A week with Rand

Randisms from the last week:

"Why can't Ella eat cookies?"
"She's doesn't have any teeth -- she's too little."
"Like Zaccheus?"

I decided to sneak in a shower early one morning before the kids were awake. Rand woke up, came into the bathroom, and asked what I was doing. I said, "I'm taking a shower. What are you doing?" He replied, "I'm standing in the bathroom watching you take a shower."

Rand got a well-deserved spanking and started crying. Trying to get him to communicate to me why he was spanked, I asked him why he was crying. "Because of spankings and stuff like that!"

Yesterday I put Rand down for his nap. A few minutes later I heard him get out of bed and start playing with his trains, which he knows he's not supposed to do during naptime. I poked my head in the doorway and said, "Rand, you're supposed to be in bed." He said, "Go away mom! Go do something else!"

Rand loves it when Ella "talks" to him, so to try to get her to do this, he sticks his head in her face and says, "Ella, can you say OOOOOOOO??" It's very sweet to see how she just beams at him.

Rand learned to pedal his trike this week! Now we just need to work on steering.....