funny children

Dirty Arms!

August 26, 2011 0 comments
toddler with chalk covered hands

Lately many of our evenings have been filled with Hubby and his little boy watching American football games together. Last week they were watching a game when Mr. Happy Feet pointed and exclaimed, “Dirty Arms!”. He was pointing at a player with tattooed arms. Our little man had no idea that those arms were not [...]

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Old MacDonald Had A Farm

August 14, 2011 1 comment
felt animal finger puppets

  We like to use our felt finger puppets from Auntie H and Uncle E to sing Old MacDonald Had A Farm to baby girl while putting them on our fingers. We couldn’t think what kind of a sound a raccoon would make though. Any ideas? Silly Boy’s Version Mr. Happy Feet came up with [...]

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I Make Faces

June 14, 2010 2 comments
funny faces, scrunched nose smile, baby eating mommy's face

I have always had a very hard time hiding my emotions — at least where my facial expressions are concerned. Believe me, I’ve tried. With little to NO success! And now I think it’s safe to say that my children are following right along in their mother’s footsteps… I think he’s got the scrunched nose [...]

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Once A Princess Always A Princess

February 15, 2010 0 comments
tiaras, jeweled tiaras, homecoming tiaras, homecoming crowns, crowns

Princesses are Mrs. Sayuri’s (my daughter’s) world right now. One of her favorite things to do is to play dress up – with her felt crown, sequined pink tutu and pink ballet slippers. She asks me every imaginable question related to princesses. One of the most obscure questions was: “What do princesses eat for dinner?” [...]

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Sweet Dreams

December 10, 2009 3 comments
sleeping siblings, sleeping children, sweet sleeping babies

In a book we recently borrowed from the library, I happily stumbled upon the cute little poem below. It made me smile inside because I could relate very much. Mrs.  Sayuri is adamant about emphasizing the fact that she is not a baby anymore – she is a little girl Belinda’s Bedtime When it was [...]

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Cockroaches Ate My Pajamas?

November 14, 2009 1 comment
laughing little girl, giggling little girl in bed, giggling three year old girl in bed sheets

To say that we had a cockroach problem at our previous residence is an understatement. After more than eight years of living in Costa Rica I had never seen so many nor any so huge. There was one type that I affectionately named “the monster” it was that big. You know…the giant kind that look [...]

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Home in the Little Shoe

August 4, 2009 0 comments
princess sneaker with purple flower

“Now the big toe and the little toe are all at home in the little shoe.” Out of nowhere Mrs. Sayuri said the above while we were putting on her shoes yesterday morning. For the first week after we got these sneakers she would tell anyone who asked about them… “I got them at Payless!” [...]

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