Things They Say: Nora Edition

Nora has been a little chatter box, as usual. We're sure glad to have her around to keep us laughing. And a little frustrated :).

Here are some of her more recent quotes.

Playing dress up she announced "I am getting a new prince!", I asked what happened to the old one, and she just matter-of-factly said "Well, the prince died, and I said oh no."

I told her that Daddy had gone fishing with some of his friends and she said "What! Daddy doesn't have any friends!" and then laughed her little head off.

After Marc had cooked up some of the fish he caught, Nora came to the table and said "I am NOT eating any fish, NO WAY!". Even though she has had fish before and really likes it. I told her she needed to please try at least one bite. She did, and as she was chewing a big smile spread across her face and she said "Wow! Dis is the best thing I evvvveeerrrr ate".

Often when I tell her I love her she will say "I love you more". Once after saying it she paused then added "What it means, I love you more?"

I found her hiding in the corner with a pen one day. When I went to take it away from her she started protesting "I just drawing a birfmark for me! I just need a birfmark like Teresa's!".

Both girls were talking to the baby one evening. Nora said "Hi baby boy! Dis is No-ah! I am your big stister!" Then she turned to me and said "Is he pretty awesome?" Then back to him "I know you are in dere!"

I told Nora she was a good girl and she responded "Thanks, you're a good Mama".

Changing her diaper the other day she said to me "Mama, are you nice?". I told her that sometimes I'm nice, but I'm a little mean sometimes, too. Then I said "what do you think?", and she responded "I think you are nice. Um, you are like a nice bear". I'm really still not sure what she meant by that.

We took her to the doctor this week, she's had a bit of a recurring fever issue, pretty much once a month she will get a bad fever and complain about her eyes hurting, so this month when it happened we took her in to the doctor. It was pretty much the most horrifying and traumatizing doctor's appointment ever. The worst part was trying to get a urine sample. I'm pretty sure we won't be getting to potty train any time soon thanks to that. Anyway. She screamed and yelled and thrashed and kicked the whole time we were there. She finally calmed down about 5 minutes into the drive home. She was quiet for a few minutes and then piped up all calmly and matter-of-factly "Well, I had a fun time".

She is so over this pregnancy. After trying to get comfortable on my disappearing lap she gave a big sigh and said "when da baby boy gets here, can he go sit wif Daddy for a while?"

 This is possibly the best ever picture of our children.

And finally, the very most often heard phrase coming from her mouth "I'm hungry. I'm really, really hungry!". I can not feed this girl enough food. Five minutes after breakfast or lunch or even snack time she is asking for more food. I'm hoping it is just a growth spurt and will be over soon, because, seriously, I just can't even keep up with her appetite. 

Things They Say, Teresa Edition

Looks like it's time for another things they say post! Just Teresa this time, so it doesn't get too long.


Marc asked the girls if they wanted to learn how to count to five in Spanish. T said "You mean uno, dos, tres, quantro, cinco?". I guess they really do learn something from watching Dora.

When Marc got home from fishing T told him "You are the BEST fisher-dad ever!".

She insists that she does not need to be "baby-sitted", she needs to be "big-kid-sitted".

Playing school with Nora one day, T was pacing back and forth saying "Rule number 1: Do not cry. Or whine. Or laugh. Or talk. Or cry. Or burp. Or sneeze. Or toot.".

"Okay, I will be captain Tressa. Nora, you will be Matey Nora. Mom and Dad, you can be the guys that swab the deck". Sounds pretty accurate to me.

Said to me at 5:45 in the morning, when I wasn't getting up fast enough for her liking "Mom, it's not okay for people to just sleep all day. You need to get up". You bet I will be referencing this when she is a teenager.

She thought she wanted to ride this mechanical bull. She was wrong.

Marc complimented her on something she did and she said "Well, I couldn't have done it without myself".

Driving to church one day "Mom, you know those animals that are brown, that are not reindeer?". Um, no. I don't, sorry.

Reasons she wanted to go to her "Mom's-mom's house: Our house is not pretty. My Mom's mom's house is very pretty. Our house is not fun. Granny's house is fun. Our house does not have a trampoline (it does now!), Granny's house has a trampoline. Our house does not have any cats. My mom's mom's house has three cats".

During a look and find book she got to find a heart shape. She said "Oh, I love hearts." then a big sigh, then "Oh, I'm going to cry!".

Marc was trying to teach Teresa our phone number in the car one day. He made it into a little song to help her remember - she sang it a few times and then said "let's sing it together!" Marc and I started singing and she said "No, no, no, stop. I am just going to sing it by myself. Dad, you can help me." I guess that was her tactful way of saying she didn't want me to sing?

T is always thrilled when the dalmatian that lives near the park is out. She loved when the dog would jump up on her. She's planning on getting a dal when she is 5. Right now she wants to name it Biscuits. I told her when I was four, I named our dog Poocha, and she laughed her head off about that name for like, five minutes. Not cool, T.

July

We headed down to Virginia Beach for the holiday weekend. The girls were both super excited to go to the beach, but I wasn't holding my breath that they would love it based on last summer. However, they both surprised us the first day by immediately bounding into the water and spending pretty much the whole time there. 

It was super fun, but we definitely learned that going to the beach on the Fourth of July is not the best idea if you don't love crowds. 

The next day when we got there Nora would absolutely not even touch the water. Little rascal, she was so different than the day before! She just wanted to dig in the sand. 

Teresa was awesome. We picked up a little "surf board", as she called it, and she loved it so much. She was totally brave in the water, and didn't care at all when she got dumped off her board. She actually got really good at riding the waves back to shore. And I think she just looks so old in these pictures! 

Nora got some Baywatch practice in...

The day before we went to the beach was the celebration on base. 

The official 4th of July celebration actually got cancelled this year, due to the Sequester, so Budweiser stepped in and sponsored it instead. Which our girls loved because they brought their big Clydesdale horses out. They were pretty thrilled about the horses, and especially thrilled about the dalmatian. T is has big plans for us to get a dalmatian when she turns five, so she is always excited to see one. 

Nora ran off too far, so we sent the T after her. She got her almost all the way back to us before Nora made a break for it. Luckily Marc had the camera on hand to catch this awesome progression.

We waited in the hot line for over 30 minutes so the girls could do a bounce house maze, so of course Nora refused to go in once it was her turn. Luckily when she changed her mind a few minutes later the guy let her take a turn without doing the line all over again. She loved it.

She is a huge camera ham!