A Few Things I Want to Remember...

I have always had the intentions of writing down things that my kids say or do that are especially interesting or humorous, yet I don't have a good place to do it and by the time I remember to write them down, I've already forgotten them! Hopefully I will start blogging more of these since it already makes me sad that I have forgotten so many, but here are a few recent moments that I don't want to forget!

A few weeks before Camden was born, we were talking about what we should name him. I asked Savannah what she thought and she replied, "Well, I think we should wait until he comes out so we can see if he is a white baby or a brown baby, so that if he is a brown baby, we can name him a brown baby's name." I think it took me a minute to reply, but finally I asked, "...and what is a brown baby's name?" She replied, "Benjamin." So apparently she thought that it is just a 50/50 chance as to whether or not you have a white or a black baby, and the only black person she knows is a little boy that was in her kindergarten class named Benjamin. So funny how their little minds work!

Before Camden was born, we got the girls bunk beds for their new room and for the first few weeks it worked out well because Savannah wanted to sleep on the top and Paris didn't. Then they both decided that they both like the bottom bunk better and so I was letting them take turns every other night to make it fair. So it was Paris' turn one night to sleep on the top and of course she was arguing with me about how she didn't want to sleep on the top and I just told her to go to bed, end of discussion. A minute later she starts yelling for me at the top of her lungs so I went running in their room and she points at the warning label on the top bunk and says, "Mommy, look. I can't sleep on the top bunk because the sign says that children under 6 should not be allowed to sleep on the top bunk. And I'm only 4 and 4 is less than 6." This was probably one of the first times that Paris has actually made a valid point during an argument, and I didn't really know what to say because I didn't want to tell her that you don't have to follow instructions, so I just told her that some kids aren't very smart, but since she was smart enough to read the sign, she was old enough to sleep on the top! She then said, "But, Mommy, it says WARNING!" I was laughing at that point and told her that she would be fine and she still had to sleep there but it was still pretty funny. So to the people who write warning labels and think no one reads them, they are wrong!

A couple of weeks ago, we were out as a family somewhere and Bubba was taking Paris to find a bathroom. She had been having a really hard time listening that day and so while they were walking, Bubba said, "Paris, I really wish you would listen better." She didn't even hesitate and very conversationally replied, "Well I wish you would be a little bit nicer to me." I think we're in for it with this one!