Documenting life...: My baby Tae...

Oh my sweet sweet Taelyn Paige. This girl....just thinking about her makes me smile. It's amazing how she's only been with us 3 short years, and yet I can't imagine her ever not being in our family.
*The girl has turned so expressive, when she talks she moves her hands all over and her little eyebrows move up and down with her words. Far too cute.

*She's picky about her clothes. Very opinionated.

*She could live off of chocolate. Hmmm, I wonder where she got that from.

*She ALWAYS HAS to sit in the middle seat at the snack bar. This is not a joke. consider this your warning if you ever come over and want to sit in the middle.

*She loves me to lay by her at bedtime and have her back scratched and sneak into our bed at night.

*She went into primary this month. She misses her sidekick Paige. "I miss her" she proclaims every Saturday night. But she loves it. Reports say that she likes to stand up in the middle of sharing time and give hugs to the leaders. That's my girl.

*She loves loves loves to dance....I see a must needed dance class in her future.

*She is a social butterfly. Always wanting to go and play with her friends, or my friends for that matter. Or shop.

*She loves to play family and tell people how to think and exactly what to do. She is a true woman.

*She gets away with FAR too much....it's her Dad's fault.

*She has a little lisp when she says her "s's" I find it completely heart melting and adorable.
Taelyns lyrics to the song Book of Mormon Stories:

"...give this land if they were right to sleeep"

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.

7 comments:

C'est La Vie said...: I cant believe how big she is compared to when i saw her last!!; January 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Brian and Kim said...: She's absolutely adorable!! She's one of my besties:D; January 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM
tiffunny said...: i love her lyrics!! Such a cute kid. I've always thought she was just adorable in all the pics you post of her.; January 25, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Annette Larsen said...: Oh, Tae Tae, so easy to love. I love it when little details become imperative to a child's existence, like the middle seat at the snack bar. Sophie has rules like that.; January 25, 2010 at 11:02 PM
andrea said...: your little ones are the cutest things ever. :) i love how you posted little things about each of them. and, for the record, this is not a brag fest by any means, and even if it were considered that, your children are soooo worth it!; January 27, 2010 at 12:24 PM
MoM K said...: I wish she was in MY sunbeam class! I just love her so much. I love hearing her say, "Hi gramma karen, this is taelyn paige..."; January 27, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Emily said...: I love her too! We had to sing "Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam" while blow drying her hair the other day. She jumped every time we sang "beam." I love, love, love the picture within a picture (and that face is so her)!; January 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM