Wild Children

After I picked up the girls from daycare today, we headed to Chick-fil-a to pick up dinner. I was apparently a little slow to go at the stop light we were sitting at, so someone honked. Jenny asked what that sound was, and I said, "Just someone rude honking at me." I didn't really care, but Jenny turned and yelled, "What's wrong with you? Can't you see she's just a mom trying to take care of two wild children?"

Another funny one from last night. We went to Olive Garden to celebrate the first day at their new daycare (since Jenny was a little sad about it). At one point, Reagan had to go to the bathroom, so I took her (Jenny had of course already been on her own twice at that point). On the way back to her table, she made me feel really good by saying, "Her comes our fat selves." Maybe she was just talking about her.

And finally, one last little treat. Jenny's planner has a section where you are supposed to list all the words you can make out of a particular word. This week's word: sandwich.

Jenny's responses:
wich
and
sand (with the s written backwards)
ich
dwich
an

And that made me think of the real last thing I have to say tonight. This weekend the girls made Lee and I several "presents" that we didn't want. And then they decided they would be our presents, so they put Christmas gift tags across their mouths and came to present themselves. Reagan's tag said To Katie From Reagan, so it was fine.

Jenny's tag: To Jee From Lenny. Because she has so much trouble with writing her J's and L's backwards! It's so annoying! But it was funny - Lee saved it.

Table Topics Are Back!

Jenny just found the box of Table Topics again, so here we go.

Question: How is your family different from other families and does it bother you?
Jenny: Some families have five people, but ours just has four. And ours has twins.
Lee: You and Reagan aren't twins.
Jenny: But we mostly look the same except for the age and my hair is curly.
Reagan: And our feet.

Question: What do you like best and least about your life?
Jenny: The best is my wonderful family. The least thing is that when I get in bed, Reagan kicks me off the bed. That's the thing I hate.
Reagan: I like my daddy and my mommy and my sissy. I don't like the way Uncle Marcus treats me. Cause he calls me names. I hate it.

Question: Which gift would you prefer: a toy you've wanted or a vacation with your family?
Jenny: I've always wanted to go to Hawaii.
Reagan: A toy. A pony.

Question: Which TV show would you pick to live inside for a week?
Jenny: I'd probably pick to be Hannah Montana, and I could sing and dance all night.
Reagan: The Suite Life on Deck.

Question: What one thing would you like to know about the future?
Jenny: I would like to know if I'm going to become a tennis player.
Reagan: That My Little Pony is a movie.

Question: Would you rather have no rules to live by or rules to live by?
Jenny: I'd rather have rules because if someone comes in here, I want to know rules to do. If someone comes in, the rule might be to stay in your room and lock all the doors.
Reagan: I think I would need rules if I had my own house just in case creepy things come in like spiders. You know, crabs.

Question: What is your favorite summertime activity?
Jenny: Going to the beach and visiting my cousin Lucas.
Reagan: Watching My Little Pony.

Question: What's the best birthday party you can imagine?
Jenny: In this house and it was all colored pink with purple polka dots and blue stripes and all the girls in the entire world came and bought me the best birthday presents.
Reagan: I imagine it like being a My Little Pony movie. I mean being a Cinderella birthday party.

Question: If you were leaving your state, which part of the country would you want to move to?
Jenny: I'd stay on this side of the country and probably move to New York and hang out with Marcus and Justin and Nicole and Catherine.
Reagan: I would move to Mississippi with Jo-Jo. I miss Jo-Jo.

Question: What would be on the menu for your ultimate birthday dinner?
Jenny: I'd probably go to Jersey Mike's and get some sandwiches, and then go to Olive Garden and get some mints, and then go to Papa John's and pick up some pizza.
Reagan: Applebee's.

Question: What was your favorite family vacation?
Jenny: Going to the comic convention.
Reagan: Going to Hawaii. (where we haven't gone)

Question: What would you save first if your house caught fire?
Jenny: First I would make sure all the pets were outside. And then all the babies and then all the kids and then all the grownups. I'd make sure I did not lose my Nick Jonas shirt. That's not going to waste in fire. And I'd have to get the library books so we can get some more. And the keys so we can drive and go to the Y. And my comics.
Reagan has departed at this point.

Question: What one goal do you hope accomplish this year?
Jenny: This year I hope to get gooder at playing tennis. I'm hoping to start winning a few games in tennis this year.

Question: How was your grandparents' childhood different from yours?
Jenny: I can't answer that. I don't know.

Question: What would you like to change about your school?
Jenny: I wouldn't want to change anything about my school. School makes you smart, it makes you talented, so I wouldn't change it.

Question: What do you most worry about?
Jenny: I most worry about my family because your family, if they're being hurt, you might want to worry about that.

Question: What would you most like to do for someone else if you had the money and time?
Jenny: I'd ask them if they could do something for me and I'd help them. I'd make them give me ten bucks, and I've them some money.

Question: If you could rename yourself, what new name would you choose?
Jenny: Jennifer.

Question: Would you travel into space if you could?
Jenny: No. You could probably die there. I can't relax with that big thing on my head.

Question: When are old things better than new things?
Jenny: Old things are never better. Well, they are better. Old things, well like, you can actually say old things are like something you've had for a long time and you take care of them.

Question: When you receive two invitations at the same time, how do you decide which one to accept?
Jenny: Most of my invitations, they'll like tell me where it is, and if I'm like hurt, my finger, and it's bowling, then I wouldn't. At that moment, depending on what I feel like doing that day, then that's what I would do.

Question: What's the first thing you'd do if you were president?
Jenny: I'd make it that when you become president, you have to make one of your family members your assistant.

Question: What would be the positives and negatives of having a new baby in your family?
Jenny: You'd never get sleep because it'd be crying all night. Another thing I'd hate about it is you'd always have to be babysitting and you'd never have time to hang out with your friends because it's too cute to go away from. The good is that it will always hang out with you and it has cute little fingers.

Question: What's the best thing and worst thing about your position in the family birth order?
Jenny: Well, the thing I would like is to be the littlest so I wouldn't always have to be the one doing homework.

Question: If you wanted to earn $50.00, how would you like to do it?
Jenny: I would do it by playing tennis.

Question: What would you like to be able to draw really well?
Jenny: I would like to be able to draw my whole family really well. I would like to draw a picture of this whole family and of each one of us looking exactly alike.

Question: Would you choose to be the worst player on a winning team or the best player on a losing team?
Jenny: Well, you know what the best thing is about being the worst player on the winning team? Because one day you might do something good. I am not a loser, I'm a champion. I would be the best player on the losing team.

Question: When was it most difficult to persevere when you wanted to quit?
Jenny: That probably happened, you know, while I was playing soccer. It got tiring, and I wanted to sit out all the time, and I wanted to quit the game and stuff.

Question: In what way are you generous?
Jenny: I'm generous because last Christmas I took a few toys and I made presents for some people.

Question: How did your family decide to settle in your hometown?
Jenny: I can't really do that because I wasn't born.

Question: What new person would you like to have as a friend?
Jenny: I would like another baby, a little baby boy to be my friend.

Question: How did your parents meet and fall in love?
Jenny: Oh, I don't really know that.
Lee: You don't know how your parents met?
Jenny: Oh, I need to go watch this. It's the new Suite Life on Deck.

And she's gone and doesn't care about her parents' love story.

Accents and Other Zaniness (I don't think that's a word, but I use crazy too much)

The girls have had a couple new or substitute teachers at daycare the last couple weeks. When I got there to pick them up today, Jenny said, "There she is - ask my mom!" The Jenny told me that her teacher didn't believe they were born here because they have British accents. I told her that they were in fact born at the hospital in Winston-Salem, and they just sometimes have strange ways that they talk. Jenny talked about her accent all the way home.

Last week, Reagan's teacher told me what a trip she was when I got there to pick them up. Reagan told her the following things:

-Her mom is named Katie, and she's 40.
-Her dad is named Lee, and he's 30.
-Her dad's dad died.

Her teacher noticed that I didn't seem to be 40, and then told me how sorry she was to hear about my husband's dad. I told her we were doing okay since that happened 15 years ago. And then Jenny yelled at Reagan and told her they weren't supposed to talk about things like that.

Reagan is suddenly obsessed with her dead grandfather for some reason, and she calls him Brankley. Yesterday, she sat with me looking at pictures on Charlotte's flickr site, and telling me how much she misses Brankley. I said, "Really? Cause you didn't know him?" And she said, "Well, he is my granddaddy. Of course I miss him." Sweet, but odd.

Halloween Vote

We need a little help picking Halloween costumes for the girls, so we've decided to put it up to a vote. Let us know what you think!

For Jenny:

Choice #1 - Gabriella (from High School Musical)


Choice #2 - Glamour Witch


Choice #3 - High School Musical Cheerleader


Choice #4 - Pink Wonder Woman


Choice #5 - Purple Rhinestone Gown


Choice #6 - Sharpay in Golf Outfit (from High School Musical 2)

And for Reagan:

Choice #1 - Gabriella's twin, Gabriella


Choice #2 - Flower Girl


Choice #3 - Gothic Vampira


Choice #4 - Prima Ballerina


Choice #5 - Sharpay


Choice #6 - Supergirl

There you have it! Comments required!

New Class

Here are a couple pictures from the first night of dance and gymnastics this week - Reagan's starting dance, and Jenny's continuing with Level 1 gymnastics.

Reagan's teacher was very impressed by her brain - she apparently was the one who remembered everything taught in class. We'll see how next week goes.



Jenny also made Lee very proud this week by reading a kid's encyclopedia-type book, so that she could study about the presidents and be ready for Presidents Day.