Princess Party

I wanted to update my blog with some things that Cleo and Sidney have said this past week.

Cleo to Sidney : If you don’t want milk, don’t say you want milk.

Sidney catching Cleo saying dinner blessing incorrectly: Oh, oh, Cleo, no! God is gracious not God is bless you!

Sidney is a champ at listening in on Cleo’s and my conversations. He usually chimes in with something loosely related. One example is his overhearing Cleo’s and my discussing her assisting me with making banana pudding. Sidney tells us that we need to call it “Diesel pudding” instead. He is fascinated by diesel trains and likes Diesel, one of Thomas the Train’s pals. Cleo asks if we will make the vanilla cookies that will go into the recipe. Sidney then asks, “Cookies for Santa?”

Sidney told me to put on my slippers. I get up to put on my slippers but I put my jacket on first and slowly put my slippers on. Where Sidney is sitting, he cannot see that I am putting my slippers on. He says, “not your jacket, your slippers!”

Roger and I take turns putting the kids to bed each night. On the nights that I put Sidney to bed, he asks whether he’s putting me to bed instead of asking whether I am putting him to bed. He knows he’s saying it the wrong way because Cleo corrects him each time he says it that way.

Last night, Sidney finished his dinner before Cleo did. Cleo had 4 french fries left (Friday nights we let them have chicken nuggets and french fries for dinner). While Sidney is munching on his chocolate Santa on a lollipop stick he says, "So close Cleo, so close" in his best imitation of me, Roger and Cleo. The 3 of us are always encouraging him to eat a little more at dinner. He eats dinner around 2 times a week. He appears to eat enough before 6:30pm on most days because he continues to grow. He does not gain weight very fast and has been around 29 pounds for a very long time. Cleo is a slim little thing too so I am not worried.

I was sitting with Cleo in the bathroom while she pooped. I was browsing through facebook on my Kindles because Cleo wanted to see what my Kindle looked like. I came across a post by Isabelle, my sister Ahnya’s childhood friend. Isabelle posted that her three year-old son threw a rock over the fence and it broke the neighbor’s car window. I read it to Cleo and showed Cleo a picture of Isabelle’s son making a little pose showing off his bicep muscles. Cleo’s response to the story and picture was, “wow, he’s strong.” She was extremely fascinated by Isabelle’s son’s breaking the car window and asked a lot of questions.

It has been raining on and off all day. It was seriously thundering and lightening a few times. Cleo and Sidney watched the thunderstorm and rain from the windows. After breakfast, Cleo and Sidney helped me make banana pudding. I used Jell-o Instant Pudding (one box of banana and one box of white chocolate), 1/2 a cup of Silk Coconut milk, 1 cup of Silk unsweetened soy milk, 36 vanilla wafers and 3 bananas. I topped it with Cool Whip. It is pretty awesome. Sidney liked it too. Cleo did not want to try it. But it's 6 points a serving - I only get 26 points a day with Weight Watchers. In order to eat it and eat other food during the day, I dip into my extra 49 points allotted for special events and treats.

After making the pudding, we let them play on the computer a bit, some educational games on the PBS website. Cleo has gotten very adept at maneuvering the mouse. It's a little too big for her hand; we need a smaller wireless one. We had an early lunch, put them down for a nap and I went to the gym. It was seriously raining when I drove to the gym. Roger worked out at home. Soon, we will get the kids up from their naps, get them dressed, then go for an early dinner at Golden Corral. Cleo has been requesting that we go there. We have not gone in a while.

When we get home from dinner, we will have a movie night with the kids. We will watch Over the Hedge, which I picked up from the library after work yesterday. Later, Roger and I might watch Thor, which I got from the library. I requested it from the library months ago; it takes a long time to move up on the waiting list. I am still waiting for the Help, I have a while to go for that one because I am low on the waiting list. Roger already saw Thor but is happy to watch it again.

Cleo and I are attending a princess party on Sunday, January 22 at the Little House of Art. It’s the same location that we’re having her 5th birthday party. Her best pal at daycare, Alexandria , is also attending with her mom. The princess party will be hosted by Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty.

Three families have RSVP’d thus far to Sidney ’s party. This year I am not going to badger people about RSVP’ing for the kids’ parties. In past years, I call, email and leave notes for people (in the daycare kids’ cubbies) in an effort to find out if invitees are coming. This year, I am going to fight my need to obtain a concrete head count. We will give the party sites our best guess for “final” headcount and hope we are close to the number that actually come. I always RSVP for parties by the requested RSVP date. I do not understand why other people don’t extend that same courtesy. We have not sent Cleo’s party invitations out yet but I am sure we will have the same problem with getting people to RSVP.