the breakfast table

So, we're enjoying breakfast this morning with Auntie Cindy. Jackie is recounting a story about the time that she got seperated from us at the opera house. Ian add libs abit and suggests that maybe Jackie met up with a scary lion while she was there, to which she replys "Lions don't go to the opera!". I shot back that was because lions don't sing well. "Mom, you are so ANNOYING!" sigh...

rabid dogs at the pet store and more

This week, my wonderful and brave friend Cindy is in town with her son great Mitchell are visiting us. Den and I had a business conference to attend, so for three days Cindy braved it alone here with 6 children. Cindy loves the pool, and makes full use of it when she can here, so the other day she and Jackie and Ian were poolside. From what I hear, Jackie decided that she was a dog in the pet store and that Ian was suppose to be the customer. So she locked herself behind the pool fence and was barking at Ian. Ian, however, didn't seem to be in a buying mood and Jackie started screaming at him "YOU' SUPPOSE TO BUY ME! BUY ME IAN!" which naturually made Ian and Cindy laugh so hard that they couldn't do much else. I mean, who wants to buy a mad talking dog? Well, eventually I guess Ian bought her, and when he opened the gate to get her, she bolted out of the pool area and down the street to the neighbors house, with her siblings in hot pursuit. My poor elderly neighbor Joan was abit taken aback when a barking Jackie started scratching and howling at her front door. Well, after collecting their elusive pet, the kids brought Jackie back to Cindy. Cindy scooped Jackie up in her arms and Jackie promptly bit her. Bless her heart, sure hope she's had her shots.

somebody's messing

so..Jackie is at the lunch table with 6 other kids today. She starts loudly chewing everyone out, yelling so loud I can't quite figure out what the problem is.

Jackie: "Somebody keeps messing with my eyes!"
Mom: "You're eyes?" (I'm thinking that they are twitching or something). "Are they moving really fast?"
Jackie: "No - somebody keeps TAKING THEM!"
Mom: "Somebody's taking your eyes?"
Jackie: now howling "NO - THEY KEEP TAKING MY ICE"
Oh....
the tragedy of melting ice.

just a day in the life of a Mom laughing....

Jackie: "Mom, can I have a bite of your apple?"
Mom: "Sure, pumpkin."
Jackie, handing back what's left of the mangled apple core "It's all yours baby".

Jackie, after helping Mom in the garden
"Mom, you've gotta come over here and see this, I'm a GENIUS!"

Mom: "Jacks, you've gotta pick up the mess you left over here"
Jackie (to the tune of Selena Gomez "Tell me tell me tell me something I don't know something I don't know something I don't know...."

Jackie at the dinner table, in reference to something that happened during the day
"I have MAD skills - you don't want to mess with me!"