Serious Weeding

Aidyn came out of the house two days ago and took one look at our flower bed in the front, shook her little blonde head and proclaimed in her most serious voice, "Daddy needs to do some serious weeding."

Each of Our Eyes Are Stuck to Us

I love to listen to Aidyn sing! Sometimes she gets songs stuck in her head which I find hilarious...she's only 3!! The other day she had "Hey Diddle Diddle" stuck in her head and we got to hear her sing it about 25 times on the way to dinner at Chili's.

One of the cd's she really likes is called...well, I don't know what it's called because Aidyn just refers to it as "the shine shine songs." She likes to listen to shine shine songs at bedtime and sometimes they get stuck in her head the next day. Last weekend she was singing one of the songs from that cd which goes:

"God loves us so much
That He gave His only Son
To come and save us
Each and every one
And if we believe in Him
We'll have live that never ends
This is how God shows His love."

One of the 20 times she sang it through she stopped after "each and every one" and asked me, "Mom. What does 'each' mean?" Now, for just a second, try to explain the word "each" in language a three-year-old will understand. It's hard!

So I answered, "Well, um...it means like every one...um...or like individual ones...um..."

And then she rescued me: "Like, 'Each of our eyes are stuck to us.'?"

All I could do was laugh and say, "Yep. Each of our eyes are stuck to us."

We Need to Show That to Daddy!

Last week at dinner Aidyn was talking about a movie she likes, Veggie Tales' "Rack, Shack, and Benny" which is loosely based around the story of the faithful Hebrew friends who were thrown into the fiery furnace in Daniel 1-3. She was pointing out one particular part of the movie and said, "Remember that part, Daddy?"

"I haven't seen that one," he said.

Aidyn looked from him to me incredulously and said, "We need to show that to Daddy!"

I Don't Think It Worked

Aidyn loves her Daddy. A lot. She has always adored him and is only now starting to come around to the idea that she has two parents to love. No, seriously! On Tuesday she demonstrated that she is still Daddy's Girl. He was at work and we were home together just hanging out when I informed Daddy's Girl that it was time for a nap. She began crying for her Daddy (I think just to stall on the nap a few minutes longer) and I calmly informed her that Daddy would be home in a little while, after her nap. She eventually settled down and took a good long nap.

When she woke up she came down the stairs with Hailie Bunny in tow and looked around the downstairs. Then, very dejectedly, she came and stood before me saying, "I don't think it worked."

"Don't think what worked?" I replied.

"My nap didn't work. Daddy's not here."

My Butt Burped

Plagued by an episode of gas, Aidyn complained, "Excuse me. My butt burped."