"Yes, Your Mom"

For the past couple of months, Bethany has been saying, "Yes, your majesty" to me when I ask her to do things. It's sometimes cute, and sometimes annoying, because it sounds like she's being sarcastic. The thing is, she has no idea what sarcasm even is, so I know she's not trying to be. I think she got the whole idea from Backyardigans. There's an episode where Pablo is a king and a couple of the others are knights, and keep saying "Yes, your majesty" to him. Somewhere along the line, though, Bethany's modified the phrase into "Yes, your mom". It's hilarious. I'll tell her to wash her hands or get dressed or whatever, and she says, "Yes, your mom." I wonder how long it will last.

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Every night before I go to bed, I check on the kids. I developed this habit when Bethany was really little, because she'd wiggle out from under her blankets at night and then get cold. So I'd go in, cover her up, and go to bed. Now it's hard for me to sleep if I don't do it, like there's something niggling at my conscience that I've forgotten. I get a lot of laughs out of it, too, though. I don't know how many pictures I've taken of the kids in weird sleeping positions. And then there's all the times they've talked in their sleep. Sometime it's hard to make out their babblings, but the other night I came in, and Meagan sat up and said, "Mommy, I want to be upside down." A few days before that, when I went in, Bethany first asked if it was morning, then said, "I like bubbles." I'd really like to know what they're dreaming sometimes.

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At dinner the other night, Bethany held up a piece of the cornbread she was eating and said, "What does this make?" Confused, Nate and I looked at each other and said, "What?" She repeated, "What does this make?" Not getting an answer, she then said, "Poops or pee-pee?"

Along the same vein, after I was done eating the other day, she asked me if I was full. When I said yes, she then said, "Now you need to go pee-pee." I really have no idea where she got these ideas from, unless it was from us telling her she couldn't have water at night or it would make her go pee-pee in her bed. Regardless, it was pretty funny.

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Our ward's primary program was a couple Sundays ago. Bethany's part was, "When I am twelve, I can do baptisms for the dead." She loves playing with the microphone in the primary room--but only after everyone's gone and we're just cleaning up. When she had to give a talk in primary, she just stood there while Nate said everything for her. So I was pretty sure that she wouldn't say anything for the program. We tried practicing her part with her at home. At first we'd prompt her with, "When I am twelve..." and then she'd say, "I'm five!" Then, when she finally started saying the whole line, she'd tack on "tomorrow" at the end. So we'd ask her to say her line, and she'd say, "When I am twelve, I can do baptisms for the dead tomorrow." Of course, Meagan was fascinated with the whole thing, and learned the part along with Bethany. She'd randomly come up to me during the day and say, "When I am twelve, I can do baptisms for the dead." She really wanted to talk in that microphone, too.

On the day of the program, we made a speical effort to get to church on time. It was the first time since Sean was born that I was on time. Bethany sat in her chair up on the stage, but didn't really participate. When she got up for her part, she crossed her arms, turned sideways and huffed. So the counselor said her part for her, and she hopped down and went back to her chair. Oh well, maybe next year.

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Meagan came up to Nate while he was washing dishes and said, "We don't eat bees. We eat spiders. We eat spiders in nursery. We pull their legs off!" ??? Makes you wonder what they're getting up to in nursery.