Just Statues

 Now that I'm awful at blogging regularly, it feels like I'm missing lots of things the kids have been doing and saying.  I know a few I've wanted to post about are these:
 
Some of Neely's first sentences.  Lately she has been putting words together more.  She's done it for quite a while, technically, but it was always words she'd heard us use together.  So I don't think she was thinking of them as separate words, and then decided to put them together.  Like "Howyoudoin?"  She'd always say it like it was one long word, although she knew how to use it properly.  But lately she takes words I've heard her use on their own, and then she puts them together herself.  Like last week, when Jess was gone she stood on the couch, looking out the window and said "Daddy?  Come home?" 

I also heard her say "I drumming." while hitting her hands against a bucket.

And then a couple of my favorites.  Last night they were racing across the living room to hug me.  She'd count to three and they'd run.  But then they started to cheat a little, she'd say "1, 2," and then run while yelling "3!"  Pretty soon she'd count to one and start running.  Ha.  I laughed and told them they were cheating.  So soon she said "1,2,3, CHEATING!"  Ha. 

She also wore Caso's wings from his Buzz Lightyear costume last night and thought she was a member of the Superhero Squad.  She said "I SOOPEE QUAT!"

Speaking of "Soopee Quat", she brought me Caso's Captain America costume this morning for me to put it on her. 

Any time she's trying to tell me what she wants, if I take a guess at what it is she gives me an emphatic nod and a happy "mmmmmmmmmHMMMM!"

One recent quote I liked from Paige, too.  She wanted to skip her t-ball game last week so we could go pick Jess up at the airport sooner, but I wouldn't let her.  She said "Okay, let's get it over with.  The sooner you do something you don't want to do, the later you don't have to do it."  Haha. 

And this morning I told Paige I had to throw away one of her toys.  I started with "Paige, I have some bad news."  Cason was listening, and said "So what's the good news?"  I had to disappoint him by telling him I didn't really have any.  Ha.  He goes "Oh yeah, the good news is I wuv Meewee."  Don't we all?

 Almost every day when Jess gets off work the kids make me play their favorite joke on him.  I tell him "Oh, sorry, I lost Paige and Cason today."  Then they either hide...

...or just hold perfectly still and I am supposed to tell Jess that they're just statues I bought to keep the place of our kids until we find them again.  Haha.  Such weirdos.  Usually Jess acts upset for a minute about them being gone, and then moves on to saying something like "Oh well...if they're gone I guess we should just throw away all these toys..." or something similar.  About that time Cason busts out of his hiding place with a "SURPRISE!"