To My Beautiful Big Girl, Dilana

I remember the day you were born as if it were yesterday. The day you changed my life and showed me how much love my heart was truly capable of holding.

Your daddy went overseas when you were 11 days old. I was terrified, but I was not alone. You were there with me. I never would have guessed that someone so small could help me through so much, and that such an amazing bond would be possible, despite your young age.

I was terrified of being a first-time mom, and a single mom on top of that. It was hard, but not as hard as I imagined. Somehow I knew, for the most part, what I needed to do. What I didn't, you showed me. When I look back on that year, it was the hardest year of my life, but it may have also been the best.

This past Saturday, at 11:02 in the morning, was exactly four years since I gave birth to you. Then, Monday morning, you started preschool. I am so proud of you, but I can't lie that a little piece of my heart is breaking because you are no longer my tiny little four-pound baby (I still swear that you heard me say that your daddy was coming home, so you decided you had to hurry up and make it out, lol). You have grown into an absolutely beautiful young lady and I love you very much. I am so happy that you are enjoying school so much and I know you are going to learn a ton. You are so smart.

I love you, sweetheart ♥

Brand new!

The first time I held you.

One year old!

Two!

Three!

Four!

First day of preschool!

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Quit Eating Hair and I Won't Have to Pull it out of Your Butt Hole

It's been a while... I really need to post more often!

To 1-year-old:
     "Don't play with your pee!"

3-year-old, yelling from the bathroom:
     "Mommy! There's bugs in the tub!"
     "Ok, they're in the tub, they're not going to get you. Finish what you're doing and get out."
     "No, come here!"
     "Fine." (In the bathroom) "Where are these alleged bugs?"
     "I don't know..."

Talking to 3-year-old while she's in the bathroom:
     "What are you doing?"
     "I'm trying to push my poop out. It's hard."
     "Oh, I'm sorry."
     (Excitedly, a few seconds later) "It came out!"

To 1-year-old:
     "Why are you eating a popsicle in the bathroom?"

To 1-year-old:
     "Why are you drinking and dancing?" (It was water...but I didn't think I'd be saying that for a few years, lol).

Changing 1-year-old's diaper:
     "Ow."
     "Well, quit eating hair and I won't have to pull it out of your butt hole."

3-year-old, swinging a toy fish around:
     "It's a fishcopter!"

To 3-year-old:
     "No more 'super jumps'"

Talking to 3-year-old while I'm sweeping:
     "Put your feet back, they're in the way."
     "Don't want you to sweep my feet off!"

3-year-old, wrapped up in her white blanket:
     "I'm a roll of TP!"

To 1-year-old:
     "Go back to the living room! I'm trying to put laundry away!"
     *Backs all the way out to the living room*
     "You can turn around, you don't have to back up..."

Changing 1-year-old's pull-up:
     "Why did a quarter fall out of your diaper?"

3-year-old yelling from the bathroom:
     "Help, Mommy! I'm about to fall into the toilet!"
The funniest part? She really was about to fall into the toilet.

To 1-year-old:
     "You cannot wear a nightie to go get your hair cut."

Kids taking a bath:
     (3-year-old) "Don't put it on your nipples, Adia!"
     (Me) "She can do what she wants with it, it's her soap and her nipples."

To 1-year-old:
     "Quit licking your toes!"

To 3-year-old:
     "Take my bra off of your head."

To my husband:
     "You have a monkey in your butt."
You find toys everywhere when you have kids...lol.

1-year-old getting out of the tub:
     "I wet."
     "You were taking a bath!"

My husband changing our 1-year-old's diaper:
     "No farting without a diaper on!"

1-year-old, while I was sitting on the toilet:
     *points* "Mommy panties."
     "Yes, I am wearing my own panties."

To 1-year-old playing with a toy tractor:
     "Why are you driving on yourself?"

To 3-year-old:
     "Why do you have a stick up the hamster's butt?" (It was a toy hamster, in case you were concerned LOL).

Me talking to my 3-year-old who had to pee in the middle of dinner:
     "Don't get pizza on your panties!"

To 3-year-old:
     "Get the pants off of the giraffe's head."

Talking to 1-year-old:
     "Where's your cup?"
     *points*
     "Where? I don't see it."
     *points the other direction*
     "It's not there, either. Do you KNOW where it is?"
     *shakes head*

3-year-old:
     "I left my green noise-maker at Grandma and Grandpa's."
     "I'm sorry. We'll get it next time we're over there."
     "I hope Grandma and Grandpa aren't playing with my noise-maker."

3-year-old, going into the bathroom:
     "I have to go explode, because my tummy is really upset." (Blame her father for that phrase).

My husband to our 1-year-old:
     "Don't scrape me with the toast."

To 1-year-old:
     "Don't eat the bubbles! It's soap, it's not to eat!"

You Cannot Marry Your Sister

I was teaching Dilana how to make a heart with her hands, and she made one but flattened her thumbs, and said this:
     "Look! It's a flat heart. It got squished by a robot monkey."

Me, asking my 3-year-old about her little sister:
     "Where's Adia?"
     "It's not Adia, she's my robot Adia copy. I built her with my toy hammer."

1-year-old, showing me what she's playing with:
     "Hammer."
     "Why are you hammering Ming-Ming's head?!"
     *she goes back to hammering*

 My husband trying to teach our 1-year-old to brush her own teeth:
     "Brush! Good job! Get the backs!"
     *she tries to brush her back*
     "Not your back, the backs of your teeth!"

After investigating a thud I heard in the direction of my 3-year-old:
     "You really fell off the bed trying to take off your own shoe?"
     "Yes..."

Changing 1-year-old's pull-up:
     "I want dance."
     "Well, you have to put pants on before you dance."
     *turns her naked butt towards me and continues to dance*

3-year-old:
     "I'm gonna marry Adia."
     "You cannot marry your sister."

3-year-old looking at our new oscillating fan:
     "I've never seen a swurpty-wurpty swinging fan like that before!"

Talking to 1-year-old:
     "Nobody likes to be sat on when you have poop in your butt."

Talking to my 3-year-old:
     "Take off my bra."

1-year-old, pointing:
     "Boob. Big boob."

To my 3-year-old:
     "No! Don't unzip me!"

Talking to 3-year-old:
     "Mommy, what's a meteor?"
     "Well, it's a rock from space falling to Earth."
     "And then it squished all the dinosaurs!"
     (After laughing pretty heavily, lol) "Well, that was an asteroid, and it didn't squish them."

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I'm Not Going to Move for the Flyboat!

To 1-year-old:
     "Ice cream is not a finger food."

To 3-year-old:
     "Why are you wearing your panties and your Winter coat?"
Mind you, it is July...

To 1-year-old:
     "Stop eating and dancing! You're going to choke!"

To 1-year-old:
     "Stop dancing and put your pants on!"

Talking to 1-year-old, driving her Wonder Pets Flyboat on my bed:
     "Stuck."
     "I know it's stuck. That's because I'm in the way."
     *pushes it into me*
     "I'm not going to move for the Flyboat!"

To 3-year-old, playing with her little sister:
     "Stop it."
     "But I'm jiggling her."
     "Don't 'jiggle' her!"
     "But she's really jiggly!"

To 1-year-old, playing with a toy hammer:
     "Please don't hammer your sister."

Talking to my 3-year-old. She had a baby rattle stuck in the bottom of a toy saxophone:
     "Why do you have the rattle in the saxophone?!"

Conversation my husband and I had with our 3-year-old:
     *3-year-old farts*
     Me: "Don't poop another pair of underwear! You're already on your third pair today."
     3-year-old: "Don't say that, Mommy."
     Husband: "It's not Mommy's fault you fart and poop your panties."
     3-year-old: "Stop talking about that!"
Yes! We achieved our first major embarrassment of one of our children!

3-year-old:
     "I have a stinky smell in my neck!"

**Side note** I saw this when I was linking The Wonder Pets. It looks incredibly cute!

You Can't Have Your Rocking Horse in Your Crib!

Talking to 3-year-old:
     "What did you do to your bread?"
     "I put polka dots on it!"
     "The bread does not need decorating. Just eat it!"

Talking to 1-year-old:
     "Stop it! I'm trying to write. The dolly can dance somewhere else."

Talking to my 3-year-old about brushing her teeth:
     "I need to brush my moles."
     "Molars."

Talking to 3-year-old, playing with a toy car:
     "I am not a road."
     "You can be a road!"
     "I don't want to be a road. I don't enjoy being driven upon."

My 3-year-old, looking at the window:
     "You shouldn't use glass, it breaks."
     "Well, what should they be made of then?"
     "Bricks."
     "They'd be kind of hard to see out of."
     "You could take one out."
     *unable to control my giggling at this point*
     "You could put a screen on it."
Good concept, kid.

3-year-old, a few minutes after she went to the bathroom:
     "Who helped me put on my panties?"    
     "You put them on..."
     "But I was just sitting there!"

1-year-old, pointing out of her crib at bedtime:
     "Horsie"
     "You can't have your rocking horse in your crib!"
     *screaming temper tantrum*

Talking to 3-year-old:
     "I don't know what Adia is going to do when you go to school. She's going to be lonely, she's used to having you to play with."
     "You can play with her."
     "Yeah, I will."
     "Take good care of her, Mommy."

Get Your Butt out of Your Sister's Face and Quit Trying to 'Sting' Her

3-year-old:
    "Don't tickle me! It makes me pee."

3-year-old, yelling from the bathroom:
     "Mommy! I pooped out corn!"

3-year-old, combing my hair over my face:
     "You look like a black bush!"

Talking to 1-year-old, who wanted to be in the bathroom with Daddy:
     "Here, sit in the chair and you can watch Daddy shave."
     (3-year-old, on the toilet) "And you can watch me poop, Adia!"
     "No one needs to watch you poop."

1-year-old is snorting snot at me:
     "Stop it. You're not a puppy."
     " A kitty!"
     "Oh, you're a kitty?"
     "Yes."

3-year-old, getting dressed before going outside:
     "I don't want to get my belly button sunburned!"

To 3-year-old:
     "Be quiet for a minute! Everything that pops into your head does not need to be spoken."

To 1-year-old:
     "Don't poke the tent with a stick!"

To 3-year-old, "pretending to be a wasp":
     "You're not a wasp. Get your butt out of your sister's face and quit trying to 'sting' her."

To 1-year-old:
     "Don't poke me in the face with a chicken nugget!"

Talking to 3-year-old, after she burps mid-word, while talking to me:
     "Bless you."
     "I didn't burp!"
     "You didn't?"
     "No!"
     "Then what was it?"
     "A sneeze."
     "You can't sneeze mid-word."
     "Achoo."

To 1-year-old, poking me with a stick:
     "Hey! Watch where you're poking! No poking in the butt."

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Our Holiday Weekend

I hope you all had as much fun this weekend as we did! Here are a few pictures :) [You can click any image to enlarge it].

Watching fireworks Friday night with Great-Grandpa.

These things were awesome!! They went on forever and they burned down to absolutely nothing!

Set this up for them Sunday evening. They had a blast!

Go, Ming-Ming, go! lol

Action shot!

We spent the whole morning and early afternoon outside on the 4th. It was a blast!

Little-Miss-Supermodel

Front-yard camping

She said she was going to take a nap in the tent. She never actually did, though.

Can you tell she ate strawberries? LOL

Watching fireworks

Mr. Pyro

We went to our city's fireworks show after we were done with ours, but I didn't take any pictures because my phone died :(

I hope you all had a fantastic Independence Day weekend!!

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