Friday, December 19, 2008

Quick thinker!

So, this morning I decided to quickly do something on my computer when Eva runs into the office to tell me that Stella has spilled my coffee. Whoops...I left out a coffee cup about 3/4 full. I knew it wasn't hot, so I wasn't too concerned about anyone being hurt. So I ran out of the office and into the great room to see Stella swinging the cup back and forth. To my surprise, there wasn't much coffee on the floor, but I grabbed a towel out of the laundry basket and started to clean it up.

I am on my hands and knees trying to clean up the small puddle of coffee and mumbling to myself about how this wasn't my brightest moment and Eva says something like 'boy mommy, that was stup.' So, of course, I asked her to repeat what she said. She told me that she had said 'stup.' I started to lecture her about how we don't say that word in our house and how it's not nice when she replied, "mommy, I was going to say stupendous!"

What do you say to that?!

Thursday, December 04, 2008

A quote...

Scenario: I am getting ready to clean up Stella's books and I ask Eva to help me...

Eva: Why? I didn't make this mess.
Me: You know how sometimes you make a mess and I clean it up for you even though I didn't make the mess?
Eva: Yes
Me: Well, it's kind of like that. We need to help each other out.
Eva: "Stella, why are you doing this to my life!?"