Our Family

Quotable Moments

Keely volunteered to help me clean something, so I was explaining to her how to do it. When I was done Nicholas said "And that has been...another boring cleaning lesson with Mom!"
Zachary killed a wasp that had been in our house for 2 days. Corrinna said "Yay! Now we can live in this house forever!"
Corrinna convinced Nathan to throw her around in the pool a little longer after he said he was done. He asked her "Why do you get everything you want?" and without skipping a beat she replies, "Because I'm beautiful!"
When we were packing items to bring for the kids to do in the car on the way to the beach, Zachary saw that Keely had packed a workbook. He said "You're bringing LEARNING to the beach? You don't bring LEARNING to the beach!!!!!!" She didn't see anything wrong with it, and neither do I :)
I was sick and asked Corrinna if she was going to help take care of me the next day when Daddy went to work. She said "You're not a baby!" I said, no, but that when she was sick I took care of her by making sure she was cozy and had everything she needed. She said "No, get the boys!"
We were getting ready to go swimming, so I told Corrinna it was time to get on her swim diaper. She said "Can I take off my wearing diaper?"
The kids were singing the ABC song with Corrinna. When it got to the end and she heard them all singing "Now I know my ABC's.." She made a face and said, "NO! Not YOUR ABC's, MY ABC's!" Oh...apparently the alphabet belongs to Corrinna :) You can tell she is *the baby* of the family as we have all gone along with this, and they are HER ABC's :)
Keely wanted to play with Alicia and a friend she had over but was trying to get me to ask them if she could for her. I said she needed to ask herself, and she replied "MOM! You know my issues! I'm too shy!"
Keely suddenly said to me the other day, "Your favorite color should be blue. I mean, have you SEEN blue? It's beautiful!"
Corrinna came into the bathroom during my bath and noticed I had a candle lit. She said "You have a candle! It's *happy to you* tomorrow?" (that's how she says Happy Birthday)
One day Keely was having her friend Maddie come home from school with us, and Corrinna was really excited about it. When it was time to pick them up from school, I told her "Yay, it's time to get Keely and Maddie and the boys!" and she said "No, we don't have to get the boys!"
One night I was taking a relaxing bath after I thought I had all of the kids to bed...Corrinna surprised me and came into the bathroom. She said "Are you taking a big girl bath?"
Corrinna had been sick and I asked her if she was feeling better. She said "Yes, I VERY better" :)
Corrinna and I were laying down and she hugged me and said "MY Christina Mommy" Awww!!!
Keely tossed her spoon from dinner into the sink and said "I licked it clean, you're WELCOME!"
Zachary said, "The only thing more annoying than Keely before she went to school is Keely after she started school, because now she's just spelling stuff all the time!" Will these kids ever get along???
A boy in Keely's class asked her to KISS him the other day!! She responded "I'm not allowed to have boyfriends!" Smart girl ;)
I asked Keely if she was sad at school on the first day, and she said "When I'm sad., I just color!"
Nicholas dropped his banana on the kitchen floor and was going to throw it away. Zachary said "Nicholas, you ate a cheese-it you found in the car from when we went to SEA WORLD! I think you can eat that banana!"
OK this one was one of my cute friends, Erica. I told her that Keely was going to Princess Camp, and she said "of COURSE she is" ;) I guess that sounded like something right up my alley....
When I picked up Keely and her friend Mia from *Princess Camp* today, Keely said "You need to buy a carriage, we're PRINCESSES!" Hmm that's not going to her heard or anything, is it?? ;)
Corrinna was asking for lemonade, and it sounded like *made* when she said it. Nicholas asked her if she liked *made* and she yelled back "NO! I like NADE!"
Keely said "I'm H-O-T and NOT the love kind!"
5-26-08- Tomorrow is Keely's birthday. She said "I am going to hibernate all day today so I won't be too tired on my birthday!"
The kids and I were all rooting for David Archuleta on American Idol, though we loved both David's and were happy with either one winning. Nicholas could tell I was a little bummed, though, that David Cook won. The next morning he said "I bet David Cook won becuase he is older and more mature" LOL, he was trying to cheer me up :) What a thoughtful little guy!!
Corrinna was in her crib for her nap, but apparently not asleep yet...the boys were in the gameroom signing a song that goes to the tune of the ABC's and we hear Corrinna sing out "L-M-N-O-P!"
Keely was saying "4 more days until my birthday!" and Corrinna shouts, "NO! Happy Birthday MINE!" (she refers to herself as *me* or *mine*)

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Dinner Dragons

Somehow our dinner conversation one night this week evolved into a lesson on how to make dragons out of play-doh by Corrinna. Everyone grabbed a can and followed her instructions. I am not sure how we got from discussing how our days were, to busting out the play-doh!

Best.dinner.ever.

Me taking a picture of Alicia taking a picture :)

We did not have pancakes for dinner. Nicholas was demonstrating that his dragon was flattened like a pancake.

Festival of the Bands

Zachary's band participated in the Festival of the Bands on Monday night. It was put on by LISD and featured all of the middle school honors bands and the high school bands in the district...plus a special visit by the University of Texas Longhorn band! It was a neat event but I was stressed the whole time, knowing that it would be a late night and Corrinna was going to have a hard time getting up for school the next day. Which absolutely happened! But I am still glad we were able to listen to all of the talented bands in the area, very cool!

Corrinna was a little overwhelmed with the level of noise...even though it was good noise! :)

I could barely see Zachary when it was his band's turn...ummm see that little bitty head with a blue shirt near the center of the pic (3rd blue shirt from left)...yep, that's him!

Then the UT band played 5 or 6 songs or so...it was so awesome! What a great show!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Theatre Clinic

Alicia's theatre class hosted a clinic for 5th-8th graders this weekend. Nicholas enjoys middle school theatre and plans on continuing in high school, so he was really excited about this. The high school kids taught them about costume design, improv, and other elements of performing including helping them each prepare a monologue to be performed for family during the last hour of the clinic. It was a long day but the show was great and everyone had a great time! I am so glad Nicholas was able to participate (and Alicia was so proud to show her little brother the ropes!) They titled the clinic "Our World is Your Stage". As a high school theatre parent, I can say that it is definitely their whole world when they are in advanced theatre!! There are not many days where there is not a rehearsal, meeting, or performance of some sort, it keeps Alicia VERY busy!!

They took professional headshots of the clinic participants and gave us really nice 8x10s of them too

The clinic participants and teachers....Alicia is in the front row on the right, Nicholas is peeking out from the back row on the left-middle

I wanted some big sister/little brother pictures....and Alicia was all about that but Nicholas was not :)

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ready for Some Football!

I am so not a football fan. Like, not even a little bit. The only reason I am ever in the vicinity of a football game on tv even is because Nathan says if I sit on the floor in front of him he will rub my shoulders while he watches the game. So, aside from the fact that sometimes a tense moment of the game makes its way into the pressure he puts onto my shoulders...it's a good arrangement! So, no I am not a football fan at all....

UNTIL.....my sweet little guy put on a jersey! Cheering for Zachary is FUN! And he looks so stinking cute in his uniform! He had his first game last night, just a scrimmage, but it was fun to watch. Even though I really had no idea what was going on and struggled to keep my eye on my #85...I kept losing him! I had NO clue who had the ball or where it was most of the time either. I have a lot to learn :) Believe me, Nathan has *tried* to explain the game to me....which usually results in more frustration on my part, so I ask him not to. I never cared to understand before now. I was even a cheerleader in middle school....captain at that.

It was so funny to me right when they were about to start playing, and we finally spotted Zachary on the field, my dad said "Oh, he's a wide receiver." What? You know that just by looking at where he is standing?? I was informed later in the game he was playing corner. At least I *did* know that wide receiver and corner were the positions Zachary wanted to play...so I knew enough to be happy that was what he got.

Maybe I will learn something about the game during the season. Or maybe I will just have fun taking lots of pictures, eating nachos, and watching Zachary and his friends play. I took 74 pictures during the first game. I find that most of them looked the same. haha. So here are just a few.

That's Nicholas in the white shirt watching his brother play...he has play practice until 6 on game days, and games start at 5...so he just walked over to the field when practice was over and caught the end of the game.

Spectators :)

Awww ♥ Corrinna and my dad

Back to School Dance Clinic

Keely and Corrinna danced in a clinic hosted by the high school dance team, the Blue Belles, this weekend. They are divided up in groups by grade level, and get to spend the day with the Blue Belles learning a dance, playing games, having lunch, and performing at the end. Even though I was *really* sick with whatever was/is going around at work, I came to see their show during the last hour of the clinic. They were super cute as always!! But not so cooperative with pictures! Here is what I got anyway! :)

Keely with one of her besties, Macey

I am pretty sure they were already trying to walk away before I snapped this one...

The girls with Joy, one of Alicia's good friends and one of our favorite Blue Belles :)

Keely and Macey carrying Princess Corrinna

They had SO much fun! They can't wait until the next clinic in December!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Alice!

Keely and Corrinna just auditioned for their school's production of "Alice in Wonderland", and they both made it! Congratulations girls! I can't wait to see what parts they get and to watch the show. They will perform at the end of January :)

Someday....

Someday, Corrinna says she will have 100 kids. Yesterday she said it would be 50 boys and 50 girls. The boys will be named Toby and the girls Sasha. All of them. Today she said maybe she will have all girls.

Someday this little girl wants to be a pet doctor, then she added she could be "all kinds of doctors", and then said "I can be anything that I love!" ♥

Someday she wants to live in a big hotel so she will have enough rooms for all of her kids, and so she can go swimming with them.

While it is fun to think about who she will be someday...right now I want her to stay just.like.this. ♥

Friday, September 14, 2012

Not Amused

I took this picture through my car window after school one day, because the girls were cracking me up. On the days I don't work, I park in the same place I have parked every day after school for 13 years now, and the girls just walk out to the car. It's the best spot where they don't have to cross any streets or anything. This day, Keely came out to the car all upset because she could not find Corrinna anywhere. They meet in front of the library and walk out together, but Corrinna was not there. Keely went back in to look one more time and several minutes later, I see them coming out like this....Keely nearly dragging Corrinna out by her wrist and lecturing her the entire way. Poor, sweet Corrinna had gotten confused and went to the classroom I work in, thinking I was at work that day. Keely was not amused and I just tried not to laugh at her exasperation with her little sister! :)