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Reganism/Kayleeism: Breakfast of champions

I am NOT a morning person. Jon usually gets the children breakfast before heading off to work. Today that didn't happen. Usually they come in and snuggle with me for a bit and place their breakfast orders on days Jon has to leave before feeding them. Sometimes they help themselves to bananas and dry cereal. And sometimes crazy ideas pop into their little heads and they think Fruit by the Foot and chips is an awesome breakfast plan.

IMG_6273I knew something was up when they were being too quiet. I love their ingenuity in using the kid scissors so they didn't have to come and have me open the junk.  I would also like to say that Jon brought home a Costco box of Fruit by the Foot because he couldn't find the fruit leather we normally get. "What? It has FRUIT in the name." These words received a MASSIVE eye roll and head shake from me. I have already told the children repeatedly that when they are gone they are gone.IMG_6279So anyhow… Regan came in my room to request a drink and had his little face all up close and personal with my nose.

"Hey Buddy, did you eat a Fruit by the Foot?"

"Yes, Foot by the Fruit is YUMMY. I need some Regan chips too please."

I giggle every time he says "Foot by the Fruit."

Also Regan was my grocery shopping buddy and lobbied hard for those cheetoes for his sis. It's hard to say no when they are arguing on behalf of their sibling. And then since he fought for and won cheetoes for Kaylee I tossed in a bag of his chips too. I feel like my pantry is really full of junk right now. The rest of the household is okay with this.

The camera was on my nightstand so I grabbed it on my way out of bed and headed into the kitchen to see the damage. Kaylee had some sound kid logic happening to justify Cheetoes and Fruit by the Foot for breakfast. "Daddy says it has FRUIT in the name. Fruit is healthy food. And I know Cheetoes are just a sometimes food, so that means I can sometimes eat them for breakfast." Hmmmmm……

We rehashed our healthy VS. sometimes food talk, cleaned up the junk food and made oatmeal. It was an amusing start to my day.

Kaylee ties her own shoes!

"I did it! It was hard, but I kept pracasing. I never gave up. I got frustrated, but I remembered to take a deep breath, and keep trying. And Look Mom. I did it!"

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Kaylee was very excited to when she got lace up shoes. She was very eager to learn to tie her own shoes. We've been practicing almost every day before school. Some days she would practice on both shoes, but most she would do one shoe with LOTS of help, and then be done.

I decided to be SUPER laid back with it, and not push it at all. I didn't want her toss in the towel. And today she insisted on doing it all by herself, and did! She was SO excited that she did the second shoe as well!

I am so proud of her! Tying laces is hard, and she gets frustrated easily when things are difficult. It really did take lots of deep breaths, but she never gave up. We talked about how when we really want something hard work and lots of patience go a long way. I think she is slowly starting to get that concept.

She was on cloud nine ALL DAY LONG. Her good behavior punch card got filled up so she got to choose a prize from the treasure box, plus it's Friday which means pizza and no homework. She was SO giddy about her "awesomest day ever!" when I went to pick her up from school. On our way home we hit up the library for some movies. She is currently sleeping in a fort in the living room.

I miss being five. The simple life.

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We went and met Jack'ee and Jason at Ikea Saturday morning. It's about midway between our houses. Also I needed to find a couple things. Like a hidey hole table for the printer, and a new area rug for the living room.

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I foolishly left the camera at home, and missed some awesome photo ops. 🙁 But that night I caught Kaylee "just reading instructions to build a bench." And I told her not to move while I ran to get the camera. After five years she is a pro at the whole "don't move I'll be right back" thing.