday's around here. No basketball this year, no dance competitions and soccer, softball and baseball are still weeks/months away so we are enjoying being lazy. This morning was an early one, however, because C's friend who spent the night last night had an early BB game. So, after breakfast and clean up and goodbyes, all three kids were ready for something fun to do.

Out came the Play Doh Box. The kids, even the oldest were having fun making birthday cakes, Oreo cookies, and playing with the Dentist kit in the box.

At one point, C was the Dentist, M was the ex ray tech and A was the Hygienist. They were looking for cavities and had a diagram of which teeth needed to be pulled. I heard a scream and C said, "Uh-Oh." M said that's not you want to hear from a dentist.

C and A were about to pull the "wrong tooth"

Speaking from experience having just had four teeth pulled, Miss M said with all sincerity, "I don't think this is a good idea, we don't want to hurt the poor child."

Now from my perspective, the "child" in question was a plastic head with empty spots were the teeth should go filled with white play doh!

These kids keep me laughing!