Paige's painting

So Paige is painting right now. A few minutes ago she said that she
wanted to, "Mail my painting to God." I tried to explain that he
doesn't have a mailbox, but he is always watching so she could just hold
it up for him. She seemed to accept that explanation. I just asked her
how she was doing as she continued to paint. She replied, "Pretty
Jackson Pollack-ey." Nice.

I love being a kid

While waiting for lunch to be ready today Paige declared "I love being a kid."  When asked why she quickly replied that the reason she loved being a kid is so she "can play and have someone else clean it up."  Yes, she does have her mommy's genes. :)

--daddy

yesterday

Yesterday Paige and I went to the library. When we got out of the car
there were ants on the curb. Paige quickly exclaimed, "Holy cow, look
at that flock of ants."

On another note, Chloe made a power point presentation on the computer
complete with sound effects, things whizzing by on the screen and
everything. She told me that she will teach me how to to power point
later---nice.

Paige's bare feet

A few weeks ago, I steam cleaned the carpets while the girls were at
school. When I brought them home, the carpet was still a bit wet so I
told them to take off their shoes and make sure to only go on the carpet
with their bare feet. After Paige finished her snack, she wanted to go
to her room so she came over to me walking on her hands and feet (like a
bear walk) and said, "I need to go on the carpet, is this how you do
bear feet?"

Chloe's school change

Chloe was upset tonight because she found out that she will have to
attend a different school (Riggs Elementary) next year for her gifted
program. On one of her many rants she said, ""Riggs Elementary. What
kind of name is Riggs? It sounds like Latin for horrible evil
elementary. Oh great, I go to horrible evil elementary!"

dinner table stuff

The other day when sitting around the table Greg announced that he was
telecommuting that day. Excited at the thought that her Daddy could
pick her up, Paige asked if he would be available to pick her up from
school and take her to get a treat. We chuckled at this and she
defended herself claiming that he has done this very thing before. I
made a comment that he is our "Churro Daddy" (refer to Mommy gets the
shaft on the blogs if you don't already know this one). Paige agreed,
"Yeah, you like to get us sugar.....you are our sugar daddy!"

Two nights ago Chloe was in a mood at the dinner table. Greg asked her
to go draw a picture of a cow on the white board to try to break her out
of her bad attitude. She drew a really cute cow then put a speech
bubble on the cow saying, "I'm mad!" If only she could appreciate her
own joke about "Mad Cow."

Jesus and Paige

Tonight as I was coming into Paige's room to tuck her in, she was saying
a little prayer. She looked at me and said, "I am just talking to
Jesus." I explained to her that it was very nice she was talking to
Jesus and that he could hear what she was saying. She said, "Jesus is
such a cute little baby" and I explained that he grew up into a man.
She asked, "Where does Jesus live?" I explained that he lived in heaven
at which point she began to bawl saying that she didn't want "Jesus to
die!" and that she "Wants him to live!" I tried to comfort her telling
her that he is in heaven watching over us. I asked her what she would
want to say to him if he was living and she replied, "That I love him."
She has interesting timing seeing how Easter is two days away and we
have never told her the whole Easter story.