Smith Family: May 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011

This is the Woman!

This is the woman
Who gave me life although it risked her own

This is the woman
Who held my hand, and now calls on the phone

This is the woman
Who played the keys while I sang Disney songs

This is the woman
Who bought us things from Albertson's and Long's

This is the woman
Who spent her time and money on gymnastics

This is the woman
Who sewed me pants with waistbands of elastic

This is the woman
Who praised me for the talents that I had

This is the woman
Dearly loved by someone I call "Dad"

This is the woman
You will find at every corner yard sale

This is the woman
Who often knows conpiracies in detail

This is the woman
Who sent me to my room when I was wild

This is the woman
Who now sends birthday cards to each grandchild

This is the woman
Dearer to my heart than any other

This is the woman
I am blessed to lovingly call "Mother"

Congratulations!

I think a few congratulations are in order today...

This morning, Solei had one of their big regattas two hours away in Wyandotte, Michigan. This was the first overnight, out-of-town school event she has ever been to. She has been working hard, eating healthy and getting exercise to be in top physical condition, and she has worked her way up from the "B" boat to the "A" boat. This morning they won first place in the eight man boat and 2nd in the 4 person boat, against about 7 other schools. Way to go Solei!

Ella has been working hard too, learning to ride her bike without training wheels and today she finally got it! It always amazes me how it seems to just suddenly click with kids and they take off like they've been riding that way all their lives. Congratulations, Ella!

We had a new basketball hoop installed today, one of those in-ground deals that you can't take with you if you move (hopefully we're here for a while, cuz it wasn't cheap!). Taron was making some good shots tonight and made it in the hoop 6 times in a row! Awesome playing, Taron! He is also on the verge of losing another tooth, so we'll see if there is another congratulations sometime tonight...

Chris took Caden and Sierra golfing today while I was at the park with the little kids, and although I wasn't there, Caden says they played good. Congratulations on a good game, guys!

I guess that's about it, I just felt like today was full of fun accomplishments and wanted to record it all.

The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

This is the Woman!

Congratulations!

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