Monday, April 7, 2008

Things I've Learned Living in a House Full of Girls

Band-aids have anesthetic properties

Your kids love it when you pretend play with them, even if you're no good at it anymore.

Preschoolers are not very judicious in their application of lipstick.

Markers work better on skin than on paper.

If Scout wants a sundae, Grace wants a thursday.

You don't play on the computer, you click on stuff

Poop and pee mixed together is diarrhea, and that's just a kind of spanish word

Crayons breed and multiply and eventually will infest every nook and cranny of a house if you don't exterminate promptly.

I'm only allowed to call Grace her secret nickname in the evenings, and even then only when nobody else is around to hear.

Purple Fairy Princesses is an acceptable name for a sports team.

Daddies go to work, and mommies go to scrapbooking, and grandmas go to work, but they aren't daddies.

Apparently my "eye looks like it could be bited out by a alligator"

It's a scientific fact that a 2 year old girl contains the highest concentration of cuteness of any substance in the universe.

Sitting in primary and watching your kid get spotlighted or give the prayer or talk is way better than going to sunday school.

Someday there may be a day where no tears are shed in our house. But I suspect it won't be until after all our girls move out.

They got that cute because Jesus made them that way.

Shoe shopping with 4 females can eat an evening.

Bad guys will often threaten to take your baby to D.I.

At Christmastime you are supposed to go to the castle and take the tidings to the king and give him the tidings.

Someday baby's breath flowers will grow and turn into mommy's breaths.

You don't go "into the thick of it", you go "into the pickle pit"

Nostalgia and a little bit of heartache starts early. It's hard knowing I'll never get to hold Scout and Grace at 2 ever again.

I love my little family of girls. I wouldn't be upset if we had a boy at some point, but I'm perfectly happy with it just being me and the girls.

5 comments:

Brittney said...

"HA HA HA. I got your baby. I'm going to take her to DI. HA HA HA."

I completely agree that I wouldn't mind keeping just our family of girls, but then I look at my older nephews and think, they are such good kids, I wouldn't mind having one, but can I skip the younger boy and just get one at 9?

Lady Carolyn said...

If "Into the thick of it" is a Backyardigans term, at our house its "Thistle whips"

I'm slightly disturbed and confused at the D.I. thing.

I agree if anything can make you philosophical its listening to a little girl.. or two... or three.

Amy said...

You don't need to skip from infant to 9, just from 7 to 9....IMO. :)

Brittney said...

the di thing comes from us telling them that if they don't clean up their toys then we are going to take them to D.I. So when they play bad guys they say that.

MisterJ said...

Oh...wait...I'm sorry...I think I've entered the wrong room. ;)