What did you say?

The girls have been especially funny lately. We collected a whole bunch of things that they are saying, and put them here for your enjoyment. (the thing around Annie's legs is the seat to her toilet that she refuses to use)

Hallie has been talking a whole bunch about when she gets married. "Mom, when I get married, you can pick my husband... pick someone nice that needs a mom." We thought that we should put that down for future reference. We won't spoil it for her by telling her that basically all men need at least 4 moms, but only have one. She also just got done telling us about how cute Chris (our friend here) is and how pretty Carrie (his wife... and a friend too, I guess) is. Bree asked her who else she thought was pretty. "Do you remember Cole's mom in Salt Lake? She is beautiful." Bree asked if she thought Brad (Cole's Dad who Hallie had a little crush goin' on) was cute too. "No... he's handsome." She also said that I was handsome too, so there you go.

The real show-stopper this last little bit has been Annie. She has a new habit and a few new favorite words. They go a little something lika dis:
"Annie, go put your toys away ok?"
....

"Annie?"

"OK DAD!" She bows her head and under her little breath "Ya stupid idiot."

We tried to nip that one in the bud as fast as we could, she still pelted people with that one a few more times, but now she just yells "HAAAALLLIE! Idiot! ... is a bad word and it makes people sad when we say it!"

Then the last thing, Chris and Carrie have a dog Rollie who is super fun. She is a full grown German Shepard and is about the size of a small horse. She has a ball when the girls come over to visit.
The other night, the girls were in the back yard collecting these weeds and putting them in a bucket and calling them flowers. They were constantly trying to keep Rollie's nose out of the bucket. Finally the dog got fed up with it and pushed it down with her chin and just started flinging the leaves out onto the ground, then ran off. Annie stood there with the bucket and all her precious flowers all around her shaking her head slowly "Stupid... dog. Stuuuupid dog."

Hallie was in the local high school's Homecoming parade. Her pre-school is part of the high school and she has some kids from there like "teacher Lacey". Anyway, she got to decorate her own bike and was super excited to ride down the street. She wouldn't even wave to me she was so intent on being in the parade. But she got a big kick out of it, and a big pile of candy. Annie is seen here sporting her spoils stuffed into the pants pockets and smeared (of course) across her face.