The things they say

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I feel like I need to write some of this down before I forget. Lily and Finn say the cutest/funniest things sometimes.

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For instance, Finn and I had this conversation in the car the other day.
Finn: "Mama, why did God make Justin a boy?"
Me: "Well, so he could be your best friend and play with you."
Finn: "But I don't want him to be my friend, I want him to be my wife!"
Oh dear. :)
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And this is Finn's version of the Lord's Prayer (in German):
"... Denn Dein ist das Reich und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit und die Süßigkeit, in Ewigkeit, Amen." ("For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory and the Candy, forever and ever. Amen.")
This boy obviously knows who is in charge of all the good things. :)


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Then, as I was tucking him in the other night out of the blue he says:
"Mama, did you know there are spiders who marry a man to make babies and when the babies are there they EAT THE MAN ALL UP!?" It turned out there is a book about spiders at preschool and Finn often asks the teacher to read it to him. Apparently the Black Widow made a lasting impression as he told me: "I never want to get married because I don't want to have any children! If a girl ever says she likes me I will run away and COME STRAIGHT HOME TO YOU, MAMA!"
Actually, that sounded pretty good to me, but I tried to tell him that usually women don't eat their guys after they have babies. He didn't seem too convinced though.
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And Lily of course is just cuteness all around. I love listening to her talking to her animals and toys while she is playing. She is still hard to understand sometimes, but it's getting better. One thing she hates is the sun in her eyes when we're driving. She gets all upset when she asks me to turn it off and I have to tell her I can't. So I handed her her sun glasses the other day and she put them on and sighed, "Aaah, NOW I turned it off."
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What I've been trying to teach her is to say "my" instead of "mine". She ALWAYS uses "mine" ("Mine head hurts."; "That's mine toy!" etc). Doesn't help that in German "my" is "mein", pronounced "mine". So we're having conversations like this:


Lily: "Mama, hold mine hand."
Me: (holding her hand) "Lily, you have to say 'my' hand, not 'mine'."
Lily: "Mine hand."
Me: "No! My hand!"
Lily: "Yes, mine hand."
Me: "NO Lily, it's HOLD MY HAND!"
Lily: "Okay, mama, I hold YOUR hand!"

I rest my case. :)

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And here are some pictures of a perfect weekend morning (at least if you ask Finn and Lily).

A mid-morning snack of popcorn

... while watching a movie on the laptop still in their PJs.

Then go outside to shovel some snow with daddy

and build a snow fort in the yard


followed by their favourite craft: "Bügelperlen" - those little plastic beads that you iron to make them stick together.