Corrie quotes

Carrie: "Corrie, when you grow up and have babies I hope they ask you LOTS of questions..."
Corrie: "Why??"

getting home from church...

Corrie: "Mom, you know how we always have carrots and potatoes and stuff for lunch?"

(yeah..?)

"Do you think maybe we could have something DIFFERENT for lunch today?"

Corrie asked if she could pray for mom last night when she was sick.   

"OK, Dear God...."

"Wait -  I'm gonna pray to Jesus, cause he's faster!"

Trash Truck

Kids love boxes and so do I.  It's not often that we get a big juicy box to do whatever we please with so the one our new TV came in quickly became a trash truck.

  Mary backing it up.

Room for two?  Why, of course!

Trash goes in the back.

All set to go!

clotheslining it

Did you know that having a clothesline for some reason makes laundry fun?  I'd been wanting one for a while and finally just hung up a line between the only two trees that were close enough in our yard.  I love all the different loads hanging up... lights, darks, pinks... (there are three girls in this household!  now i can wash a whole load of reds, roses and pinks :).    My favorite is hand-made dresses fluttering in the breeze. 

And the reason I know it's fun?  Because Corrie asks to put up the laundry too.  I wound the extra rope around the limbs of the tree and she got busy.

Yes, those are her undies blowing in the breeze.

   

corrie stories

[at lunch]
Corrie: "look at what I drawed, dad" (practicing the letter A,a and coloring an astronaut)
Me: "oh nice.. what's an 'ast-ro-naut'??"
Corrie: "you know like when they float around in space and someone holds onto them like Curious George"
Me: "Oh, really?"
Corrie, to mom: "haha it's so silly that dad doesn't even know what an astronaut is!"


[another day]
mom (from another room):  "Corrie?  What are you two doing?"
C:  "Nothing mom!  We're being haved!"

happy 90th to great grandma Elsie (Peterson)

Mary and some homemade pudding

You know it's good when it ends up above your eyebrows:

Back to School

Well, it is August and in honor of all the back to school hoopla this month we give you Corrie... spelling.

"Mom! I spelled 'snot'!" (She was so excited.)

acting it out...

This is the sign for NO.

This is 'heaven' :)

Heaven is up, I guess.

Meanwhile, Mary gets all arts and crafty.  Drawing on yourself is always much more fun than drawing on the paper.  We detect a little left-handedness already in her :)