Sick Days

At basketball, Eric asked Emmie why she wasn't dribbling with her left hand during a left handed drill:

"I have a cut on my left hand, and I'm working on getting really good with my right."

(for the record, the cut was a minor paper cut from a week ago)

At times, I consciously throw in a vocabulary word thinking it will be new to Emmie.  Apparently, I am behind the times:

Kris:  Wrigley just collapsed onto the bed.

Emmie:  You mean CO-llapsed.  You said CA-llapsed.

E was home sick from school on Wednesday.....

While texting on my phone (and from a room away):

"Will you please stop typing?  My body doesn't like it."

"No, I don't want toast.  That is bread, and I don't feel like anything from that section.  No cheese either."

I was sick the next two days.  Emmie had a two hour delay both days because of frigid weather.  Eric was very helpful in getting Emmie to/from school and taken care of.  Nonetheless, we still had time home together....Emmie came running each time she heard me throw up; she switched out the throw up buckets, dumped and washed (as if was routine for a 6 yr old).  Emmie managed to build a fairy house over the course of two hours at the foot of my bed.  She had acrylic paints out (on the carpet).  I didn't care.  I even cut a hold in a washcloth for her because she needed a hole for the chimney to be inserted.  Somehow, the carpet is clean.  Emmie was not when she went to school.  :) 

Emmie brought me cheerios with strawberries in it since that was her request once she started feeling better Wednesday evening.  She didn't use the knife on her own (since knows needs supervision); instead she tried to pull/pick the strawberry tops off by hand:
"Don't eat that part.  I didn't get it all, and it is yuck."

26 hours into my being sick....

Emmie:  Will you get me new underwear?

Kris:  Mommy still doesn't feel well.  Can you do that for yourself?  I took care of you while you were sick.

Emmie:  Yeah, but I was only sick for a day, and you've been sick for like 3 days.

Quotes

While playing at McDonald's PlayPlace:

Emmie:  That kid that I'm playing with; his brothers are not very nice to him.  They were holding his collar like this, and holding him down.  I smacked him, and said, you don't treat little kids like that.

Kris:  What did he say?

Emmie:  We do when he doesn't listen to us.

Kris:  How hard did you smack him?

Emmie:  Like this.

I suggested that Emmie and I learn Spanish together.  Told her we could go to Mexico together when we had the language mastered:

"Not doing it.  You don't need to know Spanish to go to Mexico."

Guess who got to sleep in her office?

Quotes

On the way to school.....

"Know what the problem with going to school is?  It changes my habit of eating all the time.  And I'm growing so I need to eat all the time.  Same with LL; they only give you one snack."

On the way home from school....

E:  Look at Summer and AJ's snowman!

K:  Do you want to build a snowman?

E:  No, I don't like having to bundle up, and then bundle out when we're done.

Polar Bear

Games

In trying to get Emmie to bed.....

Kris:  Emmie, you're playing games.  Let's go.

Emmie:  Yeah, I save those for when I really, really, really want something.  So, can I sleep in the office tonight?  Actually, my goal is to sleep in the office 3 nights in a row.

Quotes

Emmie:  Can we move?  I like our house, but I still want to move.

Eric:  Where do you want to move to?  

Emmie:  Well, I like water and sun.  I like sun all the time, except when it is night.  And know why I picked water?  Because Mommy likes water.

On the way to basketball......

Eric:  I'll rebound for you before practice.  I can probably just stand under the basket since all of your shots go in.

Emmie:  No one is perfect Eric.

Eric:  Well, you're pretty darn close.

Emmie:  I just rolled my eyes at you.

On the way to school, and while eating a bag of goldfish:

Kris:  I forgot to pack you a snack.

Emmie:  That's okay.  We can use the rest of these goldfish.  Do you have a barrette in the car?  We can use that to seal it.

Weekend Fun

Emmie created a concession stand at one of the tennis matches.  Each level was a different cost ($0.25 and $1), but she'd take one, two or three pennies also, or food (to be added to her stand).  She sold her bag of chips from Subway for 3 pennies.

Sunday night dinner at our house.  Congrats to D&A on the engagement!

Learning to type.....

Bubble Gum Fun

Emmie will be handing out free bubble gum (as advertised on Twitter)
to match attendees this weekend:

Valentine's Day Fun

If not evident in the picture, EPIC was changed to ERIC:

BB - Team Picture

Iowa BB with DK

Saturday

Coe Wrestling

Saturday Morning Quotes

Emmie: I want real bricks to build something with.
Kris: How about we start with an architectural computer program and
learn how I know how to build things?
Emmie: I know how to build things; I've been drawing pictures of
buildings my whole life.
Kris: Do you understand engineering, and how to make a structure sound
and long lasting?
Emmie: Yeah, bricks have that stuff in the middle to help them stick
together. I'm just a building kid, Mom, and I want to build something
real.

Emmie: Know why I drew a picture of you?
Kris: Why?
Emmie: So I can remember you when you die.

1-800....

In listening to the radio on the way to school, a commercial relayed a 1-800 # multiple times throughout:

"They should make that shorter.  They're not going to get much customers; people will forget that long number."

Throwback Thursday

Helping at Coe

Chicagoland Fun