Microphone Monday

A little history:  Layla does not like wearing clothes right now.  Something is always wrong with anything she puts on.  Pants are not warm pants.  Sleeves just aren't right.  Socks have to be just so on her feet.  She won't leave any sort of hair "thing" in her hair.  Something's always wrong with her shirt and her coat and her hood.  Many times she doesn't even wear shoes until we get to wherever we're going and never puts her coat on.  She'll only wear her boots, never her brand new sparkly silver shoes she picked out all by herself and her tennis shoes are ONLY worn on gym days.  Getting dressed, both morning and night and anytime in between, is a nightmare.

Setting:  Saturday night, bedtime.  Mommy & Daddy are tired and not feeling like fighting so decide to let Layla sleep in just her underwear.

Layla:  {Super excited}  Peyton, I get to sleep like a boy tonight.

We didn't know it was reserved for boys and it's not anymore because that was the easiest bedtime we've had in months. 

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Setting:  Driving in the car, where someone is always thirsty and all I have is half a Sprite for the two of them to share.  Peyton is trying to describe Sprite to Layla so he doesn't have to share.

Peyton:  Sprite tastes like hair going in your mouth or a coffee filter, just trust me.

I wonder, why in the world do you think you know what a coffee filter tastes like, we don't even use them in our house?!?!?

Sledding, A Year Later

We tried sledding again today.  You may remember, it was a big fail last year, so I was a little nervous to take them by myself today, but they seemed excited, so what the heck??  Off we went!  And I say it was by myself, but we were really going with the youth group from church and Peyton & Layla's favorite person from church, Tim.  Here are the results.

 

Peyton ready to take off for the first time...will he like it any better this year?  He has a brand new sled, too.  Thanks, Grandpa Gene & Grandma Jean

  

Peyton wiped out almost every time, but got up laughing and running up the hill for more

I went down several times with Layla.  Every time at the bottom of the hill, I had to ask if it was fun and she'd always take her hands away from her face to reveal a huge smile and say, "YES!!"  She covered her face the whole way down to keep the snow out, that is what she hated last year, but whatever works.  I agree sometimes it is less scary if you just don't see what's coming.

It was so much fun.  Daddy is talking about taking them again tomorrow.  I wonder how those results will be.  I'm hoping for more snow so we can all go sometime with fresh snow (it was a little sparse in spots today).

I also have to say, Layla is not fond of wearing clothes right now.  Part of my worry beforehand, was how big a fit she would throw putting on all the multi-layers of clothes and would she leave the warm stuff on once we got there.  As you can see, the hat was NOT worn at all, but she did leave the coat & gloves on so that's good.  She did cry most of the way there because something was wrong with her pants or her shirts or her boots, but once there the sledding was worth it.  I'm sure she won't remember that next time, though.