30 April 2015

Kids can be so literal.

Tony to Madelyn: Get your shoes.
Madelyn: Why?
Tony, teasingly not telling her: Because we're going somewhere that needs shoes.
Madelyn, getting her shoes on: Where are we going?
Tony: Somewhere that needs shoes.

After a couple minutes she figured out that we were going for a walk.

Madelyn: Are we going for a walk?
Me: Yes, we're going for a walk.
Madelyn: Then why did Daddy say that we were going somewhere that needs shoes?
Me: You need shoes to go for a walk, right?
Madelyn: Yeah, but why did he say we were going somewhere?
Me: Walking around the block isn't going somewhere?

29 April 2015

Random things overheard while the girls are playing:

Madelyn to Alyson: Do you want to do some exercise like fishing?

28 April 2015

The five-year-old really doesn't have too good of a grasp of time yet. We were playing a strange made-up version of soccer outside after we got home today.

Madelyn: Okay, it's time for the game to take a break.
Me: You mean halftime?
Madelyn: Yeah.
Me: How long is it?
Madelyn: Thirty minutes.
Me: That's a long halftime.
Madelyn: Okay, it's ten seconds.
Me: Um, that's too short.

27 April 2015

Tony and I were talking at dinner about having to work with Madelyn's teacher to reschedule our parent-teacher conference. The conference was supposed to be tomorrow, but I have jury duty. Madelyn, suddenly became very concerned about it.

Madelyn: You did let my teacher know, right?!?!
Me: Yes, I emailed her.
Madelyn: Okay, good.

26 April 2015

Tonight for dinner, we had chicken with a glaze on it. We also had rice. Madelyn asked for some of the glaze on her rice saying, "I like glaze on lice."

25 April 2015

For game night today, we played a quick game of Carcassonne. In the game, your game pieces/people are called "meeples". Madelyn only had one meeple left which she chose not to place on her turn, declaring, "I don't want to run out of meatballs!"

24 April 2015

For the past few months as her G.G.'s (my grandma) health has declined, we have been discussing getting old and death with Madelyn to try to help prepare her for when the inevitable does happen. On Saturday, G.G. went into the hospital again, and we don't know what is going to happen this time. So, the subject has come up again to try to help Madelyn understand.

During dinner, Madelyn was asking us more questions about death and Heaven.

Madelyn: What do you do in Heaven?
Me: Well, since no one has really come back from Heaven to tell us, no one really knows, but you can probably do whatever you want. (She had already asked us why no one comes back from Heaven.)
Madelyn: You mean you don't have to listen to God?!