Getting Pregnant

Kyla: Grandma, guess what? My Mom's pregnant.
Grandma: Oh. Really? How did that happen?
Kyla: Well, she just went pee on a stick and it said she was pregnant.

For the record, Kyla's Mom is not pregnant. But we thought her understanding of how one gets pregnant was kind of funny.

No Booze Please

Two years ago we were in Cuba... which seems awfully lovely considering it's minus 37 with the windchill this morning.

One of the great Kyla-isms of that trip was Kyla going up to the bartender and saying "I'll take a pina colada please, but with no booze".

Spelling Sentences

The spelling word was "wood".
The sentence she came up with was "What big wood".

Always check your kids homework.

The Junk!

The big story of today's school day was all about how there was a fight between two of the boys in Kyla's grade 2 class. Kyla was graphically describing how one boy tripped the other and the hitting that went along with. And then she comes out with, "And Mom. Then he swung back his leg and kicked the other boy right in the junk!"

Where she learned that from, I do not know!

Grown Ups

Today’s question…

Kyla: Mom, when do people become grown ups? Like how old will I be when I’m a grown up?

Me: Legally. 18. But everyone starts acting like a grown up at different ages.

Kyla: So how do I know though? Is it once I grow boobs?

The Perfect Family

Quote of the morning:

"Do you know what I think Mom? I think a kid, a mom and a bird make the perfect home. And the perfect family."

Really? Could I ask for a better child? She rocks.

Skype

About a month ago I set Kyla up with her own Skype account on her iPod touch. I did it mostly with the intent of her being able to video conference family memebers. She's come up with her own way of using it though and enjoys "texting" people when they're offline.

I came into work this morning to find a stream of messages sent at 6:35 am (while I was in the shower) which read:

Wash your body
Make sure you wash your but
Ha ha

Kids and technology...

Fatten Up

In the last 6 months Kyla has become more interested in candy than before. I told her this afternoon that she needed to lay off the candy because she'd been pounding it all weekend. Her response to that was "Who cares! I need to fatten up anyway!"

Pigs

While in the line-up at Winners, I got suckered into the point of purchase crap sitting next to the till and bought a pair of tongs with a little pig head on them. I figured Kyla would love them, and that we had been pulling corn out of a pot with two forks for long enough.

Tonight we decided to have BLT’s for dinner. Kyla walked into the kitchen as I was cooking bacon (with the new tongs) and stared at me with the dirtiest look imaginable. “Mom, you can’t cook bacon with those things! You’re cooking a pig with a pig!”

One of those days

I’d had an insane week at work, traffic was brutal on the way home, and I had just fallen through a snow bank into knee-deep icy cold water. I was freezing, grumpy and filthy.

When we walked through door, I set Kyla up with a snack and some cartoons – poured a glass of wine and went to have a bath. Within 3 minutes of being in the tub, Cevin was sitting on the curtain rod whistling “Jingle Bells” and Kyla had entered with the “Guess Who” boards ready to play.

Note to self: Next time lock the door.

Being Seven

Everyday I have a moment of amazement as I watch Kyla and observe how grown up she is becoming. She reads, writes, types and Skypes. She’s helpful and likes to organize. She knows how to work the DVD player and the microwave. We have “grown-up” conversations. Sometimes I forget she’s only 7.

And then we walked to daycare this morning and she barked and panted like a dog the entire way there. Yup, she’s still 7.