{hands full of happiness}: Lady Bug, Lady Bug, Fly Away Home!

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

02 May 2010

Lady Bug, Lady Bug, Fly Away Home!

At our church the kids 18 months to 3 years meet in Nursery every week. In my ward I am responsible for the Nursery program. We are supposed to provide a healthy snack each week, and until now it has consisted of stale, sugar-full animal crackers and hard, really old raisins. Not so awesome.

I got this brilliant idea from my friend Heidi. Best Nursery snack EVER!!! It was such a hit, and I didn't feel guilty serving it to the little ones. The problem is, how do I now beat it? Impossible!

8 comments:

MD4May 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Pretty much anything on a stick is a huge hit at our nursery! Or mini muffins.
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AnonymousMay 2, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Ingredients
2 round crackers
What an adorable idea!! I love it!! :)

I don't think this will top that but if you are looking for another bug for the kids to munch on, this one looked kind of cute!

Pretzel Spiders!! :)

2 teaspoons smooth peanut butter
8 small pretzel sticks
2 raisins
Instructions

Make a sandwich of the crackers filled with peanut butter. Insert eight pretzel "legs" into the filling. With a dab of peanut butter, stick two raisin eyes on top. Makes 1 serving.

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/pretzel-spiders-675732/
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AnonymousMay 2, 2010 at 8:57 PM
this is so cute! i really hope that you will make them for the next fam gettogether.
shann
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AnonymousMay 2, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Ok so cute! There are also Strawberry mice!!! :)

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/appetizers-snacks/healthy-snacks/strawberry-mice-687541/
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akathemomMay 3, 2010 at 5:00 PM
why are you so cute?
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heidiMay 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Thanks Jenny, you are sweet. I wish I could say it was an original idea, but as Sierra has pointed out, I got it from familyfun. That is where a lot of my inspiration comes from :) Glad it was a hit though.
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AnonymousFebruary 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM
What is the recipe for this?
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JennyFebruary 24, 2011 at 10:29 PM
This one is super easy. The base is just a honeydew melon scooped out with a melon scoop. The ladybugs are strawberries cut in half with mini chocolate chips pushed in and grapes attached with toothpicks. Thanks for asking.
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