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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Latest Scoop...

There hasn't been a lot of excitement around here, and for this I'm thankful. Here is a little glimpse of what has been going on. We'll call this the Parsons' Happenin's :)

Sean and I went to dinner last night and it was so good. I'm not sure if I thought it was extra special because the food was so good - I got the fresh, corn crusted halibut salad with gorgonzola crumbles and a lime vinegarette dressing - YUM, or if it was because this was Sean and I's second time of going out by ourselves since Ava was born - no interruptions, no cutting up someone else's food... All in all, it was great and I'd gladly do it again tonight :)

Stella was complaining of a stomach ache, but when she saw her red sparkly shoes for Aunt Tricia's wedding had arrived, her stomach pains magically disappeared?? It's amazing what a pair of new shoes can do for a girl.

Jonah got measured for his Tux for the wedding. They tried the shirt and jacket on him and I can pretty much sum up what he looked like in one word - adorable. Jonah said to me, "mom I'm going to be the prince." Ladies, I think I have a heart breaker on my hands. I'm pretty sure his dance card is going to be full at the wedding! Now if we can just get the CA weather to cooperate with us...

The '5 am antibiotic wake up call' hasn't been too bad. I'm greeted each morning with a beautiful sunrise out my window and a smile on a cute little face that is eagerly awaiting her bottle and yummy medicine. One more week left of medicine and Lord willing the infection will be completely gone. Ava had an appointment last week with the Orthopedic doctor and it went well. He was pleased with what he saw, so pleased in fact he wants us to come back next week ;) It's a long day for a 10 minute doctor visit (shoot, it took longer to schedule the next appointment then it did to wait and to see the doctor!!), but for the health of my baby girl it is well worth it. I'll fly to the moon and back for her.

Ava is now eating applesauce. I'm not sure if it's her favorite?? What do you think? I'll leave you with these...

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Anonymous said...: Cute pics... I can't wait to see pics of the little man in his tux... heart breaker for sure!!! Sounds like you have been busy... CA has been way too hot... hope it settles for the wedding!!!; June 24, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh man, her faces crack me up! She is so animated! :) I'm glad you and Sean got to go out for a date! If I lived there, I would be watching those kiddos for ya all the time, they are so cute!! Have so much fun in California! Please eat lots of In N Out, get a tan, and drink Coffee Kiosk if you can...I'm not sure if you'll be in Santa Clarita...but if you are, hit up some Baja too! :) Oh and I'll ship the money out for the sign this week, and please don't feel rushed to get it done by a certain time! I'm still trying to find some candle stick holders to prop it up! I'm pretty much totally copying your sis...hope that's okay!; June 24, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Anonymous said...: I love those applesauce faces! It sounds like life is returning to normal after Ava's scary few weeks...God is so faithful, isn't He? We all can't wait to see you guys in a few weeks and meet Ava for the first time. Kaylee is especially excited to see Stella and show off her newly-loose tooth. You'd think there's a club for kids with wobbly or missing teeth, and Kaylee just got her free pass--she's very excited!; June 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh my goodness...those pictures are hilarious!! Made me laugh out loud. My vote is a no on the applesauce for Ava's liking.

:) Kate; June 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi sara, So glad ava is doing better. so I am trying to plan a visit to valencia around the 10th or so depending on if I can get work off. I know you will be busy with wedding stuff but maybe we can fit some time in to see each other and kim too. I will let you know more as I figure it at. love ya; June 26, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Sara,
Thanks for saying HI. I'm glad I found your blog and I will bookmark it. Your family is beautiful! What cute kids you have. Do you stay home with them? What does Sean do? I saw you had a get together with some bball pals. Very fun! I miss my days at TMC and being in shape and playing. I guess that was another life. :) Email me sometime if you get a chance: lowpost@yahoo.com
~Kim; June 30, 2008 at 3:39 PM

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The latest quote...

After seeing a preview for the TLC show, 19 and Counting (the Dugger family), Stella says...

"19 kids?!?! Mom, like how much more milk does that lady have in her body??"

While driving in the car...

Ava - (making shooting sounds) "I just shot that car."

Stella - "Ava is going to be a tom-boy. I can just feel it."

Me - "Ava are you funny?"

Ava - "no"

me - "are you silly?"

Ava - "no, I'm da hoke" (Incredible Hulk)

Jonah - "Mom, do hippos have meat?"

Me - "Yeah, why?"

Jonah - "Cause...I just really want to eat a hippo. I have a bb gun."

After stopping at McDonalds, Jonah says to Stella...

"Stella, what are chicken nuggets?"

Stella: "just some chicken and...(long pause) some nuggets."

Jonah: "Oh."

Jonah - "Mom, don't cut my toenails, they help me climb." "They're my claws."

I was walking backwards looking at Stella. She thought she'd try to trick me by saying "Watch out for that bush mom!" but then she said, "Oh that's right, you have eyes on the back of your head. I always forget that."

Jonah - "Stella is your skin made out of snake skin?"
Stella - "Oh, I don't know Jonah. We're studying butterflies at school....Mom, do you know?"

Stella unloaded the dish washer for me and said...
"Mom these knives are HUGE!" "You could definitely cut up an antelope with these." (me in my mind thinking - antelope??? wha??????) she then looks at my face and says, "what mom, you totally could, they're really sharp." Well alright then, I'm going to go find me some antelope.

Stella and Jonah's quoteables

While driving in the car...
Ava: "bye bye"
Jonah: "I think she's saying bike"
Me: "I'm pretty sure she's saying bye bye"
Jonah: "No, I think she is saying bike"
and then Stella chimes in...
Stella: "Jonah, Mom speaks baby language so she knows."

Stella:"Mom, if a spark from a campfire flies up and lands on you, you're supposed to DROP ROCK and ROLL."
Me: "You mean, stop drop and roll?"
Stella: "Yes."
(she's been learning about fire safety at school ;)

Jonah, laying down on the couch after running and jumping around, says...
"Mom my heart is beeping." (long pause) "So there must be a lot of God's huh mom?"
Me: (oh great, I've failed as a mother...) "No Jonah, there is only one true God."
Jonah: "But how can He be in all our hearts? There are a lot of hearts to be in."

Stella: "Mom, so Aunt Kristy speaks spanish to Israel, huh?"
Me: "Yep, until he learns to speak English."
Stella: "And when he learns English, then he won't be brown anymore, right? He'll have white skin, right mom?"

Sean was giving Stella a swim test without her life jacket. He told her to swim to the dock, touch it, and then swim back to him. Stella was on her way to the dock and Jonah was swimming behind her (with a life jacket) and I heard him say, "Don't. Touch. The butt." If you've watched Finding Nemo, you know where he got it from. :)

Jonah: "Mom, will you close my window. I don't want to hear that croc-o-dile-do." (we have a neighbor with a rooster...I'm thinking he meant cock-o-doodle-do ;) 6/12/09

Jonah: "Mom, my feet are dying me!"
Stella: "Jonah, you mean your feet are killing you."
Jonah: "Yeah, they are killing me."
Me: "Why?"
Jonah: "I don't know." said with a shrug of his shoulders and then off he goes...
There you have it people, the life of a 4 year old. :)

~Jonah, while laying down on the floor on his back, said...
"Oh man, I think I need to do some flip-ups." (sit-ups)

~After watching a Chuck-E-Cheeses commercial, Stella says to me...
"Mom, I really want to go there on my birthday. The moms sit and relax and the kids get to go play. Doesn't that sound good to you?"

~Stella: "Mom, sometimes I call myself Della so Ava will understand my language." 4/11/09

~Stella was leaving a message on her Aunt Tricia's phone and when she was done talking she said "Amen."
She was so embarrassed and she told me later...
"mom, if Aunt Tricia calls back I am NOT talking to her!"
Funny thing is I've done the exact same thing not too long ago. I laughed so hard. Good times. 4/8/09

I was tucking Jonah in to bed and he asked if we could go to the movie store and I told him we could tomorrow. The next morning at breakfast he asks...
"Mom is today tomorrow?"
and in the background I hear Stella laughing. :)

In the car driving home from picking up Stella...
Jonah: (looking at his Dora the Explorer sticker he got from the bank) "Stella, I love Dora."
Stella: "Jonah, you don't love her, you like her."
Jonah: "No, I love her."
Stella: "Anyway, she's not even real."
Jonah: "Well I'm just going to break that thing we watch with her on it so I can go inside and be with her."
Me: "You mean you're going to break the TV?"
Jonah: "Yeah, the TV."

Jonah: "God wants us to share huh dad?" "Because if we don't share then we're like Sato." (said/pronounced like say-toe)
Stella: (laughing) "Not Sato Jonah, Satan."
Jonah: "Yeah, Sato."

~Jonah was coming downstairs when he was supposed to be in his bed going to sleep...
Me: "Jonah, what are you doing?"
Jonah: "Well, I just need to go to the bathroom and I want to go in the downstairs one because it's so much better."
Me:"OK, go ahead then."
Jonah:"Well...I just really like the bathroom downstairs it's so nice and stuff..."
Me:"Go ahead Jonah."
Jonah:"...well I just really like the bathroom down here, it's so beautiful..."
Me:"Jonah go to the bathroom."
Jonah: "Yes mom."
~Jonah was feeling the peach fuzz on his face and then says...
"Mom, my beard is growing. It's growing right here (feeling above the lip) and right here!" (feeling on his chin).

~Jonah: "Just one more letter until I get to sit in the middle seat huh mom?"
Me: "what are you going to be in one more letter?"
Jonah: "Bigger."
Me: "How big?"
Jonah: "5!"
OH, he means number, got it. :)

The phone rings, I answer it and then just hang up without talking...
Stella: "Who was that mom?"
Me: "Just a telemarketer"
Stella: "What?! They're calling again?? Don't they know we have enough stuff in our house??!" "They just keep calling...it's like they're bossing us."

~In the car, driving behind some trucks that pulled in to where Sean works, Jonah says...
"There's some dads going to work, huh mom?"
Me: "Yep. Are you going to work when you're a dad?"
Jonah: "Yes...(pause)...and play football and watch TV."

~Stella to Jonah, who was walking down the hill away from her in the deep snow...
"Jonah you're shrinking! Come this way!!"

~Stella: "Mom, I get a lot of exercise at school during recess time."
me: "Oh yeah, what do you do, play on the play ground?"
Stella "no, I chase boys."

~A commercial was on, some restaurant advertising a steak dinner, and after watching it Jonah says....
"Oh yum, chicken! I love chicken."

~ In the car driving home Jonah says...
"It smells like deer."

~Stella went outside to the garage this morning to feed our kitten. When she came back in she says....
"Mom, I feel like a farm girl. I just go outside and feed the animals."

A conversation with Stella...
"Mom I don't want to be old when I get married. Aren't I beautiful enough now to get married now?"
WHAT?!?! (said in my head) "Stella you do have to wait to get married, you're way too little."
"But mom, on Little People Big World, they're little and they're married."
(ps -she has never seen that show, just seen commercials for it)

~Sean just finished reading the bible story and was on to the questions. The last question was, "what will happen to those who do not love God today?" Both Stella and Jonah's hands go up and Sean calls on Stella and she says...
"they go to... (long pause and the look of uncertainty on her face)...Harold??"
and then she belly laughs because she knows that's not right but can't remember the word hell.

~After going through Burger King's drive thru, Stella says...
"mom you have to get one of those fast food things...how do they make the food so fast?"

~In the morning before school Stella says...
"Mom, I think I'll just stay 5"
me: "How come?"
"Because I just want to stay home with you."
Yep, she's a girl after my own heart.

~Stella: "Mom you know what I'm going to tell the teacher when I get to school?"
Me: "what?"
Stella:"I'm going to tell her I need help because I don't know how to do school."

~ In the car Stella says to me...
"Mom, Ava had some boogers in her nose and I got them out. I was really gentle, she didn't even cry.....(long pause)....man, I feel like a mom."

~ I told the kids that it's good to chew gum on the plane so their ears don't pop. So during take-off, when it got loud and for a little person it can be kind of intense, Stella looks over at Jonah and yells.....
"CHEW JONAH CHEW!" "CHEW I SAY, CHEEEWWW!"

~I was feeding Ava and Jonah was sitting next to us eating his lunch, when we got to talking about Jonah and the whale. With a very troubled look on his face Jonah says...
"But the big fish doesn't love this Jonah (pointing to himself) right mom??"

~At Grandma and Grandpa's watching the Olympics - track and field, womens 200 meter race...
Stella: "Mom I'm the fastest."
Sean: "You're not faster than me... you want to race?! Bring it!"
Stella: "Yeah dad, let's go downstairs and get it on!"
Oh man, that was funny :)

~After getting in a hot car Stella tells Sean...
"Dad hurry and put the freeze on, it's hot in here."

~me: "Jonah, aunt Tricia will be here this week!"
Jonah: "Then she'll get to play with me!" ...pause..."but she'll have to take off that big dress, it was too big." (meaning the wedding dress :)

~Eating lunch at Burger Master...
Jonah: "Hey Gram, I love this pop, it's so poppily"
Stella: "Hey Grandma, you have to try this booger, it is soooo good."

~Ava's crying, I'm busy making dinner...
Me: "Stella would you go talk to Ava?"
Stella: "Sure mom, I'm a brilliant talker."

~While working out on the elliptical machine (it's kind of squeaky), Stella says to me...
"Mom, that is music to my ears!"

~On the drive home from church...
Jonah: "Mom I'm bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery tired." (he was very tired)

~Jonah: "Mom, I'm not feelin' real well. I got a hug-ache."
Me: "Do you mean a headache??"
Jonah: "Yeah, a hud-ache."

~While I was combing Stella's hair in the bathroom...
"Mom is Dad part elephant? Because he sure goes a lot of pee."

~Stella while outside...
"Mom I want to get my hair cut...long hair is such a bother."

~Jonah in the bathroom...
"Mom I'm all done!...Oh never mind mom, Treaty will wipe my bottom!"

~Jonah to me....
"Mom can I have a too-tat?"
"A tattoo???"
"yeah, a tattoo" (big grin)

~On our family walk Stella says...
"Mom you know what my favorite bird is?"
me:"Nope, what is it?"
"Quails, because the little babies follow their mama in a line.... that is just so cute, don't you think?"
me:"I think you're cute Stella"

~Jonah in the kitchen eating his lunch...
"Stella come on, I'm done with my diarrhea"
Me: "Jonah come here. What did you say?"
"I'm done with my diarrhea"
Me:"Lets not say that Jonah, it isn't nice talk"
He looked at me completely confused and then says...
"Mom come here I'll show you" He leads me to the kitchen and shows me his plate with remnants of his quesadilla.
Me: "Jonah did you mean you're done with your quesadilla?"
"Yeeeessss mom!"

~Evidence that Stella had been hanging around her older cousins...
"...yeah mom, totally." (long pause) "Mom what does totally mean?"

~Stella talking about my shoes for Tricia's wedding...
"Oh mom they are lovely!" "They are SO sancy" (fancy :)

~Last night after being told to get his pj's on Jonah says...
"I'm coming down stairs mom and I'm bare naked!"

~On the drive home from the library Stella says...
"Mom you know what kind of ice cream I love?" "I love Sherman, you know the rainbow kind...yummm"

~"Mom can Jonah and I go to town by ourselves and look for dad?"

~Sean just got some new work boots and this morning before he left Stella told him...
"Dad your boots look really good with your jeans."

~Jonah never eats his sandwich together, he pulls it apart and usually eats the jam side. Well I folded the the other piece in half so it looked like another sandwich and he says to me...
"Mom you're amazing!"

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