To brighten your day...

I love to write down and keep track of all the funny, silly, cute and sweet things my kids do and say. I am so thankful for those moments, especially on the hard days. I couldn't help but laugh out loud as I re read some of these. It will totally make your day...PROMISE!

The kids were playing dress up and Oaklee was in her princess dress-up walking around the house bowing saying "Thank you, thank you!" over and over. At the same time McCoy was in his room trying to decide whether or not to put his spider man costume on, or his knight costume. Last minute he decides the knight costume and says, "What is a princess without her knight?!"

We were talking to the Elders and Oaklee was telling them how old she was and when her birthday was. One of the Elders got excited and said they had the same birthday so he asked Oaklee for a fist bump (or "pound" as we call them). She wouldn't do it and left him hanging so I gave him the fist bump instead. Oaklee looks at me with a mad face and says, "hey, you took my pound!!"

Oaklee had gotten hurt...

Mama: Where's your owie at?

Oak: (Whimpering and sad) My pinky toe...now I can't go 'we we we all the way home'.

  My parents were needing some help with some things and my mom was being stubborn about me helping her so I was firmly scolding her about it. And McCoy breaks into the conversation saying, "Don't talk to her like that, you are not Grandma's Mom!" My mom and I were hysterical, lol!

 We were walking down a large, long, empty hall at the hospital. Mac was running ahead of us and Oaklee was right next to me yelling "McCoy walk please! McCoy walk PLEASE!" Then a man was walking toward us and Oak says politely to him "Excuse me sir." as she walks by him.

McCoy wrote out his name and then put a dot at the end..."Mom, look McCoy dot com!"

I was giving McCoy my normal little pep talk as he was leaving for Preschool, "Be a good listener, follow directions, be a good friend and be a good example." Oaklee on her own adds in, "Don't say the S word at Preschool." (The S word in our house is the word stupid). 

McCoy was told to eat three bites of his dinner before he could be done. He says, "If I liked it, I would just eat the whole thing!" I guess he has a point... 

I said the opening prayer in sacrament meeting and when I went and sat back down Oaklee looked at me and said in such a happy voice, “I PROUD OF YOU!”

McCoy asked for a cupcake (not something we normally have in our house) and I told him he couldn't. He responds with "Are you kidding me!?!? I have been so good today!" 

McCoy was looking at a book about sharks, he showed me one of the pictures and I asked if it was shark (it didn't really look like one from the distance I was at) and Mac says "it's a shark mom, It's a SHARK book." duh!

McCoy: "Mommy, I love you. When I get bigger I want to marry you." Melt me! Love that boy of mine.

At 6:20am Mommy and Daddy were in bed ASLEEP (as well as Oaklee) and McCoy comes in and says to me (in a not so whispering voice): "Let's go wake up Oaklee so we can all get up as a family!" I have to say that I was almost tempted with such an adorable request.

Daddy was snuggling with McCoy in bed one night and McCoy says, "Daddy, I love you!...I love you more than Dilly Bars." If you know how much Mac loves Dilly Bars, you would know that is ALOT!!

McCoy: Mom can you please come here. 

Mom: I'm coming (in a few minutes)... 

McCoy: I don't see your feet moving.

Mommy: I don't think I have enough energy to get Oaklee ready for bed. 

Daddy: You can borrow some of McCoy's energy. 

McCoy: NO! You can't borrow my energy, then I can't be wild!

McCoy came out of the bathroom with his hair all wet and wild and said, "I used Grandma's brush to do my hair so I could look awesome!!"

We were waiting our turn to get fingerprints done (for our adoption paperwork) at the courthouse and all these people kept walking by and saying hi and waving to my kids. McCoy says to me, "I just waved to that lady in Spanish." Lol! I saw the lady sitting next to him turn her head and laugh too.

McCoy was begging for cheese crackers for a snack and me telling him for the hundredth time that he can have fruit and his choices were a banana, peaches or pears. He finally thought he was giving in and said, "FINE, I will have applesauce!" I said that he already had applesauce for breakfast and repeated his choices. He says, "Are you telling me that applesauce isn't good for our bodies!!!"

I was singing songs in the car to keep Oaklee happy until we got home. 

McCoy: "Mom, you should just drive!" 

Me: "Are you saying that I shouldn't sing and drive at the same time?"

McCoy: "Yeah, it's not safe!" 

Thanks for your wise words cute boy!!

McCoy told me he had eaten most of his sisters grapes at lunch time. I told him that wasn't very nice and that it doesn't make me happy that he would do that. He says, "Oh I see how it is...(then breaks into the Tangled song) Mother knows best..."

McCoy was mad and I hear him yell, "I don't like babies, I don't like dogs, I don't like people, I don't like cartoons, I don't like ANYTHING!" I really couldn't help but laugh. But I did go give him a snuggle to help him feel better. (side note: He chose all those things because we were at my brothers house who has twin babies and two dogs).