Documenting life...: Rag-a-muffin

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Rag-a-muffin

This is how I found my daughter yesterday...climbing out of the dryer. She was, of course, with her brother (yes T). Luckily they didn't shut the dryer! T got a good talkin to. All the same, it was oddly cute.

She's got skillz climbing out with a sucker in her mouth.

11 comments:

Sarah Welsh said...: So cute, she looks so little compared to your dryer!; March 20, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Lindsay said...: LOL! Love her hair in that last picture!; March 20, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Anonymous said...: I love it! I seem to remember one or more of my siblings hiding in the dryer for hide and seek. You'll have to ask Linds about that one.; March 20, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Christine said...: Heeheehee! Her hair is getting long!; March 20, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Jackie said...: She is so cute! Tanner is teaching her well. Do you follow your kids around all day with your camera?:-); March 20, 2008 at 7:32 PM
Emily said...: I love the first picture with her legs so straight. She looks so big! When did that happen?!? You gotta love her!

By the way...I have pictures of ALL my kids in the dryer. Paige actually crawled in yesterday while I was unloading the laundry.; March 20, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Jen-ben said...: no...I just say..hold on, stay right there. And they do. They know. :); March 20, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Bryndie said...: That is a crack-up,sounds like you have your hands full with her and T. I have a feeling our little Burklie is going to give us a run for our money. When I have you do her 1 year old pictures it should be quite entertaining. Hope you are doing good, haven't talked to you for awhile.; March 20, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Kendria said...: Love these pictures! That is too cute- even if it can be dangerous!; March 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Meredith said...: (I can't believe I haven't commented on this one already!)

WAY cute! I love the hair she's got goin' on!; March 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Aislinn said...: your dryer is even cute! Your kids will love looking back on all this!; April 1, 2008 at 11:23 AM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.