Reading with Grandpa

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin by teamtradermom

Grandpa Fred showing Isabella his new Bible.

It’s a stormin’ pretty good tonight. I got home from volleyball early so I came up to post this picture. Isabella wandered out of her room a few minutes later. I asked what she was doing up and she replied that it was noisy outside. I took her to the window and we peeked out through the blinds at the rain.

She said, “Mommy, the angels sure are bowling pretty good up in heaven. We can hear ‘em but we can’t see ‘em.”

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12Jun2012

Deep Thoughts, from Isabella

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin by teamtradermom

Isabella and I went to the park after dinner. We had a nice time and as we approached home, I was satisfied that she’d been worn out enough.

Next up on the agenda: bath time.

However, when we got back to our block, we saw that all the neighbor kids were outside playing. One of the little boys even made a point to come over and said “hi” to us! I figured bath time could wait and asked Isabella if she wanted to go over and play. She said no. I asked again and she still said no. Ok, fine. So we waved at everyone and went inside.

Now I remember when I was a kid. We would stay outside and play until the very last minute. The rule was that once the street lights came on, it was time to go in. We would audibly groan when the street lights came on and slowly drag our feet, trying to eek out every possible ounce of light and playtime. That kid in me could not understand why my daughter would refuse an opportunity to stay out and play over taking a bath.

So I asked her.

“I’m all alone,” she said. “Everyone is alone.”

Apparently she was channeling a tween Emo kid.

“You wouldn’t be alone if you played with the other kids,” I replied.

She sighed, shrugged and said, “I guess so” as she turned and walked away.

Apparently that was enough to make her think though because a few minutes later she came over and told me that she wanted to go out and play with all the kids.

Now that’s more like it!

The kid party turned in to an impromptu adult beer night, so we both had fun!

When we finally came home and I got her in to bed, she told me that she couldn’t sleep because, “The wind is coming from the East.”

An Emo kid with a penchant for meteorology perhaps?

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1Jun2012

From the Mouths of Babes

Posted in From the Mouths of Babes by teamtradermom

I was reading Isabella a bedtime Mickey Mouse Clubhouse story tonight. She saw a picture similar to this one,

(source)

and said, “Look Mommy! Mickey has jazz hands!”

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5May2012

Opportunities

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin, Photography by teamtradermom

I decided last night that I need to get back to walking on Saturdays and Sundays. I used to do it every weekend at our old house. Samson and I would rise and shine around 7 a.m. and hit the pavement. We got out of the habit when we moved though.

Well, no time like the present to start again!

Only, Samson can’t go with me for a while since he’s still recovering. Guess I’ll just have to go it alone!

Or at least, that was the plan.

I set my alarm for 6:30, in order to get up and going before Isabella. She usually rises around 7. I got up, dressed and was heading toward the stairs when I heard her talking. I now had 3 choices: 1) sneak away and let her wake up CJ, 2) get her up and skip my walk, or 3) take her with me.

I was tempted to do #1. It would be the easiest. But Ceige is recovering from some bug and he needed the extra sleep. Skipping the walk wasn’t an option as I need to increase my exercise. So, that left #3.

It turned out to be a great opportunity for some lovely mother/daughter time (and is another notch in my belt for wife of the year!).

I got the little one up, changed her diaper and tucked her in the stroller, along with some juice and a Scooby Doo Coloring Book (she’s really in to Scooby right now).

Instead of walking around our neighborhood, we wandered to the one behind us. I had never really explored that one before.

Look what we found around one bend.

A lake so quiet and smooth that it looked like a mirror.

Isabella took a break from reading Scooby to give me a big smile!

There was a walking trail around the lake so we hopped on it. The weather was perfect – warm (but not hot), no wind and very quiet.

Ah.

We walked down to the end and then came back down the other side.

This is the tree that you can see in the background of the first 2 pics.

Then we came upon a big grouping of bird feeders.

I don’t know if these are owned by the people in that house or if they’re part of the neighborhood. It’s a cool idea, though I wouldn’t want to live near them. Could get loud and messy as every one of them had a bird in it.

We also discovered this on our way out of the neighborhood.

Some sort of bridge. Not sure if it serves any purpose. You can’t walk across it. Kinda cool looking though.

There were lots of cool houses too, but I didn’t take pictures of those, you know, for the privacy of the owners.

We came home to some beautiful flowers outside our own house!

I just love this time of year!

We went inside and I made Isabella the cinnamon biscuits that I promised her last night. I made some caramel ones too.

They turned out yumm-o!

I’m so happy that I embraced the opportunity to share some special time with my sweet girl this morning. It’s those moments that are the ones we’ll remember forever.

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4May2012

From the Mouths of Babes–A Conversation

Posted in From the Mouths of Babes by teamtradermom

I put Isabella down to bed tonight and about 45 minutes later I hear her at the top of the stairs. I run to go check on her. The following is the conversation we had when I got upstairs.

ME: What are you doing sweetheart?
ISABELLA: I want to tell you that I’m not going to sleep tomorrow night.
ME: You’re not going to sleep tomorrow night?
I: No I’m not.
ME: Well ok. I guess you better get good sleep tonight then!
[Isabella runs down the hall to her room]
I: I was looking EVERYWHERE for you mommy!
ME: I was downstairs sweetheart.
I: What were you doing?
ME: Painting my toenails and watching TV. Remember how you helped me pick out some pretty pink nail polish? Now I’m putting it on.
I: Can I see?
ME: I don’t have the color on yet. You can see tomorrow.
I: Tomorrow I will look and there will be pink all over!
ME: Yes, something like that…but you have to go to sleep first. And if you go to sleep right away, I’ll make a special surprise for breakfast.
I: [gasps] What is it?
ME: You’ll find out in the morning.
I: But what’s the surprise?
ME: I’ll make you cinnamon biscuits.
I: [gasps again and whispers] Cinnamon biscuits!
ME: But you have to go to sleep right now!
I: I want to kiss your nose first!
ME: Ok [leans down toward her. She grabs the side of my face and pulls me close, kissing my nose]

Some of you may think I’m taking poetic license when I type up her sayings – you know, filling in all the prepositions and other words to make a complete sentence.

I don’t.

I type it exactly how she says it. She really does talk that way.