January 15, 2009

• Thursday Thirteen

  First, 9 things Roxie has said in the past few days, and then a few random things...

  1.  "Mommy, you're sweat.  I can't love you right now."

  2.  "I don't want to be beautiful.  I want to be nasty."

  3.  "That's impressive."

  4.  "Lexie is a wild woman, and Bubby is Superman."

  5.  "Oh bummer."

  6.  "I can't kiss Uncle Bart, 'cause I don't love him right now."

  7.  Roxie:  "I want Papaw to take me to Disney World."  My mom:  "When do you want Papaw to take you?"  Roxie:  "At 3:48."

  8.  Apparently Roxie was guilty of spilling a bunch of Kaleb's nachos in the floor yesterday.  She denied it.  Kaleb kept taunting her about it.  And so they came in my room fighting about it.  I didn't catch the initial confrontation on film, but I did tape them when I asked them to repeat what happened:

  9.  I had to run in to Sam's yesterday to get a few things.  I had Roxie with me.  She said, 'Mommy, why are we here?'  I said, 'I have to get a couple of things really quick, because we have to go get Kaleb and Lexie at school.'  And she said, "Mommy, are we here to get me some samples?' lol  She thinks the only reason we go to Sam's is so she can stop and get samples of all the food and stuff.  I said, 'well we don't really have time to get samples.' haha  As soon as we got back to the food section, there was a lady there giving samples of orange juice.  She asked me if I wanted some.  I looked at Roxie and said, 'do you want to try some orange juice?'  She said, "NO.  I don't want orange juice.  I want a sample!"  I tried to just chuckle and be polite and take the sample of juice.  When we walked off, I told Roxie that she wasn't very nice....the lady was just trying to give her some orange juice.  So I drank the juice myself.  Two seconds later, Roxie says, "I want some orange juice!"  I said, "too bad, you had your chance.  Now there's no more samples."  Then she said, "I want a sample!  I want a cracker with cheese!"  (That is one of the samples she got the last time she was there, which was like 3 months ago, so I have no idea how she remembered that.)  I said, "they don't have crackers with cheese today."  So then a few minutes later she says, "I want a sample of cereal!"  (That's something else they were giving samples of last time.)  I said, "Too bad.  They don't have samples of cereal today."  Finally, some lady yelled at me across the aisle and said, "would you like to try a sample of our delicious mandarin oranges?"  I said, "Roxie, do you want to try some oranges?"  She said, "NO!"  Oh great.  Well, I wheeled over there anyway and took the oranges, which the lady was most excited to sell.  She kept telling me how nutritious they were for the entire family. haha  I ate one of the oranges myself, and then Roxie decided that that was the only sample she was going to get, so she finally ate every last drop of the oranges.  Then she asked if we could go back for another sample of orange juice, because now she was thirsty.  Crazy kid.

  10.  That's all the Roxie-isms I can think of right now.....

  Anyway, it looks like I'll be doing a lot of traveling the next few months.  I signed up for a cake class in IN next month.  It's taught by two women who are famous in the cake decorating world.  That's probably not exciting to anyone else, but it is to me.  One of the teachers is a lady that makes all the DVDs that I have, so it will be cool to meet her in person.

  11.  Then in March, Jamie has his conference in Las Vegas.  I hadn't really made up my mind if I wanted to go with him or not.  I'd have to leave Kaleb and Lexie here, so I wasn't sure I wanted to go.  But then Jamie went ahead and booked it before I knew it, so I guess there's no turning back now.  The exciting part of it is that while we're gone, we're going to drive to LA and spend a day in Disneyland.  Yippppppppeeeeeee!  (Thanks to Julia for finding us a place to stay in DL!  If you're ever planning to go somewhere, give her a call.  She will hook you up!)

  12.  And then in April, during the kids' spring break, is when we're heading to Chicago to go to the American Girl store.  We're also planning on visiting Lincoln's tomb or home or birthplace or something like that....whatever it is that's in Illinois.  My dad is wanting to go there.

  13.  While Jamie and I were in line to return something at Walmart today, I tried to subtly take a picture of the guy in front of us.  I thought that was an unfortunate place for a dirt stain.  At least, I hope it was dirt.

  

  Bonus:  Finally, here's a pic of Emma at church on Wednesday night:

  

  She said I only take her picture because I think her clothes are funny.  I said, 'no, I think it's cool.'  And she said, 'well, you think they're different.'  And I told her yes, but there's nothing wrong with being different.  She just has a creative sense of fashion.  haha  You can dress however you want when you're 7, and it's okay if it doesn't quite match.  But if you do it when you're 33, it's just not the same. haha  Well at least she's not boring.

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