She's ba-ack!

Here are a few things I heard Nellie saying tonight while she was playing basketball with Kevin:

1) Annie, stop! You're going to ruin my reputation!

2) Okay, I am determined to do it this time.

3) Daddy you're pretty good. For a man!

4) Annie: Daddy, you have one hundred points. Nellie, you have--
    Nellie: Ten thousand points? YES! I knew it!

DJ's words

Most of these, of course, are pretty much only recognizable by immediate family members. But they're all cute!

• Mommy
• Daddy
• Nellie/Annie (sound the same, though he seems to know which girl he means when he says "Ne-nee."
• Connie
• Chief
• Maddie
• Grandma
• Papa
• Elmo
• Dora
• Ball (I hear this one a lot. It might also be synonymous with "outside.")
• Eat
• Bottle
• Blankie
• Cheese (not the food, it's what he calls cameras)
• Water
• Take-a-bath
• Whoa
• Doggie
• Milk
• More 
• Uh-oh

Overheard tonight

Nellie, playing a game: "There's a flood! You need to get six inches above the ground! Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, negative one, negative two, negative three..."

WHAT? I think I mentioned negative numbers once, a few weeks ago. That girl.

And later -
Annie: "Is God Jesus's last name?"

DJ saying "Elmo" (and practicing the "L" sound)

More things they say

Annie: Can I have a computer when I'm a mommy?
Me: Yes. Maybe you can have one when you're a teenager and you have projects to work on for school.
Nellie: Ooh, can I have one when I'm ten? I have lots of interesting things to say on facebook.


Nellie wrote a song (like, physically wrote down the lyrics). It's pretty poetic:

1, 2, 3 the day has just begun

The birds are singing

The sun is brightening

The flowers are blooming

Spring is here

My song has just begun

Annie, to Emily: My tummy is really hurting.

Emily: Hm, what is it telling you? Do you need to drink some water, or go to the bathroom?

Annie: It's telling me...that it really needs to eat some rock candy.

Easter week, in pictures. It was cold.

I was really brave and dyed eggs with the girls - they turned out pretty good!

DJ was all worn out at lunch on Good Friday with both his sisters home.

Easter baskets filled and waiting

Loose tooth! She's hoping the dentist will pull it out at her appointment this week.

Random picture of the girls with their My Little Pony Canterlot wedding castle

Classic.

DJ watching Nellie learn to ride her bike from inside, sporting the only-a-diaper look. Very chic. 

Sidewalk chalk on Easter, at Grandma's house

We pretend it's like this...

but it's really more like this.

Cousins!

Egg hunt. Nellie was as colorful as an Easter egg.

More Nellie-isms

N: [After eating some forbidden Easter candy.] I need some milk RIGHT NOW!

Me: [Trying to do laundry.] Just get yourself some water.

N: But milk is much more powerful than water when you eat chocolate!

Really, that doesn't make any sense...but it kind of does.
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[After bringing DJ his second bottle of milk, which has become a routine at bedtime.] Well, the Amazing Nellie has done it again!