Friday, April 24, 2009

Long-awaited second tooth

Finally, after almost three weeks of concerted effort to get a wobbly tooth out, today it happened. Gwenchik ran into the house holding a ziplock bag with a time stamp of 9:05 am and smiling from ear to ear.

Gwen: Mom, my tooth is out! It happened this morning and I had to wait ALL day to tell you!
Me: This is great!
Gwen: So tonight the Tooth Fairy will visit and probably give me another dollar. We will be so rich, as I already have a dollar and 25 cents! We can buy a farm and a pig.
Me: Well, I am not sure if two dollars and 25 cents would be enough.
Gwen: But I have a lot more teeth left and Tooth Fairy will probably give me a dollar for EACH!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

And now we walk home...

Gwechik's daycare was teaching about Earth Day, so when George was picking her up she said:

Gwen: Papa, we now should walk home instead of driving the car. Cars cause pollution and than the animals eat that pollution and get sick.
George: It is a great idea, but we live too far from daycare to walk.
Gwen: That is ok, we can walk really, really fast.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Chocolate affect

We went to a party today, where Gwenchik got to play with her favorite friend Lesha and his brother Misha. At some point they were running around like crazy, and Lesha's dad was giving the last warning to behave.

Gwen: Please do not punish Lesha. Really it is not him, he just ate a lot of chocolate, and you know, how it affects the body. So it is really his body, not Lesha who is running around like crazy.

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Gwenchik knows all about chocolate, because if she eats it before bedtime, she has trouble falling asleep. As our normal agreement, today she selected whatever chocolate she wanted to take with her to eat tomorrow, but all the other kids got to eat theirs, hence the craziness :)

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Rule interpretation

We have a rule at our house that once we sit at the table to eat, there is no running around or jumping. However, when Gwenchik's uncle came over for a visit, she ran around the dinner table in circles.

Me: Gwenchik, why are you ignoring the basic rules of the house?
Gwen: I am not ignoring, I just not listening.