They say the cutest things...

Grace: "Dad, are you hungry?" (They were out riding bikes)
Eric: "No, why?"
Grace: (As she speeds away she says) "Because I was going to tell you to 'eat my bubbles'."

One day particulary foggy morning Lyla said, "Mom, why is it so gravy outside?"

One day on the playground at preschool Lyla was playing duck, duck, goose with 5 other boys. A little girl walked up to play with them and Lyla immediately raised her hand to the little girl and said, "No girls allowed". (We may have a gender identity issue :)

Today after school Grace told me that they're having a little talent show in P.E. at school next week. They get 3-4 minutes to stand up in front of their class and demonstrate their talent during P.E.
Grace: "We're having talent show in PE next week."
Me: "I know. What talent do you want to show?"
Grace: "I only have one talent and it's 'caring' and how am I supposed to show that in a talent show?"
She's right about the talent of caring. She is a very caring and sensitive child. She is very in tuned with the people around her and how they're feeling! So sweet. She decided she could have a friend pretend to fall on the ground and then she would help her up and put a bandaid on her knee. Too cute.

Rain, rain, go away....Please!

It has rained for so many days that I can't even remember when it started. Our backyard does not drain well either so we have a very soggy, muddy mess! Plus, Eric started putting extra patio paver tiles around our patio to make it bigger last weekend. He didn't get finished so there was a lot of exposed dirt which is now a huge puddle of squishy, watery mud. It is torture for my children to see this and not touch it. I have held them off for a while but yesterday it happened. Lyla wanted to go out and I "made a deal" with her that she would only swing, not get in the mud. Well, that didn't last long. So, the next deal was that she would only step in it. Then Grace went out. Around that time I realized my freezer hadn't shut last night and everything was melting. I started pulling everything out and wiping the freezer out. Eric came downstairs in a few minutes and said, "Jenny, look at them!". I looked outside and Grace was putting mud in Lyla's hair! So much for our "deal". Even though I didn't approve, I still had to take pictures to document what my girls love to do. They were covered! Their boots were full of mud, their clothes are still soaking in Oxyclean and Eric sprayed them off with the garden hose.

Today they wanted to go out again! Eric took them to the river to fish in the rain. They came back muddy and wet, of course. Then they went out again later to "walk in the rain". I made them go in the front yard this time where there isn't so much mud, just water. One romp in the mud is fine and manageable but my girls can't just do it one time. I feel guilty for disliking it so much. It is a kid thing to do, right? Play in the rain and mud? But, I really wish this rain would please stop!

Elye Kate Nesbitt

Elye (pronounced like "Eli") was born at 12:06am Wednesday morning. She was about 4 weeks early. Joni's water broke at school on Tuesday afternoon and shocked all of us. Elye is doing fine though. She was 5 lb. 15 oz. and 18 inches long. Reesi is head over heels for her. We call her the baby hog. My girls are very excited about her too. We think she looks like Reesi so far. She has black hair and dark eyes and the same mouth as Reesi for sure. The next post has a slide show of pictures from the hospital that I took on Wednesday.

Easter Pics

Sunday mornings are hard to get the girls ready and out the door. So, Easter mornings photo sessions have never gone very well for me. Here are some pictures that simply document the occasion. Nothing special, just wanted to document their outfits and what they looked like on Easter, 2009. I like the picture of Grace with Sophie more than the Easter pictures. :)

Storm!

The Friday night before Easter a storm came through the area. Tornados actually touched down in Murfreesboro, about 40 minutes from here. Luckily, we just had strong storms. We woke up Saturday morning to this big limb in our backyard. I'm really glad it didn't land on anything important.