Funny kids

Calvin and Lily have both been doing some pretty cute things lately that I want to blog about because this is my journal.

Lily decides to make the biggest mess possible when feeding herself. She insists on feeding herself and then gets frustrated with the spoon or fork and goes to town with her hands. And then she proceeds to stick her hands in her hair and make herself look like she has a crazy lions mane. It is pretty funny, it's just not very fun to clean up the chili thrown all over and the beans stuck in places you can't imagine.

She has also started saying a few more words. Her favorite word lately is banana. She finds her book that has a page full of bananas and continues to point and say nana, nana, nana until Jon comes around and then she goes mute because she refuses to say nana for Jon. She loves reading books lately, which is fun for me because I love reading to my kids, and before she would just throw the book on the floor.

Calvin loves organizing and putting things where they go. Unlike Lily, Calvin has always been a very neat eater and does not like things to get on his clothes or hands. He will wash his hands 10 times a day, just like me. Sunday morning I could hear him bustling about in his room. He came to me and said " Mom, come and look what I did." I walked in his room half asleep and was pleasantly surprised to see that his room was spotless. His bed was made, books on shelf, clothes in drawers, shoes in closet. He was so proud of himself and so was I.

Last night we were teaching the kids about the word of wisdom with a FHE packet. The good foods got put on the plate and the bad foods got put in the garbage. We got to coffee and we told Calvin what it was. A couple minutes later Calvin coughs and says "hey, I'm the coughee." It isn't good for me.

Tonight Calvin told me, "we all care for Lily, I care for Lily, I really love her and that makes you and me and her happy."

Last night on our family walk Calvin saw the temple and started singing as loud as he could "I love to see the temple, I'm going there someday." He knew the whole song and he is still in nursery. Jon thought that was so cool. Those Childrens Songbook CDs really work.