Ketchup Baby

Lizzy, as she grabbed the bottle of ketchup at supper: "Come here baby!"

Lizzy Sings

As I watched this video, I considered not posting it.

But then I realized, it is a Lizzy-ism.
Lizzy sings all the time, usually she makes up the words, as you'll see she does in this video.

As for Morgan, no... she does not always dance topless on the kitchen counter.

Stay tuned... I have a feeling I may need to start a Morgan-ism blog...

Meantime, enjoy the show:

Best Mom

Lizzy: "Can I watch some tv?"
Me: "Sure."
Lizzy: "Awesome! I just knew you were the best mom in the world!"

Thinking About Mom

Lizzy, as she walked into the house holding a cold beer: "I have a beer for mommy!"
Lexi: "Mom doesn't need a beer!"
Lizzy: "She might."
Me: 'Why did you bring me a beer?"
Lizzy: "My was just thinking about you."

Everyday Should Be a Holiday

Lizzy: "I hate speech."
Me: "Well, you get a break next week. There's no speech."
Lizzy: "Really? Why?"
Me: "Yup. No speech next week. It's a holiday."
Lizzy: "What holiday is it?"
Me: "It's Labor Day."
Lizzy: "Well, I think we should have Labor Day everyday. For my HATE speech."

Trust Me....

Me: "Lizzy, where is the cookie you were eating?"
Lizzy: "My ate it."
Me: "Really? You ate the whole cookie?"
Lizzy: "Mom, trust me. I am not a liar."

Language Check

I thought we were pretty good about not swearing around the kids. Apparently, not swearing isn't good enough. Lizzy has picked up on the substitute swear words and actually uses them correctly, with the proper inflection and attitude too. I'm a little scared:

Lizzy, while trying to fix her hair: "Ugh. I can't get this freaking ponytail in!"

Art Project

Lizzy: "I need some glue please."
Me: "Um, why?"
Lizzy: "I'm making a project. I drew a picture of you and now I want to glue this cracker on your mouth so it looks like you're eating!"

I gave in and gave her a glue stick. Here is the masterpiece:

Looks just like me, huh?

Pillow Pants

Lizzy, walking around the house with her feet in a pillowcase (pillow still in the pillowcase too), singing to the tune of the Pillow Pet commercial: "It's a pillow, its a pair of pants... it's pillow pants"

Dreams Come True

Lizzy: "Mom, when you were a kid like me did you dream about being a mom?"
Me: "Nope. I don't think I did."
Lizzy: "What!?!?Well then what did you dream about?"
Me: "I'm not sure. Maybe basketball."
Lizzy: "Well, you should dream about being a mom. Cuz your dream came true. You are surrounded by daughters."

Someone I Know

Lizzy to Jake at the lunch table: "Jakey, you remind me of someone I know."

Wired

Me: "Lizzy, you can't fall asleep. Here, drink some of this pop."
Lizzy: "I don't think I should have pop. It makes me wired and so crazy."

Gray Hair

Jericah (11 year old at daycare): "Hey Jody, you don't have gray hair."
Me: "Um, thank you?"
Jericah: "Lizzy and I were playing school today. She was drawing a picture of you, and asked for a gray crayon. She told me it was to color her mom's hair. But I think she's wrong. I don't see any gray."

The Farm

This is the road to the farm. My parents' house is just behind the trees. Apparenly that's something Lizzy is very aware of....and apparently, these are the only trees in western South Dakota.

As we left Bismarck to head to my parents' farm (a three hour drive) Lizzy gave Jake and me instructions: "My am just going to shut my eyes for a little while. When you see a whole bunch of trees, then that's Grandpa's farm. So wake me up then, k?"

Hideous

Lizzy, out of nowhere while eating supper last night: "Jakey, you are hideous."

Lizzy-isms, Minnesota Style

Last week, Lizzy and Jorja spent a day in Minnesota with Chrissy and Shane. They spend the day swimming, kayaking, and more. Lizzy livened up their lives. Here are the top three Lizzy-isms from that day:

3.   Jorja was picking her nose and eating the boogers.
      Chrissy: "Eww, Jorja! Gross! Don't eat those!
      Lizzy: "Yeah, my haven't eaten boogers since my turned four."

2.  Shane: "Well, I better get out the knife to cut this marshmallow out of Chrissy's hair."
      Lizzy: "Shane you can use a scissors. 'Tissy', we will have to cut your hair and you won't look
      as beautiful, but we'll still know who you are."

1.  Shane and Lizzy were picking cucumbers from the garden. Lizzy told Shane all about how
     we grow "weed" in our garden:
          "You know weed, to make bread out of."

A Tear

Lizzy, while watching the movie, "My Girl": "Mom, my got a tear from this movie."

Poor Bob

After a weekend of camping, and a few too many hot dogs, Bob wasn't feeling so great today. As we packed up the campsite, poor Bob was puking. Lizzy was very upset and ran to the van in tears.

Lizzy: "I'm just so worried about Bob."
Me: "Why? He just has a tummy ache. Dogs get tummy aches just like people do. He will be fine."
Lizzy: "But I just care about him so much."
Lexi: "What about me? Do you care about me?"
Lizzy: "I only care about Bob, for he is my dog! You are just my sister."

FYI - Bob has been grounded to the kennel for the night. Lizzy was not happy about that, but when she realized he wouldn't puke in a bucket or in the toilet like she does when she's sick, she agreed to leave him outside.

Salsa

This is our lone tomato from the garden. I'm hoping for many more, but Lizzy was excited to see this one tomato in the garden yesterday:

"Yay! A tomato! And it's already red! Now we can make salsa!"

BLT

Lizzy: "Jake, you're my BLT."
Jake: "I'm your what?"
Lizzy: "My BLT."
Jake: "Um, Lizzy.. I think you mean BFF."

Rhyming

Lizzy has caught onto to rhyming, and is having way too much fun embarassing her sister with her new "skill".  Here's the rhymes she recited at the top of her lungs at Target tonight (Jake and I helped her with the words, she just repeated them really, really loud):

"My name is Morgan, and I'm from Oregon.
"My name is Jacob and I wear make-up.
"My name is Lizzy, and I'm so busy.
"My name is Lexi, and I'm so SEXY!"

Spelling Bee

Lexi: "Should we take the l-o-n-g way home?"
Me: "Yeah, I think so. Lizzy and Morgan are way overtired."
Lizzy: "Hey, what are you two spelling? My want to join the conversation. S-O-K. See my can spell too. That way Morgan don't know what we talking about."