Seeing Eye...Sheep?

Randomly, in the car tonight:

A: "Mom, you know how there are blind people who have seeing eye dogs?"

M: "Yep."

A: "Well, what happens if the seeing eye dog is blind, too?"

M: "I'm not sure, kiddo. What do you think they could do?

A: "Well, maybe they could get a seeing eye cat? No....that wouldn't work. The dog would chase the cat. Maybe a seeing eye horse? No, the dog would probably get freaked out. Maybe a seeing eye sheep? No...the dog would eat it's wool. Maybe a seeing eye cow? No, because a cow makes milk and so it needs to stay on the farm. Maybe a seeing eye car. No, they would bump into things. And besides, that's super dangerous. I know what would work perfectly!! Another person to be the seeing eye dog!!"

Carried Away

Tonight at her Open House for Kindergarten, Aidyn was playing castle with some boys in her class. She was making her "castle guy" jump up and down and be very excited.

Aidyn: "Pretend he got really carried away."

Boy: "What's 'carried away'?"

Aidyn: "Um...I don't quite know how to explain it."

Drawing Mommy

Aidyn drew a picture of her family tonight for her teacher. She said, "Mommy, I can draw you better if you stay still. [then very seriously] I have no space for your nose."

Missed You

Me: "So, did you miss me while you were gone?"

Aidyn: "Well...in my head I missed you. But on the outside I didn't at all!!"

Made in China

[showing me two toys from her toybox] "I think everything in our house that's a toy is made in China. Just LOOK at this!!"

New Things

Me: "Aidyn, you need to go to sleep now. Tomorrow is going to be a fun day with lots of new things to do and see!"

Aidyn [very seriously]: "I have already done 150 new things and my new things bar is full."

Talking to God

While passing her room on my way to bed, I noticed that Aidyn was still awake. I asked her what she was doing and she explained, "I started a few minutes ago talking to God. And I'm asking him a lot of questions. But I don't hear him answering so I don't think he's listening at all." And then we talked a few minutes about how to hear God!

Before School Starts

While discussing her upcoming first day of school: "Before school starts I need a WHOLE DAY of chatting. And back scratches. Except breakfast, lunch, and dinner, of course. Or else I'll be like, 'What about breakfast!? I am soooooooo hungry!'"

Shickabobs

"No, Daddy. I don't want that for dinner. I don't even like those shickabobs!"

Oh No! Whoa!!

As we were returning from vacation in the middle of the night, AJ was the only kid awake when we bumped a deer on the interstate. We just grazed it's hip with the van, but of course it was knocked off balance and went past the van on AJ's side. His only words: "Oh no!! Whoa!!"

Dedicated Mama

Recently Aidyn has been taking very good care of her baby, Tylenol. One night Donnie got up to use the bathroom around 3am and peeked in on Aidyn only to find her sleepily sitting up in bed, holding Tylenol under her shirt. When he asked her if she was ok and what she was doing up she replied, "Tylenol was hungry. I'm feeding her by breast." I have NO idea how he suppressed a laugh, but he just responded, "Ok, baby...but go back to sleep as soon as you're done."

When I Grow Up

Aidyn has it all planned out: "When I grow up I want to be an astronaut and a dentist. So, maybe if the dentist's office could give me Sundays and Mondays off...or I could just dentist on Thursdays...and then I could be an astronaut the other days."

Magical

Completely randomly while spinning and dancing about the living room: "I'm magical! And full of surprises!"

Cabulets and Martyques

While discussing the families of Romeo and Juliet as seen in a kids' version on Netflix: "Well, there are two families, the Cabulets and the Martyques."

Smells Like Air

Upon exiting our home on a humid day: "What's that smell!!? Smells like...air. I don't like air smell."

Bubble Sauce

Aidyn got a bubble machine from the clearance rack at Target today (along with a Slip 'N Slide for $4....gotta love it!) and she asked in earnest for us to add the "bubble sauce" as soon as we got home. Yeah. Why DON'T they call it bubble sauce!?