Emergency!

Lizzy: "Mom, come quick! It's an emergency!"
Me, panicking a little: "What happened?"
Lizzy: "Morgan took her stupidest Barbie ever and pushed a button on the tv. Now we can't see the show we were watching!"

Lamest to the Coolest

Lizzy, while riding in the crt at Wal-Mart: "Well, I have the best seat in the house. And I also have the best mom in the world. I used to think you were the lamest mom, but now I decided you are the coolest mom."

Minnesota Dreaming

Lizzy, as Morgan stole a blanket from her: "I wish I wasn't even here!"
Me: "Where do you wish you were?"
Lizzy: "Minnesota!"
Me: "Why would you want to be in Minnesota?"
Lizzy: "Chrissy! And NO Morgan!"

Mummies vs. Mommies

Lizzy: "Mom, what are you scared of?"
Me: "Um, I'm not sure. What are you scared of?"
Lizzy: "Spiders... monsters... and mommies."
Me: "You're scared of mommies? Really? I'm scary?"
Lizzy: "No.. my mean my scared of mummies. You know, they're all wrapped up in towels. They're scary. My am not scared of you though. For you are my mommy."

Cha-Ching

Lizzy, while listening to Lexi practice her speech: "Cha-ching!"

A Normal Family

Today was a nightmare.
Lizzy threw a fit, screamed, and woke Morgan from her nap much too early.
Both Lizzy and Morgan were super naughty at Lexi's volleyball game.
I really just wanted to go home and hide.
But Lexi needed some things for school, so against my better judgement, I took all four kids to Wal-Mart.
As we were walking across the parking lot, I bribed them.
I told them if they were good while we were shopping, we'd get a pizza on the way home.
Lizzy's response?

"Ok guys. Let's do this. Let's just act like a normal family."

Unfortunately, they couldn't do it.
There was no pizza.
Lizzy and Morgan were riding in the cart, singing at the top of their lungs, using their shoes as microphones.
That's just the beginning.
I will spare you the details.
But I'm sure we're on the People of Wal-Mart site.

"Sleep Out"

The kids have the day off from school today.
When Lizzy heard that, she immediately decided she wanted to stay home with Lexi and Jake, rather than go to daycare with Morgan. She begged and put on the puppy-dog face last night:

Lizzy: "Please my stay home with you Lexi?"
Lexi: "Why?"
Lizzy: "My just want to sleep out."
Lexi: "Sleep out? You mean you want to sleep in?"
Lizzy: "Yes. My want to sleep out. I don't want to get up so early."

"Awkward"

Morgan has a weird habit of putting her hand in the shirt of whoever is holding her. It's a comfort thing, and she does it only when she's tired. It's weird, I know. She does it to Mary too, and sometimes to Lexi. But this time, she crossed the line.

Driving home from daycare, Morgan was exhausted. She leaned over and put her hand inside Lizzy's shirt.

Lizzy: "Um, Morgan... this is weird. It's ok when you do it to Mom and Mary, but when you do it to me and Lexi, well that's just awkward!"

Dam Jam

Lizzy: "Please pass the dam."
Jake, giggling: "You mean the jam?"
Lizzy: "Yeah. The dam. Give me the dam."
Jake: "Lizzy, you mean jam... say jam."
Lizzy: "Dam."
Jake: "Lizzy, say Jake." 
Lizzy: "Jake."
Jake: "Say Jody."
Lizzy: "Jody."
Jake: "Now say jam."
Lizzy: "Dam."
Jake: "Um, why don't you just call it jelly?"

Dog Hair

Lizzy:"Can I have a sandwich?"
Me: "Didn't you just eat lunch at daycare?"
Lizzy: "Well, we did, but there was nothing my liked."
Me: "Really? What was for lunch?"
Lizzy: "Well, first it was those fuzzy things... they are kinda orange."
Me: "Are you talking about a peach?"
Lizzy: "Yes. My do NOT like them with the fuzz on them. For with the fuzz, it tastes like dog hair on my tongue."

Growing Up

Me: "Lizzy, it's time for bed."
Lizzy, crying: "But I'm not even tired."
Me, over Lizzy's sobbing: "Really? You sound over-tired. Why are you crying?"
Lizzy, still crying like a baby: "It's just Lexi. She's growing up so fast. Soon she won't even see me everyday."

Taxi Service

Lizzy, Morgan and I spent the afternoon driving around. Here's how it went:

12:30 - I picked Lizzy and Morgan up from daycare
12:45 - mailed some letters, dropped cucumbers off at a friend's house
1:30 - Morgan and I dropped Lizzy off at speech, came home, changed her diaper and my clothes
2:00 - picked Lizzy up at speech
2:15 - bought groceries
2:45 - went to the chiropractor
3:00 - picked Jake up from school
3:15 - picked Lexi up from school
4:15 - took Lexi to volleyball practice
5:20- dropped Jake off at Kaleb's house
5:30 - picked Lexi up from volleyball practice
6:45 - dropped Lexi off at church
8:00 - picked Jake and Kaleb up from football practice
8:45 - picked Lexi up from church

While we were at the grocery store the girls rode in a grocery cart that looks like a car. They were pretending it was a taxi. Later, when we were dropping off and picking up the big kids, the taxi came up again:

Lizzy: "Mom, don't you wish you really had a taxi?"
Me: "Sure."
Lizzy: "For then you woudln't have to spend all day driving around. You could just say 'Taxi! Take my kids to school!"

So Lame

Lizzy, in the middle of telling me a story: "That is so lame. Why did I even say that?"

"So Worth It"

Lizzy: "Sometimes when Jorja is crabby I let her play with my hair."
Me: "That's nice of you.'
Lizzy: "Well it's worth it for it makes her happy and I do love her."

"So excited!"

Our conversation on the drive to daycare this morning:

Lizzy: "Is today Monday?"
Me: "Yep."
Lizzy: "Yay!"
Me: "We have lots to do today.. daycare, speech, volleyball, football..."
Lizzy, kicking the back of my seat: "Yay! I'm so excited!"
Me: "Why are you excited? And please stop kicking my seat."
Lizzy: "I can't help it..my am excited for speech and that's why my do when my am excited. I kick your seat."
Me: "You're excited for speech?"
Lizzy: "Yep. My dreamed my love speech and so today my love speech and my sorry, but my have to keep kicking your seat."

Chip Run

As we were leaving a potluck this evening, Lizzy realized she forgot her Gatorade in the house. She ran back inside to get it, and came back with her Gatorade and a huge bag of chips.

Me: "Why do you have those chips?"
Lizzy: "Her told me to take them."
Me: "Who told you to take them? Are you sure that's what she meant?"
Lizzy: "Yes... her the lady that lives here.... her told me to take them and I didn't want to make her mad, so my took them."

Name Game

Lizzy was trying to ask Lexi a question at lunch today, but had a tough time thinking of the right name:

"Donna, Mary, Jakey... ah, whoever you are.. big sister.. what do you think?"

Dressing for the Weather

Lizzy hates socks. And pants. 
I've learned to choose my battles.
Knowing it was chilly out this morning, and knowing we'd be outside for several hours between football and the Buddy Walk, I opted to make her wear pants and pack the socks.
Everyone at the football game commented on the fact that Lizzy didn't have socks on. I told them we're working toward cold weather clothes, one item at a time.
Halfway through the game, Lizzy told me her feet were cold.
Thankfully, I had brought a pair of socks along.
As I helped her put them on, she was surprised at how comfortable they were:

"Wow! These feel great. My might want to wear these everyday!"

"Hi-Ya"

Jake was looking up everyone's horoscopes.

Jake: "Lizzy, here's what your birthday says about your personality: You are adventurous and energetic, courageous, confident, quick-witted, selfish and impulsive."
Lizzy: "Oh yeah, well my also know to-rot-tee."
Jake: "You mean you know karate?"
Lizzy: "Yeah, my mean to-rot-tee."
Jake: "It's karate."
Lizzy: "Yeah. My know 'hi-ya'. To-rot-tee."

Nasty

Lizzy watched as I helped Jake clean the wax from his ears. When she saw the Q-tip full of ear wax she exclaimed:

"Oh baby! That's nasty!"

Lizzy-time

Yesterday, it was just Lizzy and me for a few hours. She was sleepy, and I thought we could spend some time watching cartoons and napping, just the two of us.

I was wrong.

Me: "Lizzy, it's just us! Let's have a little Mom-Lizzy-time!"
Lizzy: "Um, no thanks. Can I just have some Lizzy-time? Alone?"

Two Lizzys

In the checkout line at Target tonight, Lizzy made an amazing discovery: she is not the only Lizzy in the world!

Me: "Lizzy! Put that back!"
Checkout lady: "Hey, that's my name too."
Me: "Lizzy! Look at this lady, her name is Lizzy too. Look at her nametag."
Lizzy Kerzman: "Hey, L-i-z-z-y. Just like me. Is your name really Elizabeth?"
Target Lizzy: "Yep."
Lizzy Kerzman: "Mine too. But only when my in trouble. Then my mom says ELIZABETH!"
Target Lizzy, laughing: "My mom does that too."
Lizzy Kerzman: "Ok, bye Lizzy."
Target Lizzy: "Bye Lizzy."
Lizzy Kerzman: "See Mom, my told you there was more than one Lizzy in this town!"

For the Record

This is Lizzy's speech paper from today.

Lizzy and her teacher were having a conversation when Lizzy suddenly said "Just for the record". Her teacher got such a kick out of that, she wrote it down so she'd remember to tell me.

"For the record", that's one of Lizzy's favorite sayings. She also likes to say "and by the way" :-)

"So excited!"

Me: "Lizzy, if you're super good at speech today, your friends Karli and Aubrey are going to come over to play tonight."
Lizzy: "Oh, my wish you wouldn't have told me that."
Me: "Why? I thought you loved Karli and Aubrey."
Lizzy: "My do. But now my am so excited there's no way I can be good!"

Signature

Lizzy drew a picture for Lexi today. This is her signature at the bottom of the picture:

This was the conversation I heard between them as Lizzy presented Lexi with her drawing:

Lexi: "Oh, it's beautiful."
Lizzy: "Thank you."

Lexi: "I see it says Lizzy.. what does the rest of it say?"
Lizzy: "Well, I tried to write your name, but it didn't turn out so well."