Sassy

I had three incidences with the kids today which showed their incredibly sassy side, but still made me giggle.

#1-
I made toast for breakfast, but evidently it wasn't enough. So while I was running around getting things ready, I gave Emma permission to make more. I had taken the bread out of the freezer just a few minutes before so it was still very frozen, and I'm pretty sure the temperature or time gage was very low. Being a good and helpful girl she took two pieces of bread and toasted them in the toaster. When they popped up I noticed that they didn't seem very browned but she buttered them and then happily gave one to Fox and started eating the other.

 Fox looked at his barely warmed toasted and replied, "But Emma! You have-a cooked it first!!"

But then, in true Fox fashion, happily ate the toast.../bread.

#2-
Emma is really into dancing and singing right now. Tonight she came in a said, "I love to sing, Mom!" (After listening to her make up nonsense/slightly-annoying words and strange noises/singing for the past two days I was a little afraid of what was coming.)
I then had a short conversation with her about singing, and she sang me a song (in the same fashion that Buddy the elf sings on "Elf" to his dad when they first meet) that went something like this:

I love my Mom!
My Mom is great!
My Dad is great too!
And I love my Dad!
My Mom and Dad are the greatest Mom and Dad that we have in our family!!

Which was so sweet but made me giggle a little. But I laughed even more when Liam snottily yelled from the other room, "Mom and Dad are the only Mom and Dad we have in our family!" Laughed and then scolded the boy for pointing out something that could have made his sister feel bad. It didn't. She just giggled to herself and then when about her business.

#3-
Right before bed Tony turned on some music for Emma to bust-a-move to. She showed us her dancing skills, including a new dance style she made up called "karate dancing." It may be the new rage. Hi-Ya!

As all kids do, she kept saying, "Mom! Mom! Watch me!" and then would dance some more. Being late (okay only 7:45ish, but I was tired!!), I laid my head on Tony's shoulder and watched him messing with his phone while it was blasting out the music Emma was dancing to. My eyes had been off Emma for .2 seconds when she said, "MooOooM! Watch me! I'm the one dancing not the music!!"

Sassy kids!! But so silly.

In another unrelated--well slightly related...but mostly unrelated--story, Fox is growing up and it's killing me. But before he loses his toddler sayings I figured I had better write them down. Or at least the one I remember. Fox use to (rarely any more :(   ) use the phrase "yes-a-do" constantly.

If you were telling him, "You can't have an apple because we don't have any." He's reply would be "yes-a-do!"

"Fox, I don't want a stuffed animal on my head."
"Yes-a-do!"

"I don't think we can go to the park today."
"Yes-a-do!"

It was my favorite. But it's slowly being replaced with actual words. Ridiculous. He needs to stop growing up. :)