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Emma Said: What You Eatin’ Momma?

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I was cooking dinner tonight for my in-laws and next door neighbors (homemade spaghetti sauce, brushetta, and salad, followed by bananas foster made by the husband…I know you people, I know how you think and I know you wouldn’t be able to concentrate reading the rest of this if you didn’t KNOW what we had for dinner. SO, now that we got that out of the way…)

Anyway, I was cooking and snacking on a piece of garlic bread out of the oven and Emma was standing in a chair “helping” me. When she noticed I was eating something she said, “What you eatin‘ Momma? You eatin‘ you boogers, huh?”

Aubrey Said: Isn’t that what YOU said?

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Uncle Zack is pretending to sleep while Aubrey and Emma climb all over him, terrorizing him. Zeb called Aubrey over and in a typical older brother move, whispered in Aubrey’s ear, “Go LICK his face.”

Aubrey ran over to a psuedo-sleeping Zack, reared back and slapped him as hard as she could with an open hand.

SMACK!

Zeb: Aubrey!
Aubrey: (completely stunned herself) Is that not what you said?

Aubrey Said: I Wanna Be in the Paper

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When this week’s Robin’s Chicks article ran, I saved the paper for my husband to read when he got home. I had it folded open on my desk and Aubrey noticed my picture in the paper.
“HEEEEEEEY,” she whined, “I wanna be in the newspaper!!!!”
Me: Oh, you are.
Aubrey: No, I’m not!
Me: Yes you are, baby. More than you know.
Aubrey: WELL, I want a BIG picture of me in the paper.

Indeed.

Aubrey Said

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My in-laws are here for the Fourth and the girls are having a great time visiting with their grandparents, aunt and uncle. Last night at dinner Aubrey walked up to her Uncle Zack at the dinner table and said, “UH…can you be excused? I wanna wrestle you.”

Aubrey’s Antics

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While I was scrubbing the entire house clean and preparing for a Fourth of July feast with our family, I put Aubrey, Emma and their BFF Tristan out in the garage with their easel, paint and paint brushes. They were in and out of the house as I cooked, and I continually checked on them to make sure they were behaving.

Emma started painting her hand a la preschool and making hand prints on her paper, which led to all manner of body parts being painted. I was fine with this, they would come inside and rinse off whenever they became too sticky.

Once the kids grew tired of painting, we filled up the baby pools for them to play in the front yard. I went to take a quick bathroom break and was greeted by THIS masterpiece:


Any guesses as to which body parts Aubrey painted? I knew it was her handy work because it was the same color she had created while painting outside. Thank God for washable paints. Aubrey was completely unimpressed that SHE was expected to clean this up BY HERSELF…but she did.