Dinnertime convo/Sleeptime convo

Dinnertime conversation with Brea -
I'm spooning food out and watching Rhys who is trying to choke himself by putting way to big of a piece of food into his mouth.

Brea  helps herself to some delish Herb Loaf from COBS and starts talking:
"The world is filled with bread! There are lots of different people in the world who eat bread and they all eat different bread. Some people eat it with jam and some people eat it with butter..."

At this point I missed a part of her monologue because Rhys was doing something...
"What was that you just said Brea?" I ask.

She offers an exasperated groan worthy of a teenager: "Mo-om! You have to listen to my conversation!"

Sleeptime conversation with Rhys -
We have just finish reading a story about airplanes when Rhys notices on the back cover a field full of sheep that the plane is flying over.
"Beeps! Beeps!" he points.
"Yes, Rhys, those are sheep, SH-eep."
Brea attempts to help: "Shh! Rhys, like when you have to be quiet."
Me: "Rhys can you say shh?"
Rhys: "Shhh!"
Me: "That's right Rhys, SHHH-eep! Can you try? Sheep."
Rhys: "Shhh... beep!"

Weekend happenings

The Christmas lights are up at our house. It took a little while but it's done and it's lovely. The logistics of the way the lights went up was a bit harried and Craig ended up doing it twice since the connection to the power source ended up being on the wrong side of where we wanted it. I went to the hardware store to see if we could get an adapter to make the wrong end of the plug work but it turns out no such thing exists. We can't have been the first people to string up the lights away from the power source! I kept giggling to myself as I was seeking help, asking for "two male ends" to plug into. Very immature, I know.

The kids had plenty of fresh air running and biking around as we tackled the lights and we were tired so in the end we went out for food! Brea immediately suggested her choice of sushi and in the end that's where we went. The car ride was interspersed with Brea asking how far the restaurant was because she was very hungry and Rhys screaming very loudly in sheer excitement at intervals "Hey! Bismass lights!" - he's really taken by the illuminations of the season. I can't wait until we hit December and more and more houses light up.

We were recently in the States and since we were there for an interview, we went early and killed time by driving around and seeing what was near where we had to be. Brea was so funny because she couldn't wrap her head around the States being a country and not a specific place. She kept asking when we would get there and when we said that we had already arrived for a while, she disagreed because we hadn't parked and were still driving. She decided that the States was very far and too much driving and she preferred if we went home. Tonight, apparently the restaurant took too long to get to for her. She started asking if it was "in the States".

That little girl can pack it away! In her belly tonight: miso soup, an order of avocado rolls, 1.5 pieces of chicken karrage, 5 prawn tempuras, oodles of udon noodles from Daddy's meal and she still asked if there was more food after that. All I can think of is, what will happen when Rhys starts eating like that too? 

Apples and Leaves

There always seems to be some coughing or sneezing in our house over these last few months. I just wish the cold monster would go skulk somewhere else for a while.

So looking at the drippy kids today I decided to make some crock pot apple sauce. There's nothing like the lovely smell of apple and cinnamon. Rhys snarfs fruit and it's been difficult with him not feeling well to eat more than a few bites of anything.

The little guy was napping, so Brea became my sous-chef. She took out the equipment needed and went to the apples and counted out the biggest ones. Soon I was peeling and coring away. She pulled up a chair next to me by the sink to watch the progress.

"Mom, why are you taking the peel off? That's where the vitamin is."

I explained the need to remove the peel so that the flesh of the apples could cook down and then she could help me mash it.

"Oh." She watches some more as I continued peeling. "It looks like a pile of autumn leaves flying off the trees!" I turned on the tap to rinse off the fruit. "Now it's raining and washing the leaves away!"

A Moment with Rhys

Rhys always asks to have a 'nuggle with me as he goes to sleep or in the morning, he's a very affectionate little boy.
Tonight as I lay next to him with is little arms around my neck, he suddenly perks and turns to me and says, "Mommy, it's raining outside!" We have had a sound machine in the kids' rooms since forever so I laughingly went along with it.
"Is it raining outside? How can you tell?"
He cups his hand to his ear for a few seconds, "hear it", he answers.
"Do you hear the rain every night Rhys?" I continue.
He looks at me and answers ever so solemnly - looking straight into my eyes, "yes! Rain outside helps me sleep!"
I love the sound of rain too. I hope it keeps you slumbering in your bed tonight, all night, my little angel.