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Emma Said: THEN I’ll Get That Egg

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Before naps today, I was reading to Emma a book about the alphabet. (Very cleverly titled “Alphabet”.) Each page featured a letter, a poem and a picture reinforcing that letter. As I read the poems, Emma would pick out all of the items on the page that started with the featured letter. We made it to the letter “E” which was covered with intricately decorated Easter eggs, elephants and encyclopedias (and yes, this particular poem sucked.) At any rate, Emma’s running commentary went just like this…
On the letter:
A “Momma! I see an apple!”
B “Momma, LOOK a bumble-bee!”
C ” I see a kitty cat!”
D ” I love that duck Momma!”
E “Momma, when dat goose goes poo-poo I’ne gonna get dat egg!”

Aubrey Said: Who Peed in My Bed?

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At nap time Aubrey usually sleeps in my bed and Emma sleeps in Aubrey’s bed. They can NOT sleep in the same room during daylight hours and somehow the novelty of sleeping in someone else’s bed helps them to stay in the bed.

Zeb was tucking the girls in tonight, sitting on the bed reading to them and doing the whole bedtime routine. He closed the book and told them to get into bed. Aubrey pulled her covers back, hopped in the bed and said, “HEY! Who peed in my bed?”
Zeb: EMMA, did you pee in Sissy’s bed?
Emma: Well, I fink it was just my cousins.

Her cousins…who live 600 miles away…and haven’t been in our house since January.

Aubrey Said: I Wanna Go to Africa

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This morning when Aubrey woke up I was online looking at a friends pictures from a trip to Africa…Timbuktu to be exact. Aubrey climbed in my lap as I looked at them and asked a million and one questions. Here are just a few of them:
Aubrey: Momma, is that Disney World?
Me: No, baby. It’s Africa.
Aubrey: Momma, why is everyone there tan?
Me: That’s the way God made them. Everyone doesn’t look like we do.
Aubrey: Oh. I want to be tan. I want my freckles to go away. How come those kids are naked Momma?
Me: Because all children in the world don’t have clothes like you do.
She was quiet for a few minutes until we got to some pictures of my friend Johanna riding a camel.
Aubrey: Renember the time WE went to Africa when I was a little girl?
Me: Honey, we’ve never been to Africa.
Aubrey: YES we did! Renember we saw the giraffe, and the lion and the REAL alligator!
Me: Baby, that wasn’t Africa. That was the Birmingham Zoo.
Aubrey: Oh.

Aubrey Said: Sing Me a Wuwa-bye

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After a long day of church, cooking out with neighbors and playing on a gigantic inflatable water slide- my big girls were pooped. I was tucking them in the bed and Aubrey, my almost kindergartner looked me in the eye and said in the sweetest little voice, “Momma, will you sing me a wuwa-bye?”
Sigh. My heart melted and I asked her what she wanted me to sing.
Aubrey: The Dumbo Song, and Momma, will you scratch my back.
There was no way I could refuse her, so I sang to her for a few minutes before I slid over to Emma’s bed to give her equal attention. After singing the chorus about three times, Aubrey raised her head from her pillow and said, “Momma…I fink it’s time for you to weave now.”