Kate Quotes

Here are two funny things that Kate said while we were in Utah for Christmas Break.

1. When I told her that we would like to take them sledding. She said, "Please don't take me sledding in the mountains." I told her we were sledding in the mountains and that was called skiing. Kate responded, "That must be against the law."
2. When we drove back up to Gramma's house after shopping with Gramma, Gramma said,"I hope Grampa won't be mad at me." Kate asked why. Gramma said that she spent too much money and Kate said,"Is Grampa like my Dad?"

Note: John does not want to be known as a cheap-skate. He only wants to stay in our squeezed tight budget and is generally upset that he can't spend a lot of money on computers and ice cream whenever he wants to.

Letter to Jesus

While we were away we went to church one week in Laramie, WY with our cousins there and one week in Orem, UT. The week in Laramie the primary kids had to write a letter to Jesus for sharing time. When I got out of relief society, Kate handed me an envelope and said, "take this. This is so stupid. We had to write a letter to Jesus." I looked at the envelope and saw : "to Jesus Christ from Kate Robertson" with a drawn on US flag stamp on one side and "mail to hevin" on the other side. In the car I opened it up and this is what it said:

Dear Jesus
I know it is crazy
to rite to you
when I cood
jest pray to you.
I know your a very
very very very very
inportined man and
I don't know what
to say besieds that.
Love Kate

I thought exactly the same thing when they told me they had to write a letter to Jesus. It is funny how John and I have passed down our distaste for cutsie things. But sometimes rather pleasing.

It's not fair

Johnny and Ruth play a lot of games together. Ruth has always been very competitive, and Johnny has usually taken defeat with grace until now. Last week Johnny punched Ruth in the stomach because she told him to have his computer game guy jump, he jumped the guy and the guy died. A few days later Johnny punched Ruth during a game of memory. When we asked him why he explained that it was not fair because Ruth is just too smart. Ruth was getting lots and lots of matches because she is smart and that is just not fair. Okay, well I understand I am sure I have wanted to punch some one for being smart sometime too.

John read this and said, "Why does Johnny sound so terrible? He is such a good kid. Those are Johnny's isolated incidents in a sea of calmness while some of our other kids have isolated calmness in a sea of violence." That is true. Johnny is really really good and mild. In fact he was the first start student in his kindergarten class for showing compassion. Good Job, Johnny, er, at least, Good Job (Mostly) Johnny.

Family Game

No one would confess to how this started. I thought that it was Ruth, but she said that is was Johnny. Johnny denied that it was him and thought that it might be Kate. Kate suggested that maybe Adam started it after all. Well, here is what happened. We were going to play Old Maid for a Family Home Evening Game, which we have successfully done in the past. Johnny shuffled and dealt the cards and we were ready to play. Just as we were arguing who was to go first a card flew past Adam and I. (Adam was on my team.) I picked up the card. It was the old maid card. Adam took it out of my hand, looked at it and threw it toward the Dad and Rachel team. Dad looked at the card and threw it toward Ruth. Ruth threw it at Johnny. Johnny threw it at Kate. Kate threw it at Adam, and Adam just started throwing all of his cards. Johnny then started throwing all of his cards and Ruth and Kate eagerly started to collect matches while the old maid flew around some more. Rachel started to fuss because she always fusses during Old Maid because she wants all of the cards. John and I decided this must be the Christmas jitters version of Old Maid. I guess we are just too excited to attempt anything with any real organization. It was fun and short and ended in chocolate pie.

Johnny Tales

A few days ago I realized that Johnny does not get much space in my blog. I think that it is because he is rather mild mannered and a very well behaved boy. But today, he gave me two cute things that I must write about.

When Johnny got home from school he told John that there was a birthday party in his class today and that they got to choose between two drinks. Johnny said one was apple juice and the other one was hic. John was a bit confused and asked Johnny what the other drink was again. Johnny said that it was hic. He said, "You know, Hic. We have had it before." It took John a moment, but then he realized that hic was Hi-C punch.

Tonight Johnny said his prayers before bed and then said, "oh, I forgot the storm." I asked if he wanted to pray that the storm would be bad so we wouldn't have school tomorrow. Johnny looked a bit alarmed at that suggestion and then said, "no." He then knelt down and prayed that the storm would not be bad and asked for our family to be protected. That was very sweet. Johnny is such a good boy.

Piece Meal

This is how Ruth ate her ham italian sandwich that we had for dinner tonight.

1. First she ate out the lettuce. ( I am guessing that this is the part that she likes the least since she usually eats in order of things she least likes to things that she most likes.)
2. Next she ate up all of the bread.
3. Then she picked up her plate and ate the meat and the cheese directly from her plate at the same time. (I think she used this method, because Ruth does not like getting her hands messy.
4. Fourth she ate the tomatoes. (This must be the part that she likes the best.)
5. Yes, there was one more part. Ruth then licked the plate clean. (Now I think that she did this because she was hungry and because she actually liked the sandwich, although not together.)

Now I have to mention one more thing. We had some mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups around. (I like to keep candy in the candy dishes during the holidays, but nothing never lasts longer than 24 hours unless it is hard candy that no one wants) Well, in those 16 hours that we had Reeses Peanut Butter Cups Ruth came to John and I several times to tell us the best way to eat a Reeses. Apparently that is to eat the chocolate off the bottom first. Then eat the peanut butter inside, and then you have the thicker top piece of chocolate left for the end.

Blonds Get All the Attention

Recently I was looking at some old photos of Kate and realized that I had forgotten that Kate had very blond hair until she was about 4 1/2. That reminded me of a time when Ruth was 5 1/2 and Kate was 4 and they were taking a bath together. Ruth must have been pretty jealous of Kate's blond hair, because when I came into the bathroom I saw Ruth splashing water on Kate's hair saying, "turn brown, turn brown, turn brown..." When I asked Ruth what she was doing she told me that when she put water on Kate's hair then Kate's hair looked brown like her hair. Within six months Kate's hair did turn brown, and very close to the same shade as Ruth's hair. Then I forgot that Kate was ever a blond at all. Last night I recounted this little tale to Ruth and Kate (which they enjoyed immensely). When I finished telling the story, Ruth said, "It must be because blonds get all the attention."