Funny Ethne sayings

So, Ethne says a lot of things in a funny way. For 'game' she says 'gwame,' which I think is so funny. And every time she wants me to hold her, she says, "Hold you!" Similarly, she'll say "Help you!" when she really means 'help me.'

But today's was the best of all when Brett was holding Talmage at dinner time, and Brett was brushing Talmage's lips up and down really fast while he was making little sounds (you know what I'm talking about right? everybody does this but it's very hard to describe!) and it was really cute and funny and all of us were just laughing but especially the kids were laughing their heads off. And then Ethne says, "Talmage laughing me!" Ha ha!

We had a good FHE tonight. Brett sat everyone down to dinner (my favorite--Warm ham and swiss wraps and some yummy fruit salad) and had a list of things that are good for our bodies that we need--vitamins, minerals, etc. and we all pointed to the foods at the right time. Then he said, "Okay, now we've talked about how these foods contain what our body needs, so now we can go. Dinner's over." The kids kinda looked at him with these bemused expressions, especially Hazel. She half-smiled, half-worriedly said, "But..." And Brett said, "Isn't that good enough--we've talked about how this food has all the good things our bodies need to be strong? Now we can go." And of course the kids said, "No we have to eat it!" Then under our plates he'd hidden pieces of paper with things our spirit needs to be strong--prayer, reverence, obedience, kindness. And of course, went on to say how we have to DO those things not just talk about them.

Then for our activity we played the brown paper bag game, which is that you put a brown paper bag on the floor and you take turns bending over and picking it up with your teeth, balanced on one leg. After everyone has had a turn, you cut a strip off the top and go again. It was fun. Ethne was again hilarious as she carefully put one leg up, bent over to get the bag near her mouth, picked it up with her hands and somehow ended up with it on her head. Oh, we laughed and laughed. What a cuckoo.