After Juliette was born, we thought a late night Starbucks run would be fun. We loaded up in the car with six kids for the first time. That was an ordeal. We have an 8 seater SUV, and five kids in some sort of car seat. (Two highback boosters, two forward facing, and now the infant seat). I agonized for weeks over the best car seat arrangement. I even dreamed about it when I slept. (So stupid). The main issue was having space for so many car seats--even with a large SUV, it's still a tight squeeze. I tried talking Justin into a 12 passenger, but he wouldn't budge. (No car payment IS nice.) Anyway, after 20 minutes to load everybody up, we were on our way to Starbucks. Justin pulled into the drive-thru and began placing our order. "I'll take two Mocha Cookie Crumples. I'm sorry, I mean CRUMBLE." Barista: "Okay sir, anything else?"Justin: "Yes, a Vanilla Frappacino and two Caramel Ribbon Crunches. So two Mochas, one vanilla, and two 'carmens'. I mean caramel!" Apparently child birth left Justin a bit tired and confused. The kids and I cracked up. Once we got to the window, the poor barista was still confused and needed to verify our order. I told Justin it's obvious we aren't big coffee people and don't order it often. (And why is he so tired? I was the one who gave birth two days before.) The caramel ribbon crunch--delicious, by the way.
The next night we were still laughing about crumples and carmens before we prayed for our dinner. Gabriella led that night and her prayer was quite like Justin's order. "Dear God, Thank you for this day. Please bless our hands to our bodies. I mean! Our FOOD to our bodies!" We all exploded with laughter again.
A few days later, we went on an iced tea run to HTEAO at happy hour. After twenty minutes, we got everybody buckled in. It was stressful. People were grumpy. There was teenage attitude, toddler attitude, grown up attitude--okay, it's safe to say attitude from every age group. After we got our tea, re-buckled, and went on our way back home, Justin said, "I just don't think we can go anywhere together anymore. We're gonna have to go in shifts. This is too much." Me: "That's ridiculous. I told you it was gonna be tight! You should've gotten me a 12 passenger!" I have since rearranged car seats two more times, and I am happy to say it does not take 20 minutes to buckle anymore. We have even left the house as a family since this outing. 😁
Pennie: "Mama, I can't 'beweive' you gave 'birf' to Juliette."
One night, Justin, Nathaniel and I were reminiscing about our life in Denver and the amazing Chinese food we ate there. We were talking about a specific restaurant, and Nathaniel was trying to remember it. (He was young). He exclaimed, "Oh wait! Did they have chopsticks?" He was totally serious.
Pennie: "It'd be cute if we had a baby whale."
Me: "what would we do with a baby whale?"
Pennie: "Put it in water. Cause whales do like to swim. And dolphins."
Pennie: "Juliette is crying cause she needs you,right? She needs her mom. Not her dad. Well, she needs two parents, right? Her mom and dad."
More Pennie ramblings--it really went like this, with no input from me. And LOTS of faces.
"Lillie never helps me put on my panties. She only puts on hers. And I'm just little. And Juliette is little. And daddy is my dad, and he's your honey. And you have a baby. And I'm a kid, and you have other kids. And Bubba is a teenager. Bye, Mama!"
Addie to Lillie while playing in her room: "Are we allowed to say 'satisfied'?"
Addie: "I thought newborns didn't have tongues?"
Pennie: "She cute. She's a 'dorable' baby. All babies are cute."
Addie: "I love hotels and ma's house. And I love home but I love you guys more than hotels."
One morning, Justin was up early for work...about 5:30 or 6. Gabriella also woke up.
"Daddy, I did a no sleep challenge last night! I haven't slept all night!" She then used the bathroom and went right back to sleep.
We let the kids watch movies in bed sometimes and this particular night, Lillie asked Justin to pick the movie for them. "Because parents pick the best movies." They went through netflix, searching for one the girls hadn't seen before. Justin finally chose a little kitty movie. After watching some of it, Lillie told him, "No offense Daddy, but Mama picks better movies."
Watching Flip or Flop together one night--
Nathaniel: "76 days?! It's taken them over four months to work on that house?"
Justin: "76 days is four months? Really?"
Nathaniel: "Oh. Never mind."
Me: "We have a big, fun surprise for you guys tomorrow!
Addie: "Panera Bread?!"
(It wasn't. We took them to the Legoland Discovery Center in Dallas. Next time I'm gonna plan smaller.)Justin: "You know Midland has gotten to you when you can say you really enjoyed walking around a garden." (We visited the Fort Worth Botanic Garden too.)
Addie: "A ranchy life is the best life."
The girls like to say insulting things to Alexa when she doesn't have an answer for one of their goofy questions like "How much days is two googles?"
Lillie, very seriously said, "It seems like the old Alexa cared more about what we said to her." The first Alexa we owned (which broke from being dropped by those same girls) used to reply with something like "That's not very nice" when they called her dumb. The new Alexa (that nobody is allowed to touch) only tells them to check out the Amazon app and leave feedback there.
Addie: "Bubba, which one is the 'S'?"
Nathaniel: "Why?"
Addie: "Cause I need to spell Friv.com"
Justin: "Pennie says I have to go to bed now. It's time to snuggle."
Pennie: "Yeah! Get your baby out of Daddy's hands!"
(She LOVES Juliette and hasn't shown one bit of jealousy, but it was time to snuggle!)
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