Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Carmen is Sneaky

Kaylee has an American Girl Doll named Carmen that she loves oh so very much. The doll sleeps with her, changes clothes almost as often as my daughter, and usually goes every where that we go. Now that she spends every other weekend away from her doll, I've started getting special instructions.

"Mommy, make sure Carmen goes to bed on time! If you don't watch her she'll stay up all night watching TV!"

"Mom, make sure Carmen feed her horse. Sometime she forgets and then her horse breaks out of the stable looking for food."

"Don't forget to put Carmen in her pajamas before bed, otherwise she'll sleep in her clothes and get them all wrinkly!"

My favorite, though, happened this morning. Apparently we forgot Carmen in the car yesterday so when we got in so I could take her to school this morning she saw Carmen sitting in the seat next to hers and she said "Mommy, that sneaky Carmen got into the car before us so she could ride to school with me!" Her explanation is so much better than mine.


Monday, January 13, 2014

Games are Nice Things!

Last night as I'm getting Kaylee ready for bed she asks me why she can't have the new video game she's started asking for. I explained that it was just Christmas and mommy spent a lot of money on gifts and that the game was expensive. Then I told her that her birthday was coming up and maybe she would get the game then. And then this happened:

Kaylee: "Well then why do you work?"

Me: "What?"

Kaylee: "You tell me you work so we can have nice things. Games are nice things. Why are you working if we can't have that game?"

Oh boy are we learning to twist my words...