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Just some funny quotes

Catherine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:59:10 +0000

I’ve had a couple of funny quotes from the kids written down for a long time, so I’m just going to post them. That way I can check that off my to-do list.

#1 Elira (yelling at Andrew and Zana): Me gonna write a email to Santa and you gonna get in time out.

(The kids talk about emailing various things to Santa. I think it’s funny that that is their primary form of long distance communication, bypassing the traditional letter to Santa.)

#2 Andrew really wants someone to sleep in his room with him, since he’s the only one who doesn’t share a room. The other day I explained that Scott and I sleep in the same room because we’re married. Now we frequently hear, “I just want to get married right now, so I can have someone to sleep in my room with me.” and “How come I can’t marry you or Daddy?”

In other news, I feel like I’ve been rushing around trying to get things done for a couple of weeks now. With Valentine’s Day, a trip to Chicago, various church activities and the girls’ birthday, I’ve been super busy. Today was nice to stay at home, organize, and get some cleaning done. Organizing always feels so relaxing.

Andrew’s first day of (real) preschool

Catherine — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:17:17 +0000

This past Tuesday was Andrew’s first experience of attending preschool outside of someone’s home. He was at a real school (a high school in fact) and had a real teacher. Up until now he’s enjoyed doing “joy school” or whatever you want to call it where my friends and I switch off being the teacher for all our kids. He’s loved that, but we thought he needed a little more structure since he’ll be starting kindergarten next fall.

So Tuesday morning Andrew woke Scott and me up around 7:30am, by standing next to our bed and whispering, “Moommmmy…Mooooommmmy.” I opened my eyes to see him fully dressed, with his sweatshirt and shoes on, and his “messenger bag” packed with the sandwich I had made the night before. (They don’t even eat lunch there, but he insisted on bringing a sandwich in his very own sandwich tupperware that has sports balls on it.) He had even eaten breakfast already (without parental help), and he just wanted to know if it was time to go yet. It was the cutest thing ever.

He had a lot of fun at preschool, and didn’t get upset at all when I left. His school is run by a teacher and some high school students. The high schoolers are taking a child development class, and part of their class is to help out in the preschool. They are assigned a preschooler to work with, so Andrew gets a lot of one on one time. He did some cool crafts and learned all about penguins this week. I had a ton of fun asking him about what he learned each day, and I loved that he wanted to give me a kiss goodbye in the mornings. By the end of the week we were all extra sleepy from our new, busier schedule, and enjoyed having Friday to ourselves, but I’m sure Andrew will be back to being super excited by Tuesday when he can go back and learn some more.

January, the not so spicy, but still fun, month

Catherine — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:57:28 +0000

Here’s a riddle to get this post started: What do you get when you take away Christmas, the Cathell-Williams adults and twins, and add a little snow, and still don’t add back school and a normal routine? Answer: January.

It has been a lot quieter since my sister and her family left, but we’ve been having fun too. In a previous post, I mentioned that September needed something to spice it up. I usually feel that way about January too. Most Januaries involve a lot of cold and snow and Scott going back to school and starting to study for that already, so the kids and I are usually on our own stuck at home. This January has been a lot better than that. We had a patch of warm weather and even went outside without coats, so I don’t feel like winter is dragging on and on…at least not yet. Ask me again in March and we’ll see. Scott hasn’t started school yet either, so we’ve been doing a lot of fun stuff with him. That said, January still isn’t the “spiciest” month.

To keep us entertained (because you can’t have three un-entertained preschoolers and still maintain your sanity) we’ve been doing a lot of family activities around Champaign and neighboring cities. See that line on Andrew’s right eye in the top left picture above? That’s snot that came loose from dropping off a high bar into a foam pit during open gymnastics. We also enjoyed a second trip to the Children’s Museum of Illinois in Decatur, this time with our friends the Newtons (the first was with the Cathell-Williamses)…there was no snot involved there. So that, and hanging out at home with Daddy has been our January so far.

And here are some more pictures of Miles, because he’s so cute and he smiles now.

New Pictures: Baby Miles and Christmas

Scott — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:45:30 +0000

New pictures of our winter adventures are up here and here.

2011 Family Newsletter

Catherine — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:26:08 +0000

Here is our family newsletter for this year.

Cromar Family Newsletter 2011

And just for reading, here’s a funny conversation we had recently:

Catherine: I’m tired of telling you lots of times. Next time you don’t listen you’re going straight in time out, so just be nice guys.
Andrew: Okay mom. I think I can follow the prophet now, and not do bad stuff.
Zana (singing): Fol-low prophet, fol-low prophet. Me go to temple some day. That my favorite song.