Gracie & Andrew Quotes

Grace: Mommy, I will be with you at the hospital when you have the baby, right?
Me: No honey, no kids are allowed while the baby is born.  Grandma Jane or JuJu will bring you to see the baby after he or she is born.
Mommy, will the baby be white or brown?
Well, the baby will have white skin like you and Andrew.
But how do you know?
Well, God usually gives us babies that look like the parents.  You know, how you look like Daddy and Andrew looks like Mommy?
Well I think we all kind of look alike.
You are right, we do.
Well, except Daddy.  I mean, we all have hair on our heads, but he has hair EVERYWHERE.

I overheard this conversation between the kids.
"Andrew can I please use that color?"
Silence
"Andrew, can I please use that color?  Pretty please?  Pretty please...with...uh...pasta on top?"
"Okay!" 
Grace understands that Andrew doesn't like sweets, so needed to figure out something to entice him.  And for me she says, "Pretty please, with cheese on top?"


Andrew has been talking a ton lately.  This development has coincided with him developing a charming 2 year old personality.  Things he says to me are:

"No. You do it."
"No. You get it."
"No. You clean it."
"No. Mine!"
"No. Me first"
"Back up!"
and my favorite, "Gracie!  No drama!"
and sometimes he will take a stick or a fork and swing it at me, as if to say "Screw you Mom.  I know you gave birth to me and have been loving on me for the past two years, but I am soooo over you."

On a side note, this is pretty much what Andrew looks like for a few hours each day....

Look how cute Andrew is in his bathrobe!  I think he looks like he is at the spa.

Here is he trying to climb into the snack cabinet for some pretzels. 

Potty Training

Andrew has started to show some interest in sitting on the potty.  He even pooped in the potty two times this week!

Lazy Sunday

We had a ton of great family time this Sunday. While Kevin and Andrew went to the gym, Gracie and I went to church. We tried to take Andrew last week, and that was a mistake. Grace was very good this week - without her little brother distracting her. A couple funny things happened...as they always will when Gracie is around:

1. She heard a reader say Jesus died. She looked at me with the absolute saddest face I have ever seen and said, "What? Jesus died?!" She looked sooo sad, I felt bad for her. I was also a little nervous that this would turn into a major dramatic event, but she held it together.
2. She heard the priest say, "Jesus Christ" and she turned to me, alarmed and said, "Mommy! He said Jesus Christ!" Like he was swearing or something. So funny.
3. Gracie sees a lot of her little friends from school at mass, and doesn't get that we shouldn't give them high fives when they are walking down to communion. She also saw one of the K5 teachers that she "loves" and had to give her a BIG hug....while she was handing out communion.
4. They used a ton of incense today. The church was foggy. There is something in the incense that makes my eyes burn and water, always has. Apparently, Grace doesn't like the smell. "Mommy, that smells so weird!" and kept her nose plugged for a bit longer than I would have liked.

In the afternoon, we went swimming (Yes, I did too.  The pool was a freezing 87 degrees, not kidding, I was shivering the whole time.)   Then, we came home to watch the Packer game.  During the game we got bored and I suggested we see how many things we could put on Patty's back before she would get up.  We ran out of space on her back before she moved. 

We also saw how long we could balance things on her head.  Poor dog. 

Then Gracie had me take pictures of her making her classic angry faces.

Andrew watched a Beyonce video. 

Then I took this picture and realized that he is not a baby anymore.  He is a little boy!  When did that happen?