Fancy Meetin' You Here!: Texas- Part 3- Laughing Out Loud

When you're around kids, you can be sure that you will be laughing... a lot. They say and do all kinds of funny things... even without knowing it. I tried to remember all the funny things that the girls said during this trip.

We passed a KFC/Taco Bell, and Evie yelled "Oh wow! Did you see that? It was a Taco Bell AND a Kanuffle Fried Chicken!"

When we left Elgin, Eloise cried because her dad wasn't coming with us. When we left Texas, Eloise cried because she missed Matt and Molly. And when she got home, Eloise cried because she missed me. (She had fallen asleep in the van and slept through my drop off at my house. When they woke her up, she cried and asked "What did you do with Sisi?!?")

I tried to play a game of checkers with Evie. She basically knew the game, but she kind of started to make up her own rules. And when/if I'd do something that was tricky or made her mad (yes, I do know how to play that game), she'd tell me I was "pomagranting" and that we aren't allowed to "pomagrant" in this game. (I'm still trying to figure that one out... so if you think of what it might be, let me know...)

When we were at the beach, Evie came running up to her mom and tossed a tiny bouquet of sandy flowers at her. "Here, Mom, these are for you." And she quickly went running away. Jessica (Evie's mom) laughed at how lovely they were and how sweetly her daughter gave them to her. But then, off in the distance, I heard Aunt Molly say "Evie, sometimes it's all in the presentation of it..."

On the way home from the beach, Eloise was singing a song that went something like this: "I am so glad that we have mostly all girls in the car. And I am sad that we only have one boy..."

Evie taught us a new game in which she called the "Pipe Cleaner" game. If you've never played it, you should try it sometime! It is quite funny and very entertaining. Let me give you a sample of how this goes:

Evie: Why would a man rake 50 leaves in HIS yard, and then 50 leaves in another yard? HINT! He's poor.

Jessica: He didn't know that was somebody else's yard?

Evie: NOPE!

Sarah: God told him to do it?
Evie: NOPE!

Molly: His wife was inside doing the dishes?

Evie: YEP! You win a pipe cleaner!!!

One time, during the pipe cleaner game, we had some beautiful background music... Eloise was playing the piano. Molly happened to be video taping the game and kind of got Eloise and her piano playing in the background. Much to our surprise, the video caught Eloise FALLING BACKWARD off of the piano bench. She was okay- no emergency room visit or anything. But her aunts and mama (and everybody else that came to visit) got a kick out of watching the video. I'd love to share it with you... but first I have to learn how to edit it... which my dad says I probably can't do on my computer. Bummer. But we'll see!

Here are some glamour shots Evie took of us before we left... she had pose in different kinds of ways... if kind of cracked us up. :)