Understanding Yogurt

Liliana: Mom, does this yogurt need to be stirred?
Me: Does it say, "fruit on the bottom"?
Liliana picks up the yogurt and looks at the bottom of the container.
Hahaha! After David and I chuckled, we clarified what we meant. Kids are awesome.

Edison and the airplane

Edison headed out the sliding glass door to the back yard with a small toy plane in his hand. As he went, he told me, "I go fly the plane in the clouds."
"Ok. Have fun!" I called after him.
"Bye bye!" he replied.
I watched him through the window as he reached up as high as he could and stood on his tiptoes, straining to reach the clouds. After a good 30 seconds of effort, Edison returned to the screen door and announced, "I can't reach it."
How adorable is that? He thought he was literally going to be able to fly his toy up into the clouds! This kid is such a sweetheart and he brings so much joy to our family.

Emmett's Reading of Matthew 7:9

Our family recently finished reading the Book of Mormon from beginning to end and moved on to reading the New Testament together. Last night we were reading in Matthew chapter 7. David was helping Emmett read verse 9, which says, "Or what man is there of you, who if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?" To help the kids understand what was being said, David asked, "Emmett, how would you feel if you asked me for some bread and I gave you a stone?" ...Emmett smiled and nods his head. I figured maybe he didn't know what a stone was, so I rephrase the question, "If you were hungry and asked Daddy for some bread and he gave you rocks instead, would that make you happy?" Emmett's smile broadened and he exclaimed, "I love rocks!"
After David and I stopped laughing, we tried asking if the rocks would help him not be hungry anymore. I'm not sure how much he got out of that, because when we moved on to the next verse that says, "Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?" and explained that serpent means snake, Emmett responded with, "The caterpillar ones are my favorite!"
I guess this particular scripture is one we'll have to revisit when Emmett's a little older.

Edison Plays Hide and Seek

As I was cleaning up after this evening's meal, I hear Edison - who had shoved his way behind the ottoman - say, "A, B, C, here I come!" He then dashed out from behind the ottoman, raced around the kitchen island, and laughed at Liliana, who was still seated at the table. He's so much fun!

Edison's first complete prayer

We have tried to help Edison say prayers several times before, but he usually just says, "no" and that is that. Tonight Edison actually repeated the words of our family prayer at bedtime. All was going well until David said, "We thank..."
Edison repeated, "We thank..."
David: "thee..."
Edison: "thee..."
David: "for..."
Edison: "five..."
Laughter ensued -especially from Liliana and Emmett - and it took awhile to get everyone calmed down, but he did manage to complete the prayer. It was a sweet and silly moment.

Liliana's dance recital and Emmett's thoughts about it

On Saturday, Liliana had her first dance recital. She performed a tap number with the girls from her pre-ballet/tap class, combined with another class. The girls had so much fun, and I was able to be with them backstage as a parent volunteer and see how excited they were.
Earlier that day, Emmett asked why he wasn't going to the recital. I explained that we thought he'd get bored, so we arranged for a babysitter to watch both Emmett and Edison during the recital. Emmett told me, "Next year I will do a recital and nobody can come." I guess he was a little jealous, but when we got home, he admitted he had a lot of fun with Tori (the babysitter) and said everyone can come to his recital next year, except Liliana.

Midnight Reader

I think it's safe to say that homeschooling has been pretty successful for us thus far. A few nights ago I went to check on the kids before going to bed myself. Seeing as it was 10:30pm, I fully expected to find all the munchkins sawing logs. Emmett and Edison were out, but Liliana was huddled under the nightlight in her room, reading a book. I asked her why she wasn't sleeping and she told me she liked the story so much that she didn't feel tired because she just wanted to finish. She was about 3/4 of the way through the 2nd book in the Boxcar Children series. We had just begun reading that book together the day before! Way to go, my little kindergartener.