Corrie stories

You know what I want when I grow up and be a doctor??"
(what?)
"I want to have LOTS of kids!"
(really? how many?)
"A hundred!"
(A hundred?? What will you do with all those kids?)
"Well I will get them lots and lots of chairs, and some kids will sit in a little circle,
and more kids will sit in the next circle behind them, and the next circle and the next..
and they will ALL have a chair!"


[at Applebee's]
"This place is decorated very pretty... It's like a PALACE!"

Corrie story

In the bath tonight:

"Mom said I will keep getting bigger and when I get to be older I will be 18 years old and I will be thiiiss big* and then I can drive the car!"

*(gestures about 3 feet tall, which really is big because almost
everything she gestures for size is about 1/2" between her
thumb and forefinger)

The police

Corrie's first drawing that actually resembles a human?
[who is that?]
"I dunno.. maybe a police??"
[oh, and what's that other thing?]
"It's a hole... with a mole in it!"

Corrie doth quoteth quotes

"Do you want to know what Jesus do'd?"

"It was fun having fun with Oliver!"

"I'm gettin' up a big thirst."

Mary quote: "Da-da-da-da"

This morning...

"Now we won't lose her, mom!!!"

Note the yellow piece of paper taped to Mary's chair.

(Yet another difference I see in Mary... I do remember Corrie playing with the little hangy things in this chair, batting and swinging at them . You'll note that Mary has pulled them all down in these pictures. Funny girl :)

Reading

Corrie has discovered the big books on the bookshelf in our bedroom. Yesterday she carried the dictionary around saying it was a 'big pooh story'. I have found her 'reading' to her animals and dolls.

Today before nap I said I would read her two books. She picked out Pandy and the Little Bird (a favorite) and Hinds Feet on High Places (a paperback from mommy and daddy's bookshelf). She picked out Hinds Feet because of the deer pictured on the cover, and called it 'the deer book'.

I started reading Hinds Feet, about Much-Afraid and how she cared for the Good Shepherd's flock, etc.... It talked about the cottage she lived in and as I paused to turn the page she said, "Cottage?! I love cottage cheese...". We got about one more sentence when she politely closed the book and said, "Ok, we are done."

I think she's starting to feel better.

Adventures in Potty Training

We were talking last night about all the places Corrie has had to use the potty since becoming such a big girl and wearing underwear.

Last night, at an intramural football game at Purdue, (IN THE SNOW!) Corrie announced that she had to go. She had a pull-up on and for a moment Brian and I just looked at each other. We faced our greatest decision as parents (or so it seemed, smile.). What would we do? Just let her go or run to the rows of port-a-potties lining the field...? I wonder what she would have done if we had just said to go in her diaper but alas, we chose the lovely blue plastic huts. I will never forget her exclamation when we got in "OH, IT'S BEAUTIFUL!". Where does she come up with these things? I, the whole time was saying, "Don't TOUCH ANYTHING!"

But she went.

Let's see, where else have we gone? She likes public restrooms and I have come to appreciate how there seems to be a restroom wherever you go. I guess I never valued them like I do now. At home she can't decide sometimes between the upstairs or downstairs... Another of my favorites was our car trip to see the wind turbines out in farm country. Brian was taking pictures. She had a pull-up on but said those 6 little words, "Mommy, I have to go potty." I was a mom un-prepared, no spare potty in the trunk... all I could find was a funnel and a can of tennis balls. So she went on a funnel into a can. We had a good laugh... but we all had dry pants.

case closed!

We closed. Now the fun really begins :)
We moved our first batch of stuff in tonight, and schemed how we want the living room, etc. This week we're hunting for the right sofa and dining table. Friday our family comes into town, and Saturday we move with the big 17' truck (again).

Quote of the night:

"Oh no! Our food is all gone!" ~ Corrie, looking in the new (empty) fridge.