seen and heard

we have quickly realized that we need to write these things down as soon as they happen or else they will be forgotten.

heard - while makenzie and ethan are running around in the kitchen with filled water balloons,
"hey dad can you juggle these, can you juggle these?"
"if you want to play with those, you need to go outside."
"do you want to juggle some food that is not going to break."
she then brings over some lemons.

seen and heard - the kids getting out all of the lemons from the fridge and teaching themselves how to juggle. it quickly turned into dodge ball. while sitting in the office i hear makenzie become the casualty of an errant citrus projectile. then ethan comes running down the hall toward me with a look of guilt. i tell him to go and apoligize to his sister and he turns around and taps her on the shoulder and tells her,
"you ok."

heard - if no one is around tessa, not that we leave her in solitary confinement, but if she sees that no one is around at the moment of her choosing then she will let out a squeal. a bone stirring squeal to let all within a two and a half mile radius know that she is upset about something.

heard - last week we were at the thunstroms pool and there was a birds nest just above the (which is a cave/grotto) and so the kids couldn't go swimming in there. So today we were over there swimming again and kalia came over to kenzie and said,
"kenzie, kenzie the birds are gone they are not in the hot tub any more we can go swimming in there."
"o, are the birds on vacation?!"

heard - makenzie, "mommy, when i cough i think that i have a cold."

heard - i told her that while in san fran we were going to go to a park that i use to play in when i was a kid (in front of my grandma's house). makenzie wondering how i got there,
"o what car did you ride in."
thinking back to those 11 hour road trips down to SF, "a herbie van (vw bus)."
"mommy, what car did you ride in." short pause, makenzie answers, "a pink limo."
"yep makenzie, a pink limo." "that's a fun car."

heard - "mom, i am going to be princess leia, and an ice skater."

heard - after i got done singing a made up song
"dad your silly." "why am i silly?" "because you are speaking english."

heard - while in a grocery store in melo park,
"we need to get some milk for your cereal." makenzie, "i don't like milk." "milk is good for you. it give you strong bones, and has lots of vitamins in it." makenzie, "chocolate milk make you healthy. regular milk makes you sad."

heard - when we were leaving at 3am on our trip to san francisco makenzie woke up for about 30 minutes and was full of things to say. we got out the camcorder and recorded some things that she was saying. toward the end cherisse asked,
"is there anything else that you would like to say kenzie?" "um.., no that's all. a motorhome, you should get a motorhome. dad that would be fun, huh."